If Money Was No Object... 11'.6"x9'.4" Flower Room

[zenmindgreen]

Sup Guys. Was hoping to get some input! I have done cab and closet grows, but it's time to finally take the plunge and use an entire room.

So, my question is - if money were no object, what would your ideal grow setup be like in these circumstances?

The room is 11 feet 6 inches long by 9 feet 4 inches wide, and about 8 feet tall. There is also closet space (no door) which measures 2.25 feet deep by 5 feet wide. There is an access panel in the closet to the crawl space attic, where there are roof vents, so I was planning on running ducting up through there to the roof vents via a fan and carbon filter.

The electrical panel is located in the room, which I will be upgrading.

Given my budget is very high, how many watts do you think I cram in there with the proper split AC unit to accommodate? I was thinking at least 6 1000watt Gavitas (which are upgradable to 1150 watts each).

I want to run a perpetual harvest SCROG in soil, open system with passive intake. I think for the first couple runs I will do hand watering until I can figure out how to install a drip system in which each plant at different stages of life in the harvest can get their proper feeding ratios (not sure how the hell you would figure this out without having separate res's for each couple plants).

The room has hardwood floors. I was going to use pond liner at a minimum, but very interested in input as to how I can not ruin the floors.

This will be a LEGAL, MEDICAL grow. I want to do the perpetual harvest so I will only be harvesting a plant or 2 at a time without ever having to go over my limits when it's processed. At the moment I only want to have 12 plants flowering at a time, so I plan on employing LST as well in order to maximize space and grow some real big monsters.

Any thoughts, comments, criticism is welcome!

Peace, love, and respect.

 

[Eureka Springs Organics]

Make the entire room a giant soil bed, and top dress after each run. Feed compost tea in flower, and that's it. As far as wattage the more the better. 600's run cooler than 1000's, but they won't penetrate as well. If you run a scrog, with proper maintenance 600's are more than enough.

 

[zenmindgreen]

Make the entire room a giant soil bed, and top dress after each run. Feed compost tea in flower, and that's it. As far as wattage the more the better. 600's run cooler than 1000's, but they won't penetrate as well. If you run a scrog, with proper maintenance 600's are more than enough.

Thanks for the reply, Eureka Springs Organics!

When you say make the entire room a giant soil bed, do you mean no individual pots?!? No offense, but I just don't see how that would work very well, especially with a perpetual harvest. There would be way too much root crowding from the big plants into the smaller plants area no?

I was planning on doing compost tea for flower for sure. And I like the idea of using 1000 watters over 600s because of more lumens, which generally translates into higher yields.

Also mods, could you delete this thread? I remade it in the "grow room design" section which seems more appropriate. My apologies.

 

[GreenDream]

With those dimensions you would be seriously over-lit with 6x1000w (and walking space).

With 600w lights each running 3'x3' you could fit 6 into a 6'x9' canopy and have roughly 2' walkways around 3 sides.

Then I would build a custom 6'x9' drip tray .5 to 1' off the ground, with corrugated PVC on top to channel runoff to a gutter at the bottom.

Then slap a 6 pack of 600's air cooled on top, and you could get away with a 1 ton split a/c, 70pt dehu, and run it sealed w/ co2.

 

[zenmindgreen]

With those dimensions you would be seriously over-lit with 6x1000w (and walking space).

With 600w lights each running 3'x3' you could fit 6 into a 6'x9' canopy and have roughly 2' walkways around 3 sides.

Then I would build a custom 6'x9' drip tray .5 to 1' off the ground, with corrugated PVC on top to channel runoff to a gutter at the bottom.

Then slap a 6 pack of 600's air cooled on top, and you could get away with a 1 ton split a/c, 70pt dehu, and run it sealed w/ co2.

Thanks for dropping in GreenDream!

One reason I really want to use the 1000 watters is because eventually within the next year I'll be upgrading to a 24x24 space, so I would like to be able to re-use all the ballasts, etc. Also having spoken with a friend who is in his 3rd year of doing this, he always says that more watts = more lumens = higher yields, and thus I should use 1000 watters. He is quite stubborn in his ways however, so I am open to suggestion.

I do like your idea of having 2' walkways on 3 sides. Having seen grows done in smaller bedrooms and basements I know how much a bitch it can be to navigate in and around those girls. Plenty of times seeing people have to basically crawl on their sides on the floor between pots. I understand this is a reality for a somewhat smaller space like this, but yeah figuring out the idea pot size/spacing is what I'm here for

For my first few runs I was hoping to get away with an open system and not having to mess with co2, because quite honestly it scares me a bit lol. I was hoping I could just cut a square or small holes in the bottom of the door and have a metal vent or PVC pipe vents there and then the carbon filter would be mounted to the ceiling and exhausted up through the attic crawlspace out the roof duct. This would create a good airflow through the middle and left side of the room, and I was hoping just with wall-mounted oscillating fans I could blow enough of it across the left side to be sufficient?

Thanks for the ideas so far! much appreciated.