Quote Originally Posted by Cornelius
If you hang your lights vertically, you can put them below the top of the canopy to give some excellent side light. Also, since you can surround a light with plants, light that would usually go up to a reflector instead goes directly to a plant (more efficient energy usage) Plus side light will help your side shoots to grow big fat buds. I would recommend having three rows of plants, and in between each row hang two lights. You would have to rotate your plants and shift them around, but I think this could be the way to go as long as you can keep your temps in order.
Rotating the plants would be a huge inconveniance. They are going to get very large and heavy and this would mean lifting up the plant from the netpot and rotating the entire thing around. We plan on having these plants bushy enough that that is not easily possible. The buckets themselves cannot be rotated, as they are connected to hard water lines. The vertical bulb idea sounds fun but I dont think I am ready to risk an operation like this on something thats not proven to me yet.

We decided we are going with Daystar A/C hoods because they are relatively cheap, have a polished reflector, and are lightweight aluminum. 6" ducting has proven to be more then enough. If we end up switching out to 750 digitals then we will run larger 8" hoods, but the Daystars can do a 4x4 area which is what we need. Lights are going to be exhausted by a 750cfm 8" fan and the room is exhausted with a 700cfm 8" fan. The lights get exhausted into the attic, however the room is going to be exhausted elsewhere because of the CO2 (dont want CO2 leakin in from the attic!!!!). A roof vent most likely. I think a single 8" will be ok doing all 4 lamps (8" Y to two 6", and each 6" duct cools 2 hoods which are inline). I run a single 6" fan on 2 hoods and its more then enough.

We are going to setup a nifty little contraption for when temperatures get to cold that will allow us to take the hot air being sucked from the hoods, and direct it back into the grow room for cheap heating. CO2 schedule will be about 60 minutes on and 15 minutes off, ppm matched with that of the nutrients.

The clones are most likely going to be "Purps". You can find pictures of these in "Indoor Growing" under "quick purple pics". They go a very serious purple, give a nice solid bud, and are pretty resistent to insects and mildew. They are also pretty bushy. They are going to go into veg Next Week, veg for 2 weeks in some simple single container DWC bubblers, and then go into the large setup with established roots, veg for 3-4 more weeks, and then flower for 9 weeks. If they arent done in 9 weeks, to bad, stuff has to get cut and the room cleaned.