Questions I’d like to know about sea of green from you experienced growers out there. When using the sea of green: -what size pots do you use? -do they ever get rootbound? -soil or hydro for veg? -have you tried to veg in hydro and then flower in soil? -How long for veg? -how big do your plants get before flowering begins? -what kind of stretch do you see? -do you use nutes for veg if in soil? -what strains do you see performing best with this technique? Currently my beginnings of my set up are 2 tents ( 2x2 and 4x4, one for veg and flower), I’ve got 7 from clone strains: 2 Pineapple Express, 2 gorilla glue #4, 1 lucky charms, 1 sour joker, and 1 afghani... all have nice roots and beginning day 7 of veg tomorrow. Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
Don't clone from a clone from a clone …….. RDWC systems veg and Flower . My systems are 20 to thirty gallon RDWC systems ,, I operate ten systems . If you go Hydro ,,, you need to decide on which nutrients and if your your going to run a sterile system or not . And if your going to buy a RO water purifying filtration system .. And if you are then make sure you know how much water pressure you have because most RO systems do not make near as much water if you have 50 psi or less . I have about 750.00 into my RO system and that's not including the RO system I bought but didn't perform because I have 40 PSI tap water I don't move my plants ……. you cant if your doing a SOG . Or the plants will be very small . Moving bigger plants normally results in breaking the plants stem some place . Allot of growers are using Auto flower seeds to sog or Srog . 4 to 6 weeks veg . I recommend buying Samsung LED lighting .
I buy RO water at 35 cents a gallon at Walmart (primo water). Also I have two mothers I’m growing from seed that I will be pulling clones from. My idea was first week veg them in my bubble cloner by adding general nutes. Any suggestions. I was think Humboldt a and b. Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
I love Sea of Green for max yield. 4 sections. Section A,B,C,D Each section was 4x4 flood and drain (ebb & flow) tables. Each section had 2x 315 CMH lights. Each section had 16 plants in 6x6x6 square containers filled with hydroton. placed 4 x 4 spaced as evenly as possible. We based everything on 4weeks. Meaning we harvested every 4 weeks. Week 1-2 Clones are cut from mothers and placed in cloners (Clones for section A). Most would root in 7-12 days. Week 3-4 Rooted clones are placed section A after 2 week to begin veg 20/4 light schedule. "Vegging" Weeks 5-6 New clones are cut from mothers and placed in cloners. (Clones for section B) Clones in section A continue to veg on with 20/4 light schedule Week 7-8 Rooted clones are taken out and placed in Section B and begin vegging. Clones in Section A get flipped to 12/12 to begin flowering. (flower week 1-2) Week 9-10 New clones are cut from mothers and placed in cloners. (Clones for section C) Clones in section B continue to veg. Clones in section A usually finish stretching at the end of week 10. (flower week 3-4) Week 11-12 Rooted clones are taken out and placed in Section C and begin veggin. Clones in section B get flipped to 12/12 to begin flowering. (flower week 1-2) Clones in section A continue flowering (flower week 5-6) Week 13-14 New clones are cut from mothers and placed in cloners. (Clones for section D) Clones in section C continue veg. Clones in section B cont. flower. (flower week 3-4) Clones in section A con.t flower. (flower week 7-8) Week 15-16 Rooted clones are taken out and placed in Section D and begin veg. (woohoo full house now, all 4 sections filled) Clones in C get flipped to 12/12 to begin flower. (flower week 1-2) Clones in B cont. flower. (flower week 5-6) Clones in A cont. flower. (flower 9-10) Week 17-18 New clones are cut from mothers and placed in cloners (2nd round of clones for section A) Clones in D cont. veg. Clones in C cont. flower (flower week 3-4) Clones in B cont. flower (flower week 7-8) Clones in A are harvested! YAY!!! Use remain days to clean and sterilize everything. Week 19-20 Rooted clones are placed in newly cleaned Section A and begin veg. Clones in D get flipped to 12/12 to begin flower. (flower week 1-2) Clones in C cont. flower (flower week 5-6) Clones in B cont. flower (flower week 9-10) From here the cycle just repeats. Lots of different ways to vary this based on timing and number of sections. Just remember the "flower" stage is the hardest to work with because its usually 8-12 weeks, so you need to work with that as your limiting factor. We averages 1.19 GPW and was able to harvest every 4 weeks. (With QB we are averaging 1.34 GPW now.)
-size = 6in x 6in x 6in square containers -rootbound = Sort of. The roots would grow out the drain holes on the bottom of the containers and form a mat inside the flood and drain trays. We laid down a layer thing layer (no more then 1") of hydroton on the bottom of the trays and placed the containers on top of the hydroton. -hydro for veg -switching systems ie hydro veg to soil flower is not recommended. two different types of roots. It'll work, but your going to get a bad case of transplant shock. -vegged for 4 weeks -clones were always 6-8 inchs. at end of veg they would be 12-16in -after stretch they were usually 20-24in -with hydro definitely nutes the whole time. -indica dominant strains work the best because of the short flowering time. Sativas just take way to dam long.