What’s your management & planning

Lots of great answers here by the community! We definitely recommend starting small, but darn your setup is inspiring! Even for a perpetual grow, running 2-4 in each stage will be more than enough of a challenge. Love to see the hustle, let's see how we can keep this grow alive and well!

Perpetual grows can be convenient but they are not efficient. You are constantly delaying or rushing things just to fit the schedule of the previous plant. If you are working with clones and a known flower phase duration and known vege time required to get to the size you want, then it can be efficient, but with seeds it is not. That's fine if it fits your needs. Your supply can be filled on a more on-demand schedule with less volume stored long-term. Take notes... Keeping track of 16 plants on different schedules is not ideal, but easy as pie if organized about it. Don't rely on memory so much. If production is more of a concern and storage isn't daunting, you'll produce more per year by just overlapping vegephase in a smaller area while previous crop finishes. you can easily get 5 grows in per year this way. If you break it down into incremental production then forecase out, this will produce more mass per year or whatever time increment you prefer. The loss of productivity caused by a week lost here or there makes a perpetual grow less productive over time and the gap continues to increase the longer you compare. With so many plants you are best off implementing some sort of auto-draining mechanism and push-button or automated irrigation. Even if you flood a pot, it takes 2-3 mins to water ~5 gallon pot. That's 50 minutes everytme you have to irrigate. Or, flip a switch, water all 16 in 3-5 minutes. I've run anywhere from 8-20 plants the last few years. When set up well, the only time it's significantly more effort than a handful of plants is potting up and disposal/clean up at the end. While growing, i inspect for a few minutes and leave... or i turn on the irrigation for 5mins, inspect, then leave, lol. Very little time invested on a daily basis and no more than if i were growing 3-4 plants. setup, potting up, cleaning... obviously has a larger investment of effort due to scale. Basically, any redundant behaviour that takes up significant time due to number of pots you want to automate or make it 'push-button' manual operation that does it all at once or automatically does what is needed - as best you can. Some stuff you have to do by hand. Seriously, the hassle of a perpetual grow vs just doing some basics in regard to longer-term storage is not worth it for most people. Get some 5-gallon buckets with the gamma seal lids and a couple 67-gram 2-way RH packs for each. Store excess in cold basement. This simply method will keep weed good for 1 year minimum. Buy a vacuum sealer for longer-term storage. I'm just incorporating that into my storage methods. Plan to seal up the 2nd-half of year inventory. I'll probably modify that a bit next year.. maybe 9 months vacuum sealed etc... adjust volume of what gets sealed in each bag for best convenience/use. plus, no more consternation over which plants are in which life cycle stage etc etc.. no mixing up 2-3 different batches of fertilizer... just pull from 1 reservoir.

Probably start with learning how to grow 1, then work up to 4 then 20 at a time.

i run a perpetual. i have like 8 plants in my veg area at all different times. sometimes more if theyre small clones. i have 4 in my flower tent at all times. theyre on a 1 month cycle(4weeks) so once a month im harvesting 2 and adding 2 more to my flower tent from my veg tent. since they run normally 8 weeks flowering then it works out well that way. i have 2 plants on week 1-4 flower and 2 that are at week 4-8 flowering and just keep cycling them that way. so once a month im harvesting around 4 ounces give or take

What did you expect?

Love it.. I need them in different stages to keep the fire lit, I used to write it all down now I just remember what is needed and where.. which plants need adjustments or not.. uts like anything the more you don't the easier it gets.. its that simple my guy... Much love 💚...

I have excel sheets to plan ahead, with colors, functions and stuff. Nevertheless it always go wrong. My solution is beside all the time and love I give to the ladys. Some have to go. However you like, put them in your soil storage to become food again, trash can.. or this year I put them outside no matter the temperature (-4°C night ~16°C day). If they still manage to grow you got at least something for bubble.

Yes, it's a toil. If it were fun every one would would do it. Keep going

Ja das kann stressig werden. Ich habe zb ein vorzucht Zelt, dort ziehe ich 4 Pflanzen vor während im hauptzelt bis zu 6 Pflanze dann blühen. Im Sommer kommen dann noch die Outdoor Pflanzen dazu... Das kann schnell mal mehrere Stunden in Anspruch nehmen, mit Gießen, da sie in verschiedenen Stadien sind und jede einen anderen dünge Plan hat... Dann kontrolierren auf Mängel, Schädlinge und hermies, aber mir macht das Spaß und ich liebe jede einzelne von ihnen. Spaß muss es Aufjedenfall machen sonst words nervig und mann ärgert sich nur, und was ich auch noch gerne mache sind neue Techniken ausprobieren und nicht alles was die anderen sagen glauben sondern selber testen und mein eigenen Weg finden. Deine Pflanze sehen wirklich toll aus, mach weiter so.

I agree it’s very stressful keeping plants in different stages. I personally start a bunch all at the same time so everything is on the same schedule Also having plants at different stages in the same tent can be problematic. Like you have a plant that’s getting close to harvest and one that looks like it’s going thru the strech can cause problems to the plants seeing the plant that’s close to harvest needs an extreme amount of light to fatten the buds and then the other plant looks like it’s in the strech witch needs a lot less light. One plant or the other is not getting the prime amount of lighting I suggest if growing causes you to get stress I suggest 1 time a year take a break for 2 weeks from growing or after each harvest wait 2 weeks b4 planting new seeds. I used to have that problem where I’d constantly be thinking about my plants and check them like 100 times a day and lose sleep being worried about them

HI bud. Looks like you have your hands full :) I only run max three at a time and even that can get messy. As TruTraTri says, plan ahead. Or at least try to haha A plant will do what it wants to do and there is no set schedule. Knowing how long your plant needs for germination, veg, flowering and harvest is a good start. You can try to build your next run around that but leave leeway of about 3 weeks, just incase one needs a little longer veg or bloom. Other than that, there's not much that I see possible. Even in a smaller setting, it is tricky. Let alone a bigger setting like you are running.