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Quote Originally Posted by PeeJay View Post
It will take 4-5 weeks for a seedling to get as big as the big plant. You'll move a big plant out of the bookcase every 10-15 days and plant a new seed.
The footprint of the big plants right now is about 1 square foot. You have 8 square feet to work with in the flowering tent. Flowering takes about 65 days (depending on the strain) from when the plant starts a 12/12 schedule. That means that you'll have 4-5 plants in the flowering tent at the same time once everything is full. That works out to one plant ready to harvest roughly every 15 days, too.
That's what's making sense to me based on the spaces you have available. There are some good eyes here that may have some other ideas. I'm going to ramble on a bit more in a bit to give them food for thought when they consider things.
PJ, I'm sorry I must have missed that one. I do like your plan and am looking forward to having it up and running as you described. I switched the tent over to 12/12 this evening and starting tomorrow it will be running that cycle. Do I leave the lights all on (Right now, I put them on like you said and have both switches on)? I seem to remember some talk about changing the lights when we changed the cycle, but it may have been something I read while gong through other threads too.
I do have some feminized seeds and a bunch of regular ones now thanks to another kind person. The bookcase is back up and the tent only has Harley and Casey plus the cup with the Kush in it that hasn't shown itself yet. I do have 1 more Kush seed I could germinate if required, but I germinated a feminized "Amnesia" seed and planted it a couple days ago (just waiting for it to show itself). I figured with that name, it might be a good one to help get off the narcs when it grows up. A hit or two and I should be feeling it if the name is accurate.
Thank you Radogast for bringing that post to my attention, I either don't remember responding to it or most likely just missed it between posts. But like I said, I do have enough seeds to keep me going for a while so I'm doing O.K. now seed wise. I have 8 feminized and 13 regular seeds. All seeds have the name of the strain so I will know what they are before I plant them. Should be able to keep me going for a while I think! We are also saving money (granted, it's a small amount each month) for stuff I may need in the future. (That's how I saved the money for the plywood), but as time goes by who knows how we'll be doing and how much we can save. The sooner I have the perpetual going, the sooner I can quit the narc's and not have to pay my monthly co payment on my meds. I also have hypertension and some other problems that I'm hoping the cannabis will also take care of of those meds I should be able to quit too. In the long run, now that I think about all the copayments I have to pay each month, I may actually save a few dollars over the next few years. Oh well, I gotta go to sleep, I only slept about 4-5 hours today/last night so sorry for any typo's.
It will take 4-5 weeks for a seedling to get as big as the big plant. You'll move a big plant out of the bookcase every 10-15 days and plant a new seed.
The footprint of the big plants right now is about 1 square foot. You have 8 square feet to work with in the flowering tent. Flowering takes about 65 days (depending on the strain) from when the plant starts a 12/12 schedule. That means that you'll have 4-5 plants in the flowering tent at the same time once everything is full. That works out to one plant ready to harvest roughly every 15 days, too.
That's what's making sense to me based on the spaces you have available. There are some good eyes here that may have some other ideas. I'm going to ramble on a bit more in a bit to give them food for thought when they consider things.
PeeJay - since noone has said it yet - This is a mighty fine plan!
Simple, elegant, fast and effective. In my opinion, a very good plan
The largest difficulty I see is finding enough seeds to plant 2-3 per month. Clones would be nice in order to have a consistent, repeatable, high quality product, but the smallest cloner I know of is the 8-site 1-Gallon Clone Bucket. I use it. It would be big enough for his needs, but would take up a 9" space in his cupboard. Obviously, there are enough free seeds floating around that seeds can appear, but it is expensive to buy a steady supply of the best seeds for Mr & Mrs Smokeater's needs. I wish I had a stash of feminised seeds to share. I hate to take up valuable grow space with male plants.
PJ, I'm sorry I must have missed that one. I do like your plan and am looking forward to having it up and running as you described. I switched the tent over to 12/12 this evening and starting tomorrow it will be running that cycle. Do I leave the lights all on (Right now, I put them on like you said and have both switches on)? I seem to remember some talk about changing the lights when we changed the cycle, but it may have been something I read while gong through other threads too.
I do have some feminized seeds and a bunch of regular ones now thanks to another kind person. The bookcase is back up and the tent only has Harley and Casey plus the cup with the Kush in it that hasn't shown itself yet. I do have 1 more Kush seed I could germinate if required, but I germinated a feminized "Amnesia" seed and planted it a couple days ago (just waiting for it to show itself). I figured with that name, it might be a good one to help get off the narcs when it grows up. A hit or two and I should be feeling it if the name is accurate.
Thank you Radogast for bringing that post to my attention, I either don't remember responding to it or most likely just missed it between posts. But like I said, I do have enough seeds to keep me going for a while so I'm doing O.K. now seed wise. I have 8 feminized and 13 regular seeds. All seeds have the name of the strain so I will know what they are before I plant them. Should be able to keep me going for a while I think! We are also saving money (granted, it's a small amount each month) for stuff I may need in the future. (That's how I saved the money for the plywood), but as time goes by who knows how we'll be doing and how much we can save. The sooner I have the perpetual going, the sooner I can quit the narc's and not have to pay my monthly co payment on my meds. I also have hypertension and some other problems that I'm hoping the cannabis will also take care of of those meds I should be able to quit too. In the long run, now that I think about all the copayments I have to pay each month, I may actually save a few dollars over the next few years. Oh well, I gotta go to sleep, I only slept about 4-5 hours today/last night so sorry for any typo's.
