Prawn Connery
Well-Known Member
One of the great myths of vertical growing is that you need to rotate the plants to get light "on all sides". You don't - the plants will grow naturally towards the light and will thicken up on the light side.
Remember, in nature the sun is very rarely directly overhead - it travels east to west on the southern horizon (if you live in the northern hemisphere), or northern horizon (southern hemisphere). That means one side of the plant (the southern or northern side) gets very little or no light at all, as it is shaded by the rest of the plant.
The same principle applies to vertical growing: the plant will grow where the light is.
Trust me - been there, done that. Turning plants is a PIA and has absolutely no benefit at all. In fact, it simply gives you a greater amount of smaller, less-dense buds, as each bud site gets one or two days of light, and then one or two days of shade - never getting the full potential of constant 12/12 photosynthesis.
You don't need to scrog - that's true, especially with columnar strains, such as indicas - but a vertical scrog can help maximise light and yields for branchier varieties. If scrogging didn't work, no-one would do it - not horizontal growers, and not vertical growers.
1lb per 600w is what every novice grower should be aiming for - more experienced and serious commercial growers yield much higher than that.
Remember, in nature the sun is very rarely directly overhead - it travels east to west on the southern horizon (if you live in the northern hemisphere), or northern horizon (southern hemisphere). That means one side of the plant (the southern or northern side) gets very little or no light at all, as it is shaded by the rest of the plant.
The same principle applies to vertical growing: the plant will grow where the light is.
Trust me - been there, done that. Turning plants is a PIA and has absolutely no benefit at all. In fact, it simply gives you a greater amount of smaller, less-dense buds, as each bud site gets one or two days of light, and then one or two days of shade - never getting the full potential of constant 12/12 photosynthesis.
You don't need to scrog - that's true, especially with columnar strains, such as indicas - but a vertical scrog can help maximise light and yields for branchier varieties. If scrogging didn't work, no-one would do it - not horizontal growers, and not vertical growers.
1lb per 600w is what every novice grower should be aiming for - more experienced and serious commercial growers yield much higher than that.