I'm getting close to starting construction on the new room / rooms. The space is 24' x 40' x 10'. There are 2 floors so those dimensions are only for 1 of the floors. I'm pretty set on the growing systems that I'm going to use but open to anything else as of now. I'll be using my 10 bucket RDWC system for every 2,000 Watts horizontal lighting for now but will eventually make the switch to 1 RDWC plant per 1,000.
I was thinking about breaking up the room into 10' x 24' x 10' sections and running 8 x Gavita DE's in each room with 4 RDWC systems which would bring my plant space for the room to 8' x 20'. That would give me exactly 50 Watts Per Square Foot. If you look at the original dimensions of the entire space, you see that 24' is the width of the room. So I'm basically keeping the width and adding walls to the length of the room every 10 - 12'. I would also consider adding 2 vertical bare bulbs between each system and on the ends for an additional 6,000 Watts to 10,000 Watts depending if I used 600's or 1000's. Those vertical lights would only be on for a few hours a day just to fatten up the lowers and sides. I'm trying to keep plants between 36" to 48" and that's why I think some additional vertical bare bulbs can help my yields. After I build up some funds from a couple of successful crops, I will take out one of the walls to combine 2 rooms and have 16,000 Watts of Horizontal Lighting for each floor and do 1 plant per light. I would need some good breathing room to try 1 plant per light because anything can go wrong and a grow is expensive. Until then though I'm going to start with smaller rooms to control things better as well as controlling expenses and breaking up harvests because I'm going to use 0 trimmers and going to use a Satellite Trimming Machine after a couple of crops of hand trimming. I've had too many problems with outsiders in my past and it seems that specific trimmer doesn't need to use any lubrication while using the machine as opposed to the Twister.
I'm thinking of going with 3 tons of Central Air for each room. Only 8,000 Watts of lighting will be on at a time in each room. Temperatures where I am are mild. I'd rather not use a mini-split because I want to put the vents from the central air in different places in the room to distribute the air better and I think Central Air is supposed to be more efficient than mini-splits.
One of my concerns is the 4 walls of the structure. I don't want any smells or noise getting out of the room. I was going to first gut the room and put the pink fiberglass insulation in the walls. Then i wanted to add something else over the insulation, like sound board but I would like to get opinions from the community to make the best room that I possibly can. I was even thinking after I do the insulation and sound board, to build an additional 2"x6" wall right over the old wall that I just insulated. I don't know if I'm being too paranoid because my only reason to build the second wall is so I can add another layer of the pink insulation within the wall. I can't have any smell at all get out of the room / rooms. Maybe someone will tell me if I'm crazy or if there's a better idea than the one that I have. I will also be using Carbon Filters. I have an Ozone or whatever you call it but I don't want to use it. It smells too funny when using it I don't want it to smell like that outside and I'm also running sealed rooms so I can't vent the rooms as well.
I also don't know what material that I should use for the walls. I usually use Sheet Rock or Blue Board but I'd like to hear some ideas if there is a better material for me to use. The only thing going over the walls is reflectix or mylar.
I also have to put in a new subfloor and level it and I was thinking of adding tile to the floor and part of the walls and put a drain in the middle of the room in case of a flood or problem.
I also wanted to try and build my own panel and flip box. Maybe someone can help me with that as well. From this point i've been using hydro store lighting controllers but I'm sure they are pretty weak compared to what can be built with the right advise. I really have no idea though.
I'm running this operation all by myself so I'm going to fully automate everything that I can and also add camera's to the rooms plus camera's to read any data that I need. I'm hoping to be able to leave the grow for a few nights every couple of weeks to take care of other things and cameras can help me feel a little more comfortable with leaving. Any ideas on any of this is welcome!
I was thinking about breaking up the room into 10' x 24' x 10' sections and running 8 x Gavita DE's in each room with 4 RDWC systems which would bring my plant space for the room to 8' x 20'. That would give me exactly 50 Watts Per Square Foot. If you look at the original dimensions of the entire space, you see that 24' is the width of the room. So I'm basically keeping the width and adding walls to the length of the room every 10 - 12'. I would also consider adding 2 vertical bare bulbs between each system and on the ends for an additional 6,000 Watts to 10,000 Watts depending if I used 600's or 1000's. Those vertical lights would only be on for a few hours a day just to fatten up the lowers and sides. I'm trying to keep plants between 36" to 48" and that's why I think some additional vertical bare bulbs can help my yields. After I build up some funds from a couple of successful crops, I will take out one of the walls to combine 2 rooms and have 16,000 Watts of Horizontal Lighting for each floor and do 1 plant per light. I would need some good breathing room to try 1 plant per light because anything can go wrong and a grow is expensive. Until then though I'm going to start with smaller rooms to control things better as well as controlling expenses and breaking up harvests because I'm going to use 0 trimmers and going to use a Satellite Trimming Machine after a couple of crops of hand trimming. I've had too many problems with outsiders in my past and it seems that specific trimmer doesn't need to use any lubrication while using the machine as opposed to the Twister.
I'm thinking of going with 3 tons of Central Air for each room. Only 8,000 Watts of lighting will be on at a time in each room. Temperatures where I am are mild. I'd rather not use a mini-split because I want to put the vents from the central air in different places in the room to distribute the air better and I think Central Air is supposed to be more efficient than mini-splits.
One of my concerns is the 4 walls of the structure. I don't want any smells or noise getting out of the room. I was going to first gut the room and put the pink fiberglass insulation in the walls. Then i wanted to add something else over the insulation, like sound board but I would like to get opinions from the community to make the best room that I possibly can. I was even thinking after I do the insulation and sound board, to build an additional 2"x6" wall right over the old wall that I just insulated. I don't know if I'm being too paranoid because my only reason to build the second wall is so I can add another layer of the pink insulation within the wall. I can't have any smell at all get out of the room / rooms. Maybe someone will tell me if I'm crazy or if there's a better idea than the one that I have. I will also be using Carbon Filters. I have an Ozone or whatever you call it but I don't want to use it. It smells too funny when using it I don't want it to smell like that outside and I'm also running sealed rooms so I can't vent the rooms as well.
I also don't know what material that I should use for the walls. I usually use Sheet Rock or Blue Board but I'd like to hear some ideas if there is a better material for me to use. The only thing going over the walls is reflectix or mylar.
I also have to put in a new subfloor and level it and I was thinking of adding tile to the floor and part of the walls and put a drain in the middle of the room in case of a flood or problem.
I also wanted to try and build my own panel and flip box. Maybe someone can help me with that as well. From this point i've been using hydro store lighting controllers but I'm sure they are pretty weak compared to what can be built with the right advise. I really have no idea though.
I'm running this operation all by myself so I'm going to fully automate everything that I can and also add camera's to the rooms plus camera's to read any data that I need. I'm hoping to be able to leave the grow for a few nights every couple of weeks to take care of other things and cameras can help me feel a little more comfortable with leaving. Any ideas on any of this is welcome!
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