best method of growing for 1gpw?

[Suby]

Whether you put an amount on it or not there are so many factors that go into calculating GPW and efficienty that I doubt anyone can say for sure what their GPW is.
Is it weighed after or before trimming/drying, are the buds bone dry or still moist, do you flower a sativa strain for 100days versus an indica for 55 days, etc....
1 GPW is possible in any medium with a commercial strain and an optimized setup with Co2 and at least a 600W with an appropriate amount of space.
3 GPW is possible but it takes a hydro setup (bio-buckets would be my choice), a commercial strain your familiar with, minimum of 1000W if lighting with reflective material galore, environmental controls, the proper footprint for the light,and most important daily prayerr to the grow gods and THC fairies.

 

[JJScorpio]

I always weigh mine after it has been trimmed and dried to the point where I can jar it away. My last harvest was 20 ounces off 800 watts, dried and jarred, and I thought that was real good and I dont think it is possible to do 2400 dry grams off 800 watts. I consider myself to be an above average grower and I just cant see it, hydro or not...I am open to seeing it though......I can do 2400 grams wet and trimmed though, lol....

 

[saymo]

bull...sh**

3gpw......nonsense....
proof required........

post a pic

 

[Suby]

I can do 2400 grams wet and trimmed though, lol....

lmao

 

[JJScorpio]

These weigh exactly 2400 grams, lol......

 

[SEEDYNONO]

sounds like some of you don't dry your shit out completely.

i could easily claim 3gpw if i put it all on the scale when it still weighed that much.. 4-5 days later it would be down to a reasonable ~1gpw when all that water content is gone..

most commercial growers i know who are concerned with yields also tend to try to pass off their bud before its truly dry. mo money mo money.

 

[roflnade]

are there any threads with tutorials to using co2? because i have no idea how :X

 

[Babbabud]

I would still like to see 3 gpw documented .

 

[BigToke]

shit big toke you pull around 3 gpw out of Bio-buckets? I havent read the thread yet,

………..that’s because it hasn’t been written yet.

GPW is possible but it takes a hydro setup (bio-buckets would be my choice), a commercial strain your familiar with, minimum of 1000W if lighting with reflective material galore, environmental controls, the proper footprint for the light,and most important daily prayerr to the grow gods and THC fairies.

Suby, you are on the right track!!

I would still like to see 3 gpw documented .

……..hay man, I don’t post all of my shit……just enough to let everyone know that it can be done!! So let me break it down for yea ~ its like this, if any hydro grower is not producing 5,oz per-plant then something is seriously not right!! Either with there hydro-growing method or there environment ~ at 5.oz per-plant times 36 Bio-Buckets, that’s 11.25 pounds!! Lets see know, let me get my old calculator out here and do the math ~ I am running my grow with a light usage of 3700.wattes, so that’s 3700 grams right, now I will divide that by what an .oz is, and that is 27.grams is one .oz, this will lave you with 137.037.oz!! now divide that by 16.oz that makes a pound right. And you should have 8.5 pounds!! That’s if you ONLY did FIVE.OZ per-plant!! But at five weeks in my Bio-System I am pulling out and harvesting 5.oz per-plant, if you back that down here’s what you get……..for every week the Veg-state in the Bio-Buckets you should be getting 1.oz per-plant (of course there is a limit to this) ……….I grow five weeks in the Veg-state and I have grown twelve weeks before with the same results (Bio-Bucket Mega-Grows) ~ but for these kind of Bio-Systems every thing is bigger!! But I have seen it done and have done it!!………I have stated before that the grows that you see on the internet is just for “How To Do” the Bio-Buckets, because getting caught up in these sorts of things like this just get people confused and draws the wrong kind of attention to yourself, so I’ll not write no more about this but just to let you know that it can be done. Oh yea, and as everyone knows I’m also a pathological layer, yea right!! ……don’t knock it until you try it..ok!!

 

[JJScorpio]

My last grow was 555 grams off of 800 watts. Here is a pic of my current grow and I dont think it is going to be as much as last one. Look how congested the buds are in this pic. How could I possibly do anything to get 4 times the amount that I have there? Are you guys doing your calculations when it is fully dry to go into jars?

 

[2buds]

28 grams per oz.
Old BIgToke, man them Bio-Buckets rock.
As far as GPW, does it really matter unless you grow to sell. It's about quality when its personal use, a little less bud but a more intense buzz is worth it.

 

[BigToke]

………..selling and quality go hand in hand, you really can’t do one without the other or at lest not were I’m from….lol

 

[Babbabud]

28.3 grams per ounce 454 grams per pound. Best IVE seen DOCUMENTED was mrwags ebb and flow grow with 3.2 pounds for a 1k light . I dont even keep track of what I get and dont really care as I just grow strains I want to smoke and dont sell weed. But since thats what this thread is about ?? Ol mrwags kicked its butt and it was a first run. Would love to see a grow with more documented.... I must admit mrwags did make it look easy. But if im not mistaken even as good as that grow was it only came to a little more then 1.5 gpw.

