Discuss the advantages of "Vert"

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Dave455

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Flowki said:
I get what you are saying completely on the logistic/risk parts.

The light penetration thing, although a good point I still disagree with. You may get deeper penetration (straight face) if in a 3x3 under normal grow conditions but the density of buds the lower you get suffers, this is why the likes of UB topping for 4 is out dated if pushing for weight. If you spread out that canopy over a cage it is obviously less dense but the area will increase a lot more. The most important part is the light hitting most of the thin canopy at optimal intensity. Essentially every bud is going to have the density of top bud and although smaller in size, they will out weigh donkey dicks volume wise.

In an ideal situation you would first max out surface area canopy. With that maxed out you would also max out light intensity/spread to cover that area. Once that's maxed out you would have no other real option but to increase canopy density where possible, but that could detract from initial surface area.
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Isn't regular scrog easier ?
 
Flowki

Flowki

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Dave455 said:
Isn't regular scrog easier ?
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Easier perhaps but with a single light source the spread intensity over scrogs mid to outer canopy area degrades. A stadium canopy setup over the same area (when done right) will keep more of the foliage in range, slightly increase foliage amount and will in turn out do scrog by 10%+ while not that much harder to do. Next step up from that is ofc vert.

If you have multiple low powered light source to spread the intensity then the above is kinda moot, unless you have more roof than floor space.
 
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