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Looking to set up my first serious indoor setup. Overall space I have to work with is 5w x 10L x 8ft tall although I can make it a little bigger if needed. My goal is just to grow for myself and to be able to grow the plants and smoke of my preference. I have a rough idea of what I'd like to do and I'd greatly appreciate any input from the experienced growers here.

I would like to be able to grow and flower 6-8 plants and eventually get to the point where I have ~4 mother plants of some stuff that I want to keep around. That way I can grow the staples but still have some room in the 6-8 plant side to run a couple fresh beans.

Does the above sound possible with a 5 x 10 space? Would a 5x6 side be enough to veg and flower 6-8 plants, and a 5x4 side be large enough to keep around 4 mothers and some clones and/or seedlings?

Sure that’d work, you just have to make sure no light leaks into the flowering side during lights out. If you’re good at hooking clones the veg side could be smaller too. I take clones from my plants right before I flip. As long as they hook I don’t need to keep other moms around.

oodawg said:

Looking to set up my first serious indoor setup. Overall space I have to work with is 5w x 10L x 8ft tall although I can make it a little bigger if needed. My goal is just to grow for myself and to be able to grow the plants and smoke of my preference. I have a rough idea of what I'd like to do and I'd greatly appreciate any input from the experienced growers here.

I would like to be able to grow and flower 6-8 plants and eventually get to the point where I have ~4 mother plants of some stuff that I want to keep around. That way I can grow the staples but still have some room in the 6-8 plant side to run a couple fresh beans.

Does the above sound possible with a 5 x 10 space? Would a 5x6 side be enough to veg and flower 6-8 plants, and a 5x4 side be large enough to keep around 4 mothers and some clones and/or seedlings?

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5 x 8 is great space for 8 big ish plants.... your probably gonna want a 2.5 x 4 foot tent for mothers and clones on the side. I would just buy 2 tents.

In the 5x8 I would use 8 hlg qb96 elites or 4 of the long thin Mars hydro boards.

You'll need a heater and 2x wall mounted oscillating fans for that space

50 sq ft will need about 1,750W (or more) of light.

Have fun

oill said:

5 x 8 is great space for 8 big ish plants.... your probably gonna want a 2.5 x 4 foot tent for mothers and clones on the side. I would just buy 2 tents.

In the 5x8 I would use 8 hlg qb96 elites or 4 of the long thin Mars hydro boards.

You'll need a heater and 2x wall mounted oscillating fans for that space

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Or he could get a 2 in 1 tent

I was thinking about just framing in a new room inside my office instead of the tent route. Pros of tent is I could bring g them anywhere if I was to move. Which is not foreseeable. Any cons to building a room vs setting up a tent?

If you think of saving money as a con. It’s way cheaper to frame up a wall in a room that size and it’s super easy to boot.

Coldnasty said:

If you think of saving money as a con. It’s way cheaper to frame up a wall in a room that size and it’s super easy to boot.

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Yup, I have enough scrap 2x4 to frame it. Debating on drywall or putting putting up whiteboard material. Could the whiteboard create hotspots?

oill said:

5 x 8 is great space for 8 big ish plants.... your probably gonna want a 2.5 x 4 foot tent for mothers and clones on the side. I would just buy 2 tents.

In the 5x8 I would use 8 hlg qb96 elites or 4 of the long thin Mars hydro boards.

You'll need a heater and 2x wall mounted oscillating fans for that space

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Mother's take up a lot of space. Unless you are a very large grow you can get what clones you need from underskirts you trim at 2 weeks into flower. Hth

oodawg said:

I was thinking about just framing in a new room inside my office instead of the tent route. Pros of tent is I could bring g them anywhere if I was to move. Which is not foreseeable. Any cons to building a room vs setting up a tent?

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Pros of tents are... comes with places to hang everything... Good reflective material. Places to tie netting. Places to mount fans. Ventilation holes already cut. The area is as small as you need so easier to control heat.

Obvious down side is cost... but saves a load of hastle

Idk. I have a few tents that weren’t cheap and the only thing I use them for is drying( They are actually great for this use) I think tents are great for people who don’t have the option to run an actual room or are running like multiple small setups for breeding purposes or whatever. Other than specific cases like that in my opinion, having done both. Room> tent.

Alrighty back to the indoor project... learned a lot from my outdoor grow, mainy that it was very hard for me to dry trim and cure the 4 plants that I had and I probably don't need to take on more than that at one time for now...

That said I've decide on downsizing my room to 4x4x8 and run 4 plants start to finish. I have the room to add another 4x4 later if I want to run a separate veg and flower room.

For lighting I am going with a 600W Mh/hps double ended fixture.

For fresh air exchange is where it's a little foggy, it's hard to gage a good cfm for the exhaust fan as the ratings come down to filters and bends and whatnot. From what I'm reading it looks like around 215cfm is good for a 4x4. However the bulk of fans are 4inch~200cfm or 6inch~400cfm. Is there a better way to go here. Do some prefer to run a lower cfm constantly or have a higher cfm run intermittently?

Then on in to the air intake, I was wanting to go with a passive intake with a replaceable filter for dust and whatnot. If I got with a 4 inch exhaust, what size passive intake to maintain proper cfm? 6 inch exhaust? Looking at some square black room lightproof vents buy they get pricey when they get up there in size. Is there a good diy design or other commercial options yall are using?

IIRC Min 3 times the size for passive intake,so 4" is what 12.5 sq inches so x 3 of total openings.You can have them broken up into 2-3 different spots.

Edit math lol.