I need your perspective on perpetual gardens

[one Q]

So in a perpetual garden, where you have many plants at different stages of flowering. Where should the new, youngest/smallest, plants go?

For this example lets say 4 rows of 3 buckets… The light positioned off center to one side. The best lighting would be rows 2, 3, & 4. Row #1 would be finishing plants

My thoughts have always been New plants in the center and plants a week or so away from finishing go to the edge furthest from the light. This creates a bowl shape in the canopy.

But now Im thinking that maybe the newest plants should be furthest away and keeping the plants in the last week of flowering in a brighter part of the garden.

Secondary question - do the plants really need so much light in the last week and a half or two weeks? The plants have already done most of their bulking up by then.

Thanks for your thoughts.

 

[Dropped Cat]

My lighting is even from side to side, front to back.

For what it's worth, I keep short plants on blocks,
as my lights are fixed height, so they in the back of
the box. Hand water, so it's convenient.

But, I suppose if there was a bright area in the box,
it would be in the center. I keep finishing plants on
the outer area, and taller starters in the middle, so to speak.

Micro grow, but I jam as much as I can in the area I have.

Up to nine plants at a time, around three to five weeks
staggered.

 

[Imsostonedagain]

I have a couple strains that are perfectly finished at 56 days so I chop some every 28 days. I dont run many because I live in KY and have no desire to sit in jail. I do like stated above. I put vegged plants on the left on plant stands and the ones I take off the stands have been flowering for 28 days when they get moved to the right side to make room for newly vegged plants. I dont run high enough numbers to really worry about some not being in the light.

 

[RockinRobot]

As a general rule... Taller plants are already getting stronger light due to height so taller should always be to the outside and shorter plants towards the sweet spot.