Thats 4 plants per 1000 with a 6x6 foot print
From Upcoming Laws
Lighting
Let’s discuss a few ways to construct an indoor grow room. According to your local laws, each state has a different limit of plants that can be grown in a space. I find it best to always have fewer plants budding than allowed, so we will be learning to keep our plants in the vegetative state longer than normal, all the while training and shaping the plants for maximum production indoors. In my youth, we would run as many as 40 plants under 1000 watts in a 6’x6’ area.
Now we design bud rooms to run between 4-6 plants in the same area with the same wattage lights. The yield is very similar and the main difference is the amount of time the plant is grown under an 18 hours on /6 hours off lighting schedule. The plants are topped and shaped to form a wide bush that will finish multi-headed and at a height of around 5-6 feet. Think of each area covered by a 1000 watt light as a 6’x6’x6’ cube that you are going to fill with cannabis. By using three separate areas designated as “Cloning area,” “Vegetative area,” and “Budding area,” you can continually harvest medicine every 60 days.
We are going to use some firm measurements in this teaching example, but almost any configuration will work that allows the three areas to be constructed. Every light/bulb has a foot print.
This means the area that can be properly covered for maximum production.
These are as follows:
1000 watt hood…………6’x6’
600 watt hood………….5’x5’
400 watt hood………….4’x4’
250 watt hood………….3’x3’
The design we will be teaching is a 12’x6’ Budding room with 2000 watts of HPS lighting. The vegetative area is 6’x6’ with 1000 watts of MH lighting, and a starting area that’s 4’x4’. I also use a small shelf with fluorescents for cloning.
I am a huge fan of specialized grow bulbs and have had great results with both Agrosun and Hortilux brands. I use vented hoods since heat is your #1 enemy indoors; it will zap your bulb life and bring on a myriad of other problems such as pests, stress, additional watering and crappy cannabis.
Much has changed in the field of lighting and you must be careful not to place these super efficient grow bulbs too close to the canopy.
Light intensity can cause fox tailing [pic?] or dreading of the buds and hot spots in the center of the canopy.
