Out of curiosity how much do your two 600s yield you - or say GPW?
I also run 2 600s but horizontal and want to see whats up with the vert and you have very similar equipment so I was curious.
pic's ? you know inquiring minds want to see. gg4 will drive you crazy trying to tie branches
Great to see this thread back up an runnin.
Sure you're gonna crush it.
Heck yeah bro. Such a treat to log in and see this thread active again. It brings a tear to my eye to know you lost your sour though.
I have to echo what a lot of other people have already said. Good to see this thread going again! I've never grown this particular way of vertical but this thread was definitely one of the prominent ones that encouraged me to ditch the hoods originally. Do it up proper!
1st time is see that XD u'r crazy ! Nice room and buds
I'll take a stab, say 42oz ...2x600, 6in vortex and some well prepped floppys! Once I stepped into diesel dons arena, things started to click!
Glad to have been influenced by one of the bestest homies there is!
Peace
Yo man, I find that I get the best "vertical" growth when the bottom of my bulb is at the top of my average plant. Then, I move it up, every day...
Seems like yours are about 6 '' above the tops of them. While this will certainly cause them to grow up rather than out, I would say you're also losing a bit of light...None of it is directly focused on the plant.
Just a thought.
How do you veg your plants? Vert or Horiz?
-Dabs
seems to me your the one not getting good use of your light, I keep mine much lower, of course mine are usually 5ft tall when they go into flower but I want all the light focused on the middle of the plant, thus I keep the top of the light even with the top of the plant or a little lower
Exactly. Ceramic fixture the bulb plugs into should be at the top of the plant, so bulb extends as much as 12 inches or so below the top. Light is coming out in all directions, including up! This type setup works particularly well with trees if you stack the verticals, so on an 8 foot plant, you have 1000 watts just below the top, and another bulb (600 or 1000) at the middle of the plant. No popcorn, just fat colas all up and down the plant. One's on the bottom are as good as those on top. I was able to pull 2 GPW with this setup using wall trellises and stacked verticals in Hempy buckets with coco. High yielding strains and two month veg.
Hey Josey, Dabs and Retro.... you guys are all totally correct. I had just raised my light in those last pics, and the GG's tops were halfway to the top of the light in 2 days.
But bcus of the lack of width in my room, I have to be careful of hotspots. So when the plants are as bushy as GG4 is, its better for my light to be up higher and further away from the chunky part of the plant, rather than burn fans and branches that get too close. Once the light mover gets turned on, this is no longer a problem. Leaves can get close, with less harm being done. The light mover was not being used at the time of my last pics. There are definitely some issues when trying to run 1200w in 32" of space
I am lmao cause we warned you about the side branch stretch, in all fairness she still fucks with me to, freakin branches on branches, you will be amazed at how big a bud can get on a stem the size of a needle.I'm somewhere around 30 days with the Glue now.
This bitch can stretch! While I was in early veg, I didn't think 8 plants was going to be enuff. Now I'm wishing I only did 6. I still have some headroom for her to go up.... but the side branching stretched so much that I'm trying to control the overlapping going on. 6 plants would have had more room to breath imo. But we shall see. Things still look very very good in here. CLeaning out suckers and fans have been a challenge in the back of the room. The size of the beds makes getting in an out a bit more difficult and the GG branches are everywhere! I don't want to go breakin shit in there. Needless to say, I'm still learning, lol. About this girl and my room.
I'm falling in love with the smell of the GG4 already. Definitely some funk coming thru. Its getting stronger by the day. Kinda smells like Fantastik to me.
The frost is as advertised so far. I've had plants show trichs on fans before.... but never on stems and branches of fan leaves. The next few weeks should be very interesting.
Pics soon guys