FamMan
Well-Known Member
Hello peeps. I will be starting my first grow in the near future and I would like some advice on my setup. I live in a MMJ state. My buddies are tired of paying too much for 'ok' smoke and plan to make me their caregiver. We are hoping to end up with a 48 plant limit. Being that I am a newbie I wont be attempting that many however after a couple grows under my belt i would like to. So I have a 700sf unfurnished basement that also contains my water heater and furnace(is that a problem with them being in the same room as the grow?). I can use about a third to half of the basement for my grow. I would like to use tents because my home is a rental and i will be having an inspection in Oct. I like the idea of having a sealed growroom that I can take down and setup as needed. And I am not handy at ALL. Btw I will be paying a certified, licensed electrician to make the necessary upgrades to safely handle the added power consumption.
I would like to do a perpetual harvest system. My plan was to start with a 5x5 grow tent with a 600w light over eight plants started from local clones. That would be my veg tent. I would then take clones and put them in half of an 8x8 tent. The 8x8 would be my flowering tent. Like i said i will eventually have a 48 plant limit with 16 plants in all stages at all times. I figured I would only need half the tent for 8 plants. At first i will have 2 600w in there however after third harvest I plan to bump it up to 4 600w and also add more plants from seed. The lights will be air cooled and each tent will have ventilation to exhaust the from air within the tent. Eventually i will add a t5 setup for clones. I didnt plan to work with mother plants.....i wanted to just take clones from plants that will end up being harvested(is that ok???). My house does not have AC so im thinking i will have to add that to the tents in the spring/summer.
I am not your average newbie. I have wanted to grow for the last 15 years. I have read a lot books, decades of mags, worked in an indoor horticulture store for about a year, explored this site for a couple years and pretty much for lack of better words lived in the depths of the black market for the last decade(i took it serious and got very heavy in the last 5 and got out). This has been one of my life dreams and my buddies and I believe im the right guy for the job. Nonetheless I know i am still a newbie. I know will make mistakes.
So I have many questions but my main one is: Is this a smart setup? I know i left some important stuff out but from what i said is this the best setup for my situation, space and budget(sorry forgot to mention but $2-3000 ballpark). Also can i veg 16 plants in a 5x5? I will be using soil and a basic organic nutes to start. G G #4, SFV OG, and GSC are the possible first round of genetics. Thank you in advance for the help. PEACE!
I would like to do a perpetual harvest system. My plan was to start with a 5x5 grow tent with a 600w light over eight plants started from local clones. That would be my veg tent. I would then take clones and put them in half of an 8x8 tent. The 8x8 would be my flowering tent. Like i said i will eventually have a 48 plant limit with 16 plants in all stages at all times. I figured I would only need half the tent for 8 plants. At first i will have 2 600w in there however after third harvest I plan to bump it up to 4 600w and also add more plants from seed. The lights will be air cooled and each tent will have ventilation to exhaust the from air within the tent. Eventually i will add a t5 setup for clones. I didnt plan to work with mother plants.....i wanted to just take clones from plants that will end up being harvested(is that ok???). My house does not have AC so im thinking i will have to add that to the tents in the spring/summer.
I am not your average newbie. I have wanted to grow for the last 15 years. I have read a lot books, decades of mags, worked in an indoor horticulture store for about a year, explored this site for a couple years and pretty much for lack of better words lived in the depths of the black market for the last decade(i took it serious and got very heavy in the last 5 and got out). This has been one of my life dreams and my buddies and I believe im the right guy for the job. Nonetheless I know i am still a newbie. I know will make mistakes.
So I have many questions but my main one is: Is this a smart setup? I know i left some important stuff out but from what i said is this the best setup for my situation, space and budget(sorry forgot to mention but $2-3000 ballpark). Also can i veg 16 plants in a 5x5? I will be using soil and a basic organic nutes to start. G G #4, SFV OG, and GSC are the possible first round of genetics. Thank you in advance for the help. PEACE!