ideas on new grow design

[macdiesel]

I'm moving into a new spot with a pole barn. There are 3 large rv bays, and I'll be building a box in one of them. Bays are 20x30 each. Ceiling height is 18'. I like running sealed, but if I can exhaust from the top of the high ceiling, I think cooling will be much, much more efficient at canopy level. I'll be running gavitas, most likely 750's, and I'd like (2) flower rooms both with 10 lights. I'll be running 5 ton ac units to cool, but here's my biggest question.

What are some ideas to run both rooms side by side to compliment each other? I'm also going to need a veg room, and I'd like it all contained in one big structural box I'll build in the bay. Odor control is of utmost importance, I think I'd like to incorporate a lung room for all 3 rooms in some manner. Ideas? Sharing heat, CO2, odor control, cooling? Thanks in advance!

 

[who dat is]

This sounds over my head. I don't have much to add right now except that I'm along for the duration and look forward to seeing how this develops.

 

[Granger2]

I think your ideas are on track. Your 10 ton AC should handle the load. A large enclosure with 2 bloom rooms, 1 veg, lung room with dehumidification, AC, CO2. I would have large carbon filter in the lung room, and in addition I would carbon filter the exhaust air from the bloom rooms back to the lung room, since you say odor control is of utmost importance. I do it that way in my smaller operation, and a couple of people who aren't nose blind walking into the room during prime time can smell nothing-nothing at all until I open the stall doors. Good luck. -granger

 

[macdiesel]

I think your ideas are on track. Your 10 ton AC should handle the load. A large enclosure with 2 bloom rooms, 1 veg, lung room with dehumidification, AC, CO2. I would have large carbon filter in the lung room, and in addition I would carbon filter the exhaust air from the bloom rooms back to the lung room, since you say odor control is of utmost importance. I do it that way in my smaller operation, and a couple of people who aren't nose blind walking into the room during prime time can smell nothing-nothing at all until I open the stall doors. Good luck. -granger

Thanks Granger. I have a 14k now so I'm no stranger to AC requirements etc. Do you have a diagram of how you do your room? I like the idea of filtering before it even gets to the lung room.

 

[Granger2]

macd,
I'd rather describe it than draw it. Too much work for my minimal drawing skills. I have one structure divided into 3 3x3's. The 1st 2 3x3's are actually a 3x6. On one end, outside the stalls, I have a 6x24 Phresh filter sitting on the floor with a 6" Vortex on top of it, divided in 2 that is intake on one end of the 3x6. Up top in each of the 2 3x3 stalls there is a 4x12 Phresh filter that exhausts thru the ceiling of the stalls, T'ing into a 6" Vortex that spills into the lung room.

So the stall intake is filtered lung room air [w/AC, dehum, CO2], that goes thru the 3x6, exits thru 2 Phresh 4x12 filters back into lung room for conditioning. In the lung room various fans, AC fan, with attention paid to direction, mix the air, apparently well enough to have even temps that have been checked around the room. Good luck. -granger