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Why Octagon Vertical Gardens Work so Well

As most indoor gardeners already know, it's all about light and temperature.

One problem with modern horizontal air-cooled reflectors is that lower leaves are shaded to some extent, even if a light mover is utilized. Recall that the sun rises and sets, which lowers the angle of the light in the morning and in the afternoon so that the light does shine on the lower leaves at least twice a day.

Experienced growers set up horizontal lights (grids) 24" on-center for six hundred watt lights and 36" (or less) on-center for 1000 watt lights to create "overlap" which increases the points of light and lighting intensity to the garden.

Vertical air-cooled lights get light to the garden because they are positioned close to the plants, there is a lot of overlap, and light reaches not just the top of the canopy but the large lower leaves as well. Regardless of wavelength (color) it takes one photosynthetic active radiation (PAR) photon to energize one chlorophyll molecule.

Never, ever, pick or trim the lower leaves in a vertical garden. Leaves are the carbohydrate factories, and chlorophyll is what converts CO2, using light energy, into carbohydrates.

You will find that using HPS (high pressure sodium) lamps, no inter-nodal stretching occurs in a vertical garden.

Fruit clusters and flowers are extremely heavy and compact. Yields are doubled and more, in hydroponic vertical gardens.