Help: Perpetual Grow Setup

TJ baba

TJ baba

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Hey, I'm a beginner grower and have 1 grow tent that is 24"longx48"widex72"tall. I'm really wanting to have a setup so that I can have a perpetual harvest every month or so with multiple plants. Also, I would like to clone as much as possible and intend to not buy seeds often. I only have 1 white widow girl 3 weeks old.

Is there a way to have perpetual harvest with multiple plants or clones in only one grow closet tent? Thanks
 
TJ baba

TJ baba

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Im thinking that either I need a stealth small box, or will be limited to revegging/rejuvenating mature plants then. That makes sense, thanks
 
TJ baba

TJ baba

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20151117_215841.jpg 20151117_215905.jpg 20151117_215919.jpg Today I made a 35 gallon rubber maid container into a veg cab for clones and hopefully a short mother plant. It measures 18"longx18"widex32"high when it's stood up. My light hangers are broken off coat hangers. Also I'm interested in trying some colloidal silver spray to produce my own feminized seeds. If I have to clone or if the colloidal silver works I will be very happy. I'm just trying to do my best to preserve this White widow strain because she is a beauty.
 
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Sal Baretta

Sal Baretta

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foil doesnt reflect light like you would think spray paint matt white and it will be alot brighter....also you using cfl's in there dont forget ventilation...in a 2x4 tent you can run 6 plants topped twice with 600 watt hid soalls you need is one mother plant and 12 clones and everytime you harvest put 6 back in and clone six more so always have 12 clones back up.
 
xmatox

xmatox

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I think in your case TJ baba, if you want to do a perpetual, you will need two spaces. So maybe look into getting a cheap cabinet with a divider in the middle. There are some decent cabinet grows out there online, you should look at them and look around the house at what you can come up with. :bigjoint:
 
Beezcheeze

Beezcheeze

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Using what you have I would go with soil. Maybe make short 2'x4'x1' drain tables in the bottom of the tent to catch runoff. Build a small tent somewhere away from the tent or buy another tent to have your veg area in. Put a round of plants into the flower tent each month and you can maybe harvest a few plants every month. I'd suggest using two seperate light panels for the two different maturity level of the plants.
 
Beezcheeze

Beezcheeze

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I'm gonna run a perpetual harvest soon but I have two 4x4 flowering areas (one in a 4x4 tent with 560w of led) and the other open in the room with 600 watts of led. Both have 3x3 flood tray tables. Then in a seperate room I'll have a 4x4 area sealed off with a 2x4 flood tray table and a 600 watt hid light. I'll be able to make these pots very heavy, weighted on the bottom, and can train several mothers in this space with just the small flood tray.
I'll be putting 36 clones straight into flower flood tray as soon as they've rooted.
Then wait a month and stick the next round of clones in the second flowering flood tray.
Using 8 weeks strains I'll be able to harvest every month.
Don't forget to make a nice dark space for drying buds. And when it comes to ventallation, bigger is better, can always get a speed controller to adjust it.
 
bird mcbride

bird mcbride

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In a perpetual hydro grow there is no need to make a mix for moms and clones. When the res is changed I keep the spent res water from the budders to water the green room, moms/clone. In the green room it's drain to waste, like onto the berry bushes, flowers, etc outside.

If you are using a 1kw hps start all the seedlings in the budding room at 12/12. You will have a chance to FIMM them for a cloned mother before they show sex. Be sure to code the snips with the seed plant. I use colored thumb tacks to code. Blue for blue berry, green for skunk, red for mexican, white for rhino, etc.
 
TJ baba

TJ baba

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Hydro seems like something I need to try and that makes a lot of sense. That's an awesome cycle but its a little confusing for me as a beginner.
 
bird mcbride

bird mcbride

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TJ baba said:
Hydro seems like something I need to try and that makes a lot of sense. That's an awesome cycle but its a little confusing for me as a beginner.
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Once a person's got it down this type of perpetual can be done in ones sleep:) It took me and the crew 15 years to figure, starting with soil grows. Our biggest challenge was the cloning aspect of perpetual. Cloning held us up until the mini-greenhouse break through in the first part of the nineties. Everything else was down. Our first large scale F&D perpetual started in 1993.
 
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IamLordeYaYaYa

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Here is what I would do with the perpetual: 2 flowering containers (not plants). Stagger the harvestime so you harvest half every 5-6weeks.

grow out the mum in the tote sideways, then move her into flower to replace #1. Flush her for a day or so before that (flush helps flip the switch and clones to root) and when you move take an army of cuts. Flip the tote horizontally, root the clones for approx 2 weeks. Veg the clones another month (maybe light training), and put all but 1 or 2 (new mom) into flower in spot #2 as a SOG
 
jacksthc

jacksthc

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TJ baba said:
Hey, I'm a beginner grower and have 1 grow tent that is 24"longx48"widex72"tall. I'm really wanting to have a setup so that I can have a perpetual harvest every month or so with multiple plants. Also, I would like to clone as much as possible and intend to not buy seeds often. I only have 1 white widow girl 3 weeks old.

Is there a way to have perpetual harvest with multiple plants or clones in only one grow closet tent? Thanks
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yer not a problem fellow

you need to dived the room in two, top part 18" high and the lower part for flowering, paint the inside white would be a good start

use t5 in the veg/clone space (daylight white )

and led/ t5 for the flower room (flower light )

do a scrog or lst the plants to keep them low and bushy
 
TJ baba

TJ baba

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Banana444 said:
Before ya know it, a couple plants will finish and you will decide that tent is too small then buy a bigger one and veg in that tent. At least thats what happend to me :bigjoint:
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You were exactly right lol, I built a 5x2x5 flower tent and my closet is my veg area now! Everything seems like it's going smooth with exception of battling rising temps.
 
TJ baba

TJ baba

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For the 5x2 pvc panda film flower room, I have 1 20" box fan exhaust, and one 10" box fan intake temp around 84-89.
And for the closet tent about 3.5x2 I have 3 passive intakes, 6" circulation fan, and 4" Ventech duct fan with 4" ducting exhaust temps around 80-82 so far so good
 
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