My Largest Grow Thus Far Feel Free To Help!

[walkster220]

Yea man its cool Nameless no beef. One can say I'm quite unorthodox when it come to about anything(Period). I've been growing for 5 yrs and out of all those grows i never made an ideal environment for my plants.My area was either extremely hot or extremely cold.Temperatures were never regulated and as we all know your plants growth will be hindered. My attic isn't insulated temps shift dramatically and co2 would be useless. It would just go out the vents on the sides of the roof.So Finally I decided to take a Stand and Do the whole 25' x 60' attic.The whole attic was trashed at the beginning of the month. I'm starting from the front of the attic all the way back to the entrance, plus this is where always grew my ganja.The Clean area is temporarily being used to start the whole grow process being the tray with 80 flo plants that will be flowered after 2-3 weeks veg and the small tray of mother plants i will be using for clones for the multiflow setup, basically a large veg room right now.while the plants are growing i will be building and connecting the trashed part of the attic with Sheetrock and laying down a new sub floor in which an even floor is necessary with a multiflow system as i have learned.In the past i have used shims and other things to try to compensate for the large dip in my attic floor but was unsuccessful so i just started from scratch and said "fuck it I'll do the whole attic". please tell me you understand now

 

[Yes4Prop215]

i checked out your other thread...interesting to say the least....i put alot of thought into what i would do if i finally got a nice 1000 or 2000 sq ft to work with...


streamline and simplicity for large scale grows... i would go with 4x8 tables, 2 1kw in raptors overhead...ebb and flow...100 gal res under each table...line the tables into columns...really similar to desert squirrel..


also make sure you get that climate control in order...especially for an attic. that heat is gonna kill you especially running 9 lights in an already hot 90 degreess room....i would upgrade past 14k btu to be honest...maybe dual mini splits..

invest ALOT of money in your electrical and AC, maybe go sealed...you dont want to throw in a bunch of plants then realize you need an AC and then realize you dont have enogh circuits to support a massive AC (happened to me lol)...

im not a fan of attics...the ambiet heat makes it hard to control temps....

 

[walkster220]

Your absolutely right about the heat issue in the attic Prop215 its a bitch. I said 14000 btus will work because the large area is going to be split into 3 when its time considering the flip flop box during flowering and each section will have its own ac. I would definitely love to get a 3 zone mini split but no can do right now i will get that next round i used that money to actually build the attic space. They're on Ebay for like $2500.Plus if temps really become unbearable i have 24k btu hampton bay windows ac that only needs freon which i took out because it was so huge and was drawing attention.

 

[nameless]

yeah man that makes total sense, i was lucky enough to not have to build a sub room for any of my grows im sure thats pretty hard when your trying to get going at the same time. and your for sure gonna need more ac. is that other unit a window unit? maybe you could make a box for it so it wouldnt have to sit in the window for everyone to see/hear.

 

[walkster220]

The 24k btu window unit weighs like 150 Lbs man its "Huge Man".
The finished area of the the attic measures 15' x 18'.Withe the portable 10k ac temps reach at max 91 degrees and that's with 1600w without being air cooled so when i tweak everything i the ill be okay with a 14k portable in each area.

 

[walkster220]

Just wanted to update you guys about the veg room. 1 day after transplant to coco and first feeding the plants love there new home leaves are sticking straight up.I will apply Calcarb and VHO in a few days.