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WOW! Hey Trich - nice looking space, dude.
One of the features that drew me to "wings", (i picked up on Mr Bong's abbrev), was it's focusing ability, but I've found that I don't use the tight spread very often and when I do it's not part of a larger design so much as the result of a unique situation presented by the plant configuration of my typically non-homogeneous grows. ie dodging light off of a tall plant and focusing down on a row of shorter plants in the middle of a pallet. I'm more apt to tilt the reflector to feather away and redirect light but there are situations where optimizing direct light, (closer to what the vertical growers are doing) is my best solution. Of course, if you're using scrog/sea of green, or other techniques that give a nice even canopy, this would all be moot.
On the surface, dorjewright use of spreaders on chrismas trees might appear to conflict w/ my best way of putting them to use. ie for a trained/lp'd plant w/ a wide, flat, shallow canopy. I've seen people get into pissing matches over similar (non)incongruities in perception. Actually, there is no conflict in the validity of style or the logic here. We are both simply optimizing the same density pattern in different ways. I'm playing to the wide, full, shallow spread and need to be judicious w/ rotation (squares help) to even things out. A spreader over a christmas tree is playing directly to the graduation of the density pattern.
A personal note: I side-stepped and resolved the issue that almost led to an eviction from my grow space about a month ago. I'm legal but had to scatter my run to mine and a couple of friend's backyards Will be reassembling my rooms in a week (after the plumber replaces the old galv in the bldg w/ a copper run.) Once he's out, I'm going to change the spacing between lamps- went w/ the mnfrs suggestion, but think that bringing them in a little closer to each other will make the cross-spill between them more usable. Will detail it w/ light meter and bring findings here.
One of the features that drew me to "wings", (i picked up on Mr Bong's abbrev), was it's focusing ability, but I've found that I don't use the tight spread very often and when I do it's not part of a larger design so much as the result of a unique situation presented by the plant configuration of my typically non-homogeneous grows. ie dodging light off of a tall plant and focusing down on a row of shorter plants in the middle of a pallet. I'm more apt to tilt the reflector to feather away and redirect light but there are situations where optimizing direct light, (closer to what the vertical growers are doing) is my best solution. Of course, if you're using scrog/sea of green, or other techniques that give a nice even canopy, this would all be moot.
On the surface, dorjewright use of spreaders on chrismas trees might appear to conflict w/ my best way of putting them to use. ie for a trained/lp'd plant w/ a wide, flat, shallow canopy. I've seen people get into pissing matches over similar (non)incongruities in perception. Actually, there is no conflict in the validity of style or the logic here. We are both simply optimizing the same density pattern in different ways. I'm playing to the wide, full, shallow spread and need to be judicious w/ rotation (squares help) to even things out. A spreader over a christmas tree is playing directly to the graduation of the density pattern.
A personal note: I side-stepped and resolved the issue that almost led to an eviction from my grow space about a month ago. I'm legal but had to scatter my run to mine and a couple of friend's backyards Will be reassembling my rooms in a week (after the plumber replaces the old galv in the bldg w/ a copper run.) Once he's out, I'm going to change the spacing between lamps- went w/ the mnfrs suggestion, but think that bringing them in a little closer to each other will make the cross-spill between them more usable. Will detail it w/ light meter and bring findings here.