I’m building a 16 x 16 grow room. I already have an idea how I’m going to set the room up but would like some suggestions on what others think.
1. How much lights
2. What brand of lights
3. What size a/c
4. What size dehumidifier
5. Co2
6. And what’s the best automated temperature control
7. And last but not least what would be your goal yield in a room this size
1. You want 40w+ per square foot of high quality LED. Maybe even up to 50W because you are running CO2.
2. Whatever fits your budget don't get anything under 2.6umol/J. Floraflex has a new light that's $650.LEDs are getting cheaper at an alarming rate so you almost can't go wrong whatever you can afford.
3. You would need a minimum 60,000 btu and I'd consider bigger even. (Lights alone will be 46,000btu at 50w/sqft)
4. Something in the 165-200pint per day range. This depends a lot on your growing style.
5. For that size grow CO2 burners might be more efficient.But bottles are still doable. Titan controls has a dual tank setup that I think would probably be good so you can run most of the cycle with no bottle change. Otherwise I'd run a burner. But this will add heat and humidity to the grow so you have to account for that.
6. A good AC will control its temps on its own just fine. If you meant grow room controller I personally use Trolmaster. But after installing a couple of them and using for a while I feel like they can do better but most controllers aren't very impressive in general. For that size room probably worth a controller just for the light control alone never mind the other features.
7. Depends on how good of a grower you are. Extrapolate your yields for a 16x16 space by multiplying your 10x10 yields by 2.56.
