4x3 Space - 430 Plants - Is This Possible?

I have a 4x3 Growbox and have just finished my first harvest. After waiting soooooo long for this harvest i now want to setup a SOG setup. My first grow was in soil but now i want to try out some hyrdo. If i have a 4x3 Grow tray could i make an EBB and Flow system and have all my plants in 2' Rockwool cubes? If they are side by side i calculated that I can have a maximum of 432 Plants. Would this work???

no it will not work, they are going to be fighting for root room and it will just suck the life out of all your plants.

You would be much better gowing a few big ones then 430 small ones. The only reason I say this is that if(and I hope this never happens to you)you get caught for whatever reason the cops go off how many plants are being grown. If you were doing SOG in a bigger area with 430 plants it might be worth the risk cause you could get you plants alittle bigger. And like the guy said abvove Im pretty sure it wouldnt work out anyways.

i dont see why its not possible?


i mean if you wanted to im sure you could fill a room up with seedlings growing in like little 4 oz cups .


youd probably be best doing like 64 plants say all a week apart budding x8 weeks you would harvest 8 plants a week and then add 8 more

alexoos said:

I have a 4x3 Growbox and have just finished my first harvest. After waiting soooooo long for this harvest i now want to setup a SOG setup. My first grow was in soil but now i want to try out some hyrdo. If i have a 4x3 Grow tray could i make an EBB and Flow system and have all my plants in 2' Rockwool cubes? If they are side by side i calculated that I can have a maximum of 432 Plants. Would this work???

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Your calculations are wrong. Way wrong ...
Maybe go with 20 plants max in a space that size. Unless you plan on growing 2in. wide plants.

Did you check out this thread?

The reason why i wanted to do this was my last grow was a Diesel strain and each plant was only about 2 ft tall and one straight stick. It took them 13 weeks to fully mature and i dont wanna wait that long between harvests. I would be happy if i had 200 plants in 4 different stages of budding. I would harvesting in 1/4 of the time.
I was really worried that there would be no room for the roots if all the cubes were side by side. But if I had a 2 or 3 inch space between all the cubes would there be enough room for them to grow properly?

You need a bigger medium. I've seen grows using the 4" rockwool cubes. 4 plants per square foot is common for SOG.

Aeroking ... Thanks for the link.. I read the thread.. Lots of good info.

So say i divide my box into 4 quatres. (2x1.5 each) i should be able to fit 12 in each quadrant comfortably? Maybe i should consider a different strain as well lol

sounds like you are using crappy lights,

Must have smoked on those calculations In a 4x4 table ina 4x4 tent max plants is roughly 25 finishing at 2 feet tall but thats craming them in there with little root room so small yield of low potent weed.. In my 4x8 tents with 4x8 tables I stay 50 or under per tent and its crammed to the rim with plants. Unless you use like a collosium type verticle grow and finsh with 8 inch max plants then you could go up using 3 1000 watt light assuming 8 feet tall cielings

True SOG style single colas do well with 4 plants/sqft..

I recommend pots filled with hydroton...

Here is my tray with 3 lollipops/sqft...

Here is one at harvest...

I grow ebb and flow and have already started clones which I will be growing in a sea of green. To pack as many plants in your space as possible you're going to want to get individual square plastic containers with holes at the bottom 6 inch by 6 inch pots are what I'm using. I'm going to be backing 30 plants in a 8 square foot flood table. I'll start flowering them when ever they reach 12 inches tall because I'll be using Thai haze for my first one and being sativa dom. just grow like mad. In your space you could probably realistically fit between 40-45. That's a lot of plants man... They are going to drinks lots of water and need a very big reservoir.. The upside. Being conservative, I think 18 grams a plant is a good guess for a harvest... and like i said thats a coservative estimate.

GypsyBush said:

Here is one at harvest...

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that looks incredibly sexy