oh yeah, by commercial i meant something more in the neighbourhood of "i could smoke in the style of that 'sublime' song everyday for a year and i probably still couldn't smoke a single whole harvest." (where yield and bag appeal are more important than flavour or high.) fuck i hate pimping out my wisdom on that shit. never again.
i'm a heavy smoker, even by BC standards, and a 1000w hps one-banger kept me in enough weed, with a bit extra. when my best friend figured that out, I had to plug in another one lol. one more and i could've quit waitressing. the golden ratio seems to be "a pound a light or better", which means, once you have your shit dialed in, you should be producing a *minimum of a 1/4 lb every 2/3 months with your 250hps and led combo.
as far as the trying a bunch of different strains/methods, two sides of the coin: a) how else are you going to figure out your preference? but, b) careful not to bite off more than you can chew. if this is your first hydro grow my advice would be to keep it to one strain to start (do a few different ones in dirt if you want, but hydro is a finicky beast), especially if your hydro plants are going to be interconnected. that's one thing i don't like about hydro: one hiccup can mean spectacular failure across the board.
I'm figuring nothing too big on my first 2 grows, I wont even buy seeds until I know I wont kill them.
I'm expecting 1-6 oz from the HPS (if I can keep temps cool), and 1-4 oz from the LED (90 watts)
And maybe if I'm lucky, another 1/2-1 oz from my CFLs (108 watts total) If I get a total of a few oz,
I'm happy. I am looking toward 3X 600 watt HPS once I get it figured out to where I wont kill everything
off with a newb mistake(s).
I'm not too impressed with this hydro system I have, the res is pretty small, only a few gallons, and room
for 6 plants. I hope the roots wont tangle before I have to take the males out.
Bag appeal is nice, and yield is nice too, but before those, I prefer the potency. If I can have all 3, looks
nice, yield is good, and is potent, plus tastes decent if not good, I'd prefer that. But as a beginner, I'd
just like to have a finished crop that is not a failure. I can fine tune as I learn.
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