Hi from Oz!

[whatsaforest]

Gonna do a garden shed grow, so I can get off the teet of corpo medicinal. Anyone can point me in the direction for environmental controls in this type of set up, I would much appreciate it. Obviously gonna go have a good read on the forums here, but any shortcuts would be sweet. Printed resources would be cool too. Thanks!

 

[DARKSIDER]

Gonna do a garden shed grow, so I can get off the teet of corpo medicinal. Anyone can point me in the direction for environmental controls in this type of set up, I would much appreciate it. Obviously gonna go have a good read on the forums here, but any shortcuts would be sweet. Printed resources would be cool too. Thanks!

Welcome to the forum look forward to seeing your grows

 

[Dime]

Hi

 

[pop_rocks]

Gonna do a garden shed grow, so I can get off the teet of corpo medicinal. Anyone can point me in the direction for environmental controls in this type of set up, I would much appreciate it. Obviously gonna go have a good read on the forums here, but any shortcuts would be sweet. Printed resources would be cool too. Thanks!

sounds interesting
when you say shed, is this a green house style one that you can see through or an enclosed shed like you would store tools in?

 

[chilliwilli]

Hi welcome to icmag.

 

[FTL]

Gonna do a garden shed grow, so I can get off the teet of corpo medicinal. Anyone can point me in the direction for environmental controls in this type of set up, I would much appreciate it. Obviously gonna go have a good read on the forums here, but any shortcuts would be sweet. Printed resources would be cool too. Thanks!

Hey mate, Good timing with the weather cooling down now

 

[Frosty Nuggets]

Hi fellow Aussie from South Oz.

 

[dimodz]

high & welcome



from Middle of Germany and Europe to Oz

 

[aCBD]

Welcome to IC and much success on your hunt.

 

[Creeperpark]

Hello friend, when you get ready go to the diary section and start your grow, because we love shed grows.

 

[Cvh]

Welcome to the forum!

 

[whatsaforest]

sounds interesting
when you say shed, is this a green house style one that you can see through or an enclosed shed like you would store tools in?

Like the tool shed kind. So, steel outer construction, but the grow room will be done by a second internal structure. I guess kinda like a grow tent, but made of wood and plaster, with insulation batts to keep the temp more stable than the ambient external, as well as the ambient of the shed itself (the part that's not the grow room) hope that makes sense. Only major problem I haven't solved yet, is heating cooling in case the insulation doesn't do a good enough job. I mean heating is easy enough to take care of, but cooling is something that there doesn't seem to be a simple ready-made solution for. I was thinking of using earth pipes for a bit, but they require too much construction (needs 25m of pipe, buried at 1.5m depth).

 

[whatsaforest]

Hello friend, when you get ready go to the diary section and start your grow, because we love shed grows.

Tbh I'm not really to keen on keeping digital records. Maybe after a few grows once I get a bit more comfortable. But yeah if I do, I'll definitely share.

 

[whatsaforest]

Hey mate, Good timing with the weather cooling down now

Yeah I reckon winter time is the right time to start a sheddy. Solve any smaller problems before heat potentially becomes an issue.

 

[pop_rocks]

Like the tool shed kind. So, steel outer construction, but the grow room will be done by a second internal structure. I guess kinda like a grow tent, but made of wood and plaster, with insulation batts to keep the temp more stable than the ambient external, as well as the ambient of the shed itself (the part that's not the grow room) hope that makes sense. Only major problem I haven't solved yet, is heating cooling in case the insulation doesn't do a good enough job. I mean heating is easy enough to take care of, but cooling is something that there doesn't seem to be a simple ready-made solution for. I was thinking of using earth pipes for a bit, but they require too much construction (needs 25m of pipe, buried at 1.5m depth).

temps would be my biggest concern
if you are growing in an enclosed shed you will need to use lights and lights give off heat
leds give off less heat but you will still need to work out some air exchange solution
best of luck mate!

 

[Dime]

Hi

 

[FTL]

Only major problem I haven't solved yet, is heating cooling in case the insulation doesn't do a good enough job. I mean heating is easy enough to take care of, but cooling is something that there doesn't seem to be a simple ready-made solution for.

just grow enough over the cool months, then go on holidays and enjoy yourself over the summer, easy done

 

[bigsur51]

Hello whatsaforest and welcome aboard

cheers
big

 

[whatsaforest]

temps would be my biggest concern
if you are growing in an enclosed shed you will need to use lights and lights give off heat
leds give off less heat but you will still need to work out some air exchange solution
best of luck mate!

Yeah I looked in to earth pipes as a solution, they could work based on some studies and design docs I came across, but probably a bit too much of a hassle to install. Would require excavating 5 x 5m, to a depth of 1m (1.5-3m depth ideally). Already been delayed a few months with pouring the slab (I'm pretty heavily disabled, compared to what I used to be and what would be necessary to use machinery for the time needed to excavate that much soil), so I'll have to keep it in the back pocket for sheddy v.2 hehe. Air exchange will probably be in-ground pipes, just nowhere near the scope of heating/cooling 'earth pipes'.

 

[whatsaforest]

just grow enough over the cool months, then go on holidays and enjoy yourself over the summer, easy done

Hadn't thought of that. Was thinking more along the lines of being as productive as possible. Luckily our "summer" is only sporadically intense and typically not that long, so taking it off wouldn't be too counter productive.