cool, I'm going to mylar by two walls and have the panels on my living room floor with some 2x3's that I will use to make a stand...
Do you blow a fan directly on your plants? If so, do the walls get in the way?
I was reading something and it seemed like you paint your floor white, too. Do leaves benefit from having light hit underneath them?
You're going off topic on me, but I'll answer and to save me some time, this is what I wrote in a PM to another member, Tuesday.
Regarding cabinets, gardens are dynamic, they are forever expanding and contracting. I hate cabinets because of the expense, time involved, and lack of footprint flexibility. I did a deal with movable reflecting panels using one painted wall as a stationary wall, that way I could keep them adjacent to the plants at all times, maximizing reflective light. Never had a problem with light not reaching the lowest levels. It's simple - you paint large cardboard panels white, say from furniture shipments or 4X8' sheets of styrofoam, and mount them with a staple gun to uprights made out of lumber, drill a hole at the top, run a pipe thru it and hang your lights using lightweight chains. You leave about a 14" or so open at the bottom for air circulation - that's where I'd sit a window fan, on the outside pointing in for cool floor air. IOW, staple the panels about 14" or so from the floor. Leave the top open to release the heat. It's cheap, easy and very effective. I even made the supports hinged so it could be put away for storage. All you do is pop the staples, fold up the uprights and you're done.
I never bothered with separate veg and flower areas. I used the same setup to veg and then flower. Again, keeping it simple.
To add to that ditty....
I had crossarms attached to the top of the uprights using bolts and thumbscrews. The uprights had drilled holes at the top for one pipe allowing me to use one hood, and nails along the top of the crossarms about every 2". This allowed me to lay two pipes at any point between any 2 nails along the crossarm continum, from one side of the garden's crossarm to the other crossarm. The hoods hung from the pipes by dog chains and were adjustable within seconds just by changing to a different link in the chain. This allowed me to place the lights at any height and at any location within the garden's footprint.
My backwall was stationary, there were two movable side panels and I would place this huge piece of painted cardboard on the floor against the side panels to make up the 4th wall, held in place by a heavy case of brew bottles from the back. When I needed to work with the plants, I would move the box away, pick up the large panel and set it aside leaving the whole garden at my disposal. Cheap - a dime's worth of plant food now and then, a few hoods, $10 worth of lumber/hardware, free cardboard, some Behr Ultra White paint and viola, I had me a garden.
A picture is worth a thou words, and yes that is a sativa that was allowed to grow past the lights.
UB
