1/4" PVC. Dual purpose: water pours straight out the SCROG.

Anyone done that? Seems like it what cut down on hoses and clutter if too many plants to hand-feed. Water pours right out of the frame. Next house I'm in, I'll be sure to have a basement. Also want a 2-level cage, each with its own lighting (12' table, 3 to 5 plants wide, top level dedicated bloom, floor level dedicated veg, very compact).

Idk, maybe your scrog could also deliver water (holes drilled at various points) and you could gravity feed it/maybe a small pump if you had the lights low enough to where you could have a veg and a bloom reservoir sitting atop your 2-level structure. Even if I had to pour a gallon directly into the PVC structure, how is that not cool? wood, pvc, metal. Might as well just flip a 6' x 12' chain link fence on its side as your scrog and add like three pvc pipes, long-ways 12'....

The market for mail-order home-grow setup kits is pretty wide-open. haha, kidding but I'd have no problem with selling them on Amazon for a few grand.

How high are you rn?

i know, i know ... part of what appeals to me about growing is that there's so much room for improvisation. Different setups, a touch of engineering. Going for the most compact, high-yielding setup you can think of keeps it interesting. What does Elon Musk say, "there's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering." And then, there's just being a dumb-ass. It's a fine line.

I'd say run "tees" off of your scrog net, and run some tubing or pipe down to the soil level. Basically a drip irrigation system.

Although I've only be growing since mid-May 2020 (~ten months), I've been pretty diligent and steadily making progress. I just started my fourth bloom cycle. To decrease harvest workload, I stagger two tents' by 2-4 weeks. But for others, I can see why having them all in one big space works best for them.

Going into this, I have myself a year to do any major experimenting. But by 12 mos., I was just going to have my strain selections finalized, working on pheno selection, and just becoming better/more efficient overall. I've made my strain selections, and if bud size/quality are a reflection of my efforts, I'm improving.

Attached are photos I took tonight of the "final" setup configuration I'll run until I move and can set up my "dream setup." Until then, I'll post oddball questions from time, to time as I figure out what's going to best complement the approach I've adopted along my learning curve. When I started, I had absolutely no idea what I was doing and slapped together my initial structures while working 70-hr/weeks. I've modified significantly after each of the past 3 harvests. I tried lights on the side, grape-like trellising and a scrog net but without topping, I tried all kinds of things that didn't work. But I got it out of the way. My smaller tent kept outperforming the larger one, so I tweaked both and eventually made them pretty similar. Duct tape and 20-gauge steel are still my best friends while I'm gardening.

The 2 sad plants in the smaller tent were up on racks. I lowered them to take it easy on them while still giving them a chance. But I also put 2 additional plants in there. One plant had 2 main branches break off but the remaining branches form a 90 degree angle ... I kept it as a corner plant. Haha. In both tents, and in my future tent, I try to put the entire plant in the "fruit zone." I don't want feet of branches without buds on them. No room for that. So, close lights and keep plants separated by at least 6" in height (shelf, well, rack, whatever works) but not so much that one plant's gong to produce popcorn bud....

What people don't talk about a lot is the benefit of having the ballast separate from the light (i.e., not in the same unit/attached to the light). Without that extra heat, you can get that much closer to plants.

I'm still learning. Thanks for your time!

another fan in the smaller tent. In both, a pretty big Vornado and 9" metal fans. I'll get to CO2 tanks eventually.