60 Plant Grow Setup
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mr.x007
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Might want to pick you up some box fans from walyworld, I'd say 3 or 4, trust me you want moving air almost all the time. maybe have 2 or 3 on the timers with the lights and have just one plugged in the wall to have on both lights on and off.
You've got some balls homie, to be taking on such a task being your first time. All of us will more than happy to help of course. Also might want to do some research on Co2, when you flower, and also pick you up some UV lights for flower, will make a world of difference!!! Good Luck
Mr.X
You've got some balls homie, to be taking on such a task being your first time. All of us will more than happy to help of course. Also might want to do some research on Co2, when you flower, and also pick you up some UV lights for flower, will make a world of difference!!! Good Luck
Mr.X
WOW, please dont slack and keep us updated. biggest detailed grow ive ever seen. and to see it with soil would be awesome. Im definitely watching this one, and taking everyones pointers. And 6 pounds at 3gs a piece. sounds nice and I wish you luck. and agreed, soil will give you huge plants, but slow. but very cool grow, love the pics trenton
Garden Knowm
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Nice SET UP TRENTON!!
daddychrisg
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You can have two/three crops in 5 1/2 months....I would make a veg room, and get another batch going right away...You are going to need some big time carbon filters, the house looks like it is in a track like setting...How are your neighbors? Maybe invest in a security system...I would get two more of those flood trays or better yet just get some 40mm plastic sheeting and build a frame. You are going to want to spread those ladies out...I would say that it would be better to grow 3' plants so that you can get the first batch into bloom right away, and start the second batch Veging, in a month you can toss the second batch into bloom, and do the same for the third...in 4 months you can have three harvests....GL
Oh' yeah, you will want to insulate in between the concrete floor and your buckets..You can get 4x8 hard board panels at Home Depot for about $20..
Oh' yeah, you will want to insulate in between the concrete floor and your buckets..You can get 4x8 hard board panels at Home Depot for about $20..
moler
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nice room m8ty, keep us updated, im well interested in seeing what you get, but i suggest you split it into 2 rooms, 1 1000w mh will be enought light to grow enought plants to fill a room lit by 3 1000w hps lights...have the trays side by side ( length ways ) and you cud do 15 stright into flower, whilst vegin another 15 for 2 weeks, then put them into flower, and start to veg another 15, put them into flower and start another 15 for 2 wks then flower, start another 15 and then flower....that way you get 15 plants every 2 weeks, and instead of gettin 60 in 5 1/2 months you cud get 135+ plants..... up to you tho m8ty....keep us up-to-date tho ok...
tokeythebear
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i like so far what are you going to sell the but and make back you money
LoganSmith
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Na....
He justs wants to toss a smoke party for everyone at riu.
I think 6lbs should cover it....
I'll get out the bongs
He justs wants to toss a smoke party for everyone at riu.
I think 6lbs should cover it....
I'll get out the bongs
kingpapawawa
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things you might want to put on the list...
r/o filter
ozone generator
lots of carbon =]
lots of fans!
r/o filter
ozone generator
lots of carbon =]
lots of fans!
trenton
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Here are some updated pics of what has been done today. Alot has been done. The Mylar is near finished. 3 Oscalating fans have been installed. All the lights have been wired (240 Volts of course) and are working perfect. The room is 100% light proof. (Exactly like a dark room for photos). Tomorrow I waill install the ducting for air cooled hoods with a carbon filter and exhaust fan as well as an intake fan on the bottom of the opposite side of the room. Please give more advice on ducting ideas. Thanks.
