Harold's Rental Indoor!

Hi,

I had a stealth cab in the works and came to the conclusion that year round growing in a cab that would be detectable, wouldn't be behind locked doors, small yield, fire hazard.. would just be too problematic.. so why not go big.

My landlord is required to contact me by call/text before he even comes and rings my bell.
The apartment has a bedroom which the kitchen is also located in, a bathroom and a small entrance room.

If someone were to enter my apartment without consent.. a locked door separating the bed room and entrance would keep anyone out.. as only I have the key. I can collapse my tent and move all of my equipment and plants to another location if need be due to maintenance, inspection, etc.

My grow would consist of the following:
- Grow tent (1.2m x 1.2m x 2 meter)
- 120W LED (equivalent to a 400w HPS)
- Carbon Filter
- S&P TD-Silent (20db)
- ONA
- Insulated Ducting

Fan & filter size, strain & plant count, grow style & pot size are still unknown at this time. Help.

The reason for this thread is simply for the fact that I would really like to receive any type of advice, opinions, suggestions or hear from people who have grown on rental property and any obstacles/solutions they have come across along the way. Thanks for the read!

Welcome Harolds, sounds like you have a pretty good plan so far, I personally wouldn't grow in an apartment but if you think you can manage inspections/work orders good luck.

Only thing that sticks out in your equipment plan is the LED light. Sounds like you've been reading ChineseLED marketing hype. 120W of any Chinese LED light might equal 250W hps if you're lucky. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against LED's and use them for vegging. But some advice from experience and a lot of monitoring of LED grows here, stick with some of the top brands if you go with LED's as your sole light source, some may even match that 400w hps, like an RW-150 from Area 51. The most documented and good production small scale grows with LED's are Apache, Area 51, Onyx, Hans, and DIY 3070 COB LED's. There are some others but sparse or little detail on grows yet. If you haven't bought your light, might be worth looking around the LED forum here. Cheers...

GroErr said:

Only thing that sticks out in your equipment plan is the LED light. Sounds like you've been reading ChineseLED marketing hype.

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Hey! Yeah I've read alot of mixed reviews about LED's. Unfortunately those brands are not available in my country, and my electrical skills definitely won't cut it if I were to attempt a LED DIY. I emailed the company that puts together the 120W LED I had my eye on.. they are assembled in china and tested for quality here.. I think I'll go with some more traditional lights.

I am not too familiar with MH, HPS, etc.. I would need one for veg, one for flower that fit the same reflector. Does it need to be aircooled?

Harolds said:

Hey! Yeah I've read alot of mixed reviews about LED's. Unfortunately those brands are not available in my country, and my electrical skills definitely won't cut it if I were to attempt a LED DIY. I emailed the company that puts together the 120W LED I had my eye on.. they are assembled in china and tested for quality here.. I think I'll go with some more traditional lights.

I am not too familiar with MH, HPS, etc.. I would need one for veg, one for flower that fit the same reflector. Does it need to be aircooled?

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Yeah, you'd need to beef up your cooling/exhaust setup for regular MH or HPS. If you're considering those, check out my signature/thread, I just ran these Philips Elite Agro CMH bulbs as a test and they have the benefits of LED's (low draw, low heat etc.) but with the benefits of HPS for flowering/yield. You can go with one 4200k bulb right through veg/flower or use the 4200k for veg and a 3100k for flowering (better imo) in the same fixture/setup. They're a little more pricey than hps initially, but they'll match a 600w hps for yields in a 3x3' footprint, yet only draw between 350-385w total including ballast, less heat than a 400w hps, no need for cooling them, not much more heat than my LED panels I use for vegging.