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Dave:
What has your typical yield been on past grows?
How often have you been harvesting (or, more accurately, how much time have you been using vegging between flowering harvests)?
If I remember right, WR takes about 60 days to flower. Are the clones you have available already rooted? If not, do you have/can you make a spot to root them prior to putting them in the tent? If so, you should be able to pull a harvest every 60-62 days.
It may take a crop to dial in the ideal light combination and nutes. Ideal (average) lighting intensity for good flowering is about 60-75 watts per square foot and plants can possibly use up to 100 watts/sq ft if everything else is ideal (CO2, temp, humidity, nutes). Bare minimum is 40 watts/sq ft.
I assume the Liquid Oxy is H2O2 of some strength. If it's 35%, be aware that H2O2 at that strength is a fairly dangerous chemical; use gloves & eye protection when handling it; the safest thing to do is to dilute it with some plain water (I'd use distilled) and make sure you add the H2O2 to the water, not water to H2O2. The usual dose of H2O2 is about 1 tsp (5ml) of 3% strength per gallon of nute solution per day; maximum dose for curing problems such as root rot is 2.5 tsp (12.5ml) per gallon per day, but don't start there.
Air stones in the res will also help, not only for oxygen (which isn't a problem with aero), but to keep nutes evenly mixed. If you are using upper-level strengths on light, you may need to mix your nutes a bit lighter because the plants will transpire more water. This is part of the experimenting you will need to do during the first crop to get the system dialed in. Make sure you keep good records of everything.
Have you grown the WR before? If so, how much do they stretch in flowering? Do you have records of how long they actually take to flower to the level of ripeness you like? I'm sure you know that how early or late you harvest affects the type of high and the medicinal effects.
My instinct would be to put three plants into each of the pods and start flowering at 8-12" tall (taller if they don't stretch much, shorter if they tend to stretch more). If you can fix up a small vegging/cloning area to get the plants ready for the flowering tent, you should be able to pull a harvest, clean the garden area, pots, res, & equipment, and put the next crop in the next day. This would give you 6 harvests per year.
Using some MH during the first couple of weeks of flowering will help reduce stretch if that's needed. If you want more stretch because the WR tend to be short anyway, then stay with pure HPS.
In short, I'd sure give SOG a try to see how the yield compares to your current style of growing. If it doesn't work, you can go back to the current tried-&-true system.
What has your typical yield been on past grows?
How often have you been harvesting (or, more accurately, how much time have you been using vegging between flowering harvests)?
If I remember right, WR takes about 60 days to flower. Are the clones you have available already rooted? If not, do you have/can you make a spot to root them prior to putting them in the tent? If so, you should be able to pull a harvest every 60-62 days.
It may take a crop to dial in the ideal light combination and nutes. Ideal (average) lighting intensity for good flowering is about 60-75 watts per square foot and plants can possibly use up to 100 watts/sq ft if everything else is ideal (CO2, temp, humidity, nutes). Bare minimum is 40 watts/sq ft.
I assume the Liquid Oxy is H2O2 of some strength. If it's 35%, be aware that H2O2 at that strength is a fairly dangerous chemical; use gloves & eye protection when handling it; the safest thing to do is to dilute it with some plain water (I'd use distilled) and make sure you add the H2O2 to the water, not water to H2O2. The usual dose of H2O2 is about 1 tsp (5ml) of 3% strength per gallon of nute solution per day; maximum dose for curing problems such as root rot is 2.5 tsp (12.5ml) per gallon per day, but don't start there.
Air stones in the res will also help, not only for oxygen (which isn't a problem with aero), but to keep nutes evenly mixed. If you are using upper-level strengths on light, you may need to mix your nutes a bit lighter because the plants will transpire more water. This is part of the experimenting you will need to do during the first crop to get the system dialed in. Make sure you keep good records of everything.
Have you grown the WR before? If so, how much do they stretch in flowering? Do you have records of how long they actually take to flower to the level of ripeness you like? I'm sure you know that how early or late you harvest affects the type of high and the medicinal effects.
My instinct would be to put three plants into each of the pods and start flowering at 8-12" tall (taller if they don't stretch much, shorter if they tend to stretch more). If you can fix up a small vegging/cloning area to get the plants ready for the flowering tent, you should be able to pull a harvest, clean the garden area, pots, res, & equipment, and put the next crop in the next day. This would give you 6 harvests per year.
Using some MH during the first couple of weeks of flowering will help reduce stretch if that's needed. If you want more stretch because the WR tend to be short anyway, then stay with pure HPS.
In short, I'd sure give SOG a try to see how the yield compares to your current style of growing. If it doesn't work, you can go back to the current tried-&-true system.
