Help with a 2000Sqft Grow Room Design

[vangaurd]

hey guys,

I have a opportunity to design and build a 2000sqft growing facility. As it stands right now I am in the designing phase and going to see if any of you would like to chime in and voice some of your personal opinions. Here is some of the details that you might like to know.

-Budget is unlimited as this is only designing
-2000 square feet in an existing facility
-99 plant count with 9 being mothers
-perpetual harvest every 4-5 weeks
-mix of lighting to include Hps & Magnetic Induction
-this will be a SOIL Grow operation

Please let your imagination go with this and think outside of the box.

Thanks guys!

 

[SoSour]

My first suggestion would be to ditch the soil, lol.

 

[vangaurd]

Thanks for the suggestion SoSour but as the funding source demands soil this is what they will get.

 

[Hundred Gram Oz]

The plant count sucks but what ya gonna do. If there was no plant count restrictions then I'd suggest a large SOG with 25-30 plants per light, sealed room, Co2, Air con, dehuey etc but in this situation you are going to have to grow trees. I really don't see any other way to utilize the space that you have with 90 flowering plants. 2000sqf divided by 90 (plants) works out to 22sqf per plant....take away your mom and veg area and that would workout to around 16sqf +/- per flowering plant. So each plant will have a 4x4 area. I can't see any better option than to rock out a vertical bare bulb tree grow op, Krusty style.

Have you thought about that?

Peace,
HGO

 

[early_bird]

That is not enough information to make suggestions i would say. Sounds are you not really prepared for that. What is you experience ?
You should do some work on your own and come with specific questions.

- Are there heat issues ?
- Do you need to heat the room during the winter ?
- You plan to have some stuff looking and caring for plants or do you think more about a fire-and-forget setup where is everything works as much automatic as possible ?
- What style of growing are you considering (huge plants, sog, SCROG?) ?
- Different plants or just one variety ?
- CO2 or not, etc, etc.
- Why is there a 99 Plant Limit, sounds weired ?

 

[Granger2]

Go here for ideas.
http://www.botanicare.com/Grow-Room-Layouts.aspx

With a 99 plant restriction, I don't think I'd use all the space, unless you want to grow monster plants with verticle lights. Good luck. -granger

 

[vangaurd]

Thanks early bird, I have a very specific plan but I am just wondering what others may have to add as there are many ways to set a room up. The original question was to use your imagination to design something you haven't done before. I have grown in small 10x10 rooms but nothing to this scale. I can scale what I have been doing up without a problem. I'm just fishing for ideas that's all.

Granger2, Thanks, the 99 count sucks but I am limited to what the investor wants.

 

[FunkBomb]

I would go with either bare bulbs hanging vertically or a few rows of air-cooled lights. 50/50 mix of HPS and MH. $30 bulbs are far more cost effective than $100 bulbs.

Dedicated heat/ac unit to keep temperatures at the right level all year. A few good size dehumidifiers too.

Separate room or tent for clones/vegging plants. Either large containers/smart pots or beds of good organic soil. Add organic matter and worms and amend regularly to keep healthy....add some diotomacteus earth too. Bugs hate it.

A good size RO filter will be needed.

A good electrician will be your first step.

-Funk

 

[zooty]

You can use all of that space with 90 flowering plants. But it will probably require long vegging times.. if it were me as someone previously mentioned each of your plants will have roughly a 4x4 area use a 1kw over each plant and build a net for each one and scrog and top/supercrop/lst as much as you can. It will be a lot of work but you can easily pull a kilo+ off each light if you do it right.

Can't imagine running such a big space with soil though. That would be a nightmare

 

[tokersmoke]

Soil is the way to go.Dont even think about vert lighting.I wouldnt use all the space.I would have dedicated cutting,drying room,mother clone room,preflower strech area and flowering area.I would run it perpetual and try to harvest every two weeks.

Air cooled xxl reflectors,mini split ac,dehuey,co2 in flowering room.No way a bare bulb puts off more light then a xxl reflector POPPYCOCK i say.To each thier own.

Having mutiple areas helps alot.Having harvest every two weeks is great.Always keeping the flowering area full will keep funds flowing.A preflower strech room is crucial for timing of a perpetual grow.Just my rant

 

[RamCTD1027]

Soil is the way to go.Dont even think about vert lighting.I wouldnt use all the space.I would have dedicated cutting,drying room,mother clone room,preflower strech area and flowering area.I would run it perpetual and try to harvest every two weeks.

Air cooled xxl reflectors,mini split ac,dehuey,co2 in flowering room.No way a bare bulb puts off more light then a xxl reflector POPPYCOCK i say.To each thier own.

Having mutiple areas helps alot.Having harvest every two weeks is great.Always keeping the flowering area full will keep funds flowing.A preflower strech room is crucial for timing of a perpetual grow.Just my rant

I'm curious why you say no vert lights? I've read somewhere in lady's thread that he ditched vert lights because the crops were too inconsistent with different strains. If you have strains that can handle vert lights (mainly sativa dom hybrids) why would you advise against vert lighting?

 

[tokersmoke]

RAM even household incandescents have reflectors.Since the invention of the bulb people have used reflectors to focus the light.reflectors are not marketing hype.A grow can obviously be done with no reflector and still have awesome results.Ive seen many journals ABOUT VERT FAIL.Search vert fail follow journals that were never finished.Plenty of tent grows with plants surrounded by a vert bulb are having major issues with heat and proximity of the bulb.Not saying it cant be done with some amount of effieciency.Much easier with a reflector.My 2c and to each their own

 

[Picarus]

Your plant count and flowering times will dictate everything. There is only one way to do this and having dedicated drying room and veg room is a necessary part, so include that. Strains grown dictate clone time, veg time to reach optimal size for bloom, and harvest time. Thus dictate time needed to achieve a certain canopy sq footage to be maintained in perpetual bloom.