pot size and yield question?

Nugachino

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Hmmm. Interesting. Never would have guessed a bunch of tiny plants could best a couple larger ones. I would have thought the more developed plants would offer more. Shows you what I know.
 

Chunky Stool

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Hmmm. Interesting. Never would have guessed a bunch of tiny plants could best a couple larger ones. I would have thought the more developed plants would offer more. Shows you what I know.
Again, there are more variables in play here. Organic vs synthetic nutes is a HUGE factor. SOG of small plants works best w/soilless.
 

growingforfun

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I have to agree with the guy saying look at your lights... I've gotten close to a lb out of a 5gallon bucket so look there first. Make sure your using 1000 watt hps if you want numbers.
 

Dilago

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Hmmm. Interesting. Never would have guessed a bunch of tiny plants could best a couple larger ones. I would have thought the more developed plants would offer more. Shows you what I know.
Growing indoors smaller plants benefit more from the light and grow overall hard dense buds where bigger plants tend to produce a lot of fluff.
 

Nugachino

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Ah. Well see I just finished my first grow at the end of December. And that was one hella tiny mainlined random bag seed. I'm yet to try all these other techniques.
 

Dilago

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Nice!! So strain definitely plays a role in deciding whats big enough, veg times too, and veg methods. And lamp selection.
Yes, i believe that nine are a minimum per lamp no matter what strain. That way you can spread the change of a bigger yield instead of betting only on a few horses like with bigger plants.
 

Kronickeeper

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i know genetics plays a role I could run bigger producing strains and jump to between 6-7 oz per plant which I have done before, but I'm working with an average to above average yielder lost coast OG, nutrients are dialed in. Training techniques are dialed in. I'm running a Johnson cx9 led cob fixture I believe is 550 watts and a 120 grow Blu mono led fixture for added spectrum and heat for the winter. So I have plenty of light for my 4x4 space. i think I will run two in a 7 gal and two in a 5 and test the difference with the same clone.
 

growingforfun

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i know genetics plays a role I could run bigger producing strains and jump to between 6-7 oz per plant which I have done before, but I'm working with an average to above average yielder lost coast OG, nutrients are dialed in. Training techniques are dialed in. I'm running a Johnson cx9 led cob fixture I believe is 550 watts and a 120 grow Blu mono led fixture for added spectrum and heat for the winter. So I have plenty of light for my 4x4 space. i think I will run two in a 7 gal and two in a 5 and test the difference with the same clone.
I've done a single plant in 20 gallons under a 1000 watt hps and a burple led for under lighting with a 3x3 scrog on top and gotten 730 dry grams.

If you haven't tried scrog that's a good way but imo I prefer one screen per plant, and 1 plant per light when scrogging.
 

Kronickeeper

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I've done a single plant in 20 gallons under a 1000 watt hps and a burple led for under lighting with a 3x3 scrog on top and gotten 730 dry grams.

If you haven't tried scrog that's a good way but imo I prefer one screen per plant, and 1 plant per light when scrogging.
I run single pot scrogs I only have to of them currently plan on buying two more to fill the 4x4 with but I still want to up the pot size
 

growingforfun

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I run single pot scrogs I only have to of them currently plan on buying two more to fill the 4x4 with but I still want to up the pot size
Nothing wrong with bigger pots, I like 7s and 10s a lot, I prefer tall over squat.

Light is important though because you really can pull more weight out of that size container fairly easily.
 

Plant Lobbyist

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You can get improvements in yield by optimizing any of the grow elements. Impossible to say which will do best, or if improving two will do better than any one, etc, but I will say the most important is the skill of the grower.

That will always increase yield the most.
 
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