instead of separate water and energy cables you could use the universal pipes from the pipez mod to save space so in future you give give them all phyto-gro. I have also found that using the 2x1 drawer and having the phytogenic insulator auto output and input from it allowed me to not need the cyclical upgrade. The only issue is having to keep one slot empty for the seed to go into.
Never thought about using the universal pipes at all but i will look into those and i do plan on switching to the 2x1 drawers and i do also plan on using the phyto-gro once i have everything to make them but thank you for the idea