Grow Tent Design Help

reddevil2576

Active Member
I am going to be a first time grower and I have a basic design idea for a grow tent that i would like some input on. Any help would be much appreciated although i am still on the design step and it will be a little while until the final product is in working order. The tent for the whole set up is a closet organizer that is 36" wide x 20" deep x 78.75" high.
There is a left side to it that is 4 separate compartments from top to bottom that are about 12" wide x 20" deep x 19" high. With this side i would like to have two different mother plants in two different compartments and one compartment for clones and the final compartment to hold my supplies (soil, ph-, pots that kind of thing).
On the right side to this thing there are two compartments one on the top on on the bottom for placing clothes on hangers so ill use the hanger bars to hang my lights. Those compartments are 24" wide x 20" deep x 39" high. i would like these rooms to be my budding rooms. I was thinking about getting a hps/mh ballast sett-up so that i can put the clones in this room when they have a good rooting system and continue to grow them with the mh and set up a scrog in each of the right rooms. Then when there ready switch them to budding. I'm not wanting to do anything huge just some 175mh and 150hps.
My question is do you think these rooms will be enough room for what i'm wanting to do? Any help will be much appreciated. I will give rep to those who help.
 

fabfun

New Member
I am going to be a first time grower and I have a basic design idea for a grow tent that i would like some input on. Any help would be much appreciated although i am still on the design step and it will be a little while until the final product is in working order. The tent for the whole set up is a closet organizer that is 36" wide x 20" deep x 78.75" high.
There is a left side to it that is 4 separate compartments from top to bottom that are about 12" wide x 20" deep x 19" high. With this side i would like to have two different mother plants in two different compartments and one compartment for clones and the final compartment to hold my supplies (soil, ph-, pots that kind of thing).
On the right side to this thing there are two compartments one on the top on on the bottom for placing clothes on hangers so ill use the hanger bars to hang my lights. Those compartments are 24" wide x 20" deep x 39" high. i would like these rooms to be my budding rooms. I was thinking about getting a hps/mh ballast sett-up so that i can put the clones in this room when they have a good rooting system and continue to grow them with the mh and set up a scrog in each of the right rooms. Then when there ready switch them to budding. I'm not wanting to do anything huge just some 175mh and 150hps.
My question is do you think these rooms will be enough room for what i'm wanting to do? Any help will be much appreciated. I will give rep to those who help.
you really need to post a pic or link of this tent so we can help hard for me to visualize it might just me though lol

but be glad to hep u in anyway bro:mrgreen:
 

reddevil2576

Active Member
lol sweet I was wanting some input before I bought it but ill buy it Friday and put up some pics I'm set on wanting to do it. its the best idea I've come up with so far. so two days and you'll have some pics.
 

fabfun

New Member
haha what did u delete ?
i tried to select all your link to parte to show u it was dead and deleted it when i seen it made it almost a page long lol
 

fabfun

New Member
by time u light proof it and other stuff why not just make a plywood box
or find a cheap used wardrobe cabinet
 

reddevil2576

Active Member
cause this already has all the shelves in it i figure i gotta put up mylar everywhere anyways ill just tape it or hot glue it to the bars and itll seal up the light that way. And i don't know anyone with a used wardrobe
 

kushnotbush

Well-Known Member
How do you plan to block light from your veg area from getting into your flower area? Do you know if that wardrobe is light tight? I don't think that will be worth the amount of time and effort it will take to make that light tight. IMHO I would look at ordering a tent online or perhaps using some 2x4's and some panda film, building a tent yourself. JMO though, I am not trying to discourage you, just want you to start out with the "right stuff."
KnB
good luck and happy growing!
 

fabfun

New Member
cause this already has all the shelves in it i figure i gotta put up mylar everywhere anyways ill just tape it or hot glue it to the bars and itll seal up the light that way. And i don't know anyone with a used wardrobe
im sure it would work but still leak light
i know others used them
but if u dont use a cooltube to hot and im would rather use cardboard box then that fire risk
unless u use cfls
 

fabfun

New Member
How do you plan to block light from your veg area from getting into your flower area? Do you know if that wardrobe is light tight? I don't think that will be worth the amount of time and effort it will take to make that light tight. IMHO I would look at ordering a tent online or perhaps using some 2x4's and some panda film, building a tent yourself. JMO though, I am not trying to discourage you, just want you to start out with the "right stuff."
KnB
good luck and happy growing!
thank you u beat me to the post button im a slower typer lol
op listen to him
 

Nusky

New Member
I was just going to buy some PVC pipe and build a skeleton for the tent then just throw mylar over it and tape it up. Now though I'm just going to take the mylar and staple it to the ceiling in the corner of the room.

just two ideas
 

kushnotbush

Well-Known Member
No problem. FYI I think you can get panda film and 2x4's for the 40 dollars you will spend on this. Instead of just having one tent, you could build a large tall tent for flower and a smaller shorter tent for veg. It may not look as nice on the outside but you can definitely make panda film tents light tight.
KnB
 
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