3x600 watt, bare bulb bucket system vertical grow diary (Jack Herer and Blue Dream)

Also in that last pic I see those little tin reflectors above those bulbs like a ugly reminder of your horizontal past LMAO. Just messin with ya.

I know, I wanted way more vertical growth. I think I did screw myself trying to do a stadium trellis/vertical combo. I flipped as soon as they hit the trellis, which is very low, causing most of my growth to be horizontal. You're saying to let them get 3' tall before I flip, THEN dress them 100% vertical into the PVC frame/fence?

I like your idea of leaving the center open so I can still get in there. Next time I'll be doing that as well as swapping the chicken wire for steel garden fence.

m4s73r said:

Ok this took a weird turn. I thought we were going vertical? Dude you totally fucked yourself. Those plants should have been grown about 3 foot tall and then tied to the walls of your pvc frame. So I thought we were going to put chicken wire around that then scrog them to the walls of it. I was so on board in the first post. What happened?

So in vertical growing the Canopy is vertical. You got the right set up. now just grow those plants halfway up the height of that pvc frame you got there then flip and grow them to the top. keep the center open and make it so you can lift the lights and walk down the center of that and tie plants back to the walls. Them harvest them lbs.

You got the makings for some serious shit here my man. just need to make a tweak and get that chicken wire off those plants and we'll be in pound heaven.

Also this is all just my opinion. Keep growing.

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I dont know your exact dimensions or what strain your growing. But yeah. You have that pvc frame. Take your garden fence and go down the long sides of it. Then run your plants in 2 rows and tie them to the fencing. You will have to determine size. But i would top them so they fill out a little more square. But veg height will be dependent on their genetics. Are they stretchy sativas or stocky indicas. A indica wont stretch as much as a sativa will. So you have to consider that. and the fence really only needs to be on the top half fram work to support colas.

And you can do some training to the fence as they veg. Use that fencing to make your canopy uniform. Dont be afraid to cut branches off that arnt growing where you want. (use moderation of course). But while your vegging the bottom of the vertical bulb should remain inline with the top of the plants. You want them to grow up. But a 600 watt bulb with light up the side of a 4.5 foot plant with little issue. Figure a foot-ish of stem at the bottom and were talking 5.5 ft plants. that are say 4 foot wide. Now were cooking with fire. lol