I use two different tray sizes, a 16" x 34" and 15" x 25". Both are filled about 4" with rockwool and 12 plants each.
I also grow plants in 3 gallon buckets for cloning, new clone mother every other grow then into the budroom she goes. The 3 gallon buckets grows almost fully twice as much per plant as the trays, its bigger and has no shade buddies. Even so, a 12 plant tray puts out 6 times as much. AND, (note caps) 2 buckets take up the same space as 1 tray. Now I am down to triple the yield per square foot over pots. Nothing needs tied down, the 12 main cola's per tray take less work than LST to get the same 12 buds and they are main stem colas, not off branches.
And yes I smoked back then, possibly some strains may have no THC, but that is uncommon, most did come in at about one twentieth the strength of today's weed. I think about that sometimes when I've had about 3 tokes and its stoning me good, this would take 60 to 70 hits of the old weed. I wouldn't be able to do it.
The USA's war on drugs gave us all the good pot we now smoke. When the grow's moved inside the cost of growing became so great research on stronger strains became cost effective, as bad pot costs just as much to grow as good pot. And although good drug pot was out there, the quantities and availablility did not come anywhere near matching the american appetite. Science stepped up to the plate and hit a homerun.
50 years ago just about everybody smoked hemp. And we liked it.
I also grow plants in 3 gallon buckets for cloning, new clone mother every other grow then into the budroom she goes. The 3 gallon buckets grows almost fully twice as much per plant as the trays, its bigger and has no shade buddies. Even so, a 12 plant tray puts out 6 times as much. AND, (note caps) 2 buckets take up the same space as 1 tray. Now I am down to triple the yield per square foot over pots. Nothing needs tied down, the 12 main cola's per tray take less work than LST to get the same 12 buds and they are main stem colas, not off branches.
And yes I smoked back then, possibly some strains may have no THC, but that is uncommon, most did come in at about one twentieth the strength of today's weed. I think about that sometimes when I've had about 3 tokes and its stoning me good, this would take 60 to 70 hits of the old weed. I wouldn't be able to do it.
The USA's war on drugs gave us all the good pot we now smoke. When the grow's moved inside the cost of growing became so great research on stronger strains became cost effective, as bad pot costs just as much to grow as good pot. And although good drug pot was out there, the quantities and availablility did not come anywhere near matching the american appetite. Science stepped up to the plate and hit a homerun.
50 years ago just about everybody smoked hemp. And we liked it.
