The Project

I'm lucky enough to have a 40sqm space where I can go nuts.

It's a 10x4m area at the back of a 200sqm shed. I've run power to the shed and have installed the sub board and I've got the shed gpo's installed. Including two dedicated 15a circuits, 3 power circuits (one dedicated to the grow area + rain water tank), and two lighting circuits.

The 10*4 area will be behind a wall, with a work shop (wood + metal fab) in front of it.

I'm currently playing with insulation ideas with sound dampening in mind as well. The work shop will be lined with lots of storage which creates good opportunity for stealth entrance.

The shed entrances are all at one end which actually works well to disrupt depth perception which I think will only be enhanced by the internal workshop. I've checked depth perception by placing objects where the internal wall will go, then standing in the doorway and glancing along the inside and outside of the wall. Even in it's current open state you would find it hard to perceive the objects where the internal wall will be are not at the back of the shed, so I think this will work very well once the workshop is in.

I'm interested to hear other people's ideas, thoughts on the layout I've drawn up. I am considering two separate 2x1 meter flower chambers, a 2x1 meter mother/veg chamber, and a 1x1 pollen chucking changer just for experimenting basically.

I've thrown in some furniture as well. A fridge for storage/drinks, a TV, a trimming desk (cause that can be laborious) and a couch in case I need to have a break

It's going to take me some time to collect material and finish constructing but in the mean time I've got a 2x1 homebox tent to throw a few grows through. I'm planning on a mediumless flood and drain style grow which will be a bit of an experiment, but I'll be able to turn it into a flood and drain dwc if needed.

This will be a slow thread, but hopefully I can return with some updates frequently enough to keep you entertained

Dawg.

Oh my! I'd go nuts if I had that much space. Lol how much height, veg on racks less footprint.

ScroteCombover said:

Oh my! I'd go nuts if I had that much space. Lol how much height, veg on racks less footprint.

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Hey mate, yeah it's hard not to go nuts actually, but I think I want space in there to walk around as well. Hence the orientation of the flower chambers. Enough to access the back of a tent. The Veg/mother tent I don't think I'll need access to the back so that go up against the wall. But it was very tempting not to go overboard. I ran 25mm2 3 phase 240v to the shed so there is enough power there, but the power points are standard 2.5mm cable and I didn't want to go too big and have to run a separate circuit. It already has a dedicated circuit (disguised as a circuit for two outdoor sockets that probably won't ever get used). So yes if I went too nuts I'd also have to go nuts on lighting which I don't think I'll need. I've had large grow areas before. I built a 3x1.5m room years ago and ran that for the better part of 5 years, but besides that I have only had a single 2x1 tent at a time. This will be the first time I'll have 4x1 dedicated flower and 2x1 veg/mother. I'm really looking forward to having a place for mother's. In the past I've lost something very special which I stumbled upon with an accidental White Russian x soma amnesia Haze. With this set up all new seeds popped will remain mother's until final smoke reports come in. That one I lost, it's been about 16/17 years and I still get asked if I am ever getting that back. But it was a 1 in a million and never coming back. All other seeds were so, so different as is the case with a first generation, but I don't want that to ever happen again! It didn't look special at all through flowering, but when it was drying, every day I inspected it I would notice more and more large water drop sized dots of oil. At first I thought it was "sap" because it was so large, but I looked at one under the microscope when they kept coming and I could see a ruptured trichome. Literally bursting with oil all over the girl. Very small yield but oh my god, a smoke like you wouldn't believe. I'll never get anything like that again but that's the reason I also want a pollination chamber. Just to throw my own pollen around occasionally and generate some of my own unique genetics and then maybe backcross it. Hey, it's a hobby.

Height is about 4m as well. That's a 2.4m ladder in the picture. When I go to the top I can't reach the center of the roof, but at the edges I can just get there. Pretty hairy trying to do things up that high so I'm going to buy a mobile scaff, or hire one, possible a small scissor lift to install insulation on the steel roof. But yes, height won't be an issue either. It will probably be wasted, but I can build shelving up the wall and use the height for storage.