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Okay, here's the challenge:
Bedroom floor space is 7 x 9 feet (except for the alcove with the door, but we're not including that). Ceiling is about 8 and a half feet up. One 7 foot wall is free. Less than 3 feet away from the free wall is my queen bed, which takes up the entire room, save for the roughly 7 x 3 ft strip of floor that is basically just for walking from the bed to the door. Opposite the free wall is a large south-facing window, but because the bed is where most of the sun shines, I think supplemental light is needed.
So, plants can only go on the walls. I have a narrow built-in ledge at about head height that wraps around the room, and I have various schemes in mind for wall-mounted planters. I want to cram as many plants into my bedroom as possible, so that I'm essentially enclosed in four walls of plant life. A cozy, outside nature cave you could say.
I could get a bunch of one or two bulb T5 fixtures and run them along the walls, but this is really only going to allow me to arrange my plants in a straight line, at one height. Boring. I've got that look going right now along one wall, with succulents under the light sitting on the ledge. It's not ideal.
Am I crazy and stupid enough to think that in such a small space, it might be possible to do some kind of HID setup mounted to the ceiling that would cast light far enough to hit all the walls?. Or maybe two in a couple corners, perhaps angled toward the walls to increase the viable planting area? My issue with the T5s is that they must be placed so close to the plants, which really messes up the aesthetic. Even though HID setups are also ugly, they could be placed near the ceiling where it doesn't matter as much.
I know the reasonable thing to do would be to limit my plant selection to species that do well in lower light, but I'm quite simply not reasonable. If I can get even a few areas of wall space sufficiently lit, I could use low light plants in the darker areas and still have some flexible space for succulents and such.
Any thoughts?
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Bedroom floor space is 7 x 9 feet (except for the alcove with the door, but we're not including that). Ceiling is about 8 and a half feet up. One 7 foot wall is free. Less than 3 feet away from the free wall is my queen bed, which takes up the entire room, save for the roughly 7 x 3 ft strip of floor that is basically just for walking from the bed to the door. Opposite the free wall is a large south-facing window, but because the bed is where most of the sun shines, I think supplemental light is needed.
So, plants can only go on the walls. I have a narrow built-in ledge at about head height that wraps around the room, and I have various schemes in mind for wall-mounted planters. I want to cram as many plants into my bedroom as possible, so that I'm essentially enclosed in four walls of plant life. A cozy, outside nature cave you could say.
I could get a bunch of one or two bulb T5 fixtures and run them along the walls, but this is really only going to allow me to arrange my plants in a straight line, at one height. Boring. I've got that look going right now along one wall, with succulents under the light sitting on the ledge. It's not ideal.
Am I crazy and stupid enough to think that in such a small space, it might be possible to do some kind of HID setup mounted to the ceiling that would cast light far enough to hit all the walls?. Or maybe two in a couple corners, perhaps angled toward the walls to increase the viable planting area? My issue with the T5s is that they must be placed so close to the plants, which really messes up the aesthetic. Even though HID setups are also ugly, they could be placed near the ceiling where it doesn't matter as much.
I know the reasonable thing to do would be to limit my plant selection to species that do well in lower light, but I'm quite simply not reasonable. If I can get even a few areas of wall space sufficiently lit, I could use low light plants in the darker areas and still have some flexible space for succulents and such.
Any thoughts?
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