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Intro Whoever can guess my final yield(wet trimmed) will get a set of 4 of my favorite fem'd strains It's been a while! I've still been growing - just not posting. Firstly must definitely shout out to @Totemic for always having great strains. Basically all my grows are from his stock. Had an amazing bubble berry glue pheno that yielded like crazy and went a beautiful deep purple. I only have a photo of a clone I let flower in it's solo before I knew the pheno was so good (sorry no photos pf it going purple). It made a fat xmas tree nugget, which was kind of the inspiration for this experiment - mind you my hands are 23cm from palm to finger tips so that is like 12cm bud that is around 8cm wide - dont have the weight of it because I forgot to record it in my journals. I thought, why spend months in veg and training when I could do some SOG with much quicker turn arounds - and amazing looking buds?? Growing Areas Flowering chamber will be my Phantom Cabinet, details here: Vegging will be minimal so I will do it in my space buckets (design you can see here): The buckets have done some pretty impressive grows just by themselves - not quite on par with the cab but close enough to be surprising. I now have 2 buckets - I will be using two for the vegging of clones and perhaps a third for the mother. Lighting (thanks @CreX) Lighting Lighting Calculations COBs x Vero 29 SE 3500K Per COB Overall Driver HLG-240H-C2100B lm/w 143 Heatsink (mm) 500x150 Watts 79 237 Fan 92mm 12v umols/J 1.94 Number of Cobs 3 Driverloss 10% FV 37.6 PPF 138 414 Amps 2.1 PPFD 539 1618 DLI (12h) 23 70 I'll be aiming it for 60DLI (late flower) using a lux meter and then doing conversions shown above. Should be around about correct. SOG Setup I drilled into a plastic tray to hold 12 solo cups, just a side note when using a 76mm holesaw on a powerful drill: very easy to break your wrist if you do it wrong. Growing Medium: For medium I will be using FF Classic, but I will be enriching the water (lightly) I use with some NPK to make sure they dont run out of nutes. Nutes and Auto-Watering: For watering I am still busy building the system, but basically the same concept as an octabubbler, except Im going to take a bit of PVC pipe and stick a bunch of 5/6mm irrigation hose connecters into it (12 to be exact) and have each solo cup connected to one. I will be using a pump with a wifi switch to auto water them. I will start with once every 3 days and as the roots develop move the timer to once and even twice a day. (I'll adjust depending on how the soil looks) Nice thing about the cups being elevated is that they will drain freely prevent buildup. Genetics: 6x Bubble Berry Glue (@Totemic) if my clones are ready in time 6x Sugar Cane Deluxe by In House Genetics from seed Concerns Will still be about a month before flower starts at least - probably longer. Want to try get two grows in before October Logic here is that while the plants are in the last 4 weeks of flower I will already have clones growing that will be ready to flip into flower as soon as I harvest the first batch. Yields - no idea so curious to see what you all think!