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More info, more info!! I'd love to go perpetual I need an odd sized tent to fit in the only spot I have for it though. Seems like with only 8 plants going, sometime within the year you're going to have your schedule messed up. How many do you start with and how many weeks apart are you planting them? I'd like to see a plan that works. I've never seen a good perpetual tutorial.
I have more plants, I just flower 8 at a time. I break it down like this.
1 small area for cuttings - Single 2' T5 tube - From plants before they enter flower, no mothers. I generally take more cuttings than I need and pick the best, I end up throwing out ridiculous amounts of vegetation from lollipopping anyways.
1 small area for "early veg" - Low wattage T5 tube - Home for cuttings once they take root until they are mature enough to go into their 7 gallon flowering containers with super soil. The training starts here by means of super cropping, lollipopping and LST.
1 small area for "Veg" - (2) 180W Spectra LEDs -Where plants spread their roots into super soil and tops mature to get ready for flowering. Here they are heavily trained and lollipopped to produce only quality top fruit.
2 4 x 4 flowering tents with 4 plants in each tent. 1 tent with a 600 HPS and 1 tent with a 600 HPS / 400 CMH combo. I'd like to upgrade one tent to 1000 this winter and see how it does. I continue to "clean up" the bottom half of the plant to eliminate popcorn buds. Whatever popcorn I get at harvest goes to hash pretty much.
I just harvested an AK47 last week and knocked 4.3 oz when she was jarred, just 1 of 4 plants in the tent, nothing but top colas. Not bad at all!
About 14 strains with different finish times.
Given all of the strains and different flowering periods there are times where 2 plants come down in a week and sometimes a week or 2 when no plants come down, but generally it seems to work itself out without hurting your brain or keeping crazy records. I used Herb.iq for awhile but even that proved to be tedious for me with my busy daytime schedule. Occasionally I will hold off a week before putting another plant in until the tent is back on track but this is no big deal for me.
The idea is, a plant comes down, a plant goes in, and the flow of dank never stops, like a finely tuned fucking mashEEn, lol. Although it does reduce the necessity to spend hours and hours harvesting all at once, it does require greater demand for attention in other areas. You're constantly cloning, constantly transplanting and constantly training and de-foliating. Then again any and every garden requires constant attention really, so be it.
Thanks, Shwaggy!
They're all close to doubling in size since flipping the photoperiod.
Both strains are monster growers, so I figured I'd better get with the LST early and conserve space & maximize the light.
At this rate they'll fill the growspace by the time the stretch is over.
All this time with that ridiculous 4'x4' grow box taking up so much space in my little room when I could have been using the closet instead.
Oh, well: live & learn!
It's working out great now, and going to be sweet to finally have some herb again!
I've trained plants low like that in the past and they developed into beautiful bushes of dense colas. I know you'll be happy with the choice to train them early like that, its the way I like to do it as well.
That little nibbet has just never grown.
