So if I understand you correctly, I should NOT place my bulbs in the corners of the room? My plan was to leave the bulbs in their reflectors but take the glass out. Then, place the reflectors in each corner of the room at about 5' in height, or 4' above their bucket, and angle them about 45 degrees towards the middle of the room. The idea was to utilize the reflector to push more light, use the height to keep it from creating a hot spot and still generate big lumens on the leaves as the plant grows. The girls going in are already 30" tall!
If that's the case, there is a lot of dark space around half the circumference of each plant, or does proximity between plants and verts make up for that?