How can you yield that much?
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Dumme
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So is the Catholic praying, but God is no more real.
Budget Buds
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I can hit 1 gram per watt. 1 k hps, 5000 btu ac 40x40 inch space 32 plants with minimal veg time in SOG aeroponics system. bc nutrients with pura vida. I average about 1.25 -1.5 oz per plant every 50-59 days 
Odin*
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To the analogy; "So is the Catholic praying, ...", which is to say "People are achieving 3lbs per light, ...", "... but God is no more real", which I would equate to "... but we still can't get high enough".
In all seriousness, "3lbs per light" is the new "1gpw".
Dumme
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Sure thing boss...
To the analogy; "So is the Catholic praying, ...", which is to say "People are achieving 3lbs per light, ...", "... but God is no more real", which I would equate to "... but we still can't get high enough".
In all seriousness, "3lbs per light" is the new "1gpw".
In all serious, 3 per light, and "ThreeALight" are two different things, and the subject referring to.
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RM3
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Sad this thread went sideways as there are actually a lot of legit ways to increase yield.Well it was a good thread......
One being a weekly drench with a simple Alfalfa tea
RM3
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It contains a natural growth hormone and ironically Alfalfa's scientific name is Medicago Sativa
Here is a recipe ,,,,,,,,,,
Alfalfa Tea, the natural flower booster by Trevor Inkpen
Dry alfalfa is a good slow-release source of nitrogen, but since you will be "digesting" it by letting it ferment in water, the resulting tea is a soluable, fast-acting nitrogen source.
Also, by making alfalfa (or manure) tea, you don't have to worry about weed seeds sprouting from the fertilizer.
Orchid and rose growers use alfalfa tea as a foliar spray. If you grow delphiniums and irises, they also love alfalfa tea. Some iris growers mulch their beds with alfalfa meal. And an additional benefit for delphiniums is that the Epsom salts in the tea help to ward off slugs and snails. In addition to nitrogen, alfalfa supplies enzymes and trace elements that are not present in chemical nitrogen fertilizers.
Alfalfa ingredients:
Triacontanol (growth stimulant)
Vitamin A (high concentration)
Thiamine
Riboflavin
Pantothenic Acid
Niacin
Pyridoxine
Choline
Bentaine
Folic Acid
co-enzymes
Crude proteins (16 - 25% in dry alfalfa)
Amino acids (% in alfalfa meal).
Tryptophan, 0.3 %
Aspartic Acid, 2.3%
Threonine, 1.0 %
Serine, 1.0%
Glutamic Acid, 2.7%
Proline, 1.2%
Glycine, 1.1%
Alanine, 1.1%
Cystine, 0.2%
Valine, 1.0%
Methionine, 0.3%
Isoleucine, 0.8%
Leucine, 1.6%
Tyrosine, 0.5%
Phenylalanine, 1.0%
Histidine, 0.4%
Lysine, Total, 1.1%
Arginine, 1.1%
Minerals (contained in dry alfalfa)
Nitrogen 3.75-5.5 %
Potassium .75 - 3.5 %
Phosphorus .3 - .7%
Calcium 1 - 2 %
Magnesium .30 - 1 %
Sulphur .2 - .5 %
Manganese 30-200 ppm
Iron 20-250 ppm
Boron 20-80 ppm
Copper 5-20 ppm
Zinc 20-70 ppm
The Mix:
Choose a garbage bin or barrel with no leaks and a tight fitting lid. Position it in an out of the way place - you don't want to have to move it once it's full. For a full size garbage bin (20 gallons) add 16 cups of alfalfa pellets or alfalfa meal (4 cups to every 5 gallons or 22 litres of water)
Add 1 - 2 cups of Epsom salts (magnesium sulphate crystals) (or one quarter to half a cup to 5 gallons) Optionally, add two tablespoons of Iron Chelate
Fill with water, put on a tight lid to prevent mosquitos from breeding in your "swamp"
Let stand for one week until it bubbles with fermentation. Your nose will tell you that it's ready.
Using it:
Apply alfalfa tea once per month in the spring and summer, especially after the first flush of flowers, to encourage repeat blooming. You can reduce or eliminate the Epsom salts in later batches.
Stop applying it in the fall, when you want the plants to start hardening off for the winter, and don't want to encourage soft new growth.
Put on some old clothes - you're going to get splashed, and you don't want to be socializing with anyone while wearing the alfalfa tea!
Scoop off the liquid with a bucket and apply.
Pour a gallon of tea per rose around the base of the plant; more for large climbers, less for potted roses and minis.
Soak small potted roses in a bucket of tea for 15 minutes each.
When you have scooped off most of the liquid, you will be left with a thick goop of alfalfa in the garbage bin. There are two ways to treat this:
Method A: You can add another quarter-cup of epsom salts, fill the garbage can one third of the way up again, and stir the mix briskly so that the alfalfa is suspended in the water. This slurry can be applied to your roses immediately. Choose the roses in the back of your beds for this tea, where the greenish brown puddle of alfalfa slurry won't be too visible.
Method B: Add the full dose of Epsom salts, refill to the top with water and let sit for another week. Use the liquid, and then bury the alfalfa dregs into your compost pile (by this time they will be pretty smelly)
BubbaGumpHemp
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1.0g per watt is my baseline each grow. i run a SCROG set up with a 1000 Watt HPS. 3lbs is my target each time and is very obtainable once i have a good pheno to run. i keep a log on it all im sure u can see it under my content. i just started a new run with all new genetics so 1.0 gpw is what i aim to hit without a good isolated pheno ready to go. lots of topping is a must and having patients, giving it all the time they need to veg large enough. or in my case, fill up the screens.
youraveragehorticulturist
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Jeff-
Things look good. Nice, healthy looking plants and even canopy.
Is that long side, to the left in the photo, "open?" I have a similar, rectangular area. 3 walls, and 1 long "open side."
I built a little moveable screen for that side, that just moves out of the way when I water or water ever.
I use alfalfa meal and kelp meal, soaked in water, for my soil grows. I also try to foliar spray a few times with this mix in veg, before cutting clones.
@RM3-
I use this alfalfa/kelp mixture through veg, and often during the first 3 or 4 weeks of flower. People swear it extends flowering, but I don't sweat it much.
How are you using the alfalfa tea? Or I guess how long are you using it? Have you experienced longer flowering times?
Things look good. Nice, healthy looking plants and even canopy.
Is that long side, to the left in the photo, "open?" I have a similar, rectangular area. 3 walls, and 1 long "open side."
I built a little moveable screen for that side, that just moves out of the way when I water or water ever.
I use alfalfa meal and kelp meal, soaked in water, for my soil grows. I also try to foliar spray a few times with this mix in veg, before cutting clones.
@RM3-
I use this alfalfa/kelp mixture through veg, and often during the first 3 or 4 weeks of flower. People swear it extends flowering, but I don't sweat it much.
How are you using the alfalfa tea? Or I guess how long are you using it? Have you experienced longer flowering times?
RM3
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I only used it in one grow, it works a treat for bumpin yield but in the end, that's not my thing