Hi all, new to these forums but I used to post at OG under a different handle. I have some pics of the room, just need some tips on where to post them so it's safe. On to the room!
Outbuilding in a rural area, in Sonoma county. Legal medi-grow with three patients (county law permits 30 plants/100 sq. feet of canopy per patient. Room size is 21X32 feet, and 10-12 foot ceilings. First I insulated the walls with R19 fiberglass batts, then stapled up panda plastic and sealed any light leaks with spray foam. I drilled a 1" hole in a hidden corner of the building (it's a rental and this is the full extent of the damage I've done!) to run a garden hose in. I had to do a lot of trenching in the middle of the night as the closest spigot was about 75' away, but it's completely hidden and only my wife and I know its there.
I have rental inspections every 6 months, so I wanted a system that I could break down and set up quickly and easily. I've been growing for years in an Ebb & Grow, but decided that was too much plumbing and didn't scale well enough for my purposes. Decided to keep to a hard 99 plant count limit, better safe than reallllly sorry right?
I settled on 8 4X4 plastic Botanicare trays, and built tables to hold two trays each. So I have two aisles of four trays, two tables per set. Pots are 2 gallon smartpots, filled with Coco chips and thats it! No mixing, no additives. ONe 115 gallon reservoir feeds four tables, two total. 4 trays (two per side) are ran off one timer each, soafter one set floods and drains back, the other set of four trays is activated by the second programmable timer. Both reservoirs are tied to a TalllBoy filter (on a hose timer) and float valves on each, so they top off from 2-4 PM daily (when it's not flooding) so they don't overflow. Completely automated reservoir top offs!
A digital full-time Hanna mater reads PPM, PH and res temps, so I can poke my head in and see both res stats at a glance. I use PuraVida nutes, with mycorrhizae, Hygrozyme, Inoculaid, epsom salts and Sensi CalMag.
Light/Power:
One 1000W light over each 4X4 tray, alternating MH and HPS so they are all staggered, running on 240V with Quantum ballasts on a CAP MLC-8t timer/relay. Mounted the ballasts high on the walls so the lamp cords reach the far ballasts with ease, and no cords to trip over. All new Eye Hortilux bulbs (Super HPS and Daylight Blue MH.) I measured the Quantum ballasts light ouptput versus some older SunSystems II 240V ballasts, and the Quantums are exactly 10% brighter at the same distance from the bulb. Not bad!
Ventilation:
Two Vortex 12" fans on exhaust, each sucking through a CAN150 suspended by a rope hoist from the ceiling. 8 oscillating fans make sure there's plenty of air movement. Picked up a Phason fan controller (tips hat to Dongle69) and a 30' temp probe, so far it's done a fantastic job and it modulates the speed of both fans. These fans are each mounted to one board over a window, and a window unit A/C mounted under each fan (one window has a 12K BTU, the other is a 9K, so far neither runs much.) Another CAN50 filter is used as a scrubber with a 6" Vortex and has a big 8" CD ozone generator on it, to keep any hints of smell down. Dual dehumidifiers (60 pint) keep RH down. BOth drain into my old Ebb&Grow control bucket, so any discharge is pumped right outside through a small hose.
Room stays between 70 and 75 all day and night, I have air cooled hoods and ducts but haven't needed to hook them up. The fans keep the temps perfect by themselves with no AC, even with all 8 lights on (takes about 6 minutes to cool it down and the fans kick back off.)
So no smell, no light leaks, no visible water leaks (drains into a field) and my last run (with 7K lights and in soil) got me 9.5# dried.
I use homemade drying racks made of 1"X1/2" wood in 36" square frames, and added 4" legs so I can stack them. Covered them with plastic 1/2" landscape netting and they hold about a half elbow each, and stack so they take up very little floor space.
Right now I'm running Ice, Chem Dawg D, Sage n Sour, God Bud, and about 9 other strains (some are only 1 or 2 clones.
I use no veg room so I can get two harvests between each inspection, and I buy clones from a local buddy. I veg under my flowering lights for 3-10 days and then it's on to 12/12 flower. I'm on the PG&E time of use meter and E-6 rate program, and since I'm low-income I also get their CARE discount, so my entire power bill (gas included) has never gone over $500. No Co2, my room doesn't seal well enough to keep it in, and I don't want the hassle of changing tanks all the time.
Just flipped my 99 babies to flower yesterday, so this will be my first hydro/coco/organic setup, but I have HIGH hopes!
Questions? Like I said I have pics, just someone tell me the safe way to do so if possible. Hope this helped someone, I am the LAZYman!
