Engineer502
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Hey all,
First post, and it's a big one. Myself and a few friends applied to produce and process cannabis under Washington I-502 laws and I'd like to get your input into the best grow system. We have access to part of a warehouse with about a 25'x45' shop space, reaching 18' at its peak. The other part of the warehouse is packed with offices that we can also utilize. Within a year, we'll be able to expand into another part of the building, doubling all the space available. We have southern exposure and are thinking about putting up a greenhouse behind the building, too. Here's a pic (ignore the tables!).
We figure that the 25'x45'x18' space should be used as a double-decker flowering area (where all the tables are in the photo). Specifically, we could split the lower level into three 12'x24' grows and build a deck on top of that to support another set of flowering rooms. The plan is to outfit each room with HPS, CO2, circulating fans, HVAC and filtered exhaust.
There's a pretty good sized office downstairs, 15'x22', which we plan to use as a veg room. There, we plan on using LED + T5 with all the vegging plants on small commercial shelving. There a few offices upstairs that are slated for plant processing.
Everything is planned to be deep water culture. Plants will veg in the downstairs office, then be relocated to a flowering room.
As you can see, there's nothing revolutionary here - pretty standard grow. If this is the way to go, so be it, but I'm wondering if you guys have any creative ideas for really cranking up the grow density. I've seen the stuff some of you guys come up with and it's mind-blowing.
We've got a decent budget and a lot of technical expertise behind us (a couple of techies and one grow guy). At the end of the day, it's just about producing the most high quality bud we can. Our grow guy is a real go-getter, but he's used to DWC closet grows. None of us have done this on a large scale and we're a bit concerned that basically just scaling up a closet operation with a few extra bells and whistles may work, but it won't be optimal.
LED vs HPS, DWC vs SCROG, vertical grows, rotary grows, etc etc .. lots of options.
So the question is .. with a healthy budget, technical workforce and free reign in this building, what would you do? Thanks!
First post, and it's a big one. Myself and a few friends applied to produce and process cannabis under Washington I-502 laws and I'd like to get your input into the best grow system. We have access to part of a warehouse with about a 25'x45' shop space, reaching 18' at its peak. The other part of the warehouse is packed with offices that we can also utilize. Within a year, we'll be able to expand into another part of the building, doubling all the space available. We have southern exposure and are thinking about putting up a greenhouse behind the building, too. Here's a pic (ignore the tables!).
We figure that the 25'x45'x18' space should be used as a double-decker flowering area (where all the tables are in the photo). Specifically, we could split the lower level into three 12'x24' grows and build a deck on top of that to support another set of flowering rooms. The plan is to outfit each room with HPS, CO2, circulating fans, HVAC and filtered exhaust.
There's a pretty good sized office downstairs, 15'x22', which we plan to use as a veg room. There, we plan on using LED + T5 with all the vegging plants on small commercial shelving. There a few offices upstairs that are slated for plant processing.
Everything is planned to be deep water culture. Plants will veg in the downstairs office, then be relocated to a flowering room.
As you can see, there's nothing revolutionary here - pretty standard grow. If this is the way to go, so be it, but I'm wondering if you guys have any creative ideas for really cranking up the grow density. I've seen the stuff some of you guys come up with and it's mind-blowing.
We've got a decent budget and a lot of technical expertise behind us (a couple of techies and one grow guy). At the end of the day, it's just about producing the most high quality bud we can. Our grow guy is a real go-getter, but he's used to DWC closet grows. None of us have done this on a large scale and we're a bit concerned that basically just scaling up a closet operation with a few extra bells and whistles may work, but it won't be optimal.
LED vs HPS, DWC vs SCROG, vertical grows, rotary grows, etc etc .. lots of options.
So the question is .. with a healthy budget, technical workforce and free reign in this building, what would you do? Thanks!
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