Help me set up my room

[Bennyweed1]

Hey everyone! My next grow I want to finally switch over to vertical but dont know which method to use.

Here is what I have 2-1000w MH/HPS light, 1-600w MH/HPS light,
The room is roughly 9'x12'.

Colosseum seems like that best bet but watering a large amount of plants seems like it could be difficult when ll the pot will eventually be blocked by a canopy and screen.

Or should I set up two vert scrogs around each 1000w bulb or run a large vert scrog around both 1000w bulbs?

I am going to be keeping things organic so I probably will have a fresh water drip line hooked up to each plant and then hand water a weekly AACT tea.

I am not sure if I should do multiple little plants or few large plants.

I was thinking two plants per 40 gallon tote, 4 totes around each light to forum a square with a round screen in the middle. Total of 8 plants a light or could I fit in three per tote? Im working with clones.

I want it to look like the pic I attached. Red ring is the bulb and blue ring is the screen.

I mainly want some constructive opinions please. Thanks everyone for taking the time to help me out.

 

[megayields]

IN for the bin..lol....you can check out my stadium I have 3 shelves running 3200 watts and I pull 4-5 lbs every 60-70 days (I have a veg tent also). It's hard for us to TELL you what to run, it really depends on your skill level, and room characteristics, I like to keep it simple (KISS), we run coco in 2 & 3 gall SP's and HAND water all 80-100 plants, yes it's a bitch BUT when we tried to do some drip irrigation ...well...let's just say we totally fudged it up....

I think your 40 gall tote idea might be a little problamatic,I think possibly a Weed doughnut or stadium or collisium might prove more successful for a first time verter BUT I am not telling you what to do, please explore and I am sure more peeps will chime in here as well.

Welcome to the Vertical section, were kinda cultish BUT we have each other's backs too!

 

[Bennyweed1]

IN for the bin..lol....you can check out my stadium I have 3 shelves running 3200 watts and I pull 4-5 lbs every 60-70 days (I have a veg tent also). It's hard for us to TELL you what to run, it really depends on your skill level, and room characteristics, I like to keep it simple (KISS), we run coco in 2 & 3 gall SP's and HAND water all 80-100 plants, yes it's a bitch BUT when we tried to do some drip irrigation ...well...let's just say we totally fudged it up....

I think your 40 gall tote idea might be a little problamatic,I think possibly a Weed doughnut or stadium or collisium might prove more successful for a first time verter BUT I am not telling you what to do, please explore and I am sure more peeps will chime in here as well.

Welcome to the Vertical section, were kinda cultish BUT we have each other's backs too!

When you veg do you veg horz or vert?

 

[Bennyweed1]

My main issue with running a colosseum is my clone machine.

It is only a 25 site areo..That seems like to little of a plant count for a colosseum.

Thats why I wanted to do the 40 gallon tote. Perhaps a octagon shape instead of a square that way I can fit two more 40 gallons in.

I will probably have to veg for a month to get the size plants I will be after but I want it to look like a grape vine surrounding the bulb when everything is all filled in

Plus 12 large plants is so much easier (in my head) to deal with then 50+ small plants.

but if I could run a successful colosseum with only 25 plants then I will want to look down the avenue also for suuure!. Thanks peeps!

 

[Bennyweed1]

Here is a Kong that I started for preparation of my first vertical grow.

God am I so excited to run a vertical setup. I am deff. going to use a KISS method. I've been blending my own soil mixes for about 2 and half years now and have a real dialed in blend.

I think I have narrowed my first vert down to a single 1kw bare bulb.

If things fill in real well I have some back ups on stand by just in case. Its amazing how much gear one collects over the years. I must have 7 different lights just stored away.


And I ditched the 40g tote idea. I ran some numbers and 40g per tote would be over kill. I decided to run each plant in its own 10g pot for a total of 12 plants. 12 plants in 6 40g totes just seemed like way to much.

The whole reason I wanted to use 40g totes so I could plant a live mulch of clover with my MMJ plants because I have seen some pretty amazing results doing so.

240g just seems like a lot of dirt to mix up but now that Im thinking about it again the whole live mulch idea seems to go to pass up. Haha geeze, well I have some time to decide considering my sprout is far from cloning.

 

[Ichabod Crane]

I run six plants in a doughnut, but I veg for a while as I run plants that don't stretch as much. If you want to run a screen in the middle you should look at Wisco61. He runs a screen in a doughnut set up. He will answer questions I'm sure if you ask him. Do a search for his thread. Also look at Aero's in the stickies here. Bets of luck.

 

[Bennyweed1]

Thanks dude, I checked out wisco....that is some good stuff.