In some cases, it tends to be hard to tell the number of plants you can grow in your tent to increase your yields. Also, to do that, you need to make sure that you use the right tent to grow the right number of plants.
This article will guide you through the factors that determine the number of plants you can grow per tent. We will also disclose to you the number of plants you need to grow in each tent.
Grow Room Size Per Plant: What Matters?
Let us consider that you are confused or not sure about the number of plants you can grow in your tent or are confused about the size of your grow tent.
Anyway, what might be the connection between these two? Moreover, what is important the most in this connection?
Indeed, you will find huge loads of answers to this very question. There are many deciding variables like:
The growth style
The lighting conditions
The size of the compartments
The yield expectations
And a lot more!
Considering all of these, you can grow a different number of plants in a particular tent. For instance, assuming you need a yield of 2 pounds from a 4×4 grow tent, you will have to put two pants within and give about 1000w of light.
If you are alright with 1 to 1.5 pounds of yield from similar conditions, the plant number can be doubled.
But again, we do not overpower you with a chaotic equation or countless such factors to consider. All things considered, we will show you the basics that rely upon just one factor-the plant growing style.
Size Guide for Low-Stress Training (LST)
A very common plant preparing practice is the Low-Stress Training style(LST). Low-Stress Training is tied in with making the plants stop regular growth upward and boosting the yield.
It takes a bit more time than other less-preferred training methods (High-Stress Training, Super Cropping). However, as it is the most secure sort of Training, many growers love to stick to it.
There are two kinds of Low-Stress Training strategies. SOG (Sea of Green) and ScrOG (Screen of Green) are the most common sorts, nonetheless.
Growers who are still new to the whole training method tend to stir up SOG with ScrOG. They do not understand the primary difference between the two.
Let us explain them to you.
In the ScrOG method, you need to place a screen with multiple holes in between the plant medium and the light source. Plant tips will grow till the screen and begin growing horizontally over the screen.
Plants need to be furnished with an even space to grow. For valid reasons, that will consume more space of the grow tent to work with the growth. Also, in usual cases, it is taken as about 0.25 plant per square foot.
Other Low-Stress Training Methods:
Apart from SOG (Sea of Green) and ScrOG (Screen of Green), there are Topping and FIMing that we can merge with Low-Stress Training techniques.
Even though topping does not need any sort of pressure implementation whatsoever. Yet, as these two are kin sort of methods.
We will be discussing the plant densities of both methods as we proceed.
Topping and FIMing: Plant-versus Size Guide
In both topping and FIMing, you need to pinch or remove a portion from the plant’s top growth. They will help you ultimately accomplish vertical growth and help make better use of the available resources.
The essential rule for both of these training processes is the same. You have to expose the tips toward the lights rather than just one. Ultimately, there are four to ten growth tips.
To allow that to happen, you need to let some vertical spaces around each one of the plants. The amount of area around every one of the plants might occupy more than shrub style SOG plants and not exactly as spacious as the ones in ScrOG style. In this way, we can take a plant density of 0.75 plants/square feet as an optimal one.
Size Guide for High-Stress Training(HST)
The basics of High-Stress Training depend on controlling the hormonal harmony of the plants by putting a slightly high amount of pressure on the plants. Whenever done rightly, it gives bushier plants and higher yields than other training styles.
Super cropping is one of the most commonly used practices when it comes to High-Stress Training methods.
Let us discuss it in brief as we proceed.
Super Cropping Training: Plant-versus-Size Guide
In this style of training, growers control the height of the plants by bowing the tips of the branches and insisting on the hormones to bring down branches and lift the yield.
When it comes to super cropping, you must remember that your plants will be needing a good enough space between each other. You will have to bend the tips at a 90-degree angle and ensure that they do not touch each other.
Therefore, the spacing between the plants should not be too less like the SOG or Sea of Green method nor too much like the ScroG or Screen of Green method. A basic density for super cropping is 0.5 plants per square foot.
Significance of Selecting The Right Size for Your Grow Tent
All things considered, you should pay an ample amount of attention to choosing the right size of the tent. Since you know that is the thing that can either damage or flood you with yields.
That being said, here are three very important things when it comes to choosing the right grow tent size-
It will affect your choice of accessories.
An oversized tent will increase your basic growing expense.
A small tent might make swarmed and unhealthy plants bring about awful or no yield.
A wrong size choice might wind up with one or overheating or over-freezing inside the grow tent.
We hope our guide helps you in picking the right size tent as per your growing style and number of plants.