CALIGROWN
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well you want to pump air into the room at a low point..so i would say if you have a laundry room behind one of the walls in the garage i would cut a whole about 10 inches from the floor where you want the air to come in and have the outgoing air leaving the garage in a high spot..i would use the least amount of ducting as possible so your fans are not overstressed.
trenton
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Caligrown laundry room is right next to garage. I dont have dryer so I will use that dryer vent from the outside for my intake fan and run some duct into the grow room. This is at the bottom of the room and will be just perfect for intake. I am getting my 60 clone on friday so alot of work will be done tomorrow. Thanks.
stemseed
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You're gunna loose a lot of light around ur plants because the room is so big. I know it's frustrating but it would be 20x more effective if you hung mylar from the ceiling that will hang around your trays. (Edit: then you'd have to have fans blowing directly into both trays)
Looking good though. what kind of soil mix are you planning on using? And have you looked into nutes yet?
Stem
Looking good though. what kind of soil mix are you planning on using? And have you looked into nutes yet?
Stem
Mr. 420
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Just stumbled upon this post today....heres my constructive opinion..
First off that mylar since it isn't tacked up flat against the wall is going to be moving and bending when the fan blows which will cause HotSpots. (high concentration of light at different points, not a big worry.)
Also your running 4 1000watt lights which seems like no ducting for aircooling to exhaust your air out and I do believe California stays pretty warm. You should exhaust the air out or if not exhaust atleast have it setup to if it does get warmer..
Plus you do NOT want to go soil if your running 60 Plants. The reason I think so is because for one..
Your going to have to discard 60 pots worth of soil somewhere..
Your going to have to water those by hand which is going to be way to time consuming..(2minutes spent watering and plucking dead leaves, rotating plants etc... will equal 120 minutes or 2hrs almost everyday dedicated just to watering!! Toooo much work. this can be automated.)
Also your going to have to bring in enough bags of soil to fill up the pots..calculated its gonna take alot of bags plus it'll cost some money (dont know if you have a budget.)
And plenty more reason I'd rather not continue on...
Go HYDRO... Raise that tray up enough to fit a reservoir underneath it.. with that size tray and amount of Pots that'll soak up nutrients using Ebb and Flow method would just take way to much water to hold in your reservoir to be economical.
I would go with a Top Feed method with a Fish Pump from your reservoir to a mainline that has smaller lines out to each individual Pot..This way you could use a smaller reservoir cause nutrients will be recycled back to the reservoir. (Very easy to put together it'll take you less than an hour, and fairly cheap.)
Also if your thinking of Sea of Green Do take in considering that Yeah you'll pump out more...but you'll get it a little at a time...Also you'll end up being a slave in your own growroom cause it'll take alot of little jobs everyday to keep the cycle going. (cloning, vegging, transplanting, making different nutes for each thing, so on and so on I think anyone who has done it agrees it is tedious and can be time consuming where daily attention is important.)
If your going for the long haul like thinking your going to keep that grow room of yours for a year or so more than go for it. But if not, I'd suggest doing a few "big" crops.
Also I don't think you'll need to do 60 plants, thats alot.. I had a setup simliar to yours with 28plants and 4 1000watts and yielded 8 lbs dried bud. So your 6lb goal is WAY attainable.
Also dunno if Electricity is an issue but do consider that if you keep a veg room you'll use lets say
1000watt plus for lights and fans in veg room.
4000watts for lights
1000watts for random fans, pumps, dehumidifier, and whatever else..little things add up..
Thats over 6000watts plus whatever you use to live on in your house..Thats gonna be alot of juice your using so you might as well cut it down unless its not an issue..
You said you have Both bulbs MH and HPS, are those switchable ballasts? you can veg in the same room and them flip the lights and flower in there too that'll save you space but will be an excess of electricity..since plants are small you can veg all your plants under 1000watts then put them in there and flower it'll save you from wasting electricity...actually even a 600watt MH will pump out enough light to veg all your plants.. considering your going for small plants.. maybe (12-15inches in veg max i'm guessing)
Also looks like you have a flat ceiling you could of gone with a Light Mover and even got more plants or made more use of your space in there.
My advice grow lets say 40 plants veg them to about 20inches then flower and space them out you'll end up getting the same as if you did 60plants.
Do Hydro, put your pumps and everything on a timer so it'll water it when your not around..spend your free time doing something else...like getting stoned...haha.
