2.5 X 5 X 7.5H Space - 1000 Watts Baby!! Many Pics

So I have one small, successful grow under my belt and have decided to take everyone's advice and DIY grow room (space). I have a 2.5 X 5 ft area in my boiler room that's kept cool in the summer and comfortable in the winter, chilly 60-65 F.

You'll see the crawl space entrance where I plan to exhaust stale, hot air. The room is attached to my home office with a large window and intake fan. I plan on drawing in plently of fresh air via fans through the office.

I just recieved most of my supply's. I went with the 1000W MH/HPS switchable since I don't have the real estate yet for a seperate veg/mother. After I get this first grow going I will rig together some kind of mother/cloning/veg chamber. I figure if I can get the clones to 12 or 18" it will greatly reduce the time the plants will have to veg in the veg/flowering room.

I should have mentioned that I'll only be growing 6 plants at a time as this will keep me legal. Obviously, we're going for max yeild per plant here. The goal is 2 to 3 oz's per plant.

My vision is three Rubbermaid 18 gal bins, two 6" grow sites each, two 12" airstones for each bin (one airstone for each plant), and one large air pump to run six airstones. Large plants.

As this will only be my second grow I'm going to stick with DWC as it's simple and easy.

Is that small timer going to be OK controling a 1000w light and several fans? I don't know much about electicity so I hope I don't have any problems.

I'd love to hear suggestions or advice thus far

Doooooooood!! Looking good. You should be able to get it going pretty well

15 amp rating on the timer
120 volts X 15 amps = 1800 watt rating which is > than the light
you're good to go!

flamdrags420 said:

15 amp rating on the timer
120 volts X 15 amps = 1800 watt rating which is > than the light
you're good to go!

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Thanks, man

My water reads 350ppm out of the faucet. Is there anything I can do to make this water viable in a DWC set up? What are my options?

I saw your other grow with the cfls. Nice work. Im subscribed to this one. Just dont kill your plants on this one! haha j/k Im sure you learned plenty from the last one. Keep the pics commin

techtoker said:

I saw your other grow with the cfls. Nice work. Im subscribed to this one. Just dont kill your plants on this one! haha j/k Im sure you learned plenty from the last one. Keep the pics commin

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Will do, and thanks for the support

You have a completely botched up plan my man. I don't know if you came up with it on your own but if you didn't if it was someone else who steered you wrong you might want to kick them in the nuts.

You are not going to grow trees in that space with a 1kw light, you don't have the room. You can't veg plants more than 1.5' tall even if they're sitting on the floor because a few feet are used by the light, you'll run out of space. You'll run out of space in every direction in a heartbeat with a 1kw light in there, six plants will have to be trained in some form but I can't think of how at the moment, not quite awake.

When you grow a clone to 18" or whatever it's done vegging and it's going to double in size when flowered.

I understand you wanted the biggest light, but you aren't going to be able to take advatage of it at all until you get a larger space. You can use it, but it's just a 50% waste mostly.

Maybe I'll see this thread later and offer more constructive help when the brain works and I can think of the best way to use that space and that light. You need someone very familiar with 1kw lights and how plants will grow in that space with double the lumens most people use and on hydro. Never having quite attempted what you want I'm not the pro on it, but I can figure it out.

What up

I've been away for the holidays and just got back to my project. Here's the latest:

Hi All,

I promise this thread will get much more exciting when I'm up and running.

Here's my cloner/veg set-up that I made with a 10 gal Roughneck Rubbermaid bin, 2" net cups, two bubble wands, aluminum tape, and black spray paint.

I will also add two 12" airstones in the middle all run by a 10 watt commercial air pump. More pics to come...

Sorry, forgot the pics

looks good....ur going to hate changing that water..that always sucks...are u going to put mylar on the walls? also what strain?..good luck and peace..

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MEANGREEN69 said:

looks good....ur going to hate changing that water..that always sucks...are u going to put mylar on the walls? also what strain?..good luck and peace..

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There will be mylar, and strains will be - Feminized Snow White from Nirvana, Skunk #1, Tie X Skunk, and some Train Wreck bag seeds I got from a local dispensory here in Colorado. Will have pics and updates soon!!

I don't want to be a buzzkill but you may have a problem with heat as someone said on the first page. How much space do you have b/t the top of the rubbermaids and the bottom of your reflector? Could you tell me how you will be pushing air from the office(an open door or forced vent)? I have had some space/heat problems with two 600 Watt lamps in a slightly smaller area. The area is in my unheated garage so I image my ambient air temp is cooler. Look at my thread "40 inch height limit" (may be slightly different wording) it is in design/setup and indoor grow, I've had no response yet. Good luck.

drnkrssn said:

I don't want to be a buzzkill but you may have a problem with heat as someone said on the first page. How much space do you have b/t the top of the rubbermaids and the bottom of your reflector? Could you tell me how you will be pushing air from the office(an open door or forced vent)? I have had some space/heat problems with two 600 Watt lamps in a slightly smaller area. The area is in my unheated garage so I image my ambient air temp is cooler. Look at my thread "40 inch height limit" (may be slightly different wording) it is in design/setup and indoor grow, I've had no response yet. Good luck.

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There is a window about 15' opposite the grow area entrance. An intake fan will provide plenty of fresh air. There's also a standing fan blowing into the grow area from the office.

There's an exhaust fan inside the room blowing into a crawl space area.

There's two inline fans devoted to the light, one pushing and one exausting. I tested it yesterday and the exhaust is certainly letting off a lot of hot air, but the light is still giving off a lot of heat, too.

Total I have:

2 - 6" inline fans for the light.
1 - 9" exhaust fan in the room.
1 - 16" standing fan for pushing fresh air into the room from the office.
1 - 16" window intake fan pushing in fresh air from outside.
I may get one more small fan to help push the heat away from the light.

I have 5.25' of total growing height, but I don't plant on letting them get that tall. I'll probably use LST or SCROG.

Send me the link to your grow and I'll subscribe!!!

Here's some updates - I just transplanted seeds into rockwool to sprout. Hopefully 14 seeds will give me 6 female plants.

The seeds were germ'd using the "CD" method. Damp paper towels folded inside a CD case, wrapped in a clean t-shirt, and then placed on top of the cable box

Yeah sounds like you'll be ok, I'm just a little bummed about my situation and didn't want someone else to have the same problems. Do you use the office? Are you just going to open the door each night when the light comes on? I don't have a grow log but here's the link to my post.
https://www.rollitup.org/grow-room-design-setup/154131-40-inch-height-restriction.html

I picked up this guy on the internet - $129

The water read 0 ppm and 7.1 ph

12 hours gives me about 40 gals or pure, RO water

I finally got the two inline fans and ducting up, I also installed a new lock.