Outbuilding in a rural area, in Sonoma county. Legal medi-grow with three patients (county law permits 30 plants/100 sq. feet of canopy per patient. Room size is 21X32 feet, and 10-12 foot ceilings. First I insulated the walls with R19 fiberglass batts, then stapled up panda plastic and sealed any light leaks with spray foam. I drilled a 1" hole in a hidden corner of the building (it's a rental and this is the full extent of the damage I've done!) to run a garden hose in. I had to do a lot of trenching in the middle of the night as the closest spigot was about 75' away, but it's completely hidden and only my wife and I know its there.
I have rental inspections every 6 months, so I wanted a system that I could break down and set up quickly and easily. I've been growing for years in an Ebb & Grow, but decided that was too much plumbing and didn't scale well enough for my purposes. Decided to keep to a hard 99 plant count limit, better safe than reallllly sorry right?
I settled on 8 4X4 plastic Botanicare trays, and built tables to hold two trays each. So I have two aisles of four trays, two tables per set. Pots are 2 gallon smartpots, filled with Coco chips and thats it! No mixing, no additives. ONe 115 gallon reservoir feeds four tables, two total. 4 trays (two per side) are ran off one timer each, soafter one set floods and drains back, the other set of four trays is activated by the second programmable timer. Both reservoirs are tied to a TalllBoy filter (on a hose timer) and float valves on each, so they top off from 2-4 PM daily (when it's not flooding) so they don't overflow. Completely automated reservoir top offs!
A digital full-time Hanna mater reads PPM, PH and res temps, so I can poke my head in and see both res stats at a glance. I use PuraVida nutes, with mycorrhizae, Hygrozyme, Inoculaid, epsom salts and Sensi CalMag.
Light/Power:
One 1000W light over each 4X4 tray, alternating MH and HPS so they are all staggered, running on 240V with Quantum ballasts on a CAP MLC-8t timer/relay. Mounted the ballasts high on the walls so the lamp cords reach the far ballasts with ease, and no cords to trip over. All new Eye Hortilux bulbs (Super HPS and Daylight Blue MH.) I measured the Quantum ballasts light ouptput versus some older SunSystems II 240V ballasts, and the Quantums are exactly 10% brighter at the same distance from the bulb. Not bad!
Ventilation:
Two Vortex 12" fans on exhaust, each sucking through a CAN150 suspended by a rope hoist from the ceiling. 8 oscillating fans make sure there's plenty of air movement. Picked up a Phason fan controller (tips hat to Dongle69) and a 30' temp probe, so far it's done a fantastic job and it modulates the speed of both fans. These fans are each mounted to one board over a window, and a window unit A/C mounted under each fan (one window has a 12K BTU, the other is a 9K, so far neither runs much.) Another CAN50 filter is used as a scrubber with a 6" Vortex and has a big 8" CD ozone generator on it, to keep any hints of smell down. Dual dehumidifiers (60 pint) keep RH down. BOth drain into my old Ebb&Grow control bucket, so any discharge is pumped right outside through a small hose.
Room stays between 70 and 75 all day and night, I have air cooled hoods and ducts but haven't needed to hook them up. The fans keep the temps perfect by themselves with no AC, even with all 8 lights on (takes about 6 minutes to cool it down and the fans kick back off.)
So no smell, no light leaks, no visible water leaks (drains into a field) and my last run (with 7K lights and in soil) got me 9.5# dried.
I use homemade drying racks made of 1"X1/2" wood in 36" square frames, and added 4" legs so I can stack them. Covered them with plastic 1/2" landscape netting and they hold about a half elbow each, and stack so they take up very little floor space.
Right now I'm running Ice, Chem Dawg D, Sage n Sour, God Bud, and about 9 other strains (some are only 1 or 2 clones.
I use no veg room so I can get two harvests between each inspection, and I buy clones from a local buddy. I veg under my flowering lights for 3-10 days and then it's on to 12/12 flower. I'm on the PG&E time of use meter and E-6 rate program, and since I'm low-income I also get their CARE discount, so my entire power bill (gas included) has never gone over $500. No Co2, my room doesn't seal well enough to keep it in, and I don't want the hassle of changing tanks all the time.
Just flipped my 99 babies to flower yesterday, so this will be my first hydro/coco/organic setup, but I have HIGH hopes!
Questions? Like I said I have pics, just someone tell me the safe way to do so if possible. Hope this helped someone, I am the LAZYman!
Damn, that looks nice. Ill be checkin in 
