for better yeild?

[FourZeroTwo]

For a better yeild should i use less plants giving them more light? or more plants with less light per plant?

more light for the less plants means they will grow bigger, but more plants will give more buds also. im not sure what to do :/

anybody know which is best?

 

[hotrodharley]

Fewer plants, use SCROG. For maximum yield of big tight buds. Much easier to bulk up as the light is at a set distance from all the buds.

 

[mtlhaze]

The idea behind using fewer plants (about 4 per light) is to veg them up to a very large bucket. In my area the medicinal growers that are limited to 20 or so plants use this method. Ideally in a DWC or a large Flood and drain. Before flipping the plants to bloom they would be about a foot and a half to two feet high.

 

[FourZeroTwo]

Ahhh gotcha! i just googled SCROG, so ill need a screen for that correct? like what type? i use to live in florida and when i think of a screen i think of one that you attach to a lanai. but im doubting thats it though. lol

thanks for the reply btw!

 

[tusseltussel]

https://www.rollitup.org/subcools-old-school-organics/542308-main-lining-thread.html suckle on this teet for awhile

 

[FourZeroTwo]

I just googled what it looked like xD i see, so its just something you put over the plants during veg/flowering to give you bigger yeild?

 

[tusseltussel]

veg veg veg = big thick stems = big dense buds.... training is required wether it be a screen topping lst or a combination of both to keep the plant hight managable indoors. and thats how yield is increased

 

[dreamseaofgreen]

like, chicken wire or something like it. I read that you want 2x2 inch squares in it. or close to it. that is just a guideline not like it wont work with something a little different. chicken wire is cheap. I am using an old picture frame and I used a staple gun to staple down really taught twine and made a screen that way and it works pretty good.

 

[FourZeroTwo]

Ahh thanks for the help guys! deff appreicate it the picture frame was a good idea!

This isnt easy as I thought it would be! at first i thought i just, stick a seed in a pot, water it, give it light and watch it grow! but there is a lotttt more to it then that! Ive deff learned a lot, thanks RIU community!

 

[tusseltussel]

you want real easy just let it grow 5-6 nodes then chop it down t 2 nodes and let it grow you will have 4 nice tops without a bunch of bullshit. the cotyledons don't count as a node. let the 4 tops grow 14 inches from the soil lign and flower that hoe! simple easy respectable yield

Ahh thanks for the help guys! deff appreicate it the picture frame was a good idea!

This isnt easy as I thought it would be! at first i thought i just, stick a seed in a pot, water it, give it light and watch it grow! but there is a lotttt more to it then that! Ive deff learned a lot, thanks RIU community!

 

[PurpleBuz]

more light per plant until you get equivalent to summer noon day light or photosynthetic saturation on most of the leaf surfaces.

 

[wineglut]

I have a question about yield. I just finished my first grow, getting a little over 12 oz of dried cured herb from 12 square feet and six plants (my limit in Napa County). I had maybe a 15 small sized, moderately gooey colas and about as many smaller shoots that didn't quite form a cola, each with a denser bud at the top and lots of smaller flowers down the shoot. About half of my yield is what I would classify as popcorn, smaller, fluffy buds from the lower reaches. This isn't a big problem as they are separate and have ripe trichomes and will end up as hash or BHO. But as a matter of pride I would like some big colas to show off.

Is my experience just a common function of SCROG? Or possibly me bringing up too many shoots from each plant? I had over 80,000 lumens in lighting (led and hps) so I doubt if it was a light issue. Plants were in soil, pots were 3 gallons and the plants were root bound. Vegged six weeks, flowered nine to ten. Fed regularly. I fought cool temps when dark during flower. Any suggestions or observations?

I'm thinking if I do SCROG again this fall, I will use bigger pots, bring up fewer shoots and do a better job of leaf thinning below to try to get bigger colas.

I've started my second grow and plant to abandon the SCROG this time, and grow conventionally maybe four shoots each.... and veg the six plants indoors until I can move them outside in two months.