Help with strains

[Cannakisses]

I'm just away to wrap up a blueberry auto and a pineapplegum auto, both brilliant to grow.

I'm in a secret jardin hydroshoot120 but might get a bigger tent, I'll be using 3-5gal fabric pots and itll be led&cfl for lighting. If I stuck to the 120 tent how many could I get in there?

Also lets talk strains......

Your favourite? Best for yeild? Best pheno? Just spam me with your strain porn please

 

[Arthur]

Your issue isn't tent size as much as lighting.
I run a 4x4, and can run 9 small strains (not much bigger around than the bag) 4 to 6 medium sized strains, and 1 or 2 of the larger ladies.

In a 4x4 (16 sq feet) you need a minimum of 400 watts of quality LED lighting (quantum board / cobs) I run 450w of DIY cobs and am happy, but when I upgrade it will be to an hlg 600 quantum board.

 

[St. Tom]

I'm just away to wrap up a blueberry auto and a pineapplegum auto, both brilliant to grow.

I'm in a secret jardin hydroshoot120 but might get a bigger tent, I'll be using 3-5gal fabric pots and itll be led&cfl for lighting. If I stuck to the 120 tent how many could I get in there?

Also lets talk strains......

Your favourite? Best for yeild? Best pheno? Just spam me with your strain porn please

i grow in a 120x120x2.0 same tent and ive grown my fair share of strains i go with 4 in 15ltr autopots and with 4 it gets packed in there for me for smaller compact strains Mephisto are great and top quality you could get more than 4 of these also Humboldt are superb i just done a bubba cush and got 179 grams off that also short stuff do big yielding strains or dinafem seedstockers are belter ones also if you can see the sanlight thread i ran most strains in there if you fancy a look

 

[dickfitzwell]

the more room you give your plants the more they can grow so idk. I've seen one take up a whole tent and some tents with 10 to 20 in it. I think it has to do with pot sizes that decides how far the roots can grow and stretch.

 

[Cannakisses]

With this run am finishing up I only had 2 in there, but the original plan was it was meant to be a micro grow in a old tv console but due to security I had to move location and move them into a pot, theyd been transplanted from solo cup to 2 2ltr pots, and I think if I hadn't done lst and had them in bugger pots they definitely could have filled he tent, I was thinking for the next run 8 in 4 gal pots or am I'm pushing it and making the job harder for myself?
Strainwise I might split it 2 strains 4 plants each strain, one of the strains im wanting some strong purple/blue phones I love watching the colour explosion
Picture is of the blueberry and pineapplegum side to side bud view

 

[Cannakisses]

Your issue isn't tent size as much as lighting.
I run a 4x4, and can run 9 small strains (not much bigger around than the bag) 4 to 6 medium sized strains, and 1 or 2 of the larger ladies.

In a 4x4 (16 sq feet) you need a minimum of 400 watts of quality LED lighting (quantum board / cobs) I run 450w of DIY cobs and am happy, but when I upgrade it will be to an hlg 600 quantum board.

I am going to a different light set up, if it goes to plan I might get 2 600w vipaspectra led boards, with the cfls I have for additional lighting. Or I could do a full cfl and get 2x 3-400w duel spectrum bulbs along with the ones I have as additional? What scenario would work best, from this run both plants responded well to cfl lighting on it's on and cfl and led together

 

[Cannakisses]

The lighting I'm currently using on the pineapple and blue are 1000w led panel (China cheapy) 2x 135w cfls and 1x35w cfl

 

[Arthur]

Let me explain it differently a 50w cob, with all the perfect conditions, will produce approximately 80 grams of finished (marketable nug) weed. It doesn't make any difference how many plants I wedge under that 50w, it's still only going to make 80 grams.

Under quality LED approximately 1.6 to 1.8 grams per watt can be expected from a competent grower.
Those numbers are for high end LED, Chinese lighting will be less, HPS/MH figures drop to .6 to .8 grams per watt.

Not trying to push you to other lighting, just wanted to explain so that if there is a lighting purchase in your future, you can make an informed choice. And or don't end up with a ton of plants going that end underlit, and unhappy.

CFL I have no idea of watts needed per sq ft, it does not produce a cost effective marketable product.