All else being equal an easier way to accomplish this is to increase your canopy size. How can you increase your canopy size? Think in 3 dimensions. So in other words Vertical grow. When you bare the light (no reflector) the problem is your loose some intensity. So how do you correct that problem? Well you bring the plants closer. Since the heat is less since (in therory you get 2X's the light/heat in one direction if you use a reflector (under perfect reflection, which doesnt happen but for illustration purposes lets pretend).
Also SOG is probably the way you want to go since in order to fill a vertical canopy its going to take a bit longer so with more plants you can make up for this and cut down on veg time. Also you want some overlapping of the stem with the plant below it so there is no wasted canopy. so you dont really want the plant under each other but you want some overlap since the base of the stem doesnt produce any bud.
If anyone thinks this is impossible: Go here --> https://www.rollitup.org/hydroponics-aeroponics/149998-heaths-flooded-tube-vertical.html 46oz 1 600W light. Granted Heath does a lot of things right and his strain was created for this kind of production, but you get the general idea. The funny thing is how low maintenance he makes his design, its easier to run than many ppl making 1/2 the production. There are many different designs that can accomplish the same thing, so this is not the only one. An interesting solution would be one that can expand/contract so you can easily change the distance to the light to accomodate different strains in different grows.
Once you have the growing down it becomes just an engineering problem and a rather easy one. Grab a light meter see where you are placing your plants now and how many lumens they are getting, then rehang the bulb vertically and go around the light and try to get similar lumens and the shape of the canopy pretty much draws itself. Once you tune this for your veg period/amount of strech for your strain its should be rather simple. If you really wanted to maximize I would imagine a combination between SOG and ScrOG would be a reasonable solution if you wanted to deal with the whole screen issue, but quite clearly its doable with only SOG. Just some observations I have made, I dont really care to debate it, take the information or dont.
Also SOG is probably the way you want to go since in order to fill a vertical canopy its going to take a bit longer so with more plants you can make up for this and cut down on veg time. Also you want some overlapping of the stem with the plant below it so there is no wasted canopy. so you dont really want the plant under each other but you want some overlap since the base of the stem doesnt produce any bud.
If anyone thinks this is impossible: Go here --> https://www.rollitup.org/hydroponics-aeroponics/149998-heaths-flooded-tube-vertical.html 46oz 1 600W light. Granted Heath does a lot of things right and his strain was created for this kind of production, but you get the general idea. The funny thing is how low maintenance he makes his design, its easier to run than many ppl making 1/2 the production. There are many different designs that can accomplish the same thing, so this is not the only one. An interesting solution would be one that can expand/contract so you can easily change the distance to the light to accomodate different strains in different grows.
Once you have the growing down it becomes just an engineering problem and a rather easy one. Grab a light meter see where you are placing your plants now and how many lumens they are getting, then rehang the bulb vertically and go around the light and try to get similar lumens and the shape of the canopy pretty much draws itself. Once you tune this for your veg period/amount of strech for your strain its should be rather simple. If you really wanted to maximize I would imagine a combination between SOG and ScrOG would be a reasonable solution if you wanted to deal with the whole screen issue, but quite clearly its doable with only SOG. Just some observations I have made, I dont really care to debate it, take the information or dont.
