yankeegreen
Active Member
New RIU member but long time reader. After reading, reading, reading the experiences of others I have finally decided to pull the trigger on a 4' x 8' grow room in a quiet corner of my basement. Make that adjoining grow rooms - a 4 x 3 veg room and a 4 x 5 flower room. I have been distilling a lot of notes and ideas while reading through the threads and wanted to run the game plan by the gurus. I will incorporate feedback into more concrete plans as time goes on.
So here's what I am thinking:
General construction:
- Raised floor on 2 x 3 studs laid on end (2.5" high). Studs will be laid out to create a light trap and provide cool air intake (concrete floor) in two separate pathways, one for each room. One vent will be cut out for each room in a 3/4" x 4 x 8 melamine I have laying around.
- Perimeter walls will be 6.5' high, constructed of 2 x 3 studs with 1/4" plywood on the inside. Plywood walls will be painted the brightest flat white I can find.
- Front wall will have separate doors/openings for each room.
- Ceiling will be a 2nd sheet of melamine I already have.
- Divider wall between the rooms. Possibly a floating wall that can be moved to accommodate changing needs or taken down and removed if things go well and I need a bigger flower room!
Lighting:
- Hanging 600W MH light for veggie room, 600W HPS light for flower room. I know this is enough light for veg. For flower, I will add another 400-600W light after a few grows and start to utilize all the space. Ballasts outside room. All electricity run outside - no sockets in the grow rooms.
- Small bank of CFL in veg room above high shelf for seed germination/cloning.
Air exchange:
- 6" 400-600 cfm inline fan. 4" or 6" ducts ( do I need 6" in either or both rooms? 4" for veg, 6" for flower? other config?) to each room with a carbon filter in each. Ducts high on wall opposite corner from floor vent location.
Ok, that's the brain dump. Appreciate any and all feedback - pitfalls? something completely different? what's missing?.
Hope to make this a living journal of the grow rooms as they progress. Thanks in advance all!
So here's what I am thinking:
General construction:
- Raised floor on 2 x 3 studs laid on end (2.5" high). Studs will be laid out to create a light trap and provide cool air intake (concrete floor) in two separate pathways, one for each room. One vent will be cut out for each room in a 3/4" x 4 x 8 melamine I have laying around.
- Perimeter walls will be 6.5' high, constructed of 2 x 3 studs with 1/4" plywood on the inside. Plywood walls will be painted the brightest flat white I can find.
- Front wall will have separate doors/openings for each room.
- Ceiling will be a 2nd sheet of melamine I already have.
- Divider wall between the rooms. Possibly a floating wall that can be moved to accommodate changing needs or taken down and removed if things go well and I need a bigger flower room!
Lighting:
- Hanging 600W MH light for veggie room, 600W HPS light for flower room. I know this is enough light for veg. For flower, I will add another 400-600W light after a few grows and start to utilize all the space. Ballasts outside room. All electricity run outside - no sockets in the grow rooms.
- Small bank of CFL in veg room above high shelf for seed germination/cloning.
Air exchange:
- 6" 400-600 cfm inline fan. 4" or 6" ducts ( do I need 6" in either or both rooms? 4" for veg, 6" for flower? other config?) to each room with a carbon filter in each. Ducts high on wall opposite corner from floor vent location.
Ok, that's the brain dump. Appreciate any and all feedback - pitfalls? something completely different? what's missing?.
Hope to make this a living journal of the grow rooms as they progress. Thanks in advance all!