Small light soil growers, double your harvest?

smokinrav

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I really searched, and did not see this idea anywhere. Hope you like it.

Years ago I had an under the stairs grow, 400 hps. I built an enclosure with flat top for veg and a door for light control to the 12/12 flower room below.
It was about a 2.5 x 4 floor setup above the flower area. I used a 6 pot of cfl above at 24/7, about 300 watts, clones in the back...
Obviously I had mass ventilation and smell control most of it exiting a basement window.
On day, I realized my plants in veg didn't need to be so big to go to flower with a 400 hps.
I figured If I doubled the clones and the plants under veg into slightly smaller square pots and added 100 watts cfl, and built a dark room big enough for 6 plants in flower, I could rotate 6 flowering plants every 12 hours, instead of 6 permanently the HPS. That meant never turning it off.

It is crazy work intensive, and god help you at harvest time, and pinning down the rotatin schedule is a PITA due to strain variations , it can be done. I've done it.

I haven't been in the grow forums for years and I'm quite buzzed. And old. GET OFF MY LAWN

Good luck out there
 

go go kid

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i have done this with 12/12 and a dark room for the exchange. 24hrs on saves the ballast as well as the bulb, no switching on and off. it was a 250watt mh security light for like 6 bucks.
clones rock in there
 
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