vertical growing

Serial_Stoner415

Serial_Stoner415

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Serial_Stoner415 said:
Hey guys been reading this thread and have a question. If the light is hanging vert and is in the middle of the plants how does the light reach the outside of the plants...does that require rotating the plants or just leave it?
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looks like I missed the post about putting them on something that rotates, I guess some of the pics I've seen wouldn't allow for any sort of rotation as they are usually up against a wall and have netting between the light and plants.
 
jigfresh

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You just leave them. No need to rotate. It's like when the light is above the plant, you don't flip the plant upside down to get light to the bottom. When the light is vertical the leaves all turn to face the light.
 
Serial_Stoner415

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jigfresh said:
You just leave them. No need to rotate. It's like when the light is above the plant, you don't flip the plant upside down to get light to the bottom. When the light is vertical the leaves all turn to face the light.
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well some people do side lighting when the light is above the plant, so that wouldn't be necessary then?
 
jigfresh

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Some people do all sorts of things to their plants. Most people around RIU who do vertical growing is to take better advantage of small growing spaces. If you have enough room to light every angle of the plant, feel free. However, I'd rather use the space for more plants. I tie mine back to the walls of my small closet, if I kept them off the wall to put lighting behind them, I'd be cutting down on the space I could use to grow. And the plants would be shoved into the big light in the middle. What kind of space are you going to be growing in?
 
Serial_Stoner415

Serial_Stoner415

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jigfresh said:
Some people do all sorts of things to their plants. Most people around RIU who do vertical growing is to take better advantage of small growing spaces. If you have enough room to light every angle of the plant, feel free. However, I'd rather use the space for more plants. I tie mine back to the walls of my small closet, if I kept them off the wall to put lighting behind them, I'd be cutting down on the space I could use to grow. And the plants would be shoved into the big light in the middle. What kind of space are you going to be growing in?
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I have an extra bedroom in my apartment so I built a 10ftx5x8 then built a separator wall so I have a 3.5x5 for veg and 6.5x5 for flower. I haven't set the veg up yet as this is my first grow and I want to dial in my big room first. I'm using a 6in charcoal with a 440cfm fan going to a 1000w cool tube reflector. Right now I only put my 6 in the room as that's per state law at the moment. I potted them in cloth 5g bags and am using tupur.
 
Serial_Stoner415

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Serial_Stoner415 said:
I have an extra bedroom in my apartment so I built a 10ftx5x8 then built a separator wall so I have a 3.5x5 for veg and 6.5x5 for flower. I haven't set the veg up yet as this is my first grow and I want to dial in my big room first. I'm using a 6in charcoal with a 440cfm fan going to a 1000w cool tube reflector. Right now I only put my 6 in the room as that's per state law at the moment. I potted them in cloth 5g bags and am using tupur.
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strains: Double Dream
Dream Queen
 
jigfresh

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Nice setup. And good plan. I would spend money elsewhere than side lighting. If I did put more lights in that space, I'd have the 1000 down the middle and whatever other light (s) above the plants. Haven't heard of the strains, but they sound nice.

Good luck with everything. Not sure if you already have a thread/ journal for your grow. If you do, you should put a link in your signature so people can find it easy. if you don't have one, you should start one for people to help out. And give yourself something to reference as well. RIU and the folks here have taught me most of what I know about growing. The folks around RIU have also taken me around the world (literally). It's a good place here with good people. You just gotta find em. :)

Club 600 is a good thread with good peeps and you don't have to have a 600 to join. Again... good luck with everything.
 
Serial_Stoner415

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jigfresh said:
Nice setup. And good plan. I would spend money elsewhere than side lighting. If I did put more lights in that space, I'd have the 1000 down the middle and whatever other light (s) above the plants. Haven't heard of the strains, but they sound nice.

Good luck with everything. Not sure if you already have a thread/ journal for your grow. If you do, you should put a link in your signature so people can find it easy. if you don't have one, you should start one for people to help out. And give yourself something to reference as well. RIU and the folks here have taught me most of what I know about growing. The folks around RIU have also taken me around the world (literally). It's a good place here with good people. You just gotta find em. :)

Club 600 is a good thread with good peeps and you don't have to have a 600 to join. Again... good luck with everything.
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How do I do any of the things you said I should do....new to riu and growing as well it's nice to hear my set up sounds good. Thank you friend
 
Serial_Stoner415

Serial_Stoner415

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jigfresh said:
Nice setup. And good plan. I would spend money elsewhere than side lighting. If I did put more lights in that space, I'd have the 1000 down the middle and whatever other light (s) above the plants. Haven't heard of the strains, but they sound nice.

Good luck with everything. Not sure if you already have a thread/ journal for your grow. If you do, you should put a link in your signature so people can find it easy. if you don't have one, you should start one for people to help out. And give yourself something to reference as well. RIU and the folks here have taught me most of what I know about growing. The folks around RIU have also taken me around the world (literally). It's a good place here with good people. You just gotta find em. :)

Club 600 is a good thread with good peeps and you don't have to have a 600 to join. Again... good luck with everything.
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and how would I hang a vert light under my hor light? Or how would i set the 2 up together?
 
jigfresh

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If you only had one vert, one horizontal, I guess I would pick the plants I wanted to show the most love and put the horizontal one above it. But really I think with two lights, the best would either be both hor. or both vert. Both working half the space. Now if I had 3, I might think of one vert and 2 hor. Make sense?
 
Serial_Stoner415

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jigfresh said:
If you only had one vert, one horizontal, I guess I would pick the plants I wanted to show the most love and put the horizontal one above it. But really I think with two lights, the best would either be both hor. or both vert. Both working half the space. Now if I had 3, I might think of one vert and 2 hor. Make sense?
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I think so....so instead of hanging the vert couldn't I mount on the floor so it's coming up from the bottom. I know leaves take in light emery from the top so I would make it adjustable
 
Serial_Stoner415

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jigfresh said:
Nice happy looking plants man. Keep doing what you're doing, they look nice.
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They weren't happy the first week. I planted them(clones) on the 11th...dealt with over watering in the begining. Figured out at that point that I only needed to water every3-4 days. So u let them dry up and 2 days ago I fed them a full load of nutes. Today I am seeing a lot of growth so they must have enjoyed that feeding
 
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