New grow room. No more tent.

City_Farmer · Oct 18, 2020

So I have recently decided to get rid of the tent. This being said I've decided to add a 600 watt hps ontop of my existing 2 1000 watt hps. Do you think I could cool all 3 hoods if I use 2 inlines, one on either side. I'm running 4 strains from greenpoint seeds. 6 of each. 6x punch bubble. 6x lemon tree punch. 6x purple crunch. 6x ice cream punch. Germinating in rockwool. Then into a 1 gallon pot for each cube. The gallon will consist of 50/50 coco coir and fox farms ocean forest. Once the plants grow out of that I will transplant them into a 5 gallon of ocean forest. I have a bag of natures living soils super soil organic concentrate. Its a small bag meant for like 5 5 gallon pots. I will be trying it on 24 not 5 so it will be very lite on the mix. I don't want to make my soil to hot. Below is a picture of my room before its finished. I still need to put up my 3rd light and my filter.

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RonnieB2 · Oct 18, 2020

I use q grow room but have been wanting a tent to have different grows at once. Photoperiod in the tent and something else outside the tent like autoflowering plants. Im thinking 5x5 in size. I figure thats an ideal size. Are tents that big of a pain in the ass?

City_Farmer · Oct 18, 2020

RonnieB2 said:
I use q grow room but have been wanting a tent to have different grows at once. Photoperiod in the tent and something else outside the tent like autoflowering plants. Im thinking 5x5 in size. I figure thats an ideal size. Are tents that big of a pain in the ass?

They are actually kinda nice. More control over the environment buuuuuut. They are a pain to put together

RonnieB2 · Oct 18, 2020

City_Farmer said:
They are actually kinda nice. More control over the environment buuuuuut. They are a pain to put together

I believe that

JoeBlow5823 · Oct 18, 2020

They make it a little harder to tend to the garden as well but the benefits of the tent make it well worth it for me.

City_Farmer · Oct 18, 2020

You almost need double the tent size to assemble

pulpoinspace · Oct 18, 2020

did you decide to get rid of the tent cause you couldn't put it together? you lose a lot of reflected light not having a tent. and you're sure that room will be completely dark at lights off?

pulpoinspace · Oct 18, 2020

as for your plans, sounds great. rockwool>1gal>5gal is perfect. amending FFOF with super soil is gonna make a really hot mix.

If i was gonna offer any advice it would be keep it simple. start with 1 strain. do you have a water source that is reasonably clear and neutral pH?

JoeBlow5823 · Oct 18, 2020

pulpoinspace said:
and you're sure that room will be completely dark at lights off?

Not to mention are you sure you will never accidentally leave a light on. And yeah, reflected light is extremely important especially growing with bulbs.

JoeBlow5823 · Oct 18, 2020

pulpoinspace said:
amending FFOF with super soil is gonna make a really hot mix.

Adding a shitload of perlite would help with that and is necessary anyway. Could mix some coco/promix in too. Also depends what he is calling "super soil". Some of the bagged soil that is being touted as "super" is pretty much the same as FFOF.

.Smoke · Oct 18, 2020

I passively cool a 4'x8' running 2.6kW HPS using 2- 8" 720cfm fans.

One on the lights, the other just pulling air/heat.

City_Farmer · Oct 19, 2020

All good things to consider. The room is 100% dark. I have a few layers over windows and the door is super tight. I think your right with the soil too. I'll probably hold off on that.

City_Farmer · Oct 19, 2020

Room update View attachment 20201019_035013.jpg

Now just need to put filters on.
And the reason I don't like the tent is more of a personal reason that I would be willing to sacrifice the benefit to please my obsession to have things a little more open and free

City_Farmer · Oct 19, 2020

.Smoke said:
I passively cool a 4'x8' running 2.6kW HPS using 2- 8" 720cfm fans.
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One on the lights, the other just pulling air/heat.

Thats awesome I like that

City_Farmer · Oct 19, 2020

JoeBlow5823 said:
Adding a shitload of perlite would help with that and is necessary anyway. Could mix some coco/promix in too. Also depends what he is calling "super soil". Some of the bagged soil that is being touted as "super" is pretty much the same as FFOF.

Noted will definitely make some changes

TheManicOrganicDK · Oct 19, 2020

City_Farmer said:
You almost need double the tent size to assemble

Oh no, not at all. :-)

Just need 5 cm in the top and 60-70 cm in front.
I just put up an Secret Jardin DR240 ( 240x240x200 ), in a room thats 260x330x205. But granted, if you check the Secrtet Jardin "how to assemble", it looks like a LOT of room is needed, but they sukk at assembly. lol

City_Farmer · Oct 19, 2020

TheManicOrganicDK said:
Oh no, not at all. Just need 5 cm in the top and 60-70 cm in front.
I just put up an Secret Jardin DR240 ( 240x240x200 ), in a room thats 260x330x205. But granted, if you check the Secrtet Jardin "how to assemble", it looks like a LOT of room is needed, but they sukk at assembly. lol

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Lol good lord I need your help it seems like

City_Farmer · Oct 19, 2020

How do you thumbs up and shut on reaction

TheManicOrganicDK · Oct 19, 2020

City_Farmer said:
How do you thumbs up and shut on reaction

You gotta get rewarded some trophy points for that =

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Edit says : Found the right answer, edited out previous blabber. lol

City_Farmer · Oct 19, 2020

I'll be updating this weekly. From when my beans pop to harvest. I got 4 greenpointseeds strains. I'm not anywhere close to being able to give advice myself but can atheist finish a grow. Maybe not with stellar yields but ill have a harvest. That being said I am very open to advice and would gladly to any criticism to heart.

Don't hesitate to give me some pointer as this grow plays out. Thanks in advance for the help and thanks for the advice I've already gotten. Like my soon to be too hot of soil. That stopped me from mixing and possibly wasting my resources. Idk I'm blabbering.

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