New room!?

hey guys things have been fairly well so far but I realized I need much more space than anticipated. My current room is 6x12 with a door right in the middle of the 12'wall.

I started with 6 plants on each side. Seemed to make sense but I wanted all the plants to benefit from both lights instead of just one so I crammed them all into one half of the room. 3 rows of 4 plants in a 6' wide room is way to tight.

In the back of the shed I have a second section that I'm planning on building up now. It's 8x20. My thought is on the left side maybe 4x8 make a small veg room then the remaining doing 3. 3x3 flood tables against the long remaining wall. This will leave about 6' against the long wall for a resivour and whatever else I manage to squeeze in there.

The size of the shed originally is 12x20 with an 8x20 addition I added. The added portion is in the back and is much less obvious to anyone. Walk in the front doors or even just standing inside won't cause much suspicion.

I would LOVE any advice or criticism please. I hate to do shit twice never mind make a mess the second time. I'm also currently doing autos by the way. New to growing and they just seem easy for noobs. Maybe I'll draw a picture of my plans and add it

6 feet by 12 feet is larger than the area I use for summer growing. My area is 7.5 feet wide by 10 feet long using 2 x 600w de HPS lamps. I just so happen to have 12 plants in there. So you understand my actual room size is 15 wide by 19 long but I built walls using 1x4 planks and mylar to bounce light back, small gaps are low near floor for air.

In the past I have used many size rooms including 5 x 8 feet. My experience is with such a small room you need to use a/c even when the temps are below 72f. But with my large room / fake wall approach I have a huge volume of air so I need no cooling until it hits 72F sustained outside. Then I have to seal her up and run a/c

Yes I agree. My smaller room now the Ac seems to run pretty steady. I'm running 2 1000 watt LEDs that draw 720 watts at the wall. I just hooked up co2 so the outdoor venting is down and Ac is now cranking.

I'm a builder by trade not an architect lol. My wife just laughed at me calling me a dork while I sat here drawing away.

My thoughts might be way off but I'm also sort of limited. Flood tables drained to the outdoors for easy feeding and flushing.
75 gallon resivour with heater, air stone and halo for simpler feeding
Co2 plumbed to pvc right above the plants.
2 oscillating fans on opposing wall.
Dehumidifier in farthest corner opposite veg room
2 1000 watt kind led grow lights
2 600 watt Mars hydro veg lights
Medium sized window Ac in opposing wall

The open or free space should be around 4 1/2 feet x 16' which should hopefully be enough for working. Re-potting, staring at plants, day dreaming all that good stuff.

I have the majority of the material at my shop already. Roxul insulation, moisture resistant drywall. It's just up to me making time this weekend.

No one likes my art

It looks really great and using LED you might not face the heat issues I deal with, I am shopping led also finally. I love a well designed room I built out my first room much like yours, actually like your design better. I do run co2 from tank in summer 4 burner natural gas winter but I never bothered with distributing it evenly I didn't even realize that was a thing. By the way a cheating way to exchange air with veg is with a 40 dollar booster 6 inch inline fan and 3 elbows painted black inside. If you run out of energy for running pvc. I might try your idea with piping my co2.

Don't forget piping the dehumdifier outside I didn't see you note that. As a stoner I have noticed I can't remember stuff too well lol I am excited to see you succeed. By the way I don't run co2 when temps are perfect outside only when they are not. Burner in the winter helps warm the room with a bonus, in the summer I need that extra 5 degrees. I want top shelf bud cured to perfection for the least possible cost. I do love your art!

Great idea with the 3 elbows! And shit yes I did forget to write in dehumidifier drain. That's crazy that we are so much alike. Top shelf at the cheapest price is what I have been standing by.

I also spent many hours thinking about the co2 when temps are fair. I just haven't grow enough or more importantly seen how my tiny room will react to different things like this addition.

Before LEDs I had run my outside ducting through a Y fitting. One vent pipe went through the charcoal filter and the other went through the light to outdoors. Since outdoor air was to cold Recently I had a damper to slow down the air flow through the light which then sucked more air through the carbon filter. This way I wouldn't chill the bulb as much. This was as much fun as functional. I just wanted to clean things up and LEDs did just that. They still smoke me with heat though. Fans distribute it better so it's less noticeable up close but the Ac keeps running.

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Wow old thread. Forgot I even made it. Well it's 4 months later and the rooms pretty f-ing sweet. My few guests are loving it as much as I do. 4 months later I'm on my third round of autos. First Harvest was just over 3.5 lbs. these in flower now aren't doing so hot so I'm assuming much less and have some mephisto right behind them as seedlings