Hi. first time grower here. Just purchased a 24x24x64 tent with 250w hps to grow a few autos. I purchased four 9"x9"x11" pots.
Do you think it's possible to grow 4 plants with this kit?
Thanks
I'm doing 4 plants right now in a 3' x 3' x 8', and think a smaller space would also work.
Variety is the spice of life for some of us, so we'd rather have several smaller plants of different strains than 1 big one.
Each of your 4 plants will get only 1 square foot of canopy surface, but that's probably enough for an ounce or so each.
As an experiment, I've done absolutely no training or pruning, and just let the 4 grow the way they wanted to.
To keep the plants apart (it's nice to know which of several intertwined branches belong to which plant), and growing straight up, I installed my metal scrog screen vertically, along with a couple smaller screen pieces, and now have a completely full canopy, created by the plants themselves.
Effectively I created 4 square temporary tomato cages, and like how it's doing so well, that I'll also be growing this way in the future.
Each plant has a mostly flat top (through no efforts of my own), but different plants have different heights, so they are different distances from the lights.
I found this to be unavoidable even with regular scrogging (but no cutting) when growing strains of different heights, because the big ones always behave selfishly.
Deep Water Culture with a large enough tank might net a couple oz each, but too small tank volume will cause sick plants.
Dirt should work too, but with reduced harvest.