In traditional sog you take as many clones as fit into your designated area, don't top, and don't veg very long. You are after the cola only. Since you are concerned with plant count, if you wanted to maximize yield per plant, you would likely be going with scrog, or screen of green. With this method and one light, it doesn't make too much sense though. Your better bet would be pinching tops, fimming, and lst, of you are looking to have 8 plants per harvest. 1 light would really have 8 packed in pretty tight, but you are staggering your grow, so that throws me off since I wouldn't really know how to work that. What I can say is you will need an elevated space for the new plants so the aren't stretching toward the light. You could use upside down home Depot buckets, but eventually that will lead to a plant or two getting knocked over.
About elevation ya I've thought of this and I'm going to get a hydrolic lift I can put on 1 side of the tents for raising and lowerng
Canopy always has to be even I've been reading
Im going to have 1 in veg tent too so they can be elevated to height of the mom's or is it not as important in the veg tent?
I'm still going back and forth on which tech I'm going to use
I really think training by bending branches down during veg will help and then a bit of topping as well but I'm sure I'll be posting here daily with updates and questions
I did cancel the ph tester (found one of banggood for 1/5th of the cost), same with the digital microscope for check trichomes
I've been doing research on the strains i was interested in Espcially directly from paradise seeds website to see how they grow and I've picked all short to medium sized plants
Here's the plan
Order
3 Sensi star (1 mom 2 flower)
3 durga mata Mata 2 cbd (1 mom 2 flower)
3 ice cream (1 10week veg, 2 flower)
2 delahaze (1 10week veg, 1 flower)
2 wappa (1 10week veg, 1 flower)
I can knock it down to 6 going into flower by taking 1 cbd and 1 ice cream away
One tent is still not in, hopefully coming later today, but I'm picking everything except that up tonight
Edit: and I was mistaken, it is screen of green I'm considering, with the chicken wire or netting)