Square foot gardening in a 4X4X6 tent

drsaltzman

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Just curious if anyone on the gardening thread has attempted this, and if I could pick their brain a little.
I was thinking about sixteen 3 gallon grow bags, plus maybe a vertical hanging growbag for herbs.
400W of LED. Could supplement with t5's too. Soil grow.
Determinate tomatoes, some lettuces, scallions, chili peppers, garlic. Maybe a few carrots. Peas. Lemon cukes.
I have two 3X8 raised beds out back but that is strictly for vine tomatoes.
I'm not expecting to feed the family from a grow tent. But it might be cool to have an indoor salad garden for the winter months.
 

Bareback

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I read 4x4x6 as cubic foot gardening.


I use two 800w for seedings 71A2F1DD-9E9E-499A-A2F2-A24354B36ADC.jpeg
And another dimmable 1000w 2FB2C830-A295-4A9E-ADF7-526762B90BBE.jpeg
for more seedings. I don’t know if the advertised wattage is correct but I wouldn’t bother trying to harvest anything from these however they get should me past last frost.
Good luck with your adventures.
 

steve870

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you can check my grow journal i am doing peppers right now.
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Just know that growing fruit is much harder than weed i just recently solved my last problem but it's in hydro too.
Tomatoes died from severe oedema.
got around 12 cucumbers.
I am using a 400hps but they would use a 600w
 

drsaltzman

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I grew some peppers before this last run.
2x4 under 320w COBs.
Sicilian cayenne.
They rocked in the tent.
I just sent back the 400w QBs and ordered 620w COBs for the 4x4.
Light will be good.
I’m just wondering if anyone has done the square foot method indoors and how it went.

I’m also unsure about tomatoes inside, but will select either a dwarf or indeterminate variety.
Hoping the smaller cukes will do well.

Other reason for using 16 individual pots over a single partitioned bed is to have flexibility watering, feeding and moving based on light needs.

Thanks for the help.

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anexgrower

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I grew some peppers before this last run.
2x4 under 320w COBs.
Sicilian cayenne.
They rocked in the tent.
I just sent back the 400w QBs and ordered 620w COBs for the 4x4.
Light will be good.
I’m just wondering if anyone has done the square foot method indoors and how it went.

I’m also unsure about tomatoes inside, but will select either a dwarf or indeterminate variety.
Hoping the smaller cukes will do well.

Other reason for using 16 individual pots over a single partitioned bed is to have flexibility watering, feeding and moving based on light needs.

Thanks for the help.

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Pepper plants are really cool to watch flower
 
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