4000 Watt, 22 Plant Vertical Stadium -- Nightmare OG, Lemon Diesel, Headband

The vertical forum over here was looking a little sad so I figured I'de post my grow.100% Medical + Amendment 64 Compliant, All Herb is for personal use not sale.Specs-------4 x 1000W Digital BallastsSentinel Climate Control8 Inch Exhaust15000 BTU A/CPassive IntakeAutomatic Irrigation96 Gallon ResNutes-------Head Formula 6/9 with 1 gram per gallon epsom salts3ml/gal Silica Blast3ml/gal Hygrozyme1ml/gal Drip CleanI like to keep my PPM between 8 and 900 during flower, which only allows me to mix the above ratio @ 60% strength considering i dont use RO.My tap water is 250PPM, 7.5ph. Adding enough nutes for 60 gallons of water allows me to drop in this range every time, and the plants love it.Irrigation-----------Watering was a pain in the ass with 12 plants every day, and i wanted to use smaller pots with more frequent waterings to get those fatty nugs.. So i built an auto irrigation using a 100 gallon trash can as a reservoir, and horseshoe dripper manifolds... A 1200 GPH Pump is connected to a cycle timer with 30 seconds on and 4 hours off during the day cycle so 3 30 second waterings.Pics:1.) Front outside of the growroom. I built an air exchange box for my window air conditioner so the hot exhaust is whisked out of the garage. It has allowed the A/c to run much more efficiently and colder as well! 2.) Veg Room. Nightmare OG's in the 1 Gallon Bags, Lemon Disel in the cups on the left, and Headband in the cups on the right.

Now to the good part! The flower room! At day 9!

Trellis hung over both sides

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11 Nightmare OG
9 Lemon Diesel
2 Headband
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21 Total

Yield Goal --
8 Lbs + 8 Oz of my liquid gold dabs

looking into the room, the nightmare OG are on the left side, and the Lemon Diesels and 2 Head bands are on the right side

Intense......Must be a lot of work keeping up with all of those ladies.

Very nice vert grow man! I really wish the vert section on RIU would be a little better. There's never really much on here. You have inspired me to post my vert grow up today. I'm running 3600 watts tree style grow. Ill post a thread in a couple hours when I get home. Just make sure you keep us updated on yours!!

That's a really cool grow, thanks for sharing that.

Looks incredible! Seems that vert growing is practically ignored here. Probably because the old farts can wrap their heads around anything else but traditional growing.

Quick question?

why not add 3 more lights on bottom of room and not lollipop them and get more harvest off same plans... isnt that the way of vertical? No wasted growth at all and max lumens to all parts of plants?

not saying that in bad way lol you have a very nice grow setup and getting awesome yeild.

Update: Week 4 - Day 29


Both sides are really starting to stack. On the right is the lemon diesel, which stacks super long fluffy nugs (Last run i had one nug that was 24'' long)... I was really impressed with her until i started running this Nightmare OG!!!


Holy shit!! The nightmare is stacking just like the LD, but the nugs are way fatter, and feel much denser as well.


Little bit of info on the Nightmare OG:


Sin City Seeds
White Nightmare x OG 18
Flower time - 64 - 70 Days
60% Sativa 40% Indica



Nightmare OG




Lemon Diesel on the Right



I also want to run their "Sin Mint Cookies".. Im looking into buying some of these seeds soon!


"Using GSC "Forum Cut" we've created a new cookies hybrid. All you love from GSC only faster, more potent, and more flavorful!"


Lineage: GSC x BluePower
Flowering Time: 60-65 Days
Ratio: 40% Sativa 60% Indica


Heres Next run..





My GSC clone


This is the best nug pic ive ever been able to take with my iphone: Lemon D

ricky6991 said:

Quick question?

why not add 3 more lights on bottom of room and not lollipop them and get more harvest off same plans... isnt that the way of vertical? No wasted growth at all and max lumens to all parts of plants?

not saying that in bad way lol you have a very nice grow setup and getting awesome yeild.

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Im Already running 50 watts/ sq foot, which is pretty much the maximum required by plants to get fat yields while at the same time keeping my energy costs relatively down..

There are a couple other reasons also:
1.) Bulbs on the bottom would make it really inconvenient to work in the room
2.) The amount of space on the bottom that would get hit by lights on the bottom is negligible.. When i trim and prune my plants i thin out the entire inside, along with any fans and sucker branch laterals that i can find..This doesnt leave very much shit at the bottom to get blasted by extra lights
3.) The lights are positioned right in the middle of the room, and equidistant from just about everybudsite on the trellis on each side(give or take 3 inches) this allows a nice even canopy, and keeps the buds in the ideal range (14-20 inches) away from the bare bulbs.

Would adding more lights increase my yield,.... certainly.. would it decrease my efficiency (gpw)...almost definately.. One of the key aspects to growing vertical is efficiency, and i want to hit 1+GPW and possible more, while not running massive amount of plants.

Wow great job wish I could have a setup like that.

Supdate: Week 6, Day 37

I think i found a nanner on one of the LD's that was about 6 inches from the light..This room is too narrow to run 22 - 6' Tall Trees , with 4000w. The bulbs are just too fucking hot, and I have trained and trimmed and pruned and tied and i cant get them any further back. Average is about 14'' from the light, but honestly it ranges from 6 inches to 2 feet.

Either way, I picked the nanner and did what I could.. I'll be keeping an eye on that side anyways as the LD seems to be quite susceptible to hermie. Not sure if its the strain, or the grower, but we'll see over the next couple weeks.

I need to be outta this house at the end of the month, so this grow is going to be cut short to day 56 Harvest, which is a full 8 weeks, trimming on a day 1 of week 9. The nightmare-og, and the LD are supposed to be 8-9 week strains, but it still could be a bit early. Oh well. Heres some pics.. The room is filling up nicely

Wow man, very nice work.

Man looks pretty amazing in there probably pretty dank as well...I can only hope to get something as nice...again amazing

Anyway to get a pic of the backside of the plants? Did you trim off everything behind the canopy? I also run vert 3k stadium but never trees. I average 30-70 plants.... i'll stick around to see if you hit that 8lbs.

Holly fuck dude thats insane growen:
My aul measly vert grow u gonna end up with pounds of it
You inspire the RIU community
Now one question if l may regarding feed amount if you care to answer l feed my girls according to the amount of salt in the food and lm a soil grower and feed by hand so l read somewhere you cannot go over 850ms of salt consternation, so whats your take when feeding your monsters

mine are short plants 5x nirvana blue mystic fem

Ok man, im literally copying your setup...

i built a 12ft long screen on the left and right side of room like your trellis nets. Put 6 plants on the lfoor on both sides then 3ft above that i put a shelf to put another 6 plants on each side, above the ones on the floor... im going to tuck all the plant into the hallway area where the bulbs are and then tie the stems to the screen to the inner nodes grow up and all become colas like yours.

difference is im using 3 1000w rather than 4 and i have a 12ft cieling so im putting fans under the bulbs blowing onto bulb so heat is pushed up and the ac can remove the heat easier and plants wont be heat stressed...

any recommendations? Im just using soil.

way to overcome height restrictions.