New Grower Please help!! Autoflowering grow setup, best and (maybe cheap)?

[andryszz]

Right, I'm complete newbie to growing indoors, did a grow outdoors but I wasn't very happy with it cos summer was shit, and I thought it would be a lot better indoors with led lightning and hydroponics and I can grow whenever I want, or need. So I'm thinking to grow 10 plant at the time, i need advice of people who is growing around same amount of plants indoors, or know, what kind of setup would be best for this kind of grow. My questions:
1. Grow room, will 2m2(square meters) grow room will be enough space for 10 or at least 8 plants? If not what size of grow room I need for this king of grow? ( I use metric system so would be great to hear answers with meters, centimeters)
2. Lightning, I'm very keen to buy led panel(s) how much of led light I need for 10-8 plants, electricity consumption is an issue, so I don't want to use too much electricity, maybe anyone could recommend led panels? is 300w led panel enough for that space or 2panels or maybe more?? Maybe use d.i.y. led panel anyone could recommend anything? (how much electricity could be used for this grow, weekly/monthly around??
3. Hydroponics- any recommendations with hydroponics setup, should I buy these buckets, or something like hempty dwc (witch I just found in growing help/tips) would be perfectly enough?
4. Carbon filter and ph checking tool is a must i suppose and I need to buy these probably, or any d.i.y. options for it as well?
Feel free to advice any d.i.y. or complete setups options, anything related to it, I just need information and I'm craving for it. Thank you for your time, I look forward to hear anything from anybody.

 

[TaNg]

Welcome to the site bro 2m2 will be cool for 8 plants and your gonna need about 800w of LED,4 200w units would cost you around £1000. You can check you are DIY section there is plenty of stuff in there you will like also pop over the the intros section and start a thread to introduce yourself.

 

[andryszz]

Right So to my calculations I'm going to right direction, 800 wats, that seems a lot, but it will be a few plant as well I'm not sure weather introduction is good for me, because where i am from to grow these plants is very band, and I would be like a seriuos criminal but I will do it for myself.. And it all stardet from back pain and medical marijuana heh, I'm just collecting all information now and when I will start doing something I will indroduce my work at least

 

[wwwillie]

Hey andryzz and welcome! You have come to the right place for information. I am very new at this and there is a lot of info here and very helpful people.
Man, I don't know about the cheap part... I have a 1x1x1.5 meter tent, so maybe 4 nice size plants at a time, I am using LED and CFL 240 watt LED panel and 184 watts of CFL, using smart pots and soil. So far with the cost of beans I am over $1000.00 USD. The costs tend to sneak up on you and the size of your set-up contributes to that.
Hope that helped your thinking a bit. Peace and happy growing, my new friend! :karma Cloud:

 

[SAVAGE]

I'm growing 12 plants at a time harvesting every month its A LOT of money to get a big grow started but good luck buddy

 

[breederj]

Yeah nothing cheap bout indoor grows.

 

[andryszz]

Cool, nothing is cheap, but possibilities are endless too and it might be possible to make/get cheaper alternatives anyway I got a confirmation today, that I need to go to work to Holland next week, there I might find a lot of usefull information abuot that as weel. Feeling exited, everything just gets better and better.
SAVAGE could you tell me more about your setup? are you using led and hydroponics and anybody has an opinion about cheat hydroponics alternative HEMPTY dwc?? :key:

 

[late]

With 10 plants, I think you would have a supply of roughly an ounce a week once things get rolling.

Do you need an ounce a week? If you don't, perhaps you could get by
with fewer plants. I think 3 plants would be enough for me. I'm still figuring that out myself...

Soil is usually cheaper (and easier) than hydro, especially if you make your own. There are some DIY soil recipes here.

 

[andryszz]

I was quite upset when I grow 7 think different plants and 1 royal queen bluematic outside, it was someting like 250 grams dryied buds in total. And it was jsut enough for one monts for me and friends. So now i have plans to do indoor grow where I can control the size of grow. Basically It would be great for me to grow at least 600 - 800 grams evry 75 -90 days with autoflowering think differen or something simmilar, so what kind of setup would you reccomend to accieve these kind of numbers. Is it any worth to buy complete grow setup or just lights fiilters and the rest d.i.Y.? I'm going to ern now some money And just trying to figure out where to invest in making home grow I'm completley green in growing indoors, but I want to do it properly. do you know any good grow setup selling sites online?

 

[late]

I was quite upset when I grow 7 think different plants and 1 royal queen bluematic outside, it was someting like 250 grams dryied buds in total. And it was jsut enough for one monts for me and friends. So now i have plans to do indoor grow where I can control the size of grow. Basically It would be great for me to grow at least 600 - 800 grams evry 75 -90 days with autoflowering think differen or something simmilar, so what kind of setup would you reccomend to accieve these kind of numbers. Is it any worth to buy complete grow setup or just lights fiilters and the rest d.i.Y.? I'm going to ern now some money And just trying to figure out where to invest in making home grow I'm completley green in growing indoors, but I want to do it properly. do you know any good grow setup selling sites online?

That doesn't have an easy answer. Some autos are pretty productive, like ones with a Big Bud parent. Let's assume you can get 3 ounce per plant. That means
several plants. I am no expert, I've only done 2 grows, but it sounds like you want 40 or 50 sq feet, and 2 or 3 strong lights. You also might want to skip autoflowers
and look at highly productive photoperiod plants like Big Bud.

Keep reading about growing techniques, there's a lot to learn.

I've gotten some stuff from Amazon, some other stuff like my tent locally at a grow shop.
The only other place I've done business is..
Grow Lights by High Tech Garden Supply | Your Online Hydroponics Store