I would continue the same style I do in my grow now with peat, pebbles and vermiculite, dump it in cut up trash bag plastic on the floor or upgrade to wood cause I like wood more than plastic. Then I would use many beer bottles connected in series and ceramic spikes all over the place. Same as I do now but on a larger scale.Hello all. I’ve been foaming at the mouth waiting on some... extra income around this seasonso now that it will be on the way soon, I’m about to set up a grow, finally. I have an entire room to play with here. Like 10.5 feet x 11.5 feet plus a 2ft x 5ft closet. I guess I’m so stuck on all of you and your grows and information, I want to know what everyone would do with that space. Maybe keeping budget in mind. But I have ample free time. And plan to take care of my grow as much as it’s possible personally. So more layout ideas. Sea of green with tons of small plants? Soil? Raised beds? I just want to hear amy minds opinion on this. Maybe just 6 plants in a corner. Whatever. You have time, you have means, and you have an entire room. What do you do??
I’ve been learning from you all for months, I want input!!!!
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The first thing you need to do is determine how much electricity capacity you have. With a room that large you will need several circuits to handle the inrush current for lighting, pumps, heaters and fans. Get an electrician involved and maybe even install a sub-panel in the room. Do not forget a smoke detector for the room. Then when you have the amperage available to you we can look at what fits.
At the scale you may be working with, also get a good CO2 or other fire extinguisher. And maybe also add a flame-type, often photoelectric-based, vs. just a smoke detector, with these usually ionization detection-based. Each type can more rapidly detect certain types of fires much faster than the other.
Thank you I’ll look into that tomorrow. I’ve been wondering just how much electricity even “high efficiency” things take To run. I started off assuming that if I learned to do all of the things manually that all these electronics do these days, I could sort of put electricity use on the back end. I think what I’m thinking about it going to be a little much for my house though. Maybe not the space, I have plenty. But for the electrical system it may be. I’ll be looking into this ASAP thank you. I can’t wait to hear your ideas when I get a number for you.
I hope I don’t sound too green with this response, but I honestly dont know what this means. The only beer bottles coming to mind are the beer cup challenges lol. Making me wonder if that’s what you grow in? Maybe I’m just not used to the lingo at all. That’s fair too. I want to know what you were thinking tho when you replied. I’m soaking it all right now!
A whole room... Now that could be fun.
0ne suggestion I can make is to set things up physically so that you have good access to plants without moving them much. With that kind of space, you should be able to make maintenance of plants really easy.
If budget is a significant issue and you are up to a bit of wiring, have a look at the LEDs I put together in my signature grow. Even with my screwups, and with two smaller plants in my 24C's I came somewhere in the neighbourhood of 1g/watt used. I would have done better than that if I hadn't been pushing the light and nutes too hard. If you do set up screw ins, you could do panels of 6 bulbs each, and use 1 panel per large plant. Maybe 4 bulbs per plant would also work given the results some growers here are getting with single COBS. Using 15 bulbs per panel as I did was excessive, other than allowing adjustment of K by unscrewing bulbs without actually changing them.
Anyway, it looks as though you are in for some entertaining gardening time. Happy Growing!
I went and poked around your signature grow today also. (By poked around I mean I know damn near everything on there). That was amazing. I see the correlation from your explanation of the lights and your grow journal now. I’m itching to build every single part of this myself. I’m going to look into what electricity is available to me before I make any plans. But I may need a few pointers from you if I do go with the screw ins. I want simple as I’m a simple dude. But if I can build any of this stuff myself, I will. That’s SIMPLY better to me thank you for keeping up!!
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In a quality grow space real lights are a must. Yes you can DIY them but they still need to have a lot of output. Screw ins would be a waste of money. You would be better off just doing one section at a time. But the amount of power you have to work with will be a determining factor. Don't buy anything until you know what that will be.
Thanks for the input. I was sort of thinking the same thing-while considering diy-I was looking into different kinds of lighting people haven’t used yet. However confident as I am in my own brain power, I can’t imagine there are lights out there that real growers don’t know about. Also, on that same subject, is there any sort of light to regular home appliance comparison you can make? Like for instance do you know what a microwave takes to run compared to a light? Section by section may be the way I’m leaning anyways. I’m just thinking I’m going to build out my whole grow space then use one 4x4 at a time. If the first goes well I’ll move on to two. Should I still put the effort into all the amp capacity and such right now lol f I take that route? Or do you think maybe one nice grow light and ventilation for that space would be good in a home without worry? (Side info that may or may not be important-the room I’m using is on its own fuse thru my main fuse box). Thanks so much for the help everyone!!
This is the tentative layout at max capacity of the room I’m dealing with. There are 4 solid 4x4 sections, and 3 smaller sections from 9-14 ft squared. I will build out the room first, hopefully I can start next week. My plan right now is to start In the 4x4 at the top left of the diagram, and work my way around the room if everything goes well. The only thing I really do with my friends is smoke the stuff and make fun of each other. My goal is to have a full operating room in this space within the year you guys. (If I could figure out the electricity part, I hope to be able to use my entire basement eventually also. I have way too much time on my hands and I cannot garden outdoors all year. It’s cold here . Just trying to keep anyone looking kind of up to date with my thought process. I appreciate you all I just want you to know!! Also sorry about the makeshift blueprint. I just threw the numbers together to give a small visual. (The flooring will be started with 4’ x 8’ rigid foam board.) I can’t wait to build it all out and work into the space. you guys are already my best and maybe only friends. Thanks so much. Haven’t stopped soaking in stuff yet. Just waiting on the funds and I’ll be balls to the wall
