I rebuilt the birdcage/jellyfish light tonight now that I have the correct plugs that fit my strips. Before, I had to solder the wires onto the tiny contacts of the strips and they kept breaking off. Now it should be more reliable than before. Still a ghetto rigged contraption built from a tomato cage, strips, and plant ties, but it grows big! This time building it, I used only 4 strips whereas before there were 6 strips. It was a pain to water the plant last competition with that many strips.
Seeing as how I am now signed up for 2 competitions at the same time, it may be necessary to build another birdcage if I can figure out where to put the damn thing. Either that or use my Mystery Meat plant in both contests... Hmmmm.