Harvest every 5 weeks about 3 pounds, hydro ebb & flow, 3 tent/chamber system.

Hey guys!
Martin from Germany here, it's my first post in this forum!

My topic is the following:

I want to harvest every 4 to 5 months with a 3 tent setup. Right now i only have plants in the "big ebb and flow system", see step 3 on the chart, which you hopefully can read. So it's just the start with this project!

I have a full grow report on grasscity (RamsayyBolton84), here are 2 pics of my current grow and a chart i made for this project.




As you hopefully see in the chart, i want to have (step 1) cuttings and mother's in a small tent (85W white light) --> rooted cuttings (well rooted, and veg. for about 1-2 weeks) go to step 2.
Step 2: rotted cuttings go to a two-chamber tent with 2× 180-220W Quantum Boards.
Because of the heat i cannot use HPS lamps here.
System is also ebb and flow (question: another hydro setup, like dwc, might be better here?!) And they will stay here for about 5 Weeks.
About one more week, maybe a bit more, they will stay in veg.
Than switch to 12/12 for 3 to 4 weeks.

Plants go to final ebb and flow system (2x about 400W Quantum, or, like currently, 2x600W HSP) and flower until harvest.
After i cleaned everything, i can put another plants from step 2 in there and so on...

I will use fast flowering, heavy yielding Indicas (Northern Lights and Critical atm.) and i will use something between 18 and 72 plants, which has a huge impact on how long i have to veg.

What do you guys think about that? Are there improvements or maybe even huge problems I don't see right now?

Hi Cp...
Following along...never done perpetual but find it interesting.
JD

PS In your text post...you say 4 or 5 months. Confusing...so correct that if it's not too late.

Hey JD!
I just want to harvest as much as possible to make oil or other extracts at the end, i will use 8 weeks, indica heavy hybrids just like now.
maybe a cbd heavy strain in the future.

Chesspoker84 said:

Hey JD!
I just want to harvest as much as possible to make oil or other extracts at the end, i will use 8 weeks, indica heavy hybrids just like now.
maybe a cbd heavy strain in the future.

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That's what I am working toward too. Running coco and waterfarm hydro. Sorry...I have old eyes and didn't read your game plan.

What you plan is certainly possible. I've seen guys do harvest every 3 weeks with 3 flood tables. That all seems too complicated to me. Having just one flower room...I get a little down time between runs. And if I run out of veg space...I just change the flower room timer and give them whatever veg they need before flipping to 12/12. I like the flexibility.

But interested in seeing how your plan works out.
JD

Any other opinions about this topic? Thanks in advanced.

Chesspoker84 said:

I want to harvest every 4 to 5 months with a 3 tent setup.

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I don't get it...

I also don' get some other things in your post.
Writing & smoking is not a good combo

Yeah, this in combination with "no native speaker"

But then try again if you want some advice.

If you want to harvest every 4 or 5 months, why would you want to do that 'perpetual'?
Just run your tent. Clone, veg, flower, easy peasy.

Keesje said:

I don't get it...

I also don' get some other things in your post.
Writing & smoking is not a good combo

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I told him about the typo but he didn't fix it. He meant 4 to 5 weeks like in the title. He wants to do a perpetual harvest thing. Probably went back to GrassCity.
JD

Aha, thanks.
But he also doesn't even reply in a proper way.
Writing, reading, answering & smoking... still not a good combo

Keesje said:

Aha, thanks.
But he also doesn't even reply in a proper way.
Writing, reading, answering & smoking... still not a good combo

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I have made some really bad posts stoned...so I agree with you. He just joined to present that idea...which he did poorly. Oh well.
JD

With my recirculating setup I harvest 7-8 pound every 10 weeks. Thats more than enough to tie me & the missus over untill the next lot is ready. Perpetual harvest seems like constant work to me, you'll be cloning, planting, pruning, harvesting & cleaning constantly every day. & they wont be big rewarding harvests just little ordinary harvests.

