Cork144
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Howdy Microgrowers! been some time since I've been in here.
Nearing the end of a 1kw 4 plant grow, and while doing it, I came to realize just how much of my passion when it comes to growing weed, was maximizing small spaces.
Dont get me wrong, I will get a lot of herb and not have to dip into the black market for months, but theres always been a pull towards doing small, intimate setups and really getting intune with different strains.
Plan is to have a 250W verticle bulb, in or not in a cool tube, havent decided on that just yet really, with 8 modular screens angled at 45 degrees to maximize surface area.
Doing scaled drawings on paper, the math has allowed me to add an extra 1.85sqft by just having tilting screens.
Each screen has .8941 of a square foot, total screen area will be 7.15sqft, giving me just under 35watts/sqft.
They will be 14" wide at the top, 12.5" long and 6.6" wide at the bottom
This is fairly low wattage per sqft, but the strain i am growing tastes better when the buds arent as dense, believe it or not, so airy nuggets arent a concern.
31.75grams per screen will be the 1g/w marker
I will grow the plants up behind the screens, then supercrop them down and over the screen and tie them in place, I feel if I make the "actual top" of the plant the lower buds in the setup, it should encourage a better amount of feed to the buds that would normally be airy and smaller, while the plants "actual bottom branches" become stronger, top buds.
Just a couple of weeks away from chopping, so I can soon get building
Anyway just thought I would get the topic going before the build starts, as everyone has valuable opinions to chime in with, let me know what you think of the plans and what you would like to see me try
Cork
Nearing the end of a 1kw 4 plant grow, and while doing it, I came to realize just how much of my passion when it comes to growing weed, was maximizing small spaces.
Dont get me wrong, I will get a lot of herb and not have to dip into the black market for months, but theres always been a pull towards doing small, intimate setups and really getting intune with different strains.
Plan is to have a 250W verticle bulb, in or not in a cool tube, havent decided on that just yet really, with 8 modular screens angled at 45 degrees to maximize surface area.
Doing scaled drawings on paper, the math has allowed me to add an extra 1.85sqft by just having tilting screens.
Each screen has .8941 of a square foot, total screen area will be 7.15sqft, giving me just under 35watts/sqft.
They will be 14" wide at the top, 12.5" long and 6.6" wide at the bottom
This is fairly low wattage per sqft, but the strain i am growing tastes better when the buds arent as dense, believe it or not, so airy nuggets arent a concern.
31.75grams per screen will be the 1g/w marker
I will grow the plants up behind the screens, then supercrop them down and over the screen and tie them in place, I feel if I make the "actual top" of the plant the lower buds in the setup, it should encourage a better amount of feed to the buds that would normally be airy and smaller, while the plants "actual bottom branches" become stronger, top buds.
Just a couple of weeks away from chopping, so I can soon get building
Anyway just thought I would get the topic going before the build starts, as everyone has valuable opinions to chime in with, let me know what you think of the plans and what you would like to see me try
Cork
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