[Al B. Fuct]

Originally Posted by Jimi001

I can't smoke the same strain straight for more than a week or so, don't you grow a strong tolerance to that strain?

Everyone has a different reaction to weed. Some develop a tolerance to particular strains or all weed rather quickly; some never lose the 1-cone, 3-4 hour buzz. I guess I'm lucky being the latter. I guess I'm luckier yet that everyone who smokes my buds is the same.

Are the four groups under the same light?

No, there's one 1000HPS for each pair. Two 1000s covering the 4 trays.

What kind of light would I need for 16 plants? I'm thinking about starting with two different strains and taking about 3 cuttings and using the better two of them both to harvest 4 plants every two weeks.

A 600 HPS over a roughly 3' square tray would do pretty well.

There's some advantage to using 4 individual trays and tanks as you can tailor the nutes to the plant's particular phase of growth. If I only had 1 tank feeding all plants, I could not add my P additive in wk3 per the mfr's instructions (Canna PK-13-14) without treating all other plants which are in different phases due to staggering the feed of plants in and out of the flowering area.

How do you start the cycle? I'm going to get seeds and grow a couple of each strain and use two of them for the mothers, and smoke the rest while the new shit grows. After that I should have a good understanding of what to do..

Start with a few mother plants. I can get 30 good cuts every 2 weeks off of 8-10 mums. You really only need one mother but it's often very good to have a backup mum in development. Once you have some nice thick stems developed, you can start doing batches of clones. Those will take 10-12 days before they are ready to flower, during which time your mums will recover and be ready to donate the next batch. Cut a few more than you'll need. I cut 30, can only use 23 for each flowering batch.

I know that killing spare clones will make some ppl cry, but you gotta do what you gotta do when your flowering trays are full and you don't need any more replacement mums. Console yourself by composting your plant waste and put the rich compost on your vegetable patch.

Now that I think about it, 18 plants + clones is kind of a lot.. would I be able to do two or three plants every two weeks or would that be inefficient?

When scaling this op down, figure on about 1/2oz per SoG style plant when you're just beginning. Work that out against your smoking needs. When you get things really dialed in, you should be seeing 1oz per plant. You can put only 1 plant per 2wks in to flower if that's all you need.