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I was thinking of building box, say 6, 7 ft. Closet size. With fixed compact flor. Keeping the plants on the shorter side and hanging some on the top, upside down. Have 8 at 30" plants instead of 4 at 60" tall. I don;t know.... i think it would work.

BudBox said:

I was thinking of building box, say 6, 7 ft. Closet size. With fixed compact flor. Keeping the plants on the shorter side and hanging some on the top, upside down. Have 8 at 30" plants instead of 4 at 60" tall. I don;t know.... i think it would work.

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I would think you would need an immense number of CFL’s to cover that much height regardless of growing up or growing both up and down. It would take a lot of CFLs to give adequate lighting to a 5-foot tall plant, or 5-feet of plants made up of more 2 1/2-foot plants and get average or better production from that much production area. Someone would be better with a HID CoolTube.
　
One alone with a reflector, in the proper wattage of course, would handle the height requirement if you want production from the lower portions of your plants.

If grown both ways a same wattage CoolTube without a reflector then positioned in the center shining both up and down would work well and again you have adequate light to all portions of the plants.

plants grow toward the light.. the roots may be doing all types of wild things up top in the dirt but who cares as long as your green is heading toward the light..

revenge of the plants on science channel not to long ago , about plants having a brain and such. you should look it up and watch it will show you alot that goes far with growing.

they showed plants have memory.. they laid them sideways, they grew at a 90 toward the light.. this is where i forget details.
but some point they let them relax and grow upright again in the dark. then they put them in a freezer to put them in a hibernation like state.
long story short when they thawed out and were put back under the light they remembered being on there side last and in the upright position started to grow sideways at the same 90 degree angle...

so i would imagine if you had them indoors and with an hps light the plant is going to grow toward that bright ass light regardless of what gravity has to say about it.. you might have to start it upside down once it is in the veg state for a few weeks

I'd be afraid of the water dripping through onto the lights. If you had a plastic bottom and put some rubber grommets on the base of the plant to keep it from leaking, it seems like it would work. Definitely post pics if you rock it out tho.

The grommets would be like the ones they use in this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T07--heDYHc

I'm quite confident that this is achievable as a buddy of mine does it, some hanging full and some on the walls, he does it all in a big barn so of course he has room and it seems really fun : D

Plants grow towards the light

i saw a grow journal on another site.....bringing us back to the original posters satement that theres too many people its hard to be original(simpsons did it...so did southpark)

anyways it works great for the same reason that its so good for tomato plants.

Darkstar189515 said:

So I'm a new grower and insted of growin like every one else I made my plants grow upside down.
They are growing fast and strong they have thick stocks the smell is so nice they are just starting to sprout the little branches off the stock the water leaves are huge and healthy. I don't hav them on any real set cycle they are just hangin out in one of those tarp sheds in my back yard the top is clear so the sun gets in and it keeps the area humid. I water every other day I check on them every day.

Any ways I came across my main plant and it has a brake in the main stem how do I fix this I splinted it with a straw right now but not sure if there is somthing else I should do other than hope it fixes it self
any ways if u could give me some info or help that would be kool
thanks

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u used a paper clip to hold a snaped twig in place and wraped some tape around it. it worked great. the tape also stoped the oozing. in the end there was a little lump where the snap was.

i think the upside down grow would help it branch out more to reach up to sun plus shade would keep it cool at high noon, but just a theory. as soon as i saw it on tv i wanted to grow buds in one.