My Grow Ops

dray86man · Sep 25, 2012

Just finished my grow operation design and construction. I'm fortunate to have plenty of space, so I went w/ two rooms; one for clones or raising mother plants, and the other for bloom.

Here's the Clone Room; a simple 5' X 5' closet equipped w/ 2 125W CFLs and a 44" T5 fixture. Currently housing one of the mother plants for isolation while treating mites. Ventilation is w/ a Thru Wall fan purchased from Home Depot:

Here's the exterior of the main grow room:

Electrical Center:

View of interior. Room is about 6.5' x 14' x 7.5' high:

Interior showing lighting system: 1000W digital ballast (MH/HPS combo) w/ Adjust A Wing reflector and Light Rail mover:

Interior of main grow room:

Plant food system; gravity fed plumbed w/ PVC through the wall:

Consists of 32 gallon trash barrel fitted w/ a hose bib:

Delivered w/ a wand w/ shutoff valve:

Exhaust is 6" Can Fan, three speed:

Intake is same:

6" Can Fan, three speed

Will clone mother plants in about two weeks, raise them in the Clone Room, then veg and bloom in the main room.

SFguy · Sep 25, 2012

looks good man glad to be the first in.. who ran all your electrical work? DIY?? im subbd up and i think your gonna need more lights eventually man but its off to a grrreat start and im sure u have some white panda plastic/ or refletix for the walls check out my thread i have alot of pics in there youll probably have to dig a little though cause its like 60 pages

I have a light rail too, and i think your mother is ready for clones now lets go lets go lets go i have 18 (soont to be 30) clones rooted in 7-8 days time

SupaM · Sep 25, 2012

I'm in too brotha. Very nice setup you have. Can't wait to see you fill it in!! How do you like the max fans? I've been eyeballing them since they came out... I also agree with SF, you will eventually need another light for that 14' length, maybe trolley another on your mover down the line. Definitely love the separate rooms. Are you vegging in the main room due to space, or light? I use a light mover in my veg area, btw....and love it.
ATB!

Clown Baby · Sep 25, 2012

max fans are boss. Nice looking room.

dray86man · Sep 25, 2012

SFguy said:
looks good man glad to be the first in.. who ran all your electrical work? DIY?? im subbd up and i think your gonna need more lights eventually man but its off to a grrreat start and im sure u have some white panda plastic/ or refletix for the walls check out my thread i have alot of pics in there youll probably have to dig a little though cause its like 60 pages

I have a light rail too, and i think your mother is ready for clones now lets go lets go lets go i have 18 (soont to be 30) clones rooted in 7-8 days time

Thanks !

Did the electric myself, and designed the timer to control the 240V ballast AND the exhaust fans and light mover. For me, electric was THE easiest part of the whole project.

Don't think I'll add another light; should be good to grow about 24 in three gallon containers.

Painted the room w/ flat white paint, per Jorge's Bible.

dray86man · Sep 25, 2012

SupaM said:
Very nice setup you have. Can't wait to see you fill it in!! How do you like the max fans? I've been eyeballing them since they came out... I also agree with SF, you will eventually need another light for that 14' length, maybe trolley another on your mover down the line. Definitely love the separate rooms. Are you vegging in the main room due to space, or light? I use a light mover in my veg area, btw....and love it.
ATB!

Thanks !

Love the Max Fans. I do a bit of industrial ventilation design engineering, and they were THE only fan I could find that was AMCA rated; the fan curve is right on the box in you're familiar with that sort of thing (means their fan WILL perform as advertised, basically):

http://www.amca.org/

Don't plan on using the entirety of the 14" length, just what I can fit under the 6' of light rail travel...maybe about 24 in three gallon containers.

Yes, I am vegging in the main space. Ballast is dual, dimmable 1000W.

dray86man · Sep 25, 2012

Clown Baby said:
Nice looking room.

Thanks ! !

yes, max fans rule.

SFguy · Sep 25, 2012

well cool, im no electrical guy, i dont thinks its hard but my cousin ran my whole room from a 30A breaker, i have read a tutorial on building one of the heavy duty timer boxes but just havnt yet, i use a few pin style timers one for my 1000 and 1 hooked to a strip for my mover and 2x600's my 6" vortex exausts my lights and i have a 8k btu portable ac unit both running 24/7

how many cfm's is that max fan?

dray86man said:
Thanks ! !

yes, max fans rule.

SFguy · Sep 25, 2012

heres an old room from my 1k on a 6ft rail. i think it was 25-30 in there in 1g pots with the bottoms cut off and set in 3 g pots pulled about a # + a couple oz. from that

SFguy said:
mine is 10 inches right now dimmed to 60% and could be dropped on top w/o burning, but i wanna letem acclimate, i just pulled almost a # from the last grow, heres some old pics to reminisceView attachment 2002401 View attachment 2002402 View attachment 2002403 View attachment 2002408 View attachment 2002407

dray86man · Sep 25, 2012

SFguy said:
heres an old room from my 1k on a 6ft rail. i think it was 25-30 in there in 1g pots with the bottoms cut off and set in 3 g pots pulled about a # + a couple oz. from that

Over a pound ?

:bigjoint:

Gives me much to look forward to.

tnx

SupaM · Sep 25, 2012

Also digging the watering wand and res. I have been trying to figure out how to incorporate the same in my indoor setup, without using a pump. How well does the gravity feed work? Does it have to be full? ATB!

dray86man · Sep 26, 2012

SupaM said:
Also digging the watering wand and res. I have been trying to figure out how to incorporate the same in my indoor setup, without using a pump. How well does the gravity feed work? Does it have to be full? ATB!

Gravity fed system works great !

No, it doesn't have to be full. Just get the reservoir as high off the ground as possible. Mine works stacked on top of 8 cement blocks. It's a 32 gallon container that works just fine w/ only 10 gallons of solution in the tank.

SupaM · Sep 26, 2012

Thanks I've got a 55 gal rain catcher already plumbed I may use. ATB!

Jaza · Sep 26, 2012

Nice fucking set-up! Absolutely love it!!!

dray86man · Sep 27, 2012

Making the babies this weekend ! ! Will be sure to post more pics.

ottomatik · Sep 27, 2012

Bad ass! Now that's how it's done. subbed! :clap:

SFguy · Oct 2, 2012

SFguy said:
a sump pump and a 25 gal garbage can with a squiggly hose and watering wand

VERY SIMPLE, LESS THEN $100
COMES OUT EASY
i dont have the handle sprayer anymore, i have a long watering wand now to reach into the back

heres how i have my watering setup done too... really similar to yours

dray86man · Oct 5, 2012

SFguy said:
heres how i have my watering setup done too... really similar to yours

How's the pump behave w/ the wand or spinkler head to on/activated? Too much pressure build up? I was considering this EXACT set up, yet thought the pump might be a bit too powerful and build too much pressure.

Glad it works ! !

dray86man · Oct 15, 2012

THIS describes my first cloning attempt; the babies are now in the main grow room.

JayJammer · Oct 15, 2012

Nice setup man. :eyesmoke:

How are you running your veg/bloom schedule?

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