 

[JJScorpio]

Ive grown for many a year and I have seen a lot of grows in person. 1 gpw, dried for the jars and off the stalks and stems is one hell of a job. I am sure if you left the buds on the stems it would help, but then you need to be careful of mold. It doesnt take only a percent or 2 extra of water to get a surface of mold on buds that have been in jars for a few months......As I said earlier, if I could be guaranteed .75 every grow I would be tickled pink......

 

[soilboy]

So you would need 36 12 ounce plants or so then right? lol Maybe with alot more light/space....3700(watts) x 3(gms) = 11,100. 128(5 oz) x 36(plant#) = 4600. 4600 x 2.5= 11,500. 2.5 x 5 = 12, 12(oz)(or 336(gms) x 36(#)= 11,100(gms)

12 ounce plants are huge...I would LOVE to see some pics....

Soilboy

 

[Guest]

The "stoner" math (good call Babba) and bullshit are rampant on this thread. One should concern ones self with growing weed you like and expand on that Idea by growing as many Healthy plants as possible keeping your Safety in mind as a top priority. Bottom Line. Fuck a GPW figure. Fuck Invisible friends who may or may not exist.

 

[Pure Mist]

BT..... can you give us a little insight as to how you control such out of control robust growth? so that they all flower evenly and are as lucrative and efficient as they can be? what do you do when they beast the hell out of yourspace? how do you get it so they all flower evenly?

 

[supermanlives]

best method is having a good yielding strain to start then sogging it. sog is the most effiecent with least veg time. make sure to have plenty of extra clones so ya can cull the wimps. then consider co2 and bushmaster along with fine tuning your nute regime. 1 gram per watt aint that hard and you dont need to go hydro to do it. i use growbags and modified promix soil

 

[Neptune]

man this thread is bangin!!!

gpw is a crazy figure, becuase usually it does not include veg time... BT says he veg for 5 weeks, and then pulls his holy cow 1.0+gpw with 3700w. Perfect example of a confusing figure for most folks.. "is that with veg time included??" of course not. GPW is only 2 variables: Grams and Watts

GpWpT would be Grams per watt per Time, which would include total time used to achieve said grams... but no one uses that figure. Maybe becuase those GPW growers don't like to include time due to the long ass veg periods they require to achieve the bumper harvests, and thus a lower GPW figure. Who wants to report a lower figure? Not many.

BT's grows are killer for sure, and any grower who can achieve 10lbs per crop is a super hero regardless of the style... but when I think of GPW i think of how many DRIED grams did you end up with at the end of the grow, divided by the amount of watts used during flowering.

Here is a grow I did with a 7 day veg period, 2400 watts and .7 gpw



GPW is a loose and elusive figure to give a general ballpark on the efficiency of the grower, it does not take into account veg period, or flowering period. time is not a factor in GPW calculations, unless you specify... but no one does... becuase if you did, your 1.0GPW yielders would be .5GPW yeilders..


THAT SAID, THE ANSWER TO THE ORIGIONAL QUESTION IS...
Best way to achieve 1.0+GPW in shortest amount of time is a Sea of Green Ebb&Flow. 1-3 day veg period, packed with rooted clones.




This table will yield a little over 2lbs from 1200watts inside of 60 days TOTAL time. A better strain could have this table yielding close to 3lbs from 1200w. Strain is very important.

 

[Tunefull]

I dont think 1gpw is somit that would be all that hard tbh(lol tho i aint done it)

I am a soil grower,And on my first try i pulled in .5 grams per what(Probs a lot of beginiers luck)
I only had 3 plants in my grow space(Ranged from 2 OZ to 2 and a half OZ per plant)
So by my calculations,If i had had another 3 plants i would of hit 1gpw(Or am i missing how u work it out?(Btw i use a 400hps and vegged for 5 weeks)

So to me it sounds simple to hit 1 gpw(as say unless i am missing somit)

My grow room is only small(3 foot by 3 foot and 4 and a half foot tall)
But i wasted a lot of my height space on my first grow(Even when i chopped them they were on upside 3 gall pots(So good 10 inchs i did not use))

Granted to fit 6 plants in my room,I would probs decide to try and grow mainly single colas
Or a very controlled LST/topping to just get maybe 4 good colas per plant


One day i will get my cloneing/timing right,And i will HAVE 6 plants ready at same time,And i am sure i would be fairly close to 1gpw


Of course,When it comes down to trying it,I am bound to run into probs(And is likely i may come unstuck,But can but try*smiles*



Tho as someone said,It dont really matter,Anything i get off mine i am over the moon with(My growing style/Feeding schedule is very very basic))
So it always suprises me to get anything*SMielS*