What would you do to get 4lbs per month?

urban grower way if your trying to go for low plant number for sure.. Its all about the strain. SAGE, big buds, the ultimate, power plant. strains like that will give you stupid sized buds. so if your asking how would i do it? 7 gallon buckets, advanced nutrients, veg 24 inches tall, co2. i would probably do 9 plants a light, four 1000w. xxl hoods. so thats 36 flowering.. plus your mothers... plus 36 vegging. you could keep it under the radar if you did it right . and that could get you between 4 and 8lbs every 9 weeks

Yea Ruiner, you got me figured out... man your good.... even nailed my budget..... man guess you told me....... I would tell you to go fuck yourself but I try to keep things positive and not let the morons who occupy every chat room on the internet spoil my fun.....

J

jcannons said:

So let's hear your ideas.... This should be fun.... Here's the idea. If you were going to try and yield 4lbs per month in an indoor grow, with the least amount of plants ( the less plants the better as far as the Feds go), what would your operation look like? What would you grow? How many rooms would you have? What kind of lighting and how many watts? Would you use hydroponics or soil? Etc.... You get the idea... what do you think?

J

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You would need three rooms. One for veg...18/6
Two for flowering...12/12
8x10 minimum space each room. 24-30 plants in 3 gal pots
Access to water, Two 600W Lights or two 1000W if you can afford it. MH and HPS
Decent soil, nutes not required if you have the right soil.
Lots of patience and about five months of your time....Four lbs
The next 30 or so plants will be in another flowering room...12/12...with two more 600W HPS
Just remember it takes 8-10 weeks to flower so you'll need more flowering rooms than veg rooms.
Don't forget the CO2...It does work
Hope I've helped answer your question. Here's a link to my grow. I figure I'll get about 2 lbs in May. Peace.

https://www.rollitup.org/harvesting-curing/402350-never-tried-grow-before-start.html

I don't know about 4lbs/month. But, here's a link to a page showing pics of our grow that gets double that.

https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/407048-20-000-watt-medical-grow-16.html

If you read the whole thing you can see exactly how to do it.

I'd have to bump those up to 5 gal pots. 3's will seriously limit the harvest.

Yes, even with the co2 proper triming and even some lst.
I did 6 clones, 3 ended up in 5's and 3 ended up in 3 1/2's.

The 5's out weighted the 3 1/2's by more then 40 grams per plant.

Now that's what I'm talking about, creative input! You guys are awesome.... Collective Gardener I have read your thread in it's entirety and am subscribed.... good stuff, your doing amazing work..... It seems that most larger gardens are not hydroponic? Is that because it's not as forgiving or because most people doing larger gardens are just more confortable with other mediums?

J

jcannons said:

Now that's what I'm talking about, creative input! You guys are awesome.... Collective Gardener I have read your thread in it's entirety and am subscribed.... good stuff, your doing amazing work..... It seems that most larger gardens are not hydroponic? Is that because it's not as forgiving or because most people doing larger gardens are just more confortable with other mediums?

J

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I cannot speak for other gardens, but all of my commercial growing friends do soiless, or organic soil, as well. My reasons are: By hand watering, I (or my helper) are forced to get in there and look at the plants. With an automated feed hydro it's too easy to let a week go by and not look at all the plants. I've never had any typ of infestation because I have always caught it early and dealt with it before it gets too bad. Many times by throwing away the first plant to get hit.

Soiless is forgiving as far as feeding schedules. It's forgiving with a power failure. It's forgiving with large enough pots of a missed watering. It's forgiving of a botched nute mixing.

That being said...if you indeed read my whole thread you will have met Godzilla, my DWC plant. Based on that plant's performace in a DWC bucket, we're slowly converting about 20 - 30 plants over to DWC. We will be using individual buckets, though...and individual air pumps.

Yes I did see that DWC, made me look more into it. Thanks for your open responses, like I originally posted I find it interesting to see how different people go about growing this amazing plant...

J