Help me with grow box (room)

BlazeN

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Hey im in the middle of building my grow box and right now im sawing all the wood into the proper sizes, the hight of the area inside my grow box is 3' 4". i was just wondering what kind of yeild i would get from a plant that will fit in here. i know their may be variables to the strain but if you can just give me a range that would be fine, the box is 2' 7" deep, and approx 3'8" wide.

how many plants do you think i can get in it? agian a range is fine.

Thanks!

BlazeN
 
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Not sure i can help you because i'm not that experienced but it could help people if you tell them what type of lighting and what type of grow you will be running. Probably telling the strain will help as well.

Also depending on those variables you could lose some height from the lights taking up space and pots or hydro units raising the height of the plant. So your three feet will get pretty small rather quickly. I currently grow in two 3 foot high spaces and was losing head room quickly with only a 150w hps. To deal with this ive decided to go with vertical lighting and scroging vertically around the lighting. It might we something you want to look into depending on your set up. Good Luck
 
Not sure i can help you because i'm not that experienced but it could help people if you tell them what type of lighting and what type of grow you will be running. Probably telling the strain will help as well.

Also depending on those variables you could lose some height from the lights taking up space and pots or hydro units raising the height of the plant. So your three feet will get pretty small rather quickly. I currently grow in two 3 foot high spaces and was losing head room quickly with only a 150w hps. To deal with this ive decided to go with vertical lighting and scroging vertically around the lighting. It might we something you want to look into depending on your set up. Good Luck


well seeing as i posted in the cfl forum im going to be using cfl's :/ sorry i figured that would be a given.

as for the strains i have 3 options White widow, Train Wreck and Purple Haze. My neighbor grows and leaves seeds laying around all the time so im just gonna snatch some.

eventually i will get somthing that requires less growing space but for now its all i can get my hands on and its practice even if it fails.
 
well seeing as i posted in the cfl forum im going to be using cfl's :/ sorry i figured that would be a given.

as for the strains i have 3 options White widow, Train Wreck and Purple Haze. My neighbor grows and leaves seeds laying around all the time so im just gonna snatch some.

eventually i will get somthing that requires less growing space but for now its all i can get my hands on and its practice even if it fails.


Cool Cool i noticed that it was in the cfl forum. I was hoping for more of an amount of light in wattage. Sorry should have been more specific on my part ;).

Well cfl are nice i mean you shouldn't expect to get much with them. I only have experience growing with cfl once and it was my first grow ever. It was in one of those stealth rubbermaide tub growboxes. I used four 27 watt daylight (6500k) cfls. The plants were grown in miracle grow moisture control top soil as i didn't want to have to try hard growing them or watering them. I grew from seed. Ended up with four girls. Total grow time was three months. 1 month veg, 2 months flower. Now dont laugh but my final weight dry was around 1/4 oz from all four plants. You have to understand that i wasn't trying hard, I used just tap water no nutrients, never transplanted to bigger pots, and it was on a whim that i started growing and was growing just for the pure novelty of it.

But as far as using the cfls and random headie seed for practice, i totally agree. They were a wonderful learning experience and really inspired me to go bigger and better. Keep in mind that you're going to have to pack a ton of cfl wattage into that space to get anything worth while. That will pose a heat problem so make sure you're ventilation is well planned and efficient.

A little fact that you maybe could use: CFL lights have a general running temperature of 142 f. I dont rememeber the physics right now but you could look up the formulas for convection of heat through air and figure out what sort of heat signature you will be looking at once you know how many lights you will be using and can plan youre ventilation accordingly.

If i remember correctly theres a formula posted around here thats something like wattage of light x ambient room temperature / the temperature youre shooting for.. haha i know thats not right at all but search for something like that. its a lot simpler formula to work with than trying to figure out the physics. So i recommend looking for that formula.

I hope i helped some with my limited experience. Good luck.
 
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