60 Plant Grow Setup

[trenton]

I will be staring my grow later this week if at all possible and would like a little more information before I get started. I have chosen the room I will be growing in. The dimension are 24'x24'. 8.5ft in height. Here are some pictures attached. The room is new and the floor was concrete. I layered the floor with 1 inch white insulfoam. Now the floor is at room temp. I will be using 60 3 gallon pots. I will not be using any kind of hydro and will be growing in soil. So far I have purchased 4 1000 watt euro systems lights kits. They will run off of 240 Volt. The hoods are reflective and 6' aircooled. The ballast are switchable. I will be using all metal halide lightd for the veg then HPS for the flower. I know I have the space but the big question is what is the best grow method for me? staright up big plants, Sea of green, or screen of green?? I really dont want to buy more than the 4 1000s I allready have which means each 1000 watt light will have to cover 15 plants. I am really wanting the highest yields. 2 ounces per plant.. I will be growing sour diesel.. Here are some pics of the room, buckets, lights. Please give imput.

 

[trenton]

I sure will. I really want to go all out on this one. 60 plants. I would like to to yield at least 6 pounds.

 

[stemseed]

if you're trying to pump out a lot on a regular basis i'd suggest SoG on hydro (search for Al B. Fuct), if you're just wanting to grow all 60 plants at once and start all over after that go with a standard soil grow. The way you grow is really up to you. Simple soul growing seems to be the best for a larger yeild at a slower pace.

Your biggest problem might be your temperature control. In the winter months, depending on where you live, you may need to use space heaters. Gerages can have very unpredictable temps even with the added insolation.

Make sure you understand nutrients, ph, ppm, etc. This knowledge will increase your yeild regardless.

Good luck, this should be a lot of work for such a large-scale grow, so i hope your efforts bring you lots o' bud

Stem

 

[jmac]

well u could split the room half for veg half for flower 2 lighs each for the sog.or just f it and grow some monsters nice area good luck i would prob go sog quickr turn around

 

[trenton]

Please explain to me in detail how SOG is a faster turn around. How much Faster?? Approx. how much yield per plant can i recieve using this method? Also, can I get big buds,,?Thanks I wil be doing this all on clones

I Live in california. It is garage that is pretty well insulated. The temp goes to approx 55 at nighttime. Im hoping that with a 4 1000 watts i can raise the temp in the 70s. I will get some space heaters if I have to.

 

[stemseed]

Please explain to me in detail how SOG is a faster turn around. How much Faster?? Approx. how much yield per plant can i recieve using this method? Also, can I get big buds,,?Thanks I wil be doing this all on clones

SoG means that there is a constant output of bud. Basicly you have plants that (usually every 2 weeks) go to a next step, starting from the newly cloned plants all the way up to end of flower. So you'll have buds ready to be harvested every 2 weeks.

See https://www.rollitup.org/hydroponics-aeroponics/6592-get-harvest-every-2-weeks.html


Edit: with what you have I'd say yo can get about 20 oz every 2 weeks on SoG, because it only matures the most potent mature top coalas and keeps the plant relitively small. If you wanted to grow all 60 plants at once you could output around 3 oz per plant depending on their height and the strain.

 

[stemseed]

I Live in california. It is garage that is pretty well insulated. The temp goes to approx 55 at nighttime. Im hoping that with a 4 1000 watts i can raise the temp in the 70s. I will get some space heaters if I have to.

Since this is such a big operation and because you're new, i'd suggest sticking with a simple soil grow for the first one without SoG. It'll teach you a lot and your risk of something going extremly wrong is much lower then with a hydro settup or with so much going on in a SoG.

Stem

 

[trenton]

Stem. I think you are right. I will only be in this house for 5 more months so 1 good normal grow is probably the way to go. Now we are talking a normal grow. 60 plants, 3 gallon pots. I will be going straight from rock wool cube clones into the 3 gallon pot soil. For the vegging how many pots can I fit under a 1000 watt metal halide. then for the flower hoe many can i fit under the 1000 watt hps. Thanks

 

[stemseed]

for all 60, you'll want to use both 1000w lights for full coverage of all plants. just change out bulbs when flowering starts

Edit - Don't forget to pick up some good reflective material, a roll of thick panda paper is good to hang down and help reflect as much light as possible back onto your plants - and for keeping out light when ur lights go off.

 

[trenton]

Stem I think there might be a misunderstanding. I have 4 1000 watt lights. 4 metal halide bulbs, and 4 hps bulbs. I also bought 2 thick rolls of 100'x4.5' Mylar...

 

[stemseed]

Well damn

Good luck.
Check out the FAQ. Should help with a lot of stuff. The molasses thread has good info on a nice soil nutrient mix.


https://www.rollitup.org/organics/17981-molasses-article-organic-goodness.html#post180698 (i just read it )
I'll be around,
Stem

 

[trenton]

Here are some update pics of my grow room. I have made a lot of progress since yesterday. Please give ideas on how to run my ducting from the 6 inch air cooled lights. I have no idea on how to do this. Thanks.

 

[one million]

Thats going to be one nice setup.

 

[wafflehouselover]

you will get 6 lbs easily, thats 1.5lb per light. Depending on how long you veg the plants and the care you give them will give you more yields. GL!

And i dont know dude, but i got a garage door also and its not really sealed good you might want to worry about light leakage and worst of all the smell, they can bring in the theives. GL!

 

[daddychrisg]

I will be sittin in on this one....If you have not done alot of research, you are about to hit hyper drive!

 

[CALIGROWN]

one thing i notice is i would probably eliminate like 8 pots from each container to give the ladies room to breath...but thats just me..

 

[CALIGROWN]

i would probably run the heat from the lights either into the room during the winter to keep the garage warm enough or into the house through the wall so there is no smell escaping. you can just cut a hole in the ceiling of the garage and run the hot air into the rafters..while pulling the air from either outside or from in the house..either one will be good..

 

[trenton]

CaliGrown, bad thing about the garage is that my bedroom is on top. hahaha. I have just begun the Mylar stage. Tomorrow I plan to completely seal off the garage door with duct tape and several layers of black visquin, then of course I will lay Mylar on top of that. All 4 walls will be completely covered in Mylar from top to bottom. This will be a soil grow. Only reason for the 4X8 flood tables is to catch the water that will possibly drain from the bottom of the plants, plus it's nice to have if I want to do a flood table set up someday. For the lights to be air cooled, I know I will need 6 Inch duct, fans, and I also want a carbon filter, I can put holes anywhere so with the pictures given please give me some ideas for that. I am in this house for
5 1/2 months and will be using rooted female clones of sour diesel. This will be a 1 time grow within that period and I want to grow some high yielding monsters. All advice is very appriciated and I will constantly add pictures with updates. Thanks.

 

[LoganSmith]

Wow... Nice set-up.

Is this the first time that you gave grown?

Here is one of mine (SD), the last one, I got 61g dried. This was just under a 600w hps.

Goood luck........... and keep us posted

 

[stemseed]

wow, if you veg those clones for 2 months... damn. they'd really be some monsters