fractal
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Using rubbermaid brand rack components from home depot, and common steel cart racks I built up a vertical system that is modular and expandable.
Just mount the rack support rails to your wall studs, insert the shelf supports and place the wire shelf on. Then the steel cart racks are arranged at the same height as the wall shelves, six shelves in total when fully assembled.
With 6-liter pots, five per rack and three racks high per lamp you can get 60 plants around each 1000 watt hps light. With an easily achievable 1 oz. / plant that is 60 oz. from each light. Which is 3.5 pounds or more. I'm still dialing in the height at which to flower clones so that they overlap with the shelves above and below. You can see some Johnny Blaze clones on the lower shelves, those were sized perfectly. The other plants are all a week or less in the racks and will hopefully double in size. They all vegged about a week and were totally rootbound in 4" pots when transplanted.
Right now there is blockhead f2 and Johnny Blaze, Sour Diesel x White Widow and GDP clones in there. Eventually it's going to be all GDP pretty much so the geeks can have their buds and I can maybe eat again, and pay bills because I've gone broke growing haze. 12-14 pounds of GDP from 4 lights seems to be very achievable with this system.
Just mount the rack support rails to your wall studs, insert the shelf supports and place the wire shelf on. Then the steel cart racks are arranged at the same height as the wall shelves, six shelves in total when fully assembled.
With 6-liter pots, five per rack and three racks high per lamp you can get 60 plants around each 1000 watt hps light. With an easily achievable 1 oz. / plant that is 60 oz. from each light. Which is 3.5 pounds or more. I'm still dialing in the height at which to flower clones so that they overlap with the shelves above and below. You can see some Johnny Blaze clones on the lower shelves, those were sized perfectly. The other plants are all a week or less in the racks and will hopefully double in size. They all vegged about a week and were totally rootbound in 4" pots when transplanted.
Right now there is blockhead f2 and Johnny Blaze, Sour Diesel x White Widow and GDP clones in there. Eventually it's going to be all GDP pretty much so the geeks can have their buds and I can maybe eat again, and pay bills because I've gone broke growing haze. 12-14 pounds of GDP from 4 lights seems to be very achievable with this system.