Al B. Fuct
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My SoG op running 2x 1000HPS lamps yields about 1-1.5oz per plant with 2.6 plants per sq ft (900mm x 900mm trays x4, 23 plants in 175mm x 175mm pots in each flood tray), so 2.6-3.9oz/sq ft. Could grow as many as 4 plants per sq ft (140mm x 140mm pots) in a SoG if you like.
An average SoG budstalk, about 1-1.25z here.
SoG ops beat the pants off of anything in per sq ft yield because they only grow the top cola, the biggest & densest buds the plant can make, with none of the fluffy little popcorn buds produced on lower branches, which are removed in SoG.
Ops in which tall/bushy plants are grown yield the least per sf due to a lot of floorspace devoted to growing plants with small branches.
SoG pruning removes all the branching. By flowering clones immediately after setting root, SoG produces short plants, better suited to indoor lighting. Even the mighty 1000HPS can only penetrate foliage so deeply and still produce rock-hard buds, about 1m or so.
Done well, ScrOG is art. However, it's not the most productive method and it takes a lot of stuffing around, tying down branches. ScrOG ops do somewhat better than bushy plant ops but can't touch the speed and nor per lighted sq ft yield of a SoG. They also require that the plant to be flowered is vegged for a week or two before flowering; a delay not needed in SoG as clones are not vegged before flowering.
Only downside to SoG is the high plant counts. SoG depends on a larger number of smaller plants, but each of those small plants is a top cola.
An average SoG budstalk, about 1-1.25z here.
SoG ops beat the pants off of anything in per sq ft yield because they only grow the top cola, the biggest & densest buds the plant can make, with none of the fluffy little popcorn buds produced on lower branches, which are removed in SoG.
Ops in which tall/bushy plants are grown yield the least per sf due to a lot of floorspace devoted to growing plants with small branches.
SoG pruning removes all the branching. By flowering clones immediately after setting root, SoG produces short plants, better suited to indoor lighting. Even the mighty 1000HPS can only penetrate foliage so deeply and still produce rock-hard buds, about 1m or so.
Done well, ScrOG is art. However, it's not the most productive method and it takes a lot of stuffing around, tying down branches. ScrOG ops do somewhat better than bushy plant ops but can't touch the speed and nor per lighted sq ft yield of a SoG. They also require that the plant to be flowered is vegged for a week or two before flowering; a delay not needed in SoG as clones are not vegged before flowering.
Only downside to SoG is the high plant counts. SoG depends on a larger number of smaller plants, but each of those small plants is a top cola.