Seeking Advice Planning First Vertical Setup

Hey everyone.

So I've read "so you're planning going vert" and "vertical growing 101" threads.

I'm planning a vertical tent grow and I need advice on spacing/tent sizing.

I'm posting a crude MS Paint drawing of just some ideas:

Using 600watt lighting.

1) an 8 x 4 with 4 plants in a diamond pattern (like two conjoined triangles)
2) a 5 x 10 with 4 plants in a diamond pattern (like two conjoined triangles)
3 a) a 5 x 5 with 3 plants equally spaced around the bulb in a triangle
3 b) two 5 x 5 tents setup the same as the one in 3a, possibly connected and close.

So the one thing I'm worrying or pondering about is the width of the tent(s). With vertical growing - I have to consider width or horizontal space; the distance from the tent wall to the plant, the distance from that plant to the light and/or the next plant or wall.

Eg: If I have a tent thats 5' wide; The Bulb is in the center of the tent/triangle pattern so that halves the width or distance of the tent to just under half of the width of 5' or 60" - that's only 30" !! We'll call it 28" considering the bulb width. Lets say the 600 watt bulb has to be at least 8" away from plant (between 8" to 18" away), so I'll say 12" (is that conservative enough?)
So from that ~28" from bulb to tent wall, subtract 12" leaving only 16" for the plant width -- :O
That doesn't even leave any space between the tent wall and the plant.

Are my calculations accurate and more importantly reasonable. I know people do vert grows in 4 foot widths but man, I don't get it logistically I'm worrying is all. I can't do a ton of smaller plants due to legal plant numbers, so they have to be on the larger side.

Anyway,
Any help, suggestions, criticism is very much welcome and appreciated guys. If you see something terrible with my thoughts or just a better way to fit things in, gain space or whatever, please comment.
I'll be doing some form of undercurrent or RDWC.

Thanks!

Looks good to me.

Sebastien Blades said:

Looks good to me.

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Which part looks good?? Lol

5x10 with minimum 6 plants. I'd say you could do more. Put plants in the corners and I'd put plants in between as well... personally. And then I'd rotate them out for a perpetual.

What your not taking into consideration is the plants need to be trained on a flat plane. With overhead lighting a wide bush presents the most area to the bulb. The lowest buds are unproductive and usually removed.
With vertical lighting you want to train the plant to be virtually flat and presenting ALL bud sights to the light from top to bottom. My trees are trained to about 8-10 inches thick and 3 feet wide. They produce from ALL the plant, top to bottom. I rarely remove any branches other than some scraggly stuff at the bottom which never gets tall enough to get into the light anyway.
In a 5 foot tent I would think the most productive would be to surround the bulb ( in a cooltube ) with wire mesh about 4 inches bigger around than the tube and train the plants to completely encircle the bulb. Any maintenance and training is easily done on the outside of the cage. My plants can almost touch the glass with no damage.
With the lightning fast vegetative growth of RDWC, you should be able to get 4/ 12 inch plants to grow big enough to encircle a 600W in about 14-18 days. Just don't forget to leave space for the stretch.
Fred