250w SOG(Ikea Closet)

[mmg]

This is also posted on Cabinet Designs, but I were told that I might have more luck posting here!


Hi again ICMag. I hope you have not tired with me already.

A few weeks later, and I'm almost sure of my cabinet design. But my finger can't get itself to press the saw untill I've gotten your approval!

Important info:

Flowering room have the dimensions: H:54" W:31" D:19.2"
and will be running a 250w HPS in a cooltube

Veg room have the dimensions: H:42,3" W:22,8" D:19,2"
and will be running a 125w CFL in a reflector


I live in Denmark, and the winter temps are around 17 degrees and a max of 85 in the summers. Northern-european climate. Our normal pests are fungus gnat and spidermites.


I might be stupid or something, but I can not for the life of me understand or calc with the spreadsheets provided by the otherwise really amazing guides here. I have studied and studied, and I still am as far from deciding on a vent as I were 1month ago. If anyone could perhaps try and give me an estimate with my input of the CFM needed. It's all the variables and my lack of basic schooling that has led me here. The T-piece, the split passive intakes and the passive room-to-room intake really has me baffled.



My local hydro store has ventilation systems, but the staff are not trained in anything but smoking the pot.

Here's the link to my local hydro shop, and the fans that they offer.

Click to view all fans(Translated)

Mixed In-Line Vent, 125 mm

Mixed In-Line Vent, 125 mm incl. cord with safety plug: 220/280 m³ / h Includes IEC connector, switch and wall mount 2 speed Power: 28/38 W Current: 0.19 / 0.26 A Dimensions: 257 x 175 x 208 mm

Ventilution Mixed In-Line, with built-in control & thermostat 6"

- Productivity: 220/280 m³ / h
- Temperature range: 20-30 ° C
- Revolutions: 2.400/2.500 rpm
- Consument current: 0.19 / 0.26 A
- Power: 23/37 W
- Supply voltage: 230 V ~ 50 Hz
- Pressure: 107/138 Pa.
- Sound level: 27/32 dBA, 3 m
- Water-proof, according to the IPX44


These are just some of the options avail. I would pay the extra cash and go higher cfm, if it means that I can remove some dBs by lowering the fan speed




Hope you guys got time to help, I reaaaally want to get some ladies flowering

 

[JackReddin]

Built in thermostat wont be needed.Cheaper inline, 300 cfm with a dimmer switch to dial in temps. You will be running the fan 24-7.Blow through your air cooled hood to avoid sucking in unscrubbed air. Just my opinion but, if it was me, for such a small area of space maximize flower area and ditch veg chamber. 3 medium sized plants under 2 250w in the 54 x 19 space.

 

[mmg]

Noted about the thermo, I got the one without. So you're basically saying I need two scrubbers? One for the air in, and one for the air out? Wouldn't a HEPA filter be more appropiate for filtering the incoming air? Or did I misunderstand that?

Regarding the flowering room and veg room combining, that is actually on my to-do list, but it's a bit further out in the future. I'm gonna to need an additional 250w kit and additional vent for the cooltube chain, and I got a guy flying all that stuff in from China soon. Top quality, cheap prices. So it might already happen next month

And yeah, I don't like the 3 medium sized plant idea. I doubt I'm gonna run plants without SOG, before I get room for a vert grow, and even then it's probably not going to happen. I'd rather have pure bud-sickles and harvest 50% less yield monthly, compared to having 50% of your buds being popcornish. I'm not that heavy of a smoker, so yield is lower priority, I'd just like to be able to provide my friends with perfect nugs every time

 

[b8man]

Hepa filter is more than sufficient for intake - I used to use mosquito netting and neem oil on the plants to deal with bugs.

I've done a fair few drobes in my time and your setup depends on your finding a great plant to use as a mother. Do you have access to a clone or are you doing it from seed? If you're going to hunt for a good plant then I'd remove the veg section and grow 3 plants and re-veg them while you assess the smoke and the ease of the grow. Then you can grow out your keeper and fine tune your setup to make it perpetual. Some strains you'll always have good results but the outstanding ones are what it's all about.

Otherwise, looks good. A bigger fan and a speed controller is always the best option. 4" would have been enough, I'd get 5".

 

[mmg]

Hepa filter is more than sufficient for intake - I used to use mosquito netting and neem oil on the plants to deal with bugs.

I've done a fair few drobes in my time and your setup depends on your finding a great plant to use as a mother. Do you have access to a clone or are you doing it from seed? If you're going to hunt for a good plant then I'd remove the veg section and grow 3 plants and re-veg them while you assess the smoke and the ease of the grow. Then you can grow out your keeper and fine tune your setup to make it perpetual. Some strains you'll always have good results but the outstanding ones are what it's all about.

Otherwise, looks good. A bigger fan and a speed controller is always the best option. 4" would have been enough, I'd get 5".

Hi B8man. Thanks for your input, it's greatly appreciated.

I recieved 5 Critical Kush seeds, 4 of them turned out stretchy in veg, but one of them is so lovely deep green, very close nodes and the veg-smell is by far superior to the other 4 It's also 1-3" lower than the rest. My OG Kush stretched a lot, but I've been told that it's common for OG Kush. I only had 1 seed, so I'm pretty stuck with that pheno on the OG.

But I did take clones from all the Critical Kushes before I put them in bloom, so I can test how they perform in bloom, and I'm not getting rid of any clones before all "moms" have been tested So I guess I did the right thing there?

I got the 5", so I can put the speed control in later Atm the heat is pretty intense(78 is HOT here) , so looks like I'm already set as it is. But won't hurt to get a cooltube with a fan, so I can lower the speed on the bigger one, while getting the bulb closer to the plants. It's also a tad noisy.



ps: To anyone not used to Alg-A-Mic(Seaweed Extract), don't foliar feed that shit inside, my house smells like a day at the beach, without any semi-naked skanks to make up for the smell of rotting seaweed

 

[Yaxo]

could you post the type of ikea closet you used ? I've been looking for one for some time, but just can't seem to find a model that fits a growers needs...

 

[mmg]

could you post the type of ikea closet you used ? I've been looking for one for some time, but just can't seem to find a model that fits a growers needs...

Mine's called Dombås. Or Dombas if you live in a country without æ/ø/å

Hope it helps

 

[TexMex McDirt]

Off to a good start there. Love that fan with the built in controls, wish mine had that. Good luck!

Mahalo,
Tex