KGB420TIME
New Member
Hello my fellow 4x4 growers
Here to join the club, if I may?
I'm in the process of setting up a perpetual grow with 4x4 tents. Recently a friend of a friend, after trying some of my flower., asked me if I would be their designated medical grower. I happily accepted .. Initially I will only have one patient, although another person is thinking of switching me to their designated grower as well ., which allows me to have 6 plants in flower at any given time(with one patient). I have 2 4x4s already with a third on the way and a fourth to follow shortly thereafter. My plan is to have one tent for veg and three for flower. Each with a 600w LED, possibly adding a second to each of the flowering tents later, bringing them up to 1200w LED per tent(eventually.). I want to try and switch a batch to flower every 4wks. Which would, hopefully, allow me to harvest about once a month after the cycle gets going (roughly). I've only been growing for a little over a year now, and although I seem to be producing nice quality nugs, I feel like I am still lacking a bit of experience. I'm hoping that all of you fine growers hereabouts, likely with far more experience than I, might be able to offer some suggestions as to how I might best maximize my yield in a 4x4 tent. I know that yields can differ greatly just between strains. I am open to strain suggestions, though I'm mostly looking for thoughts on training techniques that would allow me to maximize the yield of any given strain. So far I have only grown in soil and will continue using soil for now. I'm using an organic soil, from a local forest products company, in fabric pots...
Organic soil:
Peat Moss, Coir Pith, Pumice, BarnYard Compost, Perlite, Sharp sand, Fish Bone Meal, Organic Limestone, Feather Meal, Alfalfa & Kelp Meal, Wetting Agent, Worm Castings, Mycorrhizal Fungi, Bat Guano & Dried Poultry Manure.
With a 2-4" layer of organic "super soil" (from the same company), in the bottom of each pot...
Organic "Super" soil:
Black Bark Dust, Pumice, Peat Moss, Perlite (fines), Garden Compost, Dark Fines Forest Humus, Agrarian Compost, Forest Slash Bio-Char, Coir Pith, Azomite (Volcanic Rock Dust), Fish Bone Meal, Feather Meal, Organic Calcium Sulfate, Organic Limestone, Alfalfa Meal, Dried Poultry Manure, Kelp Meal, Mycorrhizal Fungi, Humic Acid, Bat Guano, Worm Castings.
Here's what I was kind of thinking of doing... Having 2 plants per tent, topping at the 4th or 5th node and letting them stretch a bit(in the Veg tent), then LST/Supercrop all the branches down under a "scrog" screen made to fit the tent(in the Flower tent). Let everything stretch up a bit, maybe tuck once then switch to flower, depending on how full the screen is. Not certain, but from what I've been reading this seems like it can produce a pretty good yield. To get a little practice with the "scrog" method, Im currently running a mini one in my 2x2x3 tent with a 300w LED...
When I first put the screen in:
Where it's at now:
Partly for practice, partly for fun, and partly because I needed something to do with a Darkstar Kush clone I came across.
Thank you for taking the time to read all of this . I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on my plan, and I appreciate any advice or suggestions you may have.
Thank you!
.KGB
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What you think and what you feel and what manifests is always a match.. Every single time, no exceptions.
Here to join the club, if I may?
I'm in the process of setting up a perpetual grow with 4x4 tents. Recently a friend of a friend, after trying some of my flower., asked me if I would be their designated medical grower. I happily accepted .. Initially I will only have one patient, although another person is thinking of switching me to their designated grower as well ., which allows me to have 6 plants in flower at any given time(with one patient). I have 2 4x4s already with a third on the way and a fourth to follow shortly thereafter. My plan is to have one tent for veg and three for flower. Each with a 600w LED, possibly adding a second to each of the flowering tents later, bringing them up to 1200w LED per tent(eventually.). I want to try and switch a batch to flower every 4wks. Which would, hopefully, allow me to harvest about once a month after the cycle gets going (roughly). I've only been growing for a little over a year now, and although I seem to be producing nice quality nugs, I feel like I am still lacking a bit of experience. I'm hoping that all of you fine growers hereabouts, likely with far more experience than I, might be able to offer some suggestions as to how I might best maximize my yield in a 4x4 tent. I know that yields can differ greatly just between strains. I am open to strain suggestions, though I'm mostly looking for thoughts on training techniques that would allow me to maximize the yield of any given strain. So far I have only grown in soil and will continue using soil for now. I'm using an organic soil, from a local forest products company, in fabric pots...
Organic soil:
Peat Moss, Coir Pith, Pumice, BarnYard Compost, Perlite, Sharp sand, Fish Bone Meal, Organic Limestone, Feather Meal, Alfalfa & Kelp Meal, Wetting Agent, Worm Castings, Mycorrhizal Fungi, Bat Guano & Dried Poultry Manure.
With a 2-4" layer of organic "super soil" (from the same company), in the bottom of each pot...
Organic "Super" soil:
Black Bark Dust, Pumice, Peat Moss, Perlite (fines), Garden Compost, Dark Fines Forest Humus, Agrarian Compost, Forest Slash Bio-Char, Coir Pith, Azomite (Volcanic Rock Dust), Fish Bone Meal, Feather Meal, Organic Calcium Sulfate, Organic Limestone, Alfalfa Meal, Dried Poultry Manure, Kelp Meal, Mycorrhizal Fungi, Humic Acid, Bat Guano, Worm Castings.
Here's what I was kind of thinking of doing... Having 2 plants per tent, topping at the 4th or 5th node and letting them stretch a bit(in the Veg tent), then LST/Supercrop all the branches down under a "scrog" screen made to fit the tent(in the Flower tent). Let everything stretch up a bit, maybe tuck once then switch to flower, depending on how full the screen is. Not certain, but from what I've been reading this seems like it can produce a pretty good yield. To get a little practice with the "scrog" method, Im currently running a mini one in my 2x2x3 tent with a 300w LED...
When I first put the screen in:
Partly for practice, partly for fun, and partly because I needed something to do with a Darkstar Kush clone I came across.
Thank you for taking the time to read all of this . I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on my plan, and I appreciate any advice or suggestions you may have.
Thank you!
.KGB ------------------------------------------
What you think and what you feel and what manifests is always a match.. Every single time, no exceptions.
