Thanks for the reply, Rusty Trichome.

Actually, I do plan on keeping the light source to the side of the trellis.

It IS an indoor grow, and I am specifically exploring the uncharted area of vertical scrogs.

Seems like one of the challenges with scrogs is that it is constantly fighting the natural tendency of the plants to want to grow UP. So even though scrogs and lst do wondrous things, at some point the plants are still growing up towards the light, and there is that variation of height that challenges the light.

This variation in height is, as I see it, what causes the need for a high-heat lighting source. And in my mind, every bit of heat is wasted energy. Energy that is going into the atmosphere instead of into the thc.

I want to use T5's, but T5's set up to be very uniformly close, and uniformly VERY close. IOW, one inch away from the buds.

This, of course, is the theory behind the sog. But the drawback of the sog approach is that it (1) requires many plants, and (2) requires a lot of horizontal space with much wasted vertical space.

So what I am exploring is going to a trellis, or vertical scrog. The plants will be against a wall, and the T5's will be hanging vertically, with a scrog netting (trellis) in between.

I plan to lst early to get four shoots growing earnestly up (see my first post for more on this aspect), but the ultimate idea is to (ideally), have each shoot filling the trellis with nodes along the way.

When I switch to flowering, each bud will be sitting pleasantly one inch from the light, with the most efficient exchange of electricity for potency possible.

So, that is the game I'm playing, and, yes, it is different. But I feel it has taken the best of the different growing methods here and could possibly lead to a new way of growing.

What do you think? Any suggestions on how to improve the likelihood that I end up with a wall of fat buds?