How do vertical growers veg?

[shaqattack]

Hi all,

I'm trying figure everything out vertically - I'm vertically challenged. Say you had clones and wanted to veg them for 10 days before flowering. Do vertical growers tend to:

1) veg right in their vertical setups
or
2) do they like to veg in a flat setup and then transfer to the vertical setup.

Thanks
Shaq

 

[rickemery]

from what ive read some vert growers choose to veg horizontally, while others choose to veg vertically. Personally with my first vert setup ive vegged vertically, mainly because of simplicity and ease. i just set the plants in there at begining of grow, when they are tall enough i swithc to 12/12. no moving the plants from one chamber to another, no changing the light from horizontal to vertical, no mess.
Just seems gto make sennse gthat if you are going to grow vert, your plants should be vegged vert so that they are already adjusted to grow towards those lights angles.
Plus you can veg alot more plants under a vert than a horizontal, but thats not always a concern.
hope this helped a bit

 

[TheGreenReaper]

I guess it all depends on your system.

I grow vert in 5 gallons surrounding the 1k hps lights. I veg horizontal from clone to 1 gal under a 8bulb multi spectrum t5. When they go to three gallons they move to a veg "pod", around a MH vert light. They stay in vert from 3 gal, to 5, to harvest. I think they train and produce better with some veg time in vert.

I have never tried vert with plants as small as 10 days veg. I run perpetual, with 5 flowering pods, each two weeks apart - for a total 10 week cycle. This enables twelve days Vert Veg in the 3 gallons before going to 5's (for 2 days) and then transfer to a flowering pod and flip.

 

[BigTop]

Still vegn em horizontal & then flipping them verti in flower.

I'm looking for the stretch during veg... that's my take at least. They just don't seem to stretch up as much as when run horizontal start to finish.

Peace bro

 

[ILikeCheetos]

I leave them in the cloner until they go straight into bud. 2-3 weeks from clip to bud depending on how many times I forget to plug in the pump, turn on the light etc
1 - 1.5 weeks straight water, maybe a little superthrive. Really light nutes till week 2.5ish. Up to half stength or so by the time I move them to bud. Admittedly my clones roots get a little bound before moving so I probably waste some grow time in recovery there. And if I was more patient with the clones I'd do better than 90% survival. Some just don't need nutes that early.

 

[Carl Carlson]

Still vegn em horizontal & then flipping them verti in flower.

I'm looking for the stretch during veg... that's my take at least. They just don't seem to stretch up as much as when run horizontal start to finish.

Peace bro

I think you meant to type "vertical from start to finish", but yes I've done the same thing, but also because my veg area is powered by CFL and not HiD. If my vegging was done 600w or 1000w MH, I might do it vertically.

 

[SmokinErb]

At first, since I'll be starting from seed, I'll probably veg mine vertically. My choices are basically 1000w MH vertically, purchasing either a CFL system or a 400w HPS system and fit it with a CMH bulb.

What I think I'm going to do is start off with the 1000w MH, I have other things I need to be spending my money on than more lights right now. I still need to acquire another 1000w MH/HPS system because I'd like to run a stack rather than single bulb.

What I want to do tho is get a 400w HPS system and run a CMH bulb vertically. Veg/clones in that with some autoflower strains taking up all the extra room.

 

[F_T_P!]

Whats up shaqattack, I grow on vertical scrog so I veg vert and put screens in place when plants are large enough.

 

[Talonted]

veg virt flower vert
or
veg flat flower vert
no difference

 

[lid]

I veg vert

 

[RipVanWeed]

I Veg like this



To train like this



They start out with the light above them, but I'm always watching for which way to orient the plant. They'll show if you look for it.

Good Luck,

 

[Grow+Positive]

It depends on how big you're vegging them. If you veg horiz your gonna have branches growing out to the sides and when you move that plant into flower, half of the growth has to move all the way to the other side of the plant where the light is. So if its a small plant it really doesnt matter, but a 1ft plant and thats alot of wasted energy

hth

 

[whythefnot]

I clone horizontally, then veg and flower vertically. It's more efficient to veg vertically if you're going to flower vertically, for reasons stated above.
I grow large-ish plants, up to 4 ft if they weren't scrogged