Any suggestions?

I was pulling my plants out the other day to water (grow in soil in a box with 6 42W CFLs) and trying to readjust the lights when the idea of having the plants turn themselves instead of changing lights around every day would be a great idea. Eventually conceptualized (what I believe would be a vertical ScrOG) a grow box with the plants resting on some sort of circular plate and the screen coming up from the bottom, all the way to the top of the box. Maybe some kind of modded old record player? Then on each wall have flourescent tubes (which would be around an inch from the screen with the plants trained to it) and in each of the 4 corners a 2x42W CFL Y connector attached to some sort of mover (christmas decorations come to mind like the "Santa and raindeer who move a foot forward and come back, but disassembled with a light socket attached) to have it move up and down. And for shits and giggles, a police siren spinning light (the kind you would get at like Spencers or something like that) dropped down the middle of the screen upside down with a CFL bulb replacing the original and the cover removed, on an automated pulley system that would move it up and down as well.

What do you think? And any better ideas on what I could use to spin this? I really don't want to use a record player because I don't think I could get it to spin slow enough for my needs. Maybe a carousel of some sort. Any ideas?

And before I get all the responses saying it's a terrible idea, it's more of a novelty grow room concept... But one that I think could potentially be use to grow serious dank.

There are setups like it out there. Some are simpler. However I like your idea. Fine tune it and might be a cool ass gbox row room. Vertical grows save room makes it So you can build a few if you are semi limited on space.

Get something drawn or built and I'd love to take a look.

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Ammastor said:

There are setups like it out there. Some are simpler. However I like your idea. Fine tune it and might be a cool ass gbox row room.

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It could be way simpler, without the moving lights, etc. Basically the only thing that is absolutely necessary to set in motion is the plate with the plants and cage on it. Everything else just makes sure it gives a more even light. Ideally I want it to spin slow enough to soak in the light from each source, maybe one rotation every hour. This way, during flowering, it passes over 4 flourescents and 8 CFLs 12 times a day. I'm just worried that it won't be enough intensity as it would never be getting anymore than maybe 80 watts / 8000 lumens at any given period (estimating what I remember the 2x42w CFLs to be).

If that's a problem then it's just a matter of concentrating the light in opposite corners so there are 4 CFLs in each of 2 corners and moving the tubes toward those corners a little more. I'm gonna have to play with it a little, in the mean time concentrating on getting my current box upgraded to something less novelty and more of a cash-crop producer (I call that bitch my pay pal, lol)