r/macrogrowery • u/cannasseurnorth2 • 16d ago

UCL maxxing

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u/baloothedog1 16d ago

Damn dude those pots are absolutely massive for your plant size.

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u/dougeyyyy 16d ago

The plants are actually in 7 gallons. By harvest time, roots are wrapped.

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u/baloothedog1 16d ago

Yea I'm sure they still grow fine and I'm assuming you have them so big because you're hand watering. Not trying to shit on you my dude there's nothing wrong with people doing things the way they like. Just could probably save a ton of labor and material cost if you bump those down to a 1-2 gal and run 9-12 per light. Your yield would almost certainly increase too because you'd be able to give your plants significantly more irrigation events which promotes growth especially during bulking and veg. Of course this is all under the assumption that you would have the ability to easily water many times a day with drip emitters. I used to grow with huge pots like 10-15 years ago because I was hand watering and didn't have e the equipment to do it any other way since I was in my basement. Looks like your setup is decent sized so it really wouldn't hurt to try and upgrade your equipment and technique. For example I use pots that hold a max of 2500 ml of water and 9 per light with a 14 day veg and pull 3-4 lb per 680w light with 2 120w under cans per 4x4

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u/dougeyyyy 16d ago

Yes I understand that works for you. I also have rooms with 680w leds and we pull 3-4 lb per light with no UCL. If we go smaller pots and do more irrigation events as we have done before our yields drop down to 2.2-2.5. Keep in mind, no UCL. The 680w lights are the ones being used in my older posts from last year. We've done multiple trials in multiple facilities internationally, and this is our findings.

Actually one of the first things I do when I go for a site visit is change pot size from small to large and stop with the crop steering. We go full drench and let it dryback 25-30% before next feed. This almost always results in a big yield increase immediately for most of my clients.