I’ve been learning from you all for months, I want input!!!!

[KeyMagic]

Hello all. I’ve been foaming at the mouth waiting on some... extra income around this season so now that it will be on the way soon, I’m about to set up a grow, finally. I have an entire room to play with here. Like 10.5 feet x 11.5 feet plus a 2ft x 5ft closet. I guess I’m so stuck on all of you and your grows and information, I want to know what everyone would do with that space. Maybe keeping budget in mind. But I have ample free time. And plan to take care of my grow as much as it’s possible personally. So more layout ideas. Sea of green with tons of small plants? Soil? Raised beds? I just want to hear amy minds opinion on this. Maybe just 6 plants in a corner. Whatever. You have time, you have means, and you have an entire room. What do you do??

 

[420Forever]

Hello all. I’ve been foaming at the mouth waiting on some... extra income around this season so now that it will be on the way soon, I’m about to set up a grow, finally. I have an entire room to play with here. Like 10.5 feet x 11.5 feet plus a 2ft x 5ft closet. I guess I’m so stuck on all of you and your grows and information, I want to know what everyone would do with that space. Maybe keeping budget in mind. But I have ample free time. And plan to take care of my grow as much as it’s possible personally. So more layout ideas. Sea of green with tons of small plants? Soil? Raised beds? I just want to hear amy minds opinion on this. Maybe just 6 plants in a corner. Whatever. You have time, you have means, and you have an entire room. What do you do??

oh boy, a whole room! AND a clozet! heya @KeyMagic and to afn! man, i am totally stonewiped atm & fixin to hit the hay, so me own short, nondescript answer for now would be the clozet for veg & the room for bloom :smoking: there'z def been a couple guyz here work wonderz with whole roomz, with wowzer rezultz, like @THC Farms , so mebbe cruize around, check out some threadz & soak up an idea or two, eh-? in the meantime, i def know otherz will chime in on this, out of pure fantasy if nuthin else, lol

ppp &

 

[KeyMagic]

oh boy, a whole room! AND a clozet! heya @KeyMagic and to afn! man, i am totally stonewiped atm & fixin to hit the hay, so me own short, nondescript answer for now would be the clozet for veg & the room for bloom :smoking: there'z def been a couple guyz here work wonderz with whole roomz, with wowzer rezultz, like @THC Farms , so mebbe cruize around, check out some threadz & soak up an idea or two, eh-? in the meantime, i def know otherz will chime in on this, out of pure fantasy if nuthin else, lol

ppp &

The fantasies are what I want!!! I have my own, but I want all the fantasies. Odd time in life where my gardens may be my only real thing “need to do” every day. I’m thinking I want a whole canna room and I may get into some micro green veggies in my basement for long hard days I need some nutes myself. Thanks for stopping by 420. Have any good ideas in your dreams, you’ll find me here

 

[hairyman]

Hello all. I’ve been foaming at the mouth waiting on some... extra income around this season so now that it will be on the way soon, I’m about to set up a grow, finally. I have an entire room to play with here. Like 10.5 feet x 11.5 feet plus a 2ft x 5ft closet. I guess I’m so stuck on all of you and your grows and information, I want to know what everyone would do with that space. Maybe keeping budget in mind. But I have ample free time. And plan to take care of my grow as much as it’s possible personally. So more layout ideas. Sea of green with tons of small plants? Soil? Raised beds? I just want to hear amy minds opinion on this. Maybe just 6 plants in a corner. Whatever. You have time, you have means, and you have an entire room. What do you do??

i like this,,would love to have that space available,,,,so the closet a place to keep males , grow out seeds ,,breeding

main room separate into 8 segments with a central walk way , with shelving all around the edges to grow micros or climbing plants ,get a row of toms in etc ,would plan to harvest two large 2x2 sized canna plants a week, and 8 smaller 1x1 this will take seven segments leaving an area for chilies ,,anything you fancy,in the eighth,, 6 x sp250s and one for the closet,,8 large osc fans

 

[Proph]

Will this be your first grow?

 

[Olderfart]

A whole room... Now that could be fun.

0ne suggestion I can make is to set things up physically so that you have good access to plants without moving them much. With that kind of space, you should be able to make maintenance of plants really easy.

If budget is a significant issue and you are up to a bit of wiring, have a look at the LEDs I put together in my signature grow. Even with my screwups, and with two smaller plants in my 24C's I came somewhere in the neighbourhood of 1g/watt used. I would have done better than that if I hadn't been pushing the light and nutes too hard. If you do set up screw ins, you could do panels of 6 bulbs each, and use 1 panel per large plant. Maybe 4 bulbs per plant would also work given the results some growers here are getting with single COBS. Using 15 bulbs per panel as I did was excessive, other than allowing adjustment of K by unscrewing bulbs without actually changing them.

Anyway, it looks as though you are in for some entertaining gardening time. Happy Growing!

 

[KeyMagic]

Will this be your first grow?

Hey good question! Should’ve spoke on that also. It will be my first grow in the sense of, my house, my rules, and my mistakes/rewards. I grew up helping with a pretty nice grow. I just never quite learned truly what we were doing. I more just took any opportunity he told me to do something, and went and did it in his garden. Also, that was some few years back. I’ve only ever threw some bag seed out in fields with mediocre results but no real attention at all. I just learned of auto flowers, and it’s just got my mind back working. I love gardening though, always hardened with my momma too!!

