My first room

Hey everyone I am looking for some advice.

The room I am using is 14'x14'x8'

Electrician came and wired me a line directly to my house breaker. I had him put in a supply panel in the room with two 40 AMP breakers for the lights, there are 4 220V outlets on each, and a 20 AMP breaker for my eight 110V outlets. Lord, please down let me burn my house down.
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I had sticky vinyl look a like tile put on the floor, installed ducking for the two windows, and installed a door seal. I also added weatherstripping which is not completely working right now due to air leaking out of door seal. Too much air coming in to the room I guess.

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You can see my really bad attempt at sound treating the door and door frame. I bought some egg shell type sound material off a guy on CL. I paid too much but whatever. I screwed it into the door with drywall screws.

I hung the reflectors, and haven't figured out what to do with the ballast, I really don't want to put more holes in the walls or ceiling. I have had to screw in quite a few holes that I didn't end up using because I am still learning how to build this thing.

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Everything is ducted in with 6" insulated ducting. I used Gorilla Tape, which is by far the best ever. They deserve an award at that company.

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In the main room, I am planning on using 2 1000w HPS Bulbs. I am running a copy of a Vortex inline fan I bought on eBay for $90 for the air intake. It is much louder than the real Vortex 6" 449 CFM I have hooked up to vent the lights. The Vortex is pulling the air from the two lights and venting out the window. The air intake for it doesn't have a fan on it. I have the fake Vortex fan pulling air in the room for general ventilation.

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I hooked up a carbon filter with another Vortex that is a 6" 235 CFM. This is suppossed to pull all the air out of the 12'x12'x8' room. I guess I better buy another Vortex 6" 449 CFM. Maybe use a dimmer switch for the fake Vortex to bring the fan speed down enough to have negative air pressure. I am concerned about the fan maybe burning out or worse even causing a fire with a dimmer on the line.

I hung all this using picture frame wire for the ducting, bungee cords for the fans, those adjustable light hangers I got at the hydro store. I found all the studs and screwed in nice heavy duty hooks.

For the farming area, I went with four 3'x3' trays with the reservoir below. I figure I can use net pots and get 16 plants in each tray that would be 64 total in the main room.

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The closet has T-5s on the top for clones and I am going to use a 400w below for vegging. I figure that should be sufficent. I will mask it off later and have to add some fans for airflow.

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To start I will have everything in the main room, load up the trays slowly, then build a mothers room vegging. Once I am maxed out with plants then flip the switch and flower once. By this time I hope to have the mothers room producing and I can start rotating things to have a perpetual harvest. That is the plan anyway.


Please help me by answering some questions.

1. What am I doing wrong?
2. Too much power a bad thing?
3. Do you see fire hazards?
4. How can I improve?

Thank you in advance and sorry about the blurry pictures, can only use my iPhone.

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Well, I know I'm a noob but I would really like peoples input.
Please comment...

Hi ya Wannabe .... From what i read this room has had a lot of thought put into it so far ... But im only seeing attachment links .. not pics ... dunno why ?

I can answer this one >> 3. Do you see fire hazards?

No one can say for sure ....BUT .... What common sence says is this .... Your dealing with lots of heat ..power and water / moisture .....Check everything every few days ... ALLWAYS have a smoke alarm inside and outside the room .... allways have a fire extigushier at hand near the OUTSIDE of the room ...and know your escape routes if you needed to do it in the dark at night in your boxer shorts ...

Now with that said it all sounds kind of scary .... be conserned about safty ... but dont worry over it ... you seem pretty clued up so just check and check again and be ready for the worst ..... Chances are VERY slim ... but not impossible

Sort your pics out im dieing to see this room

Good luck with your grow man

V

V,

Thank you for responding. Hopefully you can see these pictures.

I don't own a fire extinguisher yet. I will buy one shortly.

I turned on one of my 1000w for vegging. The temps are staying around 75 at night and 78 during the day. Humidity is 50-55. I don't know if that is good or bad. I seem to have enough air flow. I have 5 little seedlings started out of 10 seeds, 5 died. I am learning so we'll see where this goes. I am going to buy 20 seeds to get a jump on things.

Please let me know what you see and think.

WBF

wannabefarmer said:

V,

Thank you for responding. Hopefully you can see these pictures.

I don't own a fire extinguisher yet. I will buy one shortly.

I turned on one of my 1000w for vegging. The temps are staying around 75 at night and 78 during the day. Humidity is 50-55. I don't know if that is good or bad. I seem to have enough air flow. I have 5 little seedlings started out of 10 seeds, 5 died. I am learning so we'll see where this goes. I am going to buy 20 seeds to get a jump on things.

Please let me know what you see and think.

WBF

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Hi Ya WBF

Sorry i took so long to reply i have been busy and just re-found this post

Wow your room looks awesome man .... I can tell by looking that you really have payed attention to detail , You allso have some really heavy duty kit there ..timers and and the breaker box are awesome ... I LOVE this room , You have done a great job

Only one thing that stands out ( not really a big deal i don't think ) But maybe a bit more reflective material around the actual grow site ? ...Other than that i would LOVE a room with a nice safe power set up like this ... Godd Job man ...

V

You did right by using an electrician and having a dedicated breaker box just for your grow room. Looks safe.
Nice set-up. Good luck.

Well, here is my update.

These pictures are upside down. I can't figure out how to rotate them.

This is how I set up the vent system; I have two inputs of air into the room. One 6" insulated duct goes into the two lights from a T. The other feeds outside air unfiltered into the room. The outputs are two vents as well, one from the lights and one from a carbon filter in the room. However, I also had to hook up an AC venting hot unfiltered air directly outside. I have to find a better way so all air going out is filtered or the neighbors will be enjoying hot smelly air all the time during the summer. Any ideas? I also want to be able to hook up another vent into the closet are eventually. I will have to filter this output as well.

You can see some Bubble, and Jack Horror growing. I think I am at 7 weeks now on the Bubble. I know that these are not very big though. I also have a bunch of Bubble clones in one tray that I tried to make tonight. I hope they pull though at my first attempt at cloning.

I have something going on with some leaves they are curling up, I think too much water but I am feeding like every three days.

I got my temps under control since it is not blazing hot right now. Humidity seems to be good right?

I don't know if my growing medium is good or whatever, don't really know how to pack them.

Also take a look at my cool rolling trays. These things are convienient because I can slide it out and mess with the res. I will eventually have four of them with 16 plants in each. Then my closet...

Suggestions?

Also can I put my ballast like that on a cinder block? Will I have any problems with that? Heat?