Back in the saddle again

Those are cool... Mini SCRogs... gotta look into those.

 

That makes sense. I laid out a 5 X 9 flower room along the back, and a veg room big enough for a 2 X 4 set-up, plus moms and clones. What's left will be work space and storage.

 

My room is 6.5 feet high and my plants flower out at about 4.5 feet. My lights are about 5 feet from the floor. You have plenty of room. Looking forward to your new set up. :redbong:

 

me too


Good to hear about the height. Thanks for looking in MGJ!

 

I would pull down about 1 1/4 to 1.5lbs from a 4 bucket recirculating system with a vertical 600....you could EASILY get 8-10oz from a 2 bucket system, offset another 2 bucket, I did that in a 4x4 homemade tent, panda film is a major help with concentrating a 600's abilities


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I just got some of the panda stapled up. I suck at that. I chucked the LT runt. Never rooted. The other 7 looking good but hungry. to the New New Friendly Farm.:thumbsup:





Filtered air intake to rooms 14"X22".





LT temporary home. Can't find the big MH yet. :jj:





This is going to be the veg area, with space for moms and clones to the right.


This is going to be a sink and counter with 55 gallon res to the right just before entering the flower chamber. Mounted above the sink will be the RO filter, fan controls, monitors, etc. COMMAND CENTRAL I need to insulate this wall, and probably should hang rock for noise reduction, but for now, panda will have to do.





This is a 600W quantum in a cool tube. The air is complicated. The box is a big muffler sitting on a rubber mat. There's an aged 6" can fan in there with bad bearings that hums like a MF. I repurposed the res chiller and hung the fan in the box, stuffed it with old (hopefully) clothes. Not too bad though audible to the trained ear in the floor above. It vents out into an 8" insulated duct that lead to the outside. Couldn't use the chimney hole for a variety of reasons. Box is on the floor because prior iteration on ceiling made WAY too much noise, being literally inches from the room above.

 

here we go


try this


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Been a long costly road so far


I have the buckets, and those bags ain't free! A little mesh in the hole in the bottom.


The heat issues are problematic. I have the filter up on a shelf near the ceiling now, but the filter needs to be cleaned and I need to replace the carbon. Granted it's over 80 outside and the room is small (approx. 130 cubic feet) and the light is big, and the hood is inefficient, and there's too much duct, and the fan is on it's last leg (bearing rattling), and I'm using one fan for both light cooling and air exchange. I thought I would get away with this - with just the MH going, and I just might for now, but I need to update my fan with an 8" vortex, which will be quieter and move more air. I already have 8" venting from the wall to the outside. Then I need to upgrade the cool tube to an 8" and the ducting for 8" as well. I also plan to draw fresh air from outside the rooms directly into the lighting, venting the lights separately from the air exchange. This will dispense with a filter in the system, and will draw air near the floor with a big outdoor-dryer-vent-looking-thing on it to hide its obvious functions and also draw air from along the bottom inch of the basement floor where theoretically it is coolest. Then I'll get a second fan with filters for each room. Since the second fan will just be for air exchange (and a little cooling) I don't need another big one, so I am thinking a 4" vortex will exchange the air in both rooms about every 3-5 minutes, which is fine for oxygen/CO2 exchange. I don't know how much cooling I'll need to get out of my air exchange (i.e not sure how efficient/effective my planned light cooling set-up will be, especially with lights going in the flower room) so maybe I'll need a second 8" fan to do air exchange too. Problem with going bigger is the commensurately larger ducting. Not sure how I can fit another 8" vent. And the larger expense for 8" stuff.


Anyway for now it's running too hot (79 or so about 22" below the light). It's OK for the plants, which are a few feet below that and probably significantly cooler. But I still need good water. I transplanted last night and gave then each a half gallon of water. Hope that was enough. Next priority task is hooking up the water tank and getting good RO water.


Anyway, as budget allows I'll be upgrading and working it all out. I need more lights, more fans, more runs to home depot, tables, etc. All in good time. At least I'm up and running. :thumbsup: We'll see how soon I can flip the switch.

 

Looking good for a work in progress. Once you get it dialed in you'll have a very nice little grow space there. Glad to see you back at it.

 

79 isn't bad. The canopy will be even cooler. I didn't check out the vid yet but the pictures sure look good.

 

Rooms coming along nicely! What Ofo said, big fans and keep the air moving. it makes all the difference. I need to go and buy a couple fans tomorrow. Hard to find the stand ups in the winter in the north east.


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