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Old 02-03-2017, 03:48 PM
kevin24018 kevin24018 is offline
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Originally Posted by GpsFrontier View Post
Hello kevin24018,
It's a lot more productive to start your seedlings in a prorogation system, then transplant them in the main system when they get big enough as you harvest the older plants. Doing it that way is more productive for three reasons. First the seedlings don't need nearly as much water or nutrients as the larger plants. Second is spacing. The main system needs to be spaced so the plants can grow to full size without over clouding, but the seedlings can be spaces much much closer. Third is time.

As an example: most lettuce can go from seed to harvest in about 6 to 8 weeks. If your main system has spots for 30 plants and it took 6 weeks to go from seed to harvest, you would be able to harvest 5 heads of lettuce a week. But using the same 30 plant system, and starting your plants in a prorogation system you can harvest 10 heads of lettuce a week. How? The plants will spend about 3 weeks in the prorogation system growing from seed s until they get big enough to put in the main system. Cutting the time they spend in the main system in half. Therefor dubbing the amount you can harvest in the same space.

A prorogation system is easy to build and takes up hardly any room since the seedlings can be placed so close together. Thus making your space much more productive.
top notch info, I read some stuff about a prorogation area, but never read the reasons and benefits explained as clearly as you did, so thanks for that. I'm going to need more room than I though, hope to get out tomorrow and start looking at containers, may get some pvc pipe to build some stands with.
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