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Both. I could have thinned a lot more hands down, but also the tree had a 6ft canopy and a 1000w really only has a 4x4 spread. So the bottom 2 feet of the canopy was just small nugs. If I had cut off the bottom 2 ft and had a 4 ft canopy it probably would have been a lot better because all that energy would have gone toward the top nugs. This is what I do now, make sure the canopy is only the size of the spread of the light.
I was thinking about your set up gr33n, and this may work...
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6 plants, with the double stacked thousands. This way your plants can grow 6ft tall, and once they are tall enough they should be 4ft wide as well. Then you have a 6 ft tall, 12 ft (3 plants x 4ft canopy per plant) wide canopy. Witht the 12 plant design above, the plants would have to be 6ft tall and 2 ft wide (you have a 12 x 12 room right?)
Iuno a lot if strains that will grow 6ft and not get wider than 2 ft.
You can EASILY get 12 potatoes from 12 plants this way. I could hit that with a couple of my varieties and I'm not even stacking bulbs. A 1k up above and a 600 underneath IMHO, if you can swing the additional amps and cooling power. Also, if you want to be all ninja.. :blackalien:.. you can put a row of 6 on the floor to maximize your space.
The plants will get wider than 2 ft. They will grow in to each other and with the right pruning you be left with a wall of massive colas.