Maxing out 120 sq foot veg room

[max huff]

I saw a video recently, but now I can't find it, but they were using shelves and T5 strips, and vegging a lot of clones. Some were in domes and some were in rock wool cubes on NFT. just wondering how this process works in a bigger setup and what can be expected from a 120 (10x12) room? I think shelves are about 3x5, so using 110 sq ft could fit about 7 with room for mothers in the corners using UC Solo or maybe 7 gallon geopots.. What's the best way to do something like this?

Would an aerocloner be faster than humidomes?
Or is grodan a better option for hygiene etc?

 

[mike4c4]

I saw a video recently, but now I can't find it, but they were using shelves and T5 strips, and vegging a lot of clones. Some were in domes and some were in rock wool cubes on NFT. just wondering how this process works in a bigger setup and what can be expected from a 120 (10x12) room? I think shelves are about 3x5, so using 110 sq ft could fit about 7 with room for mothers in the corners using UC Solo or maybe 7 gallon geopots.. What's the best way to do something like this?

Would an aerocloner be faster than humidomes?
Or is grodan a better option for hygiene etc?

Before you start thinking about how much you can grow in a room and how much you can make, you HAVE to ask your self how good can you grow cannabis? How many grow do you have under your belt? What strain are you going to go with? What type of training are you going to do with them? What kind of lights and how many do you have?

 

[Final Phase]

I implement a grow as I go method to fill the room to maximum as I have a long veg period waiting on winter and cooler weather so the room is cooled naturally from outside temps. The room is 25' by 8. The grow is done in three open sections. When one section is filled up with clones and into the ground I turn on a second 400 watt mh. The third section has an eZclone going 24/7. When all clones are ready they are kept together in pots until about 2' high. The clone area normally is only lit by 1 23w cfl above the eZclone. When the plants are busting out of space the the eZclone is put away and all potted plants that are still in pots hit the ground dirt. (The ground floor is dirt). The last section turns out to be an area of about 8x7 comprised of a lot of clones that form a thick sea of green... I end up getting max use of the space except I don't veg the last section for more than 2 months. The plants in the first two sections are vegged for 7 freaking months! Hoping for 5 + lbs. doing it this way.

 

[max huff]

Thanks for replies and for elaborating. Aside from this 120 sq ft I'm trying to design the downstairs for flowering, it's 360sq ft, with about 350sq ft useable space. For the 120sq ft veg thinking of going with 5 shelves to start, strip T5s, humidomes and rockwool. in the closet and corners I'll have about a 4x4 each for mothers which I'm thinking will be in UnderCurrent Solos, and for lighting maybe the UFO LEDs. Thoughts?

 

[patrickkawi37]

What are you using the veg room for? To pop off thousands of clones? Or to have a preveg room so you can go directly into flower without slowing down. I like to have a mom and clone area.. And then a veg/ preflower room. How many lights are you planning on doing in flower? This would tell you how and what you need to do for veg . Anyone with that size space doesn't fuck with leds. LEDs are for people in tents that can't have acs

 

[max huff]

What are you using the veg room for? To pop off thousands of clones? Or to have a preveg room so you can go directly into flower without slowing down. I like to have a mom and clone area.. And then a veg/ preflower room. How many lights are you planning on doing in flower? This would tell you how and what you need to do for veg . Anyone with that size space doesn't fuck with leds. LEDs are for people in tents that can't have acs

You read my mind- ideally, both. Maybe not thousands of clones, because quality over quantity, but enough to pre-veg for perpetual harvests whilst weeding (thinning) out the the very best, donating the best and rest with compensation relative to the strain {custom, exotic etc?) and vigor (?). 5 months is a long ways away. I love the cloning process, just wondering what it would take to streamline.


For this flower room:
350 sq ft I'm thinking of going with the AC/DE hoods, 14 to start, with Ushio bulbs. Air cooled separately from the filter. Filtered air in (because I suspect this is where the first bout of aphids came from- the backyard garden where unfiltered air was coming, call me paranoid but I dunno), exhaust out. Minisplit, dehumidifier etc, titan control for co2. here's where I foresee and issue: managing this with a 30hr/week job and not being able to decide between soil (as i'm accustomed to outdoor and like soil), titan flo n gro, super closet bubble bucket, oxygen pots so I kind of priced out a 12 site flo n gro, 12 site super closet, and 12 oxygen pots, and fifteen 5-gallon geopots lol- the soil is easy, but could the others be a labor consuming issue, managing/dosing/checking these different systems in addition to the four under current solos in the veg?

or---- could I perhaps get a 40 gallon res and tie all of these into one system? if you read this far, thank you so much I owe you a dab!!!

edit: I know that flower room calls for more like 30 lights but that's way too much electricity right now