I'm in the research phase of developing a new grow room and I hope you guys can help out. I have a 13ft wide room by 14ft long. Given this dimension I can fit more trays if I use the 3x3 trays, but then heating becomes an issue because if I need one light per tray, that would mean I would need around 10 to 11 lights total. Is this too many lights given the size of my room and how big of an AC unit I would need to cool it?
Indoor Lighting Question, How much is too much?
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I'm going to build a full size replica of the empire state building in my bedroom. How many steel beams will I need? And after I cut all the steel beams with my hacksaw, can I use a pop rivet gun from wallmart, or will I need to rivet them together at all? Maybe I can just balance them with gravity?
Sorry man couldn't resist. You need to look in the grow journals for the most popular and most successful grows similar to your room size and budget, and copy someones successful setup. Start there, there is no shortcut.
Sorry man couldn't resist. You need to look in the grow journals for the most popular and most successful grows similar to your room size and budget, and copy someones successful setup. Start there, there is no shortcut.
light movers and LED*
*Yes they work as long as you buy from a good company, the downside is they cost about $2-3 upfront for each watt the light uses an hour (a true 180w LED should cost 360-540). The sweet part is they can grow more pot watt for watt than HID and produce about 80% less heat watt for watt (my 395w panel grows better than my 400w HPS and yeah WAY WAY WAY less heat)
growledhydro and blackstar and Isis LEDs are all good (personally I think GLH is the best for the money, but blackstar is the best for cheap). Don't get more than 50w of LED per sq foot of floor, and to do as well as 50w of HID you should aim for about 35w per sq. foot of floor
*Yes they work as long as you buy from a good company, the downside is they cost about $2-3 upfront for each watt the light uses an hour (a true 180w LED should cost 360-540). The sweet part is they can grow more pot watt for watt than HID and produce about 80% less heat watt for watt (my 395w panel grows better than my 400w HPS and yeah WAY WAY WAY less heat)
growledhydro and blackstar and Isis LEDs are all good (personally I think GLH is the best for the money, but blackstar is the best for cheap). Don't get more than 50w of LED per sq foot of floor, and to do as well as 50w of HID you should aim for about 35w per sq. foot of floor