If I read correctly your avarage 8 ounces under a 1K bulb or around .283 grams per watt which is on the low end. Not sure what else to add other then check to see if your near the VPD charts
Well I do wish you the best of luck at this here are my observations
1) check the height of your light. See if you can pull them any closer to your canopy tops. The higher the light the less light intensity you have at your canopy
2) I used to sun SOG myself and I couldn’t imagine running in...
Have you seen the price of these things. I know there is a company called omega or volksgarden. They are just crazy expensive and unless you have a commercial license the plant count is crazy
Really really cool idea though
I’m no LED expert I’ll leave the calculations to the other guys here but what if you took 5 QB288 boards per “layer” and mounted them verticaly in a pentagon formation and just stacked the sets of 5 on top of each other to make a vertical light for that setup. It will cost a shit ton of money...
As thundercat said. this is truly vertical cannabis cultivation. i played with growing it in pvc tubes.
just a few notes designing. treat this system as a NFT hydroponic setup. you can use drippers but why not just pump to the top end of the tube and let gravity drain everything back to the...
I used to run a white widow crossed with big bud. Didn’t do any breeding as that pheno was gifted to me. Yielded nice and was fairly potent. The SOG just allowed for easy perpetual across more then 1 tray
I still think your cramming it to tight height wise. Plus your really putting the cart before the horse with your measurements. You should have your strain determine your heights not just guess.
Just a question have you grown on this scale before?
Good luck I’ve been wanting to see a sog stacked under LED.
Hey why don’t you really push the limits of LED and add CO2, deep reds for Emerson effect and UV to really fuck shit up
My suggestion would be the bottom rack houses the res, one big res for each setup. Then stack 2 levels of plants. Allow maybe a foot to a foot and half for the res depending on what’s available. In your 9’ ceiling you could then have 2 levels around 4’ each. Should be enough room for a nice sog...
Also stacking things so so tight on 4’ wide tables will really diminish your airflow circulation across the canopy just inviting mould and bud issues.
And bear in mind you’ll need a way to reach the back of the canopy to check and work on your plants.
Interested to see how this turns out...
Trying to compare your strains to thundercats will not give you a good comparison. Some strains have terrible SOG production where others enjoy a single cola lollipop
You should start with a strain you know and have a few grows with it first to know how large it is going to get then that will...
You also mentioned “selling a complete system to home growers” bear in mind a SOG setup of any substantial size is a fair amount of work with keeping a health supply of moms and making sure your cloning is bang on. Just a lot of work unless your aiming to sell weed for a profit
To answer this question any other lighting is better then no more at this point. Hell if you want to save money buy some t5’s? Something is better then nothing?