What's would your dream grow garage look like?

Carolina Dream'n said:

You have one Ac for two rooms. Usually about 50% smaller than you would if all the lights were in one room. It only has to cool half the lights at one time, therefore it doesn't need to be as big.
Saving of over $1000.

Circulation fans aren't going to change much. Not a valid point.

Two sets of timers for the lights, yes. One master controller for each room. Extra $500 bucks that you saved in AC.

Yes you'll need two co2 gens or tanks. Extra $300.

Humidity control, I don't like one dehumidifier for large rooms anyway, no failsafe. So no extra cost to use 1 in each small room vs 2 in big room.

You can run 50% more lights using flip flop as you can with one room. Let's say you have 100 amp service, and want to run 8000 watts.

You can put all 8 in one room 40 amp.
Ac to cool it 30 amp.
Dehumidifier 5 amp.
Your at 75 amps (maxed out)

Two rooms with 6000 in each. 30 amp
AC to cool it an other room 30 amp. Dehumidifier for both rooms. 10 amp.
Total amount running at one time- 70 amps.

Meaning people with limited power, flip flops is actually a lot better because of the split power usage.

The same 100amp service that can only run 8000w in one flower room, could do 12000w in two flip flop rooms.


You won't catch me dead using a tent. Rooms need to be insulated and have dedicated power to them.

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justugh said:

u did not account for the refraction off the tent walls ......that will increase the over all amount and lower the total fluffy amount

and that is the room running on 220/240 for 30 amps
on 110 u are looking at about 11.2 amp start up and then 8 amp running

so have u account for the power box need main breaker of the 220/240 and then a sub panel for the 110

and again i would change out the HIDS for LED for lower power cost and heat build up with increased depth penetration

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projectinfo said:

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Pic from hightimes magazine

Op here.

So this is the setup I'm looking at now
Drain to waste. Probably in coco. except I think I'll need cool tubes to control the heat but winter is coming I'm in Canada.

I have the 25000 btu window ac I told you guys about and I'm thinking all medium plants like the pic

I can do upto 25 plants and my temporary shed dimensions are 22x9 so it's rectangle until I get my big one going in the spring
I can go higher than 8 feet if I need to. Any height suggestions and any heat suggestions. Maybe make it two rooms?

How many lights could I throw in there?

And yes I will be building custom insulated partitions if need be. And painting to seal the room proper

The window shaker ac unit. It would be fine to use with co2 right? As far as I can find they just recirculate the air in the room and exhaust the hot coils outside right?

Also I am putting dedicated 220 for my two 4k light controllers each and the ac is 220 and a few 110lines

Also the power goes out once in a blue moon here too so I'm getting a generator panel and 5k generator to run heat and a light or two in emergency in the room

Also I have a 200 amp panel and I'm barely using any of it. mini home

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Carolina Dream'n said:

Simple, easy effective.

Split the shed into two 9ft long 6 ft wide flower rooms. 6 315s in each room. Crop wall to wall. Quest 105 dehumidifier in each. Blueprint master controller with fuzzy logic. Co2 tank. 18k btu minisplit. Run the rooms flip flop.

Veg room 4 ft long 6 ft wide. 9k mini split. 1-2 315s.

One outdoor condenser. 36,000 btu with three heads (18k,18k,9k)

DTW using octabubblers and floraflex caps with rockwool in 3x6 flood trays. Ionic Bloom from start to finish. One bottle.

Dry in one flower room while vegging in the other to let plants acclimate to light increase from original veg room.

9 week strain will be a 10 week turn around after drying for a week.

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projectinfo said:

Is is there possibly another design that I could make my window unit work. I've already got it so

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projectinfo said:

Yeah that's off hightimes . Just an example. I'm open to ideas . I was originally thinking 1000x3 hps in each room in cool tubes

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rkymtnman said:

i would think that with cool tubes you'd be fine with a 25k AC.

i used to use a 600hps in a cool tube and i could put my hand about a half inch from the tube.

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projectinfo said:

Nice I figure I could cool 6 to 8 cool tubed 1k hps lights between the two rooms but how would you vent and cool them. Dampers on temp sensors . How do you cool two separate rooms with one window unit

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rkymtnman said:

are you gonna run CO2 and seal up the rooms? if so (and I would for sure), you suck in non grow room air and vent outside thru a carbon scrubber if odors are a problem.

one AC for 2 rooms could be a problem. i'd start looking on craigslist. summer over, people getting rid of ACs. find a used one.

you might even get by with the smaller AC with 3 1ks in cool tubes in 1 room

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projectinfo said:

And good point. I could probably get away with a 10 to 15k btu ac if their in cool tubes

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Carolina Dream'n said:

Keep away from glass between bulb and plants.
Lowers yields. Adds more to your power bill from running fans to cool lights that don't really need cooled. Adds to cleaning time in between harvest.

Try to find a used window banger on Craigslist for other room if budget issue. You'll want an ac for each room.

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