perpetual growing

superloud said:

Cool I'm hoping I can fit everything in that tent. Do you think I should get a 6x6 just to be safe?

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Thundercat said:

Generally the size of your grow space determines what would be an ideal plant size for that space. In a 5x5x6 tent you will only have about 4 feet of usable vertical space because of lights. Possibly less since you don't want you glass sitting right on your plants. Now plants that are vegged for 3 months could very likely outgrow that space with out careful control of their height.

I would say that typically perpetual grows are done with larger numbers of smaller plants. You don't spend time vegging plants for 3 months, you veg them for 2 weeks, and get them flowering. Yes the plants are smaller so they don't yield as much per plant, but if you have 2-4 smaller plants instead of 1 huge one you are able to yield about the same.

I've been running my garden like this for 6 years now. I take clones about every 2 weeks when they are rooted they go into pots, and veg for about 2 weeks until they are roughly 8 inchs tall and growing vigorously. At this point I've already cut my next batch of clones as well. Once the potted clones have vegged, they go straight into flower for 9-10 weeks depending on strain. Then every 1-2 weeks I have anywhere from 8-12 plants to harvest. I average about 20g per plant, and can fit around 45 plants under my single 1k light at a time.

Though there are many ways to make a grow perpetual, I feel the way I run mine is a good example of a typical cycle. Its done to increase the number of harvests per year, and to decrease the amount of time spent vegging the plants instead of flowering them.

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Thundercat said:

Generally the size of your grow space determines what would be an ideal plant size for that space. In a 5x5x6 tent you will only have about 4 feet of usable vertical space because of lights. Possibly less since you don't want you glass sitting right on your plants. Now plants that are vegged for 3 months could very likely outgrow that space with out careful control of their height.

I would say that typically perpetual grows are done with larger numbers of smaller plants. You don't spend time vegging plants for 3 months, you veg them for 2 weeks, and get them flowering. Yes the plants are smaller so they don't yield as much per plant, but if you have 2-4 smaller plants instead of 1 huge one you are able to yield about the same.

I've been running my garden like this for 6 years now. I take clones about every 2 weeks when they are rooted they go into pots, and veg for about 2 weeks until they are roughly 8 inchs tall and growing vigorously. At this point I've already cut my next batch of clones as well. Once the potted clones have vegged, they go straight into flower for 9-10 weeks depending on strain. Then every 1-2 weeks I have anywhere from 8-12 plants to harvest. I average about 20g per plant, and can fit around 45 plants under my single 1k light at a time.

Though there are many ways to make a grow perpetual, I feel the way I run mine is a good example of a typical cycle. Its done to increase the number of harvests per year, and to decrease the amount of time spent vegging the plants instead of flowering them.

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2ANONYMOUS said:

That is the thing to properly do a perpetual grow your going to need numbers of plants size of plants are up to you to get it all in sink,
When i did perps again to make it worth while i vegged plants 4 -5 weeks under big power 2 veg rooms to flower rooms ,, this allowed plants to be fair size going into and also allow at beginning of perp every 3 weeks plants going in so when harvest time came for first batch i had every thing in sequence for harvesting every 3 weeks ( 5 - 6 pounds )
No need to keep mothers just going to need lots of clones

Again this is pretty hard work i mean having like 800 - 1000 clones 200 - 300 plants in veg different stages and same amount in flower haha i did it for like 6 months its fucking full time and your always doing something haha
let alone getting caught with them numbers . TBH was getting burnt out Big time .
Growing small plants the numbers don't come up

So to the op i mean really pending on your Exp dont jump into everything you do not even have tents i suggest getting 5 x 10 tent for flower room and same for veg clones can be in a closet
So 5 x 10 you need to keep putting plants in to flower tent right like 3 - 4 weeks so by the time first harvest comes
lets say 8 plants your going to have 24 plants in there pull out 8 and throw in another 8
Veg tent your going to need lets say 100 plants in all stages
clones again you need lots right takes what lets be safe 3 weeks plus to just root so how many ???? i would shoot for min 250 clones
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