Advice on Perpetual Grow Setup (with photos)

Hi friends - I'm looking for some advice on veg tent setup.

This is my first grow setup:
1 4x8 Tent
2 VIPARSPECTRA UL Certified 600W
2 Yueme 1500W LED Grow Light Full Spectrum
1 VIVOSUN 6 Inch 440 CFM Inline Fan
1 Large Ocillating fan, 4 Small fixed fans
Inkbird heat controller, humidifiers, radiator, c02 bag
Fox farms soil, Fox fams nutes + Compost tea brew



This is how much space I have left to setup a separate tent for veg:



What would you do with this space and current setup?

Here are my thoughts...

-Setup 4x4 tent next to 4x8 tent.
Use smaller tent for veg, bigger tent for flower.
Purchase T5 light for veg tent, or swap current LED lights for veg and buy different light for flower tent.

My goal is to maintain perpetual grow cycle with 5 plants in veg, 5 plants in flower, and babies in clone dome.

I'm an amateur, learning on the fly. Any help pointing me in the right direction would be massively appreciated. Thanks all, be well

.

Are you pumping the heat from your lights to another room or outdoors, or is the exhaust vented to the same room? You need to pump the heat out of there somehow.

I run a perpetual grow with a 3x3 for veg and a 4x4 for flower.

.

6" inline fan attached to carbon filter runs at 50% strength when the lights are on, off at night for 6 hours.
Fan just dumps the hot, ,80f air out of the tent and into the basement which usually runs about 70f

You may find that dumping the warm air back into the room eventually causes higher temps and high humidity , especially when you add more wattage for your veg tent. It also diminishes co2 levels because your not bringing in new air.

I used to have 4x4 veg tent and 4x8 flower tent, 4 plants vegging with rooted clones in the background, tried to feed 4 new plants into the flower tent every 5 weeks so there's 8 at any one time flowering.

I always felt the 4x4 limited my harvest because I couldn't veg as long as I wanted and space would be cramped. So more space for veg would be a bonus, it allows you to give your clones more time in veg, so you have small to medium plants vegging while having 4 plants that have been vegging longer and ready to drop in your flower tent.

There are negatives to doing a staggered flowering tent though, any herm issue can pollinate all your plants, any infection is hard to control because you would have to scrap the whole crop and clean and start from scratch.

You could add either another 4x8 or a 5x5 and just use each tent seed/clone to harvest and have a small cupboard or tent to root clones.

Should one put their extractor fan on a timer with the light for when its on or should you leave the fan to run 24/7?

Joncoh101 said:

Should one put their extractor fan on a timer with the light for when its on or should you leave the fan to run 24/7?

Click to expand...

I would be running fans 24/7 to manage temps and RH better, and avoid mold. But plants dont use CO2 when lights off, so its not as important.

Look for a 3x6 tent. Kinda pricey. I think hydropolis makes it. Maybe other companies too

Are you planning in running the flower tent in 1 cycle?

Crown n coke said:

Are you planning in running the flower tent in 1 cycle?

Click to expand...

I'm planning on keeping 1 mother healthy to run clones off. Then perpetually 2 plants in veg in 3x3 tent, 2 plants in flower in 4x4 tent. Trying to max out yields on the 5 plant (larger than 5") limit in my state

MidwestTentGrowerDude said:

I'm planning on keeping 1 mother healthy to run clones off. Then perpetually 2 plants in veg in 3x3 tent, 2 plants in flower in 4x4 tent. Trying to max out yields on the 5 plant (larger than 5") limit in my state

Click to expand...

Are you going to offset them? I'm running a perpetual and I like the having them in stages. Since you are running 1 strain I guess it won't matter much. Good luck on your grow.

Blomz said:

I would be running fans 24/7 to manage temps and RH better, and avoid mold. But plants dont use CO2 when lights off, so its not as important.

Click to expand...

I thought it was the other way. It's best to give your plants CO2 when it's dark... I'm going to have to go take a look now dang it LOL

Hobbes said:

.

Are you pumping the heat from your lights to another room or outdoors, or is the exhaust vented to the same room? You need to pump the heat out of there somehow.

I run a perpetual grow with a 3x3 for veg and a 4x4 for flower.

.

Click to expand...

hi I’m just setting up with a 3x3 and 4x4. I have a 620w light bar led 3000k for my 4x4 flower tent. Not to sure what light would best fit a 3x3 veg only tent for a perpetual groW?? 4000k qb led? Looking to max grow in fast turn around. I have another tent for clones and seedlings Thanks

Trm1195 said:

hi I’m just setting up with a 3x3 and 4x4. I have a 620w light bar led 3000k for my 4x4 flower tent. Not to sure what light would best fit a 3x3 veg only tent for a perpetual groW?? 4000k qb led? Looking to max grow in fast turn around. I have another tent for clones and seedlings Thanks

Click to expand...

A 315 cmh.

coreywebster said:

A 315 cmh.

Click to expand...

I can’t. Needs to be led or fluorescent. ?

Trm1195 said:

I can’t. Needs to be led or fluorescent. ?

Click to expand...

Why?

For LED I would go with 4 boards in 4000k on a 240w driver , ran around 180w-200w with the option to pump it up when they can take it.

still like to know why it has to be LED though.

Trm1195 said:

hi I’m just setting up with a 3x3 and 4x4. I have a 620w light bar led 3000k for my 4x4 flower tent. Not to sure what light would best fit a 3x3 veg only tent for a perpetual groW?? 4000k qb led? Looking to max grow in fast turn around. I have another tent for clones and seedlings Thanks

Click to expand...

I ran the 240 hlg in that set up. You could even dim that if you wanted