40+ lbs with 12 Plants in 2 Rooms on a Flip

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Renfro

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These started 12/12 on 12/11/18 so they are about 23 days into flowering. Another 47ish to go.

Strain is Gorilla Glue #4. With this strain I manage 42 to 48 pounds.

Each row that has the galvanized trellis rig have 2 plants. 6 plants per room, 2 rooms on a flip. Each room has 9600 watts of lighting. 6000 DE overhead and 2400w vertical end row lights with batwings plus I use and 2 x 600 watt verticals between rows. The side lighting is on a high temperature cutoff in the rare event things get too hot.

My plants are in black 10 gallon buckets. The 2 oddball plants in the rolling white 5 gallon buckets are my girlfriends plants.

All buckets are top feed drain to waste (bucket in bucket with hose to floor drain). I use Berger BM6 HP medium. I cut my clones from plants about 14-20 days into 12/12 so as to improve branching. Once rooted and transplanted into 10 gallon buckets my plants veg for about 40 days from clone in a dedicated veg room and are then moved into the flowering rooms after a harvest and cleanup. Then they are vegged another 10-14 days to get them trellised out sideways to maximize canopy area, create more bud stalks and keep it even as possible.

Feed is General Hydroponics Flora 3 part with Armor Si and Calimagic. I also add Advanced Nutrients B52 and Age Old Mycorrhizae (dry) and Advanced Nutrients Carboload to feed those microbes. pH 6.3 to 6.7 using Advanced pH up and down.

Each room has a 4 ton ceiling mount minisplits (also on the flip with the lights), natural gas CO2 generators, autopilot controllers, swamp coolers to add humidity when required and dehumidifiers to keep it from getting to high (not a problem often here in this dry climate). RO filter provides clean H2O.

For scale purposes the galvanized pipe trellis rigs are 5 feet tall from the floor, 4 feet wide and 8 feet long.
 

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Renfro

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That's definitely doable..hes running 19.2kw of light. That means he pulls 2.3 to 2.5p a light. I've hit. 1.9p on one of my grows, and i could definitely believe I can and will hit 3p per 1000w one day with the right strain.
Strain has a lot to do with it. I need a plant that likes to get really big and has excellent yield potential to meet my goals. I have had several strains that just don't make the yield cut. So it is highly strain dependent.
 

Renfro

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Fuck ya... way to max out your numbers
What bulbs are you running in the DEs? How often do you change them?
I have the hortilux bulbs in them. I change them about once a year.

As far as ballasts go, some are Phantom ballasts, some are sun system and a few nanolux. I started with all nanolux ballasts and they kept crapping out so after several warranty exchanges I just started replacing them with the other ballasts and so far they havent had a single failure. I always keep a new spare on the shelf for if, rather, when another nanolux craps out.
 

BigHornBuds

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I have the hortilux bulbs in them. I change them about once a year.

As far as ballasts go, some are Phantom ballasts, some are sun system and a few nanolux. I started with all nanolux ballasts and they kept crapping out so after several warranty exchanges I just started replacing them with the other ballasts and so far they havent had a single failure. I always keep a new spare on the shelf for if, rather, when another nanolux craps out.
Nice
I’m running Phillips n changing them out ev 4-6 months .
 

dr.tomb

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Strain has a lot to do with it. I need a plant that likes to get really big and has excellent yield potential to meet my goals. I have had several strains that just don't make the yield cut. So it is highly strain dependent.

Totally agree. I had a suggestion of a seed company called BOG seeds from a mentor. I heard they are fast flowering, large quantities of excellent tasting, high quality product. Im pheno hunting,. I popped at least 14 of each of the Blue Kush, Sweet Cindy, L.S.D. and Bogglegum (there is apparently a juicy fruit one and a hubba hubba grape flavour)
 

Renfro

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Totally agree. I had a suggestion of a seed company called BOG seeds from a mentor. I heard they are fast flowering, large quantities of excellent tasting, high quality product. Im pheno hunting,. I popped at least 14 of each of the Blue Kush, Sweet Cindy, L.S.D. and Bogglegum (there is apparently a juicy fruit one and a hubba hubba grape flavour)
I remember BOG (Bushy Old Grower) from the early 2000's from overgrow.com. He sent me some beans from australia, bogglegum was one of those. Good guy, great beans.
 

Renfro

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Nice
I’m running Phillips n changing them out ev 4-6 months .
Yeah I should probably change them out more often, just hate busting out the cashola for them, but I also understand that a 10% loss in light output probably equates to a 10% loss in yield so they do pay for themselves.

How do you like the Phillips bulbs? Do you think they are better than the Hortilux, or perhaps same bang for less buck?
 

BigHornBuds

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Yeah I should probably change them out more often, just hate busting out the cashola for them, but I also understand that a 10% loss in light output probably equates to a 10% loss in yield so they do pay for themselves.

How do you like the Phillips bulbs? Do you think they are better than the Hortilux, or perhaps same bang for less buck?
They are worth every penny, but if you try to push 3 crops out of them (just flower)the yeild starts to fall. I find 2 is the sweet spot, the loss in the 3rd go isn’t worth the cost of the bulbs.
 
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