 

[KeyMagic]

A whole room... Now that could be fun.

0ne suggestion I can make is to set things up physically so that you have good access to plants without moving them much. With that kind of space, you should be able to make maintenance of plants really easy.

If budget is a significant issue and you are up to a bit of wiring, have a look at the LEDs I put together in my signature grow. Even with my screwups, and with two smaller plants in my 24C's I came somewhere in the neighbourhood of 1g/watt used. I would have done better than that if I hadn't been pushing the light and nutes too hard. If you do set up screw ins, you could do panels of 6 bulbs each, and use 1 panel per large plant. Maybe 4 bulbs per plant would also work given the results some growers here are getting with single COBS. Using 15 bulbs per panel as I did was excessive, other than allowing adjustment of K by unscrewing bulbs without actually changing them.

Anyway, it looks as though you are in for some entertaining gardening time. Happy Growing!

Thanks a lot, I take old farts advice seriously. Please when I figure things out feel free to follow I appreciate that. I’m a pretty handy dude. I would probably need some sort of little guide for the panels, any Quick quides for something like that?

 

[Olderfart]

Thanks a lot, I take old farts advice seriously. Please when I figure things out feel free to follow I appreciate that. I’m a pretty handy dude. I would probably need some sort of little guide for the panels, any Quick quides for something like that?

I don't know of anything offhand for the type of screw in setup I used, but you could troll around in the diy led section here to see what you find. I just did it myself. Just wire the bulb holders in each panel in parallel, IMHO preferably on an aluminum panel or frame for fire safety. I spread the bulbs out to get better penetration, but COB results show that doing so is not necessary. Keep your wire size consistent with the total watts being driven. 16AWG will do fine for individual panels. I just cut up a couple standard extension cords I had hanging around. Most bulb holders will allow you to parallel the wiring by using the wire attachment screws on the holders rather than having to solder or otherwise join wires. If you want to daisy chain multiple panels, you may want to up wire size in places subject to the higher load. If all this makes reasonable sense to you already, I would not hesitate to build lights if I were you. If it is all Greek, you could still do it with some homework and help. It would be easy to do a couple, try them out on a small grow, and if you like the results, make more later. In any case, I would start out smallish rather than trying to fill your room initially. There's lots to learn here, and it would be best to start the process on a small scale.

One nice thing about the screw ins is that you can just truck on down to the local hardware store to get them, either for the initial build or for replacement of faulty units. Even with the nice Mars Hydro lights, which I almost bought, some users have had failures of part of the led array, and a fix is not easy or quick, especially in the middle of a grow. With the screw ins, each bulb is independent including the ballast, so with a few extra bulbs in your closet, your grow cannot be hurt by a bulb or ballast failure. I expect that the higher end lights might achieve better yield efficiency. However, I dug up at least one research study that suggested that the yield advantage over white screw ins is unlikely to be great. In any case, I am not worried about yield efficiency, and am glad I went with the screw ins. Had I known the number of watts I would actually need in my 2x4 growdrobe, I would have saved enough money on the lights alone to mostly if not completely pay for my growdrobe and the autopots.

Anyway, don't let me persuade you one way or another - different strokes for different folks. If you want to try out making some panels like mine, I would be glad to help if I can.

 

[420Forever]

I don't know of anything offhand for the type of screw in setup I used, but you could troll around in the diy led section here to see what you find. I just did it myself. Just wire the bulb holders in each panel in parallel, IMHO preferably on an aluminum panel or frame for fire safety. I spread the bulbs out to get better penetration, but COB results show that doing so is not necessary. Keep your wire size consistent with the total watts being driven. 16AWG will do fine for individual panels. I just cut up a couple standard extension cords I had hanging around. Most bulb holders will allow you to parallel the wiring by using the wire attachment screws on the holders rather than having to solder or otherwise join wires. If you want to daisy chain multiple panels, you may want to up wire size in places subject to the higher load. If all this makes reasonable sense to you already, I would not hesitate to build lights if I were you. If it is all Greek, you could still do it with some homework and help. It would be easy to do a couple, try them out on a small grow, and if you like the results, make more later. In any case, I would start out smallish rather than trying to fill your room initially. There's lots to learn here, and it would be best to start the process on a small scale.

One nice thing about the screw ins is that you can just truck on down to the local hardware store to get them, either for the initial build or for replacement of faulty units. Even with the nice Mars Hydro lights, which I almost bought, some users have had failures of part of the led array, and a fix is not easy or quick, especially in the middle of a grow. With the screw ins, each bulb is independent including the ballast, so with a few extra bulbs in your closet, your grow cannot be hurt by a bulb or ballast failure. I expect that the higher end lights might achieve better yield efficiency. However, I dug up at least one research study that suggested that the yield advantage over white screw ins is unlikely to be great. In any case, I am not worried about yield efficiency, and am glad I went with the screw ins. Had I known the number of watts I would actually need in my 2x4 growdrobe, I would have saved enough money on the lights alone to mostly if not completely pay for my growdrobe and the autopots.

Anyway, don't let me persuade you one way or another - different strokes for different folks. If you want to try out making some panels like mine, I would be glad to help if I can.

screwinz for the win! ppp