Definitely get atleast a 125lb Charcoal Filter and Slap that in there to kill the smell a garage is not so insulated and smell WILL leak out and thats a security breach.
hmmm...can't think of anything else right now.. but I am sure I will.. Sorry for the long post looks like your trying to go for the gold so maybe this will help you out.
P.S. That room has Potential...
First off that mylar since it isn't tacked up flat against the wall is going to be moving and bending when the fan blows which will cause HotSpots. (high concentration of light at different points, not a big worry.)
Also your running 4 1000watt lights which seems like no ducting for aircooling to exhaust your air out and I do believe California stays pretty warm. You should exhaust the air out or if not exhaust atleast have it setup to if it does get warmer..
Plus you do NOT want to go soil if your running 60 Plants. The reason I think so is because for one..
Your going to have to discard 60 pots worth of soil somewhere..
Your going to have to water those by hand which is going to be way to time consuming..(2minutes spent watering and plucking dead leaves, rotating plants etc... will equal 120 minutes or 2hrs almost everyday dedicated just to watering!! Toooo much work. this can be automated.)
Also your going to have to bring in enough bags of soil to fill up the pots..calculated its gonna take alot of bags plus it'll cost some money (dont know if you have a budget.)
And plenty more reason I'd rather not continue on...
Go HYDRO... Raise that tray up enough to fit a reservoir underneath it.. with that size tray and amount of Pots that'll soak up nutrients using Ebb and Flow method would just take way to much water to hold in your reservoir to be economical.
I would go with a Top Feed method with a Fish Pump from your reservoir to a mainline that has smaller lines out to each individual Pot..This way you could use a smaller reservoir cause nutrients will be recycled back to the reservoir. (Very easy to put together it'll take you less than an hour, and fairly cheap.)
Also if your thinking of Sea of Green Do take in considering that Yeah you'll pump out more...but you'll get it a little at a time...Also you'll end up being a slave in your own growroom cause it'll take alot of little jobs everyday to keep the cycle going. (cloning, vegging, transplanting, making different nutes for each thing, so on and so on I think anyone who has done it agrees it is tedious and can be time consuming where daily attention is important.)
If your going for the long haul like thinking your going to keep that grow room of yours for a year or so more than go for it. But if not, I'd suggest doing a few "big" crops.
Also I don't think you'll need to do 60 plants, thats alot.. I had a setup simliar to yours with 28plants and 4 1000watts and yielded 8 lbs dried bud. So your 6lb goal is WAY attainable.
Also dunno if Electricity is an issue but do consider that if you keep a veg room you'll use lets say
1000watt plus for lights and fans in veg room.
4000watts for lights
1000watts for random fans, pumps, dehumidifier, and whatever else..little things add up..
Thats over 6000watts plus whatever you use to live on in your house..Thats gonna be alot of juice your using so you might as well cut it down unless its not an issue..
You said you have Both bulbs MH and HPS, are those switchable ballasts? you can veg in the same room and them flip the lights and flower in there too that'll save you space but will be an excess of electricity..since plants are small you can veg all your plants under 1000watts then put them in there and flower it'll save you from wasting electricity...actually even a 600watt MH will pump out enough light to veg all your plants.. considering your going for small plants.. maybe (12-15inches in veg max i'm guessing)
Also looks like you have a flat ceiling you could of gone with a Light Mover and even got more plants or made more use of your space in there.
My advice grow lets say 40 plants veg them to about 20inches then flower and space them out you'll end up getting the same as if you did 60plants.
Do Hydro, put your pumps and everything on a timer so it'll water it when your not around..spend your free time doing something else...like getting stoned...haha.
Definitely get atleast a 125lb Charcoal Filter and Slap that in there to kill the smell a garage is not so insulated and smell WILL leak out and thats a security breach.
hmmm...can't think of anything else right now.. but I am sure I will.. Sorry for the long post looks like your trying to go for the gold so maybe this will help you out.
P.S. That room has Potential...