My vertical grow idea needs a little fine tuning please help the newbie

Alright, I know i've been slacking on keeping this up to date. I'm about 1 week from harvest, and my ladies are having a hard time holding themselves up at this point! I'm just going to throw some pics up and tell you all what I will be changing before my next round
This was on July 1st I think
These next ones are up to date and taken this morning

So here's what I have discovered, I need need need a screen in there to hold my buds up, i'm positive it will increase my yield and stop me from becoming frantic when I discover my plants have fallen over, and or the buds are completely weighted down. I wanted to put one in on this first run, but I ran out of time and money and just went for it.

I will probably be moving my reservoir outside of the grow room with the plants. I managed to keep the res temp under control with frozen bottles, it's more about ease of access for me cleaning and changing the res. It has become very hard to do that, with some of my plants being so far out and also weighted down.

Since summer is almost over I plan to switch out the ac with a squirrel cage blower or something similar, I feel I need both a active air intake and outake. Any suggestions on that would be greatly appreciated! I have a window in my grow room so I want to run some ducting out the window basically for both vents. I also need to replace my carbon filter, it's old and perhaps just time. My plants are overpowering , and I can smell them when I shouldn't .... when the ac kicks on , my god it's potent outside

And finally and most importantly, I have 5 strains growing in that room right now and as was my plan, I am cutting it down to 2 strains for the next run. I just took every type I had and put it in this time so I could get and idea of what strains grew the most effectively in my setup. Ripped Bubba and Chernobyl are my 2 keepers and I have them in the cloner now getting rooted. The strain called TOBY is amazingly full of trichomes, but didn't have as much bulk to the buds as I prefer. The shiskaberry turned into a tiny thick tree, it would be great for sog perhaps, and the White Queen is very good in the system but seems to have a shorter harvest period than the other plants.

I can say that I do really like this vertical set up, it's been working wonderfully, I have big thick heavy buds that are laden with trichomes. Oh, and for anyone wondering I have been using supernatural brand nutrients and I think they are fantastic.

Nice first run! Did you end up putting that other 1000w bulb in there? Or did you just have 1x1000w this run? Because it looks like you could do with some extra light in there to really kick things up a notch.

As a suggestion, if you're only going to run two strains, put your shortest (lest stretchy) strain in the bottom tubes and your tallest on top. Then leave that 1000w bulb where it is on the ground and hang another 1000w bulb above it with a chain, so you can adjust the height as the top plants stretch and grow.

The secret to vertical growing is to get your plants in nice and close the light source and use the floor fan to duct away excess heat. Don't worry if you burn a few fan leaves - that's normal - so long as your buds don't get burnt, they will thrive!

Prawn- I did put the other 1000 w in there. I usually just try to take pics when only one light is on, I have them set to cycle on at a 15 min interval from each other so they don't blow any circuits. I'll try and get a pic tonight of the set up with both lights in the pic, I think I may need to switch up the distance they are from each other a bit. I'll get the exact measurements and see what you think. Right now, I think the top light is about 30 in from the bottom light, and I have a fan blowing up from the floor at them ( it's a bit ghetto rigged, but works).

I think this time around, I might do a little bit of veg time in the system rather than going straight to flower. Do you do veg time w your vertical grows prawn? I would like to fill out the space a bit more like you mentioned, I feel like I can get easily within 8 in of my lights with ought it being to hot

Yes, I do extend my veg time a bit to get my plants to stetch a little so they all fill out. That's the trick with vertical growing - you need your plants tall enough to take advantage of the extra vertical growing height. Once you start to get things dialled in, you'll see what works best. Like any new form of growing, it takes a little time to get the hang of things and learn your system and strains.