Club Vert(600)

DST said:

Tip, try to get some reflective material in front of those pots Dez (will keep your roots happier). Looking good bru.

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I dug out my reflective stuff and cut it into strips. Now I just need to get some clothes pins or something comparable to attach it to the grow bags.

Here's a pic of my flower room taken yesterday.

Looks great Dez. I need to get my ass in gear and get a light mover. So you guys reckon it's fairly easy to use the horizontal light movers for the vert light. I assume you can just attach the rope holding light to the light mover, then have the rope through a loop(eye attachment) so the light hangs and moves up and down as the mover goes left and right? Please excuse my complete lack of any technical terms

DST said:

Looks great Dez. I need to get my ass in gear and get a light mover. So you guys reckon it's fairly easy to use the horizontal light movers for the vert light. I assume you can just attach the rope holding light to the light mover, then have the rope through a loop(eye attachment) so the light hangs and moves up and down as the mover goes left and right? Please excuse my complete lack of any technical terms

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Sounds right...you just work out the timeline of movement,then length of chain/rope...and your set.

Looking good dez. I think you'll get to where you want to be with that setup.

DST said:

Looks great Dez. I need to get my ass in gear and get a light mover. So you guys reckon it's fairly easy to use the horizontal light movers for the vert light. I assume you can just attach the rope holding light to the light mover, then have the rope through a loop(eye attachment) so the light hangs and moves up and down as the mover goes left and right? Please excuse my complete lack of any technical terms

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Yea you just need two lights or a counterweight.

Dr.D81 said:

Yea you just need two lights or a counterweight.

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That's what I'm lacking right now is a counterweight. I need to mount another pulley and hang a counterweight to make things easier on the mover. Right now it makes a little noise like it's struggling a little to raise the light.

Dezracer said:

That's what I'm lacking right now is a counterweight. I need to mount another pulley and hang a counterweight to make things easier on the mover. Right now it makes a little noise like it's struggling a little to raise the light.

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Yea 3\4 pvc pipe with bb's or pennies

Did you weigh your light assembly or just get it close?

I was thinking just get it close.

Dezracer said:

Did you weigh your light assembly or just get it close?

I was thinking just get it close.

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Close will do. Technically whichever light is hanging the lowest is heavier, because the lower light has a longer length of cable/chain/rope which adds weight.

I realized that when I was really high one day, but the difference is so small that it shouldn't affect a good light moving motor.

But yeah, close will do

Pics

15 days since I switched to 12/12, yesterday is the first day I noticed them pushing out more pistils. My tent is about 65°F right now... I was thinking about adding more light to heat it up some. I have a 4ft, 8bulb fixture I could throw in there...

Edit: light fixture doesn't fit between the lights. And besides, I do really want to see what these light bulbs do.

I've already decided I'm vegging horizontally next round, provably with my 8 bulb T5HO panel, with an aim to stretch the plants as much as possible. That way they be ready to be tacked to the wall and for side lighting from the CMH.

I think that part of the reason they're so bushy is because of the side lighting from the get go, that and short veg period obviously lol.

Wow horsey...two lights? I thought i was getting rid of one light Ok, so countermeasure or light at one end of the mover, and attach your moving light at the other? I think I only need about 70-100cm or movement max. I assume that is achievable......

DST said:

Wow horsey...two lights? I thought i was getting rid of one light Ok, so countermeasure or light at one end of the mover, and attach your moving light at the other? I think I only need about 70-100cm or movement max. I assume that is achievable......

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The counterweight is so that the motor of the mover doesn't have to work so hard to move back and forth.

The pulleys at each end of the track to transfer the horizontal movement of the light mover into vertical motion of the lamps.

I think right now mine is only moving about 15-20 inches or so...



It's a weird angle to get a pic from, but I think you can see pretty clearly from that pic...

Yea you should be able to run any length of travel

Doc's mover looks very industrial compared to mine with that big 'ol chain on there. I will be picking up the pieces to counterweight mine today.

Dezracer said:

Doc's mover looks very industrial compared to mine with that big 'ol chain on there. I will be picking up the pieces to counterweight mine today.

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It is a $100 hydrofarm rig and i had to rebuild that chain to resize it. I will be running big plants this time like 10 gallon ones.

cheers fellas.

Dr.D81 said:

It is a $100 hydrofarm rig and i had to rebuild that chain to resize it. I will be running big plants this time like 10 gallon ones.

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I like the sound of this!

How much veg time do you anticipate?

In what size space?

I am pulling the shelves so i will tie them back to the walls of the 4ft octagon. they will only need two weeks veg before the flip. It will be ghost train haze, c99, strawbanana cream and goji og in the big pots. I will have some stocky 3 gallons on the floor and two 600s this time.

Dr. When you are doing this, be wary of the lower branches when going into flower also stretch and need to go somewhere. I am still trying to dial in the flip and how to train since reducing from quantity to just 5 in the vert. It's a fine line I think....i.e don't make the mistake I generally do of thinking that the wall must not be visible before you flip....space before the flip is essential.