Average Yield of a Dealzer Grow Box

If you're growing for the first time, you may be wondering about yield. Obviously, this is one of the biggest questions in any hydroponic project - how much are you going to get out of the investment that you put in? How much can you get out of a certain grow space and a certain number of plants?

Unfortunately, the average yield of a hydroponics project is pretty hard to come by. The overall yield relies on so many factors that it's hard to give you a mean or median. Instead, use some logical ideas about your grow space to come up with a ballpark for how much produce you can expect out of any given cycle.

Crop Yield and Plant Yield

On a very basic level, the yield that you get depends on what kind of plants are growing in your space.

For example, let's take tomatoes. There are estimates out there for yield per plant, where some estimate anywhere from 10 to 20 pounds of produce from a single tomato plant. You're going to be looking at the type of tomato plant and how it thrives in optimal conditions, but what you can take from this is that you're going to get at least a couple of bags full of fruit off of any one plant. You can then extrapolate that number out to the number of plants that you are planning to grow, to get at least the bottom line idea of how much harvest you can expect.

Plant Density

Another related idea is the number of plants that you can grow within a certain space. For example, an average Dealzer grow box might be made to house three or four plants. But some growers can get a few more plants in there, and that's going to greatly increase their yield.

For an illustrative example of how this works, check out this post from High Times. This actually generated a lot of controversy in the comments, as experienced growers argued about whether or not this ‘sea of green’ technique would work. Essentially, the writer was saying that it's possible to cram up to 20 or more plants into one of the small grow boxes and to achieve quite a lot of harvest -- in this case, 60 ounces.

So plant density is one of those issues that you'll have to figure out for yourself -- but assuming that plants don't crowd each other out and that they can get sufficient light and nutrients, you may end up with a lot more yield than you thought.

Maintenance

Another thing about yield is that it relies on regular maintenance. Issues like clean reservoir water, efficient delivery of nutrients and sufficient grow lighting are all going to have an effect on your eventual yield.

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