Indoor shelves and lighting

This is my current setup, all the plants are on the floor and they take a lot of horizontal space



Tried to organize it a bit vertically and ordered this from amazon, turned out to be a total joke, very flimsy and defective (how can they sell that sh*t?)



How do you manage to keep lights close to the plants and keep the setup compact? Any ideas will be appreciated.

No experience with doing things indoor but this setup looks really cool!

vktr said:

This is my current setup, all the plants are on the floor and they take a lot of horizontal space

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Tried to organize it a bit vertically and ordered this from amazon, turned out to be a total joke, very flimsy and defective (how can they sell that sh*t?)

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How do you manage to keep lights close to the plants and keep the setup compact? Any ideas will be appreciated.

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I bought a cheap miniature greenhouse off of Amazon, and just left the plastic cover off.
It's just flimsy plastic tubing and connectors, but, it's strong enough to hold seedling trays, small pots, and lights.
It also has a pretty small footprint.

I built my seedling shelf with scrap lumber and hang the lights with small chains easily cut with strong wire dikes (pliers/cutter). You could make an ok shelf with schedule 40 PVC and some plywood or use a wire "bakers rack".




The lights I'm using are inexpensive (not cheap) from Amazon. They've working good. The biggest complaint about them, however, is longevity. Some folks didn't get more than 2 years out of them. We'll see how we'll this investment turns out.