I keep 1 mother under a 250 metal halide. 1 mother means every plant is geneticly identical & are all ready to harvest at the same time. When Im 3 or 4 weeks from harvest I cut the mother & fill my aeroponic clone dome with cuttings. By the time Ive harvested the flower room I select 16 of the healthiest new clones which by now are well rooted & veged ready to go into the flower room in 27 litre buckets of clay balls top fed drip recirculating hydroponic on 18/6 for 5 days to acclimate then onto 12/12 for 8 or nine weeks or till ripe. Clip, cut, dry repeat & plenty of time to relax inbetween

Darkoh69 said:

With my recirculating setup I harvest 7-8 pound every 10 weeks.

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10 weeks... I wonder if this could be called a 'perpetual' or 'recirculating' grow?
I mean, if I get my clones I leave them under a small lamp in a closet, then I put them in their pots, put the lamp on 18/6 for a week, then for 9 weeks on 12/12...
Then do this all over again... I would not call this perpetual. It is just a grow.
Or do you have another schedule?

Edit: Did read your post after the one I responded to.
I see now that your grow is not perpetual. It is a 'normal' grow. Maybe the only thing different is that you have your clones longer in veg, and not in the tent that you flower in.
But most growers don't.

Keesje said:

10 weeks... I wonder if this could be called a 'perpetual' or 'recirculating' grow?
I mean, if I get my clones and I put them in their pots, put the lamp on 18/6 for a week, then for 9 weeks on 12/12...
Then do this all over again... I would not call this perpetual. It is just a grow.
Or do you have another schedule?

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Its nit perpetual. I harvest once & start again. My interpretation of a perpetual grow would be harvesting & replacing a few plants every week. Which just seems like constant work fractional rewards

You are right about what perpetual is.
It has disadvantages for sure (like constant work)
But also advantages. You can do with just a small motherplant and tiny space for cloning.
Also you don't have to harvest for 3 days, but just half a day every 2 weeks, for example.
Every system has pro's and con's.
You just have to look what suits you best in your situation and circumstances.

Thanks for the reply. That's a huge and nice grow room, Darkoh!
My Initial question was "how to harvest the maximum over a year with ebb and flow systems and a maximum power usage of about 2000W in total?".

So i came up with this idea. constant work is no problem. Should not be over 1h per day when everything runs smoothly.

When i use quantum boards only, it will be around 1900 watts. Maybe there are ideas for totaly different setup.
Sorry for my bad english, but i hope now you can understand my topic!

Keesje said:

10 weeks... I wonder if this could be called a 'perpetual' or 'recirculating' grow?
I mean, if I get my clones I leave them under a small lamp in a closet, then I put them in their pots, put the lamp on 18/6 for a week, then for 9 weeks on 12/12...
Then do this all over again... I would not call this perpetual. It is just a grow.
Or do you have another schedule?

Edit: Did read your post after the one I responded to.
I see now that your grow is not perpetual. It is a 'normal' grow. Maybe the only thing different is that you have your clones longer in veg, and not in the tent that you flower in.
But most growers don't.

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Yeah I just try & have my clones ready to go in as soon as the flower room is ready. The timing dosnt always work out I had clones get too big & roots tangle together but i work through it. Perpetual grows you never get a break unless something goes wrong then the whole cycle crashes like dominos

Chesspoker84 said:

Thanks for the reply. That's a huge and nice grow room, Darkoh!
My Initial question was "how to harvest the maximum over a year with ebb and flow systems and a maximum power usage of about 2000W in total?".

So i came up with this idea. constant work is no problem. Should not be over 1h per day when everything runs smoothly.

When i use quantum boards only, it will be around 1900 watts. Maybe there are ideas for totaly different setup.
Sorry for my bad english, but i hope now you can understand my topic!

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Originally I had this system under 4 600w hps in a 3 meter by 3 meter tent. I then switched it up to 6 600w which is fine in the winter but summer time i pull the tent down & run the setup in a room, much easier to keep cool but not using the tent has its drawbacks, like insects & light pollution become a bit trickier to manage

Its basically ebb & flow. Just a bucket inside a bucket sitting ontop of an upside down bucket X 16 drip fed for 15 minutes every 15 minutes from a 200 litre tank
Could easily diy a similar setup