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Originally Posted by GDS StonerBoy

How do you think Pure Power Plant would react to this sog?

PPP is described as a sativa dominant, but like DrBudGreengenes says, you can use just about anything. SoG will give you a bunch of top colas of whatever you use. If you already like a strain, you'll get the best parts of a strain you already like. I reckon indica doms, Afghani etc. will make the best total weight per batch, though. All depends on what you want to do with the op.

Hope this works as well as yours does but i definately be on a smaller scale than you bro.

Probably a real smart move.

You shouldn't have any problem with the growing style. It does depend on more individual plants than other methods. A good per plant yield for my op is 1oz. The hardest part about it is training yourself to prune off ENOUGH of the lower branching. Cutting branches off a flowering plant which is doing rather well is counterintuitive at first. However, if I am not ruthless, there will be crowding problems causing restricted airflow. You're looking for just a mainstem stalk with a top cola and about 10 fat buds on the nodes below the top cola main cluster.

I must say though that your grow is awesome and i'm definately following in your foot steps!

heh, thanks for the compliment.

Another question i wanted to ask is do the 2000 watts of lighting really up your electricity bill that much? People kinda make me afraid to get 2 400 watts, because they claim that electricity cost go up dramatically. About how much did yours go up from the use of the 2000 watts or was it really a small change?

You're right, 2kW is a gob of power when you start running it every day for 12h/day. My power bill went up a LOT. You can work out your own power cost by multiplying your power usage by your pwr co rate. Check your bill, should be around 8-12 cents per kilowatt-hour. A kilowatt-hour (kWh) is simply a 1000W (1kW) load running for 1 hour. Could also be a 500W load for 2 hours or a 2kW load for .5 hour.

I went about increasing the efficiency of other things around here. Put in solar water heating and replaced all incandescent lights with CFLs, added some more insulation in some places, fixed a lot of air gaps around doors & windows. The power bill is now slightly LESS than it was before I built the op. The solar water heat was a large part of the savings.