i have been growing for a while in a closet in my home. my boyfriend is currently building a shed in our backyard that will increase my space to 12feet by 12 feet with 8foot ceilings. i have never had this much room before. maybe someone can give me some advice on setting up a big space like that.
Well, Merry Christmas to you!!! Give us an idea of what you'd like to do in there and we can take it from there. #'s, method, outside temps where you live (hi/low), etc The best advice I can give though is,......don't break up with that one, he's a keeper,lol.
thanks for the help...and yes i plan to keep him. ok...so, i live in the south...hot and very humid. and we live way out in the sticks so privacy and odor are not an issue. i was thinkin i would need 3 400watt lights. i like the crossover mh/hps. as far as numbers, i have no idea. ive never had that much space so i am clueless as to how to utilize it. any advice is greatly appreciated. i have always just used my walkin closet and 5 gallon buckets.
I can dream up wonderous things to do in a dedicated space that size. Here's what is going through my head as I sit down after an afternoon "snack". First decide what you want to grow for. What is your purpose with these plants? If it is to: 1-Grow over time for personal smokage and maybe a few friends. 2-Grow more than you/friends could smoke in the coming 3-6months and grow enough in one shot to break down shop for a while. Always nice to have a break. 3-You're growing for reasons we cannot discuss on these forums. If this is the case I can't help you. haha Cases: 1 - Get yourself a mother or two and set up a perpetual/staggered harvest. Probably pull 6-10 clones a week and flower them straight after rooting, then add a new set every week - up to you to match the sets to your time schedual on rooting clones/flowering to maturity. You could do all of this with soil, hempy or using one of the costly yet effective hydro methods. 2 - I would still use a mother and pull clones just to assure that my buds would be 100% female and seed free. Downside is you're smoking 100% the same buds for the next few months. Other option is if you can order up some seeds and plant multiple strains, say five feminized each of three strains. In either case you'd probably want (using 3x400w like you suggest) about 15 plants, veg them for about 5 weeks before flower. Downside is you can run into males and herms from seeds, you're also having to watch feeding/pH for many differant plant types rather than the uniformity of clones. In the best case (all clones) you could probably harvest about 1.5lbs or more (this would be .6g/w on all 15 females, about 1.6oz per plant) to use for smoke until you need to dust off the nute bottles after a few months. I guess you could also order up seeds and grow two or three mothers and flower a few differant strains to make up that 15. Rather than risk growing from seed and having any male/sexually confused plants. 3 - Avoid jail. haha