Captain Caveman said:

I don't know man, but I grow in a basement in 7 gallon smart pots and my plants are huge. Not just huge around, huge tall. I do tie them down and stuff but they just keep stretching. The only thing making it work for me is the light mover. Good luck buddy, maybe you should put them outside! lol

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how tall before flower, and how tall after they're done stretching?  i've got 10 foot ceilings to work with

Magash said:

The 32gallon pots and even the 20 gallon ones were a waste. In order for the plants to fully use them they would be to big for any kind of decent light penetration. Sure 10 foot ceilings are nice but the bottom 5 feet of space is crap and useless junk. I've had plants banging off of the roof in 7 gallon pots.
Outdoors with a pot that big I could easily pull 5 lbs off of one plant that simply is not going to happen indoors no matter how much lst you do.

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i was assuming i'd shoot for going full height to the ceiling and have barebulbs everywhere in between the trees.  i already LSTed them to be about 30 inches in diameter, and i'm going to let them grow straight up from there.  i figured if i let them become more or less a column at that width, 1000w barebulbs should penetrate deep enough, no?

here is what i'm seeing in my head



i know there will be some serious finagling to support the plant at that height but as far as canopy penetration i am thinking this might work ok?  i feel like its just a really giant version of what people do a lot of the time with vertical grows.  like 5x scale

Saki said:

Because fuck you, I have 10 ft. of ceiling.  Is that what this all really boils down to?

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Huh?

Big_tiggy said:

ok what u drew is good but you will probably need to surround those bitches with 400 watt bare bulbs, around the outside too, no use in doing that with 1000's, and your gonna pay more for electricity than you make from the plant...

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Magash said:

The 32gallon pots and even the 20 gallon ones were a waste. In order for the plants to fully use them they would be to big for any kind of decent light penetration. Sure 10 foot ceilings are nice but the bottom 5 feet of space is crap and useless junk. I've had plants banging off of the roof in 7 gallon pots.
Outdoors with a pot that big I could easily pull 5 lbs off of one plant that simply is not going to happen indoors no matter how much lst you do.

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That massive yield, no, but couldn't you do enough supplemental side lighting to accommodate the bottom of the plant? Seems like it could be done. Not cheaply or sensibly (SOG makes much more sense to me ) but theoretically possible I'd say.

That said, remember, your shits prolly gonna double in size when you flower. Try to keep that in mind.

You wanna really optimize your area, bust out the fuckin' floor and dig holes for the container they're growing in. Grow from the floor up