Vertical Grows and Heat

Been thinkin of settin up a stadium set up as well. I've been runnin the flat gardens for a while, but I'm tryin to maximize everything. I just bought some xxl hoods but I'm thinkin I can just use them to veg my girls out then do bare bulbs for my room. The bare bulb method is soo much better.

does anyone have any inxsight on whether i need a certain bulb to hang it vwertically?
I borrowed a buddy 4oo MH to maintain my two mothers and when my clones were ready i set them on the ground and made a vertical setup, he seems to think that the bulb cannot be hung vertically and said "if you break it you buy it".... which shows me his true colors now...lol
But i neglected to tell him that i have had it hung vertically now for a month and the mothers love it actually...so my question is, are there certain light bulbs you can and cannot hang vertically? i just took off the reflector and hung it...seems to work just fine for mothers...lol

Originally Posted by BearDown!

does anyone have any inxsight on whether i need a certain bulb to hang it vwertically? I borrowed a buddy 4oo MH to maintain my two mothers and when my clones were ready i set them on the ground and made a vertical setup, he seems to think that the bulb cannot be hung vertically and said "if you break it you buy it".... which shows me his true colors now...lol But i neglected to tell him that i have had it hung vertically now for a month and the mothers love it actually...so my question is, are there certain light bulbs you can and cannot hang vertically? i just took off the reflector and hung it...seems to work just fine for mothers...lol

Every bulb I know of is a "universal" mount, meaning it can be hung either way. Not saying they all are, just the ones I know of. It should say on the box or look it up on their web site.

Make certain your bulbs in the correct orientation or shorter life and some shatter, makes a tiresome clean-up of small shards! Unis are best obviously. And don't get either burned or blinded use smarts get uv glasses. I have Northern Farmer style stadium set-up with 12k btu at one end bare bulb, I just got 6 cool tubes for 21 bucks and will run to see if it's better (cooler) or back to bare bulb. I have serveral light rails I may devise use for too, could be just for the veg stage. I want to go UC less and larger vs the crazy numbers of the stadiums (144).










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Originally Posted by Lucius Vorenus

Any sketch somewhere of how to setup a stadium? Looks like exactly what I want to try for a spare room I have

Northern Farmer Stadium Grow , Vertical

I ahve run this set up and the corners are weak and wasted, you need to rotate often and dirt in this set up is very messy, with runoff, I would redo with a gutter setup or drips. I was watering every other day, very labor intensive. Oh and don't get any infestations plants are like one and will be a total heaven for mites and the like. I always drop a pak or two of Ladybugs in once in 12/12. Osh carries em.