Dark Bacon
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Hey everyone, this is my first post on these forums, and I'm looking for some advice for a potential grow room I may create in my basement. Here are a few pictures of where I plan on setting up shop.
As you can see its a pretty crappy basement, but there is a lot of space there, and hopefully a lot of potential. Ignore the fan in the center, I do not plan on using that for the grow room, I basically just put that there to keep the airflow after i scrubbed the walls down pretty hard with disinfectant.
Now as much as I would like to utilize every square foot of space available to me, this is going to be my first time growing, so I would rather have a smaller sized operation, and then extend it when I get more experience. As of right now, the general idea is to split it up into a veg room and a flowering room, and I intend on keeping a few mother plants in the veg room and cutting clones, as apposed to starting fresh from seedlings each time around. The plan is to use a 600 watt HPS bulb for the flowering room (http://htgsupply.com/viewproduct.asp?productID=48956), and a 600 watt MH bulb for the veg room (http://htgsupply.com/viewproduct.asp?productID=48969).
I am certainly open to the idea of adding another set of lamps to each room at some point, but for right now I want to try and cut costs a bit in case this turns out to be a flop. So basically what I'm asking is, how large should I make each room with those lamps? I have about 5' width that I plan on using, but i'm unsure how long I should make each room. The original plan was to make each room 5x6, but i'm concerned that I wont have enough lumen per sq foot.
Now this also raises another question, assuming I have adequate lighting for each room, how many plants would I be able to squeeze into each room? I've read not to think about it in terms of how much light per plant, but how much light per sq ft of space your using. But if it's possible to have equal or higher yields from more spaced out plants, I would certainly want to go with that.
I intend on completely covering each room with white & black poly to keep it as reflective as possible. I may use additional Mylar, but I'm not sure yet if it would be necessary. I'm going to be growing using soil, because honestly i'm terrified of using a hydro setup with no experience. I like the idea of adding CO2, but I don't see myself using it, at least for the first harvest.
So yeah, that's about it, all of the finer details, such as which soil to use, which nutrients ect, are all undecided as of right now, I plan on experimenting with different types to see which will work best for me. Oh and if it's relevant, I'm going to be growing White Widow predominately, with maybe a few other strains mixed in there, all depending on what sprouts, and what turns out to be female.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks for reading
As you can see its a pretty crappy basement, but there is a lot of space there, and hopefully a lot of potential. Ignore the fan in the center, I do not plan on using that for the grow room, I basically just put that there to keep the airflow after i scrubbed the walls down pretty hard with disinfectant.
Now as much as I would like to utilize every square foot of space available to me, this is going to be my first time growing, so I would rather have a smaller sized operation, and then extend it when I get more experience. As of right now, the general idea is to split it up into a veg room and a flowering room, and I intend on keeping a few mother plants in the veg room and cutting clones, as apposed to starting fresh from seedlings each time around. The plan is to use a 600 watt HPS bulb for the flowering room (http://htgsupply.com/viewproduct.asp?productID=48956), and a 600 watt MH bulb for the veg room (http://htgsupply.com/viewproduct.asp?productID=48969).
I am certainly open to the idea of adding another set of lamps to each room at some point, but for right now I want to try and cut costs a bit in case this turns out to be a flop. So basically what I'm asking is, how large should I make each room with those lamps? I have about 5' width that I plan on using, but i'm unsure how long I should make each room. The original plan was to make each room 5x6, but i'm concerned that I wont have enough lumen per sq foot.
Now this also raises another question, assuming I have adequate lighting for each room, how many plants would I be able to squeeze into each room? I've read not to think about it in terms of how much light per plant, but how much light per sq ft of space your using. But if it's possible to have equal or higher yields from more spaced out plants, I would certainly want to go with that.
I intend on completely covering each room with white & black poly to keep it as reflective as possible. I may use additional Mylar, but I'm not sure yet if it would be necessary. I'm going to be growing using soil, because honestly i'm terrified of using a hydro setup with no experience. I like the idea of adding CO2, but I don't see myself using it, at least for the first harvest.
So yeah, that's about it, all of the finer details, such as which soil to use, which nutrients ect, are all undecided as of right now, I plan on experimenting with different types to see which will work best for me. Oh and if it's relevant, I'm going to be growing White Widow predominately, with maybe a few other strains mixed in there, all depending on what sprouts, and what turns out to be female.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks for reading
Maybe do a little surfing in the coco forum? And yeah, good luck!
) because i almost killed both of them and got an unsatisfactory yield. now i have redesigned my cab, fixed my problems, and gotten new lights. i'm STILL going to grow bagseed just to make sure i can do it again since i'll be at a different location and i don't know how the tapwater is there.
