GouldyBoy
Active Member
I'm looking for the best yield possible out of my 600w, and I have a slightly unusual shape space at 70x120cm (about 2m tall). I've just ordered 12 feminized seeds of various strains in an attempt to find a keeper and clone this one continuously. Both plans will begin with me vegging all 12 for 3 or 4 weeks until I'm confident they will fill the space, take cuttings of all plants, and then flower these with minimal training/pruning (as 12 medium plants should fill this space nicely anyway). Vegging will be done in a 60x60cm(1.2m tall) tent under a 200w cfl.
At this point, my initial plan was to veg each of the clones for 3 or 4 weeks, and then re-clone each of the clones again and veg until the originals are ready to come out, which should give me another copy of each plant vegged for 4 or 5 weeks to fill the space when the time comes. Then once the first grow is all done and dusted, I can pick my favorite and repeat this "double-clone" process just with the one favorite plant (and I guess only one or two mothers for the first clone in each cycle).
This approach seemed a bit wasteful to me though, as the first clones in each cycle are being potted up to be knowingly scrapped, only really serving to kill a few weeks so as the new plants don't get too big whilst the previous ones are flowering.
Therefore my second plan was to veg only about 4 - 6 clones but for the full 8/9 weeks (using a bit of topping/lst'ing I imagine), to give me a lesser number of plants but much bigger ones, and with no wasted clone step in between. The downside to this approach is that on the first grow I will need to choose the best looking 4 - 6 plants when the mothers are only about 4 weeks into flower, to give me enough room in the mother tent to grow them into big plants.
So I guess the real questions in the long run are:
1. Clone and then reclone 8 or so plants to pass the 8/9 weeks cycle time and give me 4/5 week old plants to go into flowering with each cycle OR take 4 or so clones and veg these into bigger plants over the full 8/9 weeks
2. If I chose the latter, will I be able to tell on the first grow which pheno's are looking the best about 4 weeks into flower?
Which would you choose!
At this point, my initial plan was to veg each of the clones for 3 or 4 weeks, and then re-clone each of the clones again and veg until the originals are ready to come out, which should give me another copy of each plant vegged for 4 or 5 weeks to fill the space when the time comes. Then once the first grow is all done and dusted, I can pick my favorite and repeat this "double-clone" process just with the one favorite plant (and I guess only one or two mothers for the first clone in each cycle).
This approach seemed a bit wasteful to me though, as the first clones in each cycle are being potted up to be knowingly scrapped, only really serving to kill a few weeks so as the new plants don't get too big whilst the previous ones are flowering.
Therefore my second plan was to veg only about 4 - 6 clones but for the full 8/9 weeks (using a bit of topping/lst'ing I imagine), to give me a lesser number of plants but much bigger ones, and with no wasted clone step in between. The downside to this approach is that on the first grow I will need to choose the best looking 4 - 6 plants when the mothers are only about 4 weeks into flower, to give me enough room in the mother tent to grow them into big plants.
So I guess the real questions in the long run are:
1. Clone and then reclone 8 or so plants to pass the 8/9 weeks cycle time and give me 4/5 week old plants to go into flowering with each cycle OR take 4 or so clones and veg these into bigger plants over the full 8/9 weeks
2. If I chose the latter, will I be able to tell on the first grow which pheno's are looking the best about 4 weeks into flower?
Which would you choose!
