This strategy is designed to ensure a perpetual harvest by maintaining a continuous cycle of vegetative and flowering plants in separate tents. Here’s a systematic description:
Tent 1: The Flower Tent
This tent is dedicated to the flowering phase of your plants.
Initial Setup: Start with your initial plants in this tent.
First Harvest Cycle:
Once your plants have reached a desirable size in the vegetative phase (before they are sent to the flower tent), take cuttings from them. These cuttings will go into your “Vegetative Tent.”
Transition the remaining “mother” plants into the flowering phase in this tent.
Allow them to complete their full flowering cycle and then harvest.
Tent 2: The Veg Tent (Mother/Clone Tent)
This tent is for maintaining your mother plants and rooting new clones, ensuring a steady supply of new plants for your flower tent.
Receiving First Cuttings: The cuttings you took from your initial plants (before they went into the flower tent) will be placed here.
Maintaining Mother Plants: Select the healthiest and most vigorous cuttings to become your mother plants. These plants will be kept in a perpetual vegetative state under appropriate lighting (e.g., 18/6 light cycle).
Continuous Cloning:
As your plants in the flower tent approach harvest, you will take new cuttings from your mother plants in this veg tent.
These fresh cuttings will be rooted and allowed to grow to a suitable size within this tent.
You can take cuttings whenever you need them, aligning with the completion of your flowering cycles in Tent 1.
The Continuous Cycle
Harvest in Tent 1: When your plants in Tent 1 are ready for harvest, you’ll be simultaneously preparing new plants in Tent 2.
Transition from Tent 2 to Tent 1: Once Tent 1 is empty (after harvest), you will move the ready-to-flower plants from Tent 2 into Tent 1 to begin their flowering cycle.
Replenish Tent 2: After moving plants from Tent 2, you will take new cuttings from your mother plants (still in Tent 2) to replace the ones you just moved. These new cuttings will root and become the next generation of plants.
Repeat: This process creates a continuous loop, ensuring that as one batch of plants finishes flowering, another batch is ready to take its place.
Agree with @sober you might find yourself wanting a third but maybe for flower. Especially if you’re doing anything longer than 8-9 weeks flower. Seen people over veg waiting to switch. Maybe not a problem but unless you’re doing a lot of topping might run out of room
To add onto what @broncogrow said, make your flower tent at the minimum 2x as big as your veg tent. That will cover the size gained during surplus of veg time if you run 13+ week flowering strains.
Just ran into this problem myself in this cycle haha.
I thought about a one tent solution where i have two stages. A breeding area above the lamp, to use the warm indirecty lighted area. And one stage below the lamp vor veg. in an 60x60 setup for my 120x60 tent.
having one or two mother plants that is cut to 6 other plants.
But is this possible while staying with organic fertilizers or do i have to start with mineral fertilizers?
I mean in a perfect world, yeah, that’s the exact flow.
What ends up happening to me though, is the plants in flower (tent #1) all flower at different times and so I cut down one plant at a time over several weeks, delaying the transition of plants in veg (tent #2) into flowering (tent #1) so the whole process gets backed up
I dry my plants on a clothes hanging rack outside of my grow tents in the lung room. I hate doing it because I often can’t keep the temp as low as I’d like, but it still works for me.
A perpetual grow with different seeds/strains requires a lot more careful planning and to allow for buffer zones (both in terms of time and space) when nature chooses differently.
A perpetual grow where you rotate plants from propagation to veg to flower to harvest continuously is always meant to be made with clones of the same cultivar.
When you get the hang of things, you can try out different types of clones (from different cultivars) mixed together. Clones have the advantage that the flowering time is much more reliable than for seeds. It just varies through your environment. But if a clone is supposed to flower 50 days, it won’t go 60+ in some cases. There might still be buffers required (depending on your setup and clones you choose) but they will be relatively small.
I think the one main thing I overlooked when going two-tent/perpetual. …
Not pre-planning a third drying location I had this grand idea that I’d just dry my flowered plants in the flowering tent at the end of a run, but it just never worked out that way due to staggering plant finishings. **This will work if you, let’s say SCROG one big plant or run a couple/few clones that all finish together. But I like the variety so I deal with staggering finishes
Knowing this in advance will make your harvest so much smoother
If you’re chasing perpetual greatness, I’d suggest monocrop runs—especially if you don’t have a dedicated drying tent. Why go through all this work only to drop the ball on the most critical stage? Dry and cure make or break your final product. I dry in my flower tent. That extra 10–14 days not only improves the end result, but also gives me time to reset and breathe before the next round.
Like others have said, you really need three spaces or at least a two-tier veg setup to keep it smooth:
Tiny mother area – Bonsai moms are clutch. Barely take up space and stay productive. 18/6
Launch Pad – That’s what I call my small tent for rooting and early veg clones. 24hr–>18/6
Flower tent – The main stage.
Once it’s all in motion, it moves fast. I take fresh cuts around week 5 of flower, so they’re ready to go when the tent opens back up. If you’re worried about getting bored or stuck with one strain—trust me, with this kind of rhythm, it still feels like you’re getting variety.
Take notes. I usually cut double what I need, keep the best, cull the rest. Strain by strain, you’ll learn what thrives in your space.
Stick with it. This kind of cycle pays off quick once it finds its groove.
2 tents is the bare minimum to go perpetual. It’s more meant to grow in “rounds” though where you have downtime in between for drying.
To truly go cyclic/perpetual, as you already figured out, you need at least a dry tent.
Also be aware of the sizing!
Large veg tent to go with small flower tent and the dry tent likely needs to be as large as your veg tent.
If you can implement “2 stories/levels” in your veg tent, it can also double as a mother/father tent. The propagation segment can be done by using those propagators everyone knows in the veg tent again. Not necessary to have a dedicated area for that BUT it can be beneficial if you for example work with a cloner.
My current setup is a propagation tent for my cloner and seedlings if I pop any seeds.
A large veg tent that I added a second floor to for moms/dads/backup clones with the bottom layer being the veg/staging area. A large flower tent that would be too large for my setup if I grew in pots but I grow in a raised bed/cali bed with organic soil so the larger than veg, flower tent works as I don’t go more than 9 plants at a time in there.
My drying tent is definitely too small. But I do have the luxury of harvesting in stages, since I also trim alone and that always takes me forever.
I have had to use my flower tent as a dry tent for some of the plants before though. My dry tent is only enough to dry 2 plants at a time. So that will cause issues down the line …
However I do have another tent I just need to set up still. That one was supposed to be the breeding tent where I wanted to do some pollen chucking/seed making/crossing.
I can totally see how I will have to abuse that tent as a secondary drying tent going forward and having to get yet another tent for breeding.
But lets see.
The point im trying to make here is that things can easily explode and get way too much to handle for one person as well. It is very possible I will end up scrapping the seed making or having to take breaks in between rounds and not run my setup perpetually.
Cause if I was, I would need to quit my day job lol
Trimming alone takes up way too much time, that’s my bottleneck at the moment.
You can cut a lot of corners though if you only grow the same clone and get one that is a) very good timing wise i.e. short flower/good yield and b) very easy to trim (a characteristic criminally underrated in breeding).
But everyone wants to try different strains so that likely never happens.
If you want to go into pheno hunting as your main goal, you have to completely rethink everything and set it up completely differently.
Also if you read it don’t forget it’s a book written by stoners for stoners 
