Another way to do it is to train your plants to grow flat vertically. Tie your branches so that the plant ends up a few inches deep, but wide. Sort of like a cereal box. Then you make two banks of flourescents and pancake the plant. That's the way I did my first few grows using minimal money. I made one bank of flouros up against the wall, starting a few inches from the top of the pots and going up about four lights tall. Then put your plants up against the lights. Then take the next bank of lights and press them to the plants. Like a lite, pot, lite sandwich. A generous fan blowing up through the foliage helps to keep the temps down. When done like this I actually had plant touching lights and no ill effects. No lost lumens either and the result was phenom.
IndyMed Reviewed by IndyMed on . (first timer) Indica Grow With Tube Lights.. ok please no hate mail lol calling me ignorant or anything, im just uninformed =D and yes i have done some research on it but the budget didn't allow for more than 50$..ok anyways i hear ALOT of bad things about tubes and trying to put a plant through flowering...is it pretty much hopeless..i'll make another thread soon when i can get ahold of a camera they look really healthy other than not alot of light getting the more bottom leaves and they're starting to get alot of new growths making Rating: 5