Plant-Count Math Per Light — Sizing Veg to the Footprint
Work backward from fixture footprint and yield target to the exact plant count, container size, and veg length. The per-light math that turns a canopy strategy into a repeatable veg schedule — worked for SOG and SCROG.
Start from the footprint, work back to the clone count
Plant count is not a preference — it's an output of three fixed numbers: your fixture footprint, your plant density strategy (from the SOG-vs-SCROG decision earlier in this department), and your veg length (which sets how big each plant gets). Nail those and the clone count, container size, and mother-plant requirement fall out as arithmetic. This is how a room becomes repeatable instead of a guess every cycle.
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