Advice for 1st time tent buyers(personal experience)

[Oporto]

Hi there this is just a word of advice for people thinking of starting an indoor grow using a bought tent. When selecting a size from the dealer please take the advertised plant capacity as a sales tools. Through personal and shared experience I would suggest if you want to grow say 4 nice plants for a nice wee modest home grow and a decent yield if the tents says 4 it certainly doesn't mean 4 grown up mama plants. I followed the guidelines first time and had a bigger tent bought and put up 2 wks into my first flowering as they out grew my original "4 plant" tent. I've been growing 3 yrs now and with a slightly bigger tent and a nice wee scrog set up I'm getting enough to keep me happy for a few months at a time at about £50 p/m electric. The original tent I bought if memory serves me was 2ftx2ft which was fine in veg(which I'm in the process of setting original tent up to do permanently) but as I said flowering is a different monster. The tent I upgraded to was only about a 3rd in size again being 1mtr x 1 mtr but it allows for a much better airflow,light dispersion, plants can move without touching if trained right, more work room for your hobby because that's what it will become 😊 healthier .

p.s this is personal opinion and many others have solutions for many problems on this website so if you are a first timer explore this website follow it's advice and start experimenting after a grow or 2 get the fundamentals first Light, Air Exhaust Feeding.Though in a tent some form of training would be best experimented as early as confident enough( my 1st I used LST as it seemed less harmful if something went wrong).

[dontknownuttin]

I do ok with growing two plants in my 2 foot by 4 foot tent. The tent dealer said 6 plants will fit when I got my tent home I grow only two plants but its enough for my needs anyway.

[William and Sue Ashley]

I always thought bigger was better.....LOL...

[Soilscience]

I like my 2 x 4 x 7. Good for 3 plants well trimmed. Every grow is different. What I'd really like is is 3 of them. 1 for veg and 2 for flower. One for medicine, one for creative...
I like the shallow (back to front) tent. Easy access, linear lighting. I do a lot of tinkering.
Yes, 2x2 is probably 1 plant. Maybe 4 lollipop on a quick run.

[DW2]

Howdy Oporto, Thanks for the information. I'm on my 5th DWC grow (using a closet) and have been looking to add a tent so as to have separate vegging and blooming areas. Being on a fixed income (retired) I want to get the right type and design, without an expensive 'learning curve'.
Thanks again, and good luck with your grows.

[Oporto]

No worries dw2 seen to many people sold stuff on false claims then have to pay same people more cash to rectify.

[Oporto]

Here are a couple of pics of mine at the min. Usually there are 4 plants like the 2 in front but somehow a starling got in and caused carnage and I was left with those 2 I just flipped these last night probably could of done a bit longer in veg with all the stress of bird strike but I need these done to get cracking at some more. The small 1 was an auto I'd thrown in just to see as I've never grown autoand j made mistake of topping it but the light was going anyway so no real loss.

[Flockshot]

I just tell folks to lay out some sheets of newspaper on the floor for the size and number of plants you want to grow, and get the highest quality (quality being defined as never a light leak) tent of that size you can reasonably afford.