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A vert grow needs a blueprinted plan; shoulder width and lit height needs rule.Is a vertical setup "wasted" on shorter plants, or do you think this style of 12/12 short perimeter grow would benefit as much as just letting the plants grow out?
I can see high-density plants rooted under flat-panel lights timed at 12s, covering the entire lit area. Point-source lights' best use is vert. Over-vegged in a vert array is less regressive than flat, but extended bare stems are useless. Every light and light system has a sweet-spot, a 3D area. Your comparison grows should have(IMO) five plants, with fan(s) blowing down from out of the way. Five fatties LST'd flat vs four tall in a vert tent's corners with a week or two veg would be fair, IMO.
If you can handle the plant-count, flat SOG under high-flux LED may yield 14 or 20 half-ounce donks, varying with the strain. ie GWS yields 20 - 30% more than PX for me, but gross weight isn't the whole story. The trick to maxing yield is to fill the sweet-spot of whatever light, with buds. When the stretch is done, it's all about trichomes. Light-starve the fans and hit them with a Fiskar fist: they power root, stem, and seed-production. My vert plants are done with all that by 4 weeks. At two weeks, I don't want any more roots - got plenty for coir/hydro. I buy, not grow seeds. Enough is enough stem, more is too much.
That box should be used outside a window for kitchen herbs or table flowers