perpetual havests?

It allows me to harvest some plants every 2-3 weeks. When it is time to harvest you do not have a whole grow room to harvest. It is easier for me to harvest 25% at a time. Which part is hard to understand?
 
Little Tommy said:
I do not see how you lose out on yield. It is the same yield, just staggered. How does it create more work?
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you lose yield because you don't have an even canopy across all the plants which means you can't spread your lights out a little bit extra and get an overlap and create more yield.

whether you harvest the plants every 2 weeks or every 8 its still the same amount of work, but at least with every 8 weeks all the plants are running on the same nutrients, its easier to keep them all, having 4 different stages means 4 different res's at 4 different values, to maintain this is more work,
 
i do it becaose it alows me to have different strains through rotation.

It also alows me to have several healthy trimmed moms that give consistant results.

i veg 30 days clone every 2 weeks, so its a month plant

I am also able to grow low riders with the moms this way.
 
Jriggs said:
i do it becaose it alows me to have different strains through rotation.

It also alows me to have several healthy trimmed moms that give consistant results.

i veg 30 days clone every 2 weeks, so its a month plant

I am also able to grow low riders with the moms this way.
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i doubt the lowryders for moms part but ok whatever

why wouldn't have them all flowering at the same time allow you to have several healthy trimmed moms that give constant results,

still not a real reason,

i just don't see the point in losing out on yield and giving yourself more work, just to spread the harvesting out
 
didnt say he cloned the autos, just that he could grow them with the moms. I perpetual harvest because I care more about selection than yield.. I can flower 12 at once, I put a clone of the type of whichever jar is the lowest once per week, and take one out of the cloner to veg once per week, put one in the flower room once per week.. you get the idea. Keeps me busy too, and this is what I like to do.. not sit on my hands for 12 weeks while the whole closet flowers.
 
spur said:
didnt say he cloned the autos, just that he could grow them with the moms. I perpetual harvest because I care more about selection than yield.. I can flower 12 at once, I put a clone of the type of whichever jar is the lowest once per week, and take one out of the cloner to veg once per week, put one in the flower room once per week.. you get the idea. Keeps me busy too, and this is what I like to do.. not sit on my hands for 12 weeks while the whole closet flowers.
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but how does selection alter?

surely selection would be the same

you can do 12 every 2 weeks or 48 every 8 no difference, can do whatever number of plants you want, keeping 48 plants is still going to be the same amount of work if you split it or not, but then you got different res's to think about, getting the mixture right for different plants, when things go wrong correcting everything with different remedies, i still can't figure out whats beneficial about it
 
I only grow in soil, so things are less urgent/hectic in my garden. I suppose selection isnt improved over growing 12 different plants of 12 different strains all at once, but they're not going to finish at the same time, so you're not harvesting all at once in that scenario.

seriously, the benefit of perpetual harvest to me is mostly that I always have plants at all stages to stare at and I always have something to do. it's as much hobby for me as smoke.
 
spur said:
I only grow in soil, so things are less urgent/hectic in my garden. I suppose selection isnt improved over growing 12 different plants of 12 different strains all at once, but they're not going to finish at the same time, so you're not harvesting all at once in that scenario.

seriously, the benefit of perpetual harvest to me is mostly that I always have plants at all stages to stare at and I always have something to do. it's as much hobby for me as smoke.
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thats fair enough, if its just to give you more to do in the grow room, then cool, just wanted to know if there was a beneficial reason to doing it
 
easygrinder said:
you lose yield because you don't have an even canopy across all the plants which means you can't spread your lights out a little bit extra and get an overlap and create more yield.

whether you harvest the plants every 2 weeks or every 8 its still the same amount of work, but at least with every 8 weeks all the plants are running on the same nutrients, its easier to keep them all, having 4 different stages means 4 different res's at 4 different values, to maintain this is more work,
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I know it's hard for you hydro guys to imagine, but most indoor growers use soil. And with soil you just raise the plants to the light until the tops are even. Maturity doesn't matter. Efficiency is unaffected. Similarly, soil needs no reservoir, I just have to scoop from the appropriate food box and fill a gallon container with it.

A perpetual harvest was by far the best strategy of growing that I've ever used. I only wish I had the space to do it again.
 
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spur said:
I only grow in soil, so things are less urgent/hectic in my garden. I suppose selection isnt improved over growing 12 different plants of 12 different strains all at once, but they're not going to finish at the same time, so you're not harvesting all at once in that scenario.

seriously, the benefit of perpetual harvest to me is mostly that I always have plants at all stages to stare at and I always have something to do. it's as much hobby for me as smoke.
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i agree , , makes more fun
 
smokinrav said:
I know it's hard for you hydro guys to imagine, but most indoor growers use soil. And with soil you just raise the plants to the light until the tops are even. Maturity doesn't matter. Efficiency is unaffected. Similarly, soil needs no reservoir, I just have to scoop from the appropriate food box and fill a gallon container with it.

A perpetual harvest was by far the best strategy of growing that I've ever used. I only wish I had the space to do it again.
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i grow in hydro and i can raise or lower my pots, so no advantage there, maturity does matter, efficiency is affected
 
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