$50k 20-light 25 x 25 Room build ideas

Jhef

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Describe how you'd spend it. Lights, Controller, Ventilation, Co2. Everything. How would you do it?
 

a mongo frog

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Describe how you'd spend it. Lights, Controller, Ventilation, Co2. Everything. How would you do it?
Is the room there? as in built and sheeted? Is there water within a mile of grow site? Do we have to transport vegged plants from other location? Is there a living quarters on site. Hows the pose looking? Can we bring our own clones or do we have to use yours?
 

Jhef

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25x25 for flower & veg or just dedicated flower room?

How tall are the ceilings?
Being built inside of 5000sqft (25ft ceilings) warehouse and 3000sqft of office/ veg space.
Walls of 25x25 will be 14ft. Room is flower only.

50k is after walls are up and insulated.
 

Jhef

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Is the room there? as in built and sheeted? Is there water within a mile of grow site? Do we have to transport vegged plants from other location? Is there a living quarters on site. Hows the pose looking? Can we bring our own clones or do we have to use yours?
Living Quarters on site. Water onsite. The room is built with 14ft ceilings. Clones or plants are not needed to be considered in the use of 50k
 

NukaKola

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The cheapest way would be to run 16-20x 1000w DE's over 4 rows of 5x5 trays.

With 14' ceilings, running 2 tiered with 315w CMH's or LED bars is another option to maximize efficiency. Will cost significantly more money and require way more clones but will reduce veg time and increase yield significantly.
 

F80M4

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Just one of my flowering room alone cost me 15k.
The lights and HVAC, controllers, co2 and food will eat up that 50k easily. The amount of lights you need already it's prolly in the 30s and your HVAC alone will be 15-20k, your lights 15-20k. You still need to budget for bills too. You be lucky if you can build out 2-3 rooms at most. That budget of 50k is very tight.
 

Jhef

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Just one of my flowering room alone cost me 15k.
The lights and HVAC, controllers, co2 and food will eat up that 50k easily. The amount of lights you need already it's prolly in the 30s and your HVAC alone will be 15-20k, your lights 15-20k. You still need to budget for bills too. You be lucky if you can build out 2-3 rooms at most. That budget of 50k is very tight.
250k overall budget. Just 50k for this room
 

Jhef

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The cheapest way would be to run 16-20x 1000w DE's over 4 rows of 5x5 trays.

With 14' ceilings, running 2 tiered with 315w CMH's or LED bars is another option to maximize efficiency. Will cost significantly more money and require way more clones but will reduce veg time and increase yield significantly.
Not experienced with DE or CMH only LED.

Thinking either 20 Gavita 1700e or ChiLed X-6 600w. And after first harvest start the vertical grow.

Not concerned with it being the cheapest but rather most efficient.
 

bk78

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Not experienced with DE or CMH only LED.

Thinking either 20 Gavita 1700e or ChiLed X-6 600w. And after first harvest start the vertical grow.

Not concerned with it being the cheapest but rather most efficient.

You’d need 25 of the X6 1000w to cover that space. At $1600 a pop plus shipping you’d probably be near the $45k mark

then factor in another $20k at least for dehumidification and cooling.
 

Jhef

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You’d need 25 of the X6 1000w to cover that space. At $1600 a pop plus shipping you’d probably be near the $45k mark

then factor in another $20k at least for dehumidification and cooling.
You’d need 25 of the X6 1000w to cover that space. At $1600 a pop plus shipping you’d probably be near the $45k mark

then factor in another $20k at least for dehumidification and cooling.
Austin at ChilLed gave me a 9% offer on 20 X-6 1000w. What controller would you use for ChilLed? Trol? Would you use a titan 24 powerbox?
 

NukaKola

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Not experienced with DE or CMH only LED.

Thinking either 20 Gavita 1700e or ChiLed X-6 600w. And after first harvest start the vertical grow.

Not concerned with it being the cheapest but rather most efficient.
With the cost of AC, Dehu, fans, CO2, tables, environmental controls you may have less money left over for lights than you think.

Gavita 1000w DE’s would cost less than $10k and CMH would run around $15k and still grow amazing bud. I would consider going this route and then upgrading to LED as you go.
 

F80M4

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If it's 50k per room stick with the Gavita De 1kw. Up grade slowly to LEDs don't need to blow the budget on lights right away. I know a friend of mine get 4 per light on gavita LEDs but that's everything dialed in. If your gavita DEs are hung at 12 ft you can grow them in 10g pots. Basic programs won't get you the yield you want. I'll tell you that right now.
 

Airport gardener

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Just one of my flowering room alone cost me 15k.
The lights and HVAC, controllers, co2 and food will eat up that 50k easily. The amount of lights you need already it's prolly in the 30s and your HVAC alone will be 15-20k, your lights 15-20k. You still need to budget for bills too. You be lucky if you can build out 2-3 rooms at most. That budget of 50k is very tight.
Our first setup cost more than I imagined. 30 grand in led lighting. A/c and electrical upgrades, paint and materials all added up. Glad we did it correct. Cant hardly get that stuff dried and it's gone.
 
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