Hey guys, thought i'd start this off. I've recently tried the vertical method, and I'm hooked. Cage type grows are really easy to do, and seem to have a big payoff. Of course, you have to watch overvegging, as well as trimming at the right times. I use simple stakes to help train the plant, allowing them to bush up naturally, and yet controlling their direction to be a 45 degree angle to the light.
However, is there something even more efficient? To date, my best horizontally lit grows, have all been scrogs. I want to combine this great plant training technique with vertical lighting. Has anyone done a vertical scrog? To be more specific, a larger scale one, that uses several higher wattage (600 or 1k) bulbs.
My initial thought, is to make 8 large panels, that connect to each other, into the shape of an octagon, inside the cage. I could then train plants into a scrog on each panel, until its mostly covered, and then flip them. My thought is that it shoudn't take too long for each plant to fill about a 2x2 square on each panel. 3 plants per panel.
The cage that is being used can be run in 1 of 3 ways, that i am also debating about.
NFT is pretty easy to do, but I am skeptical about running without a medium the whole time. Never having run an NFT setup, I'm not certain how soon I will try this, although I have read that it can grow plants very quickly, only a step down from aero.
Simple ebb and flow is what i'm used to running. The columns on the cage are filled with hydroton, and then you flood and drain the plants as normal.
Lastly, is a method I saw Heath Robinson do on one of his grows from another site. He was basically running an nft type setup, but filled his tubes with hydroton. This almost seems like the best of both worlds for me. However, I'm also unsure about this. Thoughts?
This should give us something to chew over. Thanks in advance to any thoughts, criticisms. Flaming won't be tolerated.
However, is there something even more efficient? To date, my best horizontally lit grows, have all been scrogs. I want to combine this great plant training technique with vertical lighting. Has anyone done a vertical scrog? To be more specific, a larger scale one, that uses several higher wattage (600 or 1k) bulbs.
My initial thought, is to make 8 large panels, that connect to each other, into the shape of an octagon, inside the cage. I could then train plants into a scrog on each panel, until its mostly covered, and then flip them. My thought is that it shoudn't take too long for each plant to fill about a 2x2 square on each panel. 3 plants per panel.
The cage that is being used can be run in 1 of 3 ways, that i am also debating about.
NFT is pretty easy to do, but I am skeptical about running without a medium the whole time. Never having run an NFT setup, I'm not certain how soon I will try this, although I have read that it can grow plants very quickly, only a step down from aero.
Simple ebb and flow is what i'm used to running. The columns on the cage are filled with hydroton, and then you flood and drain the plants as normal.
Lastly, is a method I saw Heath Robinson do on one of his grows from another site. He was basically running an nft type setup, but filled his tubes with hydroton. This almost seems like the best of both worlds for me. However, I'm also unsure about this. Thoughts?
This should give us something to chew over. Thanks in advance to any thoughts, criticisms. Flaming won't be tolerated.
