What is your biggest question about growing cannabis?

[NuggetMan]

Do you really need 16 plants??? Wow!!!

[StillHigh1982]

I have a 5x10 and I did 12 plants and it was maxed. Now I only do 8. 12 is possible but it's a serious pain in the ass to defoliate and add yoyos, sog netting is a pain too in a tent that wide, reaching the middle without getting covered in resin is a learned skill for sure. Each plant needs at least 2 square feet but more like 3 if you want space to screw around in the tent. Depending on the way you are going to train, I'd say 10 plants max in 5x5, and that's for a packed house.

[Superjd]

Getting the plant-to-tent ratio right to avoid wasting seeds then getting the veg duration for photos. Example - I just got a new 4x4 tent and germinated 13 auto seeds, obviously way too much upon further research. Looks like I’ll be scrapping 5 and moving 2 to another tent. In short, a waste. Thanks experts!

[FurnaceBoi]

Well. I just came into a few hundred bucks. Got offered a new 5x5 for $150 , which I have reduced to 109 with gift cards.

I was thinking 16 Plants in 3-gallon grow bags. Sea of green

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Ideas

I think a 16 plant setup running on clones will be perfect for me. If anyone has another unique small space 5x5 setup please let me know

[FurnaceBoi]

Light burn for sure. They're bleached.

[SoOrbudgal]

You burnt the tops

[organic3]

Have you seen tops of my strong stuff buds before

[SoOrbudgal]

NuggetMan yes i know but i never had a issue because we can't keep weed long enough for it to go to dry. I know what your saying for long term storage. Yeah for long and slow it's how i cure. Except now we are smoking homegrown less than a month old we are waiting to harvest our outdoor.

[NuggetMan]

It's the humidity in the jar when it is closed as the buds cure is what I was referring to the use of those humidi-paks in the jars. It keeps it at 62%, and if you are in a dryer area this will help them not to dry out fast. It's like smoking meat long and slow...

[Sunlight]

Your lucky as far as the size of the tent and the height of the basement.Do you have the height extension For the tent ? As for a yield it depends on many things ,especially the strain, light intensity,Growers knowledge etc.this being your first grow it will be hard to max it out one your first attempt, Also I read the specs on your lights .It says each one covers an area of 6x4 but manufacturers inflate those numbers a lot. For a 8x8 ——-4 of those lights would probably be perfect I don’t know how much you we’re planning on spending on supplemental lighting There’s several used ones on ebay right now for 655 or best offer with 3 year warranty remaining..if your using 10 gallon containers and manifolding each plant, i don’t think you would need the side lighting .inside I think you could hit two to four pounds.
If it was me and these are just my thoughts,With your exact conditions To reduce labor and there is labor. I would just do 2 or 4 huge Fabric containers with a Subcool super soil mix With a tray under it to catch the excess water, When watering stop as soon as you see water going into the tray, leaving standing water would just invite problems.smart pots makes a 50 and 100 gallon raised bed which are not 2 tall and bend the plants putting the containers on opposite ends of the tent in spots with easy place to water, by manifolding or bending you could easily keep the height down And the plants would produce all tops, I will break it down like this also if the tent height is 7’ 11” at the top of the tent figure you lose about foot as you need a little room above the light for the exhaust fans, even though they say there cool running they still produce heat.Then you need 18” from light to top of canopy so 7’ 11” tent minus 30” leaves approx. 5 feet 6” then subtract another 12” to 18” for the height of the plant container leaves you with 4 to 4 and a half feet of actual plant space. having the same strains so there similar in height to keep the canopy even would help a lot.

[SoOrbudgal]

I don't use any humidity packs gman420 after doing this most my adult life plus my area is not high in humidity we are dryer.

[gman420]

What humidity packs did you use?

[NuggetMan]

Depending on where you live and your current weather conditions, this will influence the first 3-7 days of drying, when buds are right to the touch ( you don't want them crispy!) and squeeze test ( the bounce back test after gently and lightly being squeezed), put them in holey (the size of a pencil for the holes) 1 gallon or 1 quart ( depends on how much you have) zip lock bags to finish drying and begins the curing process which again depends on where you live and current weather conditions. This could take an additional 3-10 days before ready to put in jars to complete the curing process. From there, it's your call... I learned this from my son and this really made a difference in the buds!!! Where I live, I used aluminum pans for each bag and would check the "dryness" and rotate the bags. I check about every 4 hours. And in case you did not know, you got to control the humidity in the curing jars! My High recommendation - use those humidity packs! This is where I had problems before, now my buds are chunky and dense!

My time from chop to jar was less than 7 days, 3 days from cut down to 3-4 days in baggies, then to jars to finish cure. from there you can "check it out".

This makes the difference in the quality of what you labored to grow pay off. It's got to burn right!

[NuggetMan]

This is a great example! I wish you had shown me this a while back because it is a decisional choice as to exactly when to harvest. Question: Would not the tops closer to light indicate this better as compared to the buds down lower??? Basically like frosting running down the sides of a cake more so outer than inner. See what I'm getting at?

[SoOrbudgal]

Well aliendong i can't say that they " mature " with curing i would say more that they get smoother and the high changes as the days go by with the cure. When you chop it down hang the branches in a darker room with air flow for few days. Take a tiny bud and smoke it test the mind/body reaction, do it at 2wks and notice a change (these buds should be in jars at 2wks and burp it daily take lids off till squishy but not crispy) that 1 month mark in the jar is going to change your world LOL I hope. Yes if you like wake & bake harvest your plant now after flushing. Have fun