how many plants shall i grow? plz help!

this is my first grow and i hope to achieve at least 18oz. I am growing blue cheese and my mother is nearly ready for her cuttings. im not sure how many plants to grow to achieve at least 18oz? my setup is a homebox xl grow tent (1.2mx1.2mx2m) and can fit 16 pots in there. i have a 600w hps cool tube and im using bio bloom nutrients and bio bizz soil. I have heard less is more but still not sure on how many grow. Any ideas people?

no experienced growers have any ideas?

im not experienced but i would say if you can get 16 pots in there you should grow 8 or even 6, more plants does not meen bigger yeild, these plants would respect you for giving them room to grow lol this is only from what i have read so i may be wrong

you wont get 18 zips off of one 600. i vegged for 8 weeks and wont get that. and had high yielding strains.

Alright from personal expierence, and research. I have found that if you grow a larger amount of smaller plants you could achieve a larger yield. If I were you, I would seriously consider doing a SOG grow. If you do not know what that is, google it. It's easy to find out, and easy to do. 18 oz's on your setup is possible. But I would suggest not getting your hopes up as it is your first grow...

The best possible advice you could get from anyone at any point in time is this: Start browsing these forums dog!

Before I started growing, I learned all I needed to, then read the "plant problems" forum for weeks just so that if I EVER came across a problem that so many people do, I woul dknow what to do. I've grown around 15 plants, and have been growing since the day I signed up on this forum. (can't remember when that was exactle, only bout 6 month's tho) and I've had GREAT success with growing! And the ONLY reason, seriously, is because I've read this forum for countless hours. So the best advice anyone could give you... Is to start reading!

Also I purchased the 'cannabis grow bible' incredible book! If you can afford it, I'd strongly suggest it!

Just remember, if you really want that yield your hoping for, your gonna need to SOG (Sea Of Green) it! IMHO

ElectricPineapple said:

you wont get 18 zips off of one 600. i vegged for 8 weeks and wont get that. and had high yielding strains.

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I really REALLY don't think he's going to do so either. It is possible though! If you think about it, a gram per watt is what the BEST of the BEST go for correct? Well a gram per watt off a 600W HPS, would be 21.43 OZ's. I would be willing to bet my entire bank account that he's NOT gonna get this, BUT it is possible... Just saying...

ya, your going to get around .5 g per watt. thats about 300 grams, thats about 10 oz. add another 600 watt hps and you may hit your goal but set your goal lower so your not pissed if it doesent happen your first try.

This is your first grow your bound to have problems. Read everything on this site. I would say around 6 plants for your area, if you want to try and maximize yield, look into topping and then the scrog method which will require more plants. Plants easily grow 2.5 feet wide.

If this is your first grow I would start with one, maybe 2 plants. Bottom line is you have no idea what you are doing, no experience and you aren't ready to take on a SOG or any other advanced technique... Just grow a plant or two to get familiar with growing... When you start to add a shit load of lights and such, you will increase your cost and then if you have something go wrong say week 6 in flowering and you lose the whole thing because you didn't recognize the problem early enough... You are asking for trouble and disapointment if you are trying to reach crazy results right out of the box.. It is like anything else, it takes practice and experience to do it well..

kershivo said:

this is my first grow and i hope to achieve at least 18oz. I am growing blue cheese and my mother is nearly ready for her cuttings. im not sure how many plants to grow to achieve at least 18oz? my setup is a homebox xl grow tent (1.2mx1.2mx2m) and can fit 16 pots in there. i have a 600w hps cool tube and im using bio bloom nutrients and bio bizz soil. I have heard less is more but still not sure on how many grow. Any ideas people?

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It aint going to happen.

With the set up you have you can grow about 9 plants and get 1 ounce per plant. That's only 9 ounces.
If you want 18 ounces you will need at least 2 600w lights for 18 plants, but you only have room for 16 plants. If you grow them extra big you might make up the other 2 ounces, but is your tent high enough for 2.5 - 3 foot plants?
But none of this means shit if you have no experience.

If I were in your position, I would grow 10 plants of some cheap seed in order to gain experience and take it from there.

a friend comes round and checks on my stuff who is experienced so i whould be ok on that side of things. my tent is 2m high. i like the idea of this SOG method though.

so if i carry on growing my mothers and get say 40 cuttings and put them in small pots and put them under a 600 for 2 weeks to veg and 2 weeks to flower, what would happen?

is it 1 plant per square foot?