Capulator
likes to smell trees.
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So how are you picturing the beds? Are you picturing a full bed under that light in diagram and utitilizing the bare vert light like overhead? I have done that as well with alright results. Would def have to be 3' wide tho instead of 4', no way i could get in like need be with regular beds.
What im picturing is more like a 10-12ft run with 3 bare vert spaced in between that on 48" centers. Only reason for 48" center would be to cram 2 big trees in between those lights, with the focus of the verts being for the outside walls. I hadn't thought about actual beds underneath instead of big ass trees. Not sure I would have the height to bare vert over beds since i do bushes but i'll check it out. But on 48" centers and 3 bulbs seems like that would be solid for 5-6 plants on each side following the 24" spacing. Once i had fans taken care of i threw a few extra plants on the ends last time too, just gotta be stout fuckers. lol.
If i can fit 12 pushing 1/2 potato that would cover 2per, and the extra big ones just add to that (and hittin 3/4 per site would already by 3per). I def hit 5-8oz plants in overhead on the regular so this is sounding like a lot more feasible deal. Beds changes it all up tho, gonna have to go stare at things for a minute and visualize now ya thinkin next level!! :cool:
This line of thinking really amounts to turning the entire room into a vertical growing chamber, covering all the walls, trees in the middle and possibly even in beds underneath! Sneaky, that! Who's game for growing on the ceiling?!
What strikes me as interesting are the inescapable similarities between this and the slightly smaller scale canopy I'm working with that's cozily wrapped around a single bulb. But how to accurately and fairly compare each of our approaches?
Grams per watt of flowering lighting is a poor way to measure productivity. Since we are essentially working two sizes of the same approach, it makes sense to me to develop some new ways to quantify/measure the relative advantages of each of our solutions.
Appropriate variables to track might include size of the room, height of ceiling for volume, number of plants, whether/how long plants are vegged in place before flip, total lighting type and watts in room, type of substrate/growing method, manhours of labor per unit of yield and more I'm sure.
Thoughts?
I have been trying to get my plants tall enough to bend them on the cage on my ceiling!!! Maybe next time.
I don't want to track so many variables tty, I just like growing flowers for meds. If my next run is better then my current run, then I am happy. That's what I strive for. A constant state of improvement. I find that the more you work with the plants, the better you come to understand them. I take a lot of notes but I never really reflect on them... it's more liek I rely on instinct these days and just a feel of what's happening in my little jungle.
Yes a full bed utilizing 4 vert lamps instead of 3. Whats the ceilign height?
Bravo!!!....capulator....I was using yoyos to hold up my kosher kush buds to my ceiling your setup is perfect for that stain which is one of my favs...grows like grapevines.
I'm just imagining the little kid from the shining running around your hedge maze. Ha.I'm bumping my own thread. Stay tuned for hedges of Jew gold, power nap, and love triangle. Hedges will most likely be trained along the ceiling this time as they are getting too big waiting for the damn SLH to get big enough to flip. Thinking of playing with fire and spraying the SLH with gibberlic acid. Pics to follow.
How's your love triangle cap. I have access to some of these as well and have considered giving a go. Definitely update this shit for us homie. I may convert one day to a different style. Also I'm curious to see your kosher, I have a white kosher pheno that kicks ass and wonder how she compares. Peace
@Capulator , thats scary about the bulb man glad everything is ok. I had a bulb melt down on me b$ , got so hard it cracked the ceramic base of the light fixture.
as i mentioned above I NEGLECTED MY VEG CROP AND LET THEM GET OVERGROWN SO I HAD TO RETOOL MY ROOM THIS ROUND AND IM BACK TO VERT for this round. below is a couple of pictures. plants looking kinda sad due to neglect, but with some love and caps Bennies, they'll bounces
Had a bunch of these laying around so i put them to work
back.
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