I've started with a 15ft L , 10ft W, 8ft H room. 8 600w light , half mh, half hps's. I put 4 x4's on the cieling and attached eye hooks and rope to one end of the room for easy lowering and raiseing of the lights.
I have 2 eight inch 800 cfm inline fans bringing air in the room, one straight to room, the other comes up from basement and tee's off to both rows of lights and out to basement again, the fresh air intake comes up to my former floor register heater vent.
My exaust is located under my room in a bay in my basement, it's about 20ft long, 4ft wide , 4ft tall and completely sealed area. Inside I have positioned a carbon filter about 5ft tall on it's side with a 1200 cfm can fan which then connects to a 4ft silencer and then to an outside vent on the side of my basement wall outside, I also have all my ballast in this filter room (bay). this is positioned under my growroom with a hatch door to access the room from the basement.
*Note.... the intake fan going to the eight lights goes out it's own dedicated vent outside and not into the filter room underneath.
I have 3 wall fans going in room too. I'm running a hydro drip system and have four buckets under each light for a total of 32 plants.
Problems arise when to many cooks in kitchen, me and five friends got together and put this together cause buying from clubs was killing are pockets.
Well that's pretty much it and I would like feedback on how this was set up. We did a run but the plants got root aphids and flys, the quaility was awsome, but yeild was poor. Sour Desil... Veg'ed for 3months or more, plants where 3ft plus and still in 3in rockwooll due to contruction delays (friends) lol...
Questions:
1. thinking of down sizeing room to six lights and starting another room with the extra 2. I think 8 lights was overkill for footprint of the room and wonder in any agree?
2. If I downsize should i leave the 32 buckets or go to 24?
3. I was told that stagering Mh and hps's in the flowering stage is best, do any agree?
If so, i put the light like this 2 mh side by side, 2 hps's side by side and so on. Should I have mixed them mh & hps side by side and so on??
4. On ventolation do you want more going out then coming in?
5. incaseing my carbon filter in a 20ft L x 4ft w, 4ft h sealed bay in my basement ( basically an oversized filter box ) how does that affect my 1200 cfm can fan exaust?
6. is it ok to send my intake air going through my lights directly outside unfilterd?? I was told no smell should go through the lights and should avoid putting the extra heat and humidity in the filter bay.
7. I got it so that if I'm standing outside my closed door of our grow room and put a smoke by the crack in the door, smoke is pulled in. I think that's right but not sure how you know if you takeing to much out to quik? If i where to add the air to the lights to the filter room (bay) that would be roughly 13 to 1400 cfm coming in and 1200 being sucked out and probally less being i got the filter and silencer hooked to the exaust. Without light air it's 800cfm in and 1100 or so going out. any idea's??
Well i think i better end this novel, any input on any of the above whould be greatly appreciated.
thanks
I have 2 eight inch 800 cfm inline fans bringing air in the room, one straight to room, the other comes up from basement and tee's off to both rows of lights and out to basement again, the fresh air intake comes up to my former floor register heater vent.
My exaust is located under my room in a bay in my basement, it's about 20ft long, 4ft wide , 4ft tall and completely sealed area. Inside I have positioned a carbon filter about 5ft tall on it's side with a 1200 cfm can fan which then connects to a 4ft silencer and then to an outside vent on the side of my basement wall outside, I also have all my ballast in this filter room (bay). this is positioned under my growroom with a hatch door to access the room from the basement.
*Note.... the intake fan going to the eight lights goes out it's own dedicated vent outside and not into the filter room underneath.
I have 3 wall fans going in room too. I'm running a hydro drip system and have four buckets under each light for a total of 32 plants.
Problems arise when to many cooks in kitchen, me and five friends got together and put this together cause buying from clubs was killing are pockets.
Well that's pretty much it and I would like feedback on how this was set up. We did a run but the plants got root aphids and flys, the quaility was awsome, but yeild was poor. Sour Desil... Veg'ed for 3months or more, plants where 3ft plus and still in 3in rockwooll due to contruction delays (friends) lol...
Questions:
1. thinking of down sizeing room to six lights and starting another room with the extra 2. I think 8 lights was overkill for footprint of the room and wonder in any agree?
2. If I downsize should i leave the 32 buckets or go to 24?
3. I was told that stagering Mh and hps's in the flowering stage is best, do any agree?
If so, i put the light like this 2 mh side by side, 2 hps's side by side and so on. Should I have mixed them mh & hps side by side and so on??
4. On ventolation do you want more going out then coming in?
5. incaseing my carbon filter in a 20ft L x 4ft w, 4ft h sealed bay in my basement ( basically an oversized filter box ) how does that affect my 1200 cfm can fan exaust?
6. is it ok to send my intake air going through my lights directly outside unfilterd?? I was told no smell should go through the lights and should avoid putting the extra heat and humidity in the filter bay.
7. I got it so that if I'm standing outside my closed door of our grow room and put a smoke by the crack in the door, smoke is pulled in. I think that's right but not sure how you know if you takeing to much out to quik? If i where to add the air to the lights to the filter room (bay) that would be roughly 13 to 1400 cfm coming in and 1200 being sucked out and probally less being i got the filter and silencer hooked to the exaust. Without light air it's 800cfm in and 1100 or so going out. any idea's??
Well i think i better end this novel, any input on any of the above whould be greatly appreciated.
thanks