williebilly234
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DarkRoom Grow Tent 150
Deep Water Culture™ Pro II - 24 Planter
Multi Spectrum Pro 420 (x4)
600 Watt Plantastar HPS Lighting System (1x)
Dual Spectrum 65 High Output (x2 = 4 lights)
So that is the setup I am thinking of going with but I wanted to check if anyone has used the DarkRomm Grow Tent 150 with the SH Pro II 24 planter.
If my math is correct then the tent has 25 sqft and the 4 planters take up roughly 24.125 sqft which seems like it would be a little too tight (mounting fans, lights from the tent.
The tent is 6.6 feet in height and from what I understand I need 2' between the MH/HPS (600W), the planter is about 1 foot in height leaving 3.6 feet for the plants total growth (which is OK, I am going to try short veg state and start flowering at 12'' and go with a shorter strain).
The lumens per square feet should be 8432, which is a little lower than my target of 10,000 per square feet but my understand is that should be fine for this type of setup.
I will be keeping the double res outside of the tent and will insulate that seperately (and for easy of access to the res). I want to avoid going to the next bigger tent as I like the idea of a 5x5 pod and I would be able to get 4 into the room I will be using.
So this would be phase 1, phase 2 would duplicate the setup and make one a pure veg room and the other a pure flowering room and the closet will end up being the bonsai mother/cloning stating (might go with a small tent for the mothers).
The idea I am going with is creating a Grow Pod (the tents appeal to my sysadmin nature). Still need to work on the cooling setup but will play with that once I get the equipment and do a test run with Basil or something. The room has an air conditioner and venting heat is nothing new to me (same principles as a data centre).
The light config I plan on using:
- 600W M/H
- 4 CFL 420 Pro (2 in pure veg config, 2 in multi)
- 4 clap 65 (2 veg, 2 flower config)
Too much? too little? 8400 lumen per sq ft seems ideal, I think when I get my pure veg room it will be all cfls and use the HPS in the flowering room, not sure 5x5 seems to require ALOT of cfls.
So the questions I have are:
- advice on the setup (i.e. lights is it over kill? I want to max the potential yield)
- Darkroom Tent 150 (5x5x6.6) is that going to be too tight to get all 4 planters into it? It *should* fit but theory vs real world that doesn't always work.
- General comments
btw: BIG thanks to Roseman and MostlyCrazy and all the contributors, wish I had a resource like this back in 98(last grow I did...did NOT end well...man I was a stupid kid). Roseman you tutorial saved me from going down the aeroponics route which seems much harder and more expensive to do. THANK ALL OF YOU!! YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME!! and I promise to get a grow thread going when I get it all setup (3-4 months down the road, then when taxes come in doubling the setup )
p.s. I wasn't sure if this should go to the grow room specific forum or not, I posted here since I am looking for specific advice on Deep Water Culture room.
Deep Water Culture™ Pro II - 24 Planter
Multi Spectrum Pro 420 (x4)
600 Watt Plantastar HPS Lighting System (1x)
Dual Spectrum 65 High Output (x2 = 4 lights)
So that is the setup I am thinking of going with but I wanted to check if anyone has used the DarkRomm Grow Tent 150 with the SH Pro II 24 planter.
If my math is correct then the tent has 25 sqft and the 4 planters take up roughly 24.125 sqft which seems like it would be a little too tight (mounting fans, lights from the tent.
The tent is 6.6 feet in height and from what I understand I need 2' between the MH/HPS (600W), the planter is about 1 foot in height leaving 3.6 feet for the plants total growth (which is OK, I am going to try short veg state and start flowering at 12'' and go with a shorter strain).
The lumens per square feet should be 8432, which is a little lower than my target of 10,000 per square feet but my understand is that should be fine for this type of setup.
I will be keeping the double res outside of the tent and will insulate that seperately (and for easy of access to the res). I want to avoid going to the next bigger tent as I like the idea of a 5x5 pod and I would be able to get 4 into the room I will be using.
So this would be phase 1, phase 2 would duplicate the setup and make one a pure veg room and the other a pure flowering room and the closet will end up being the bonsai mother/cloning stating (might go with a small tent for the mothers).
The idea I am going with is creating a Grow Pod (the tents appeal to my sysadmin nature). Still need to work on the cooling setup but will play with that once I get the equipment and do a test run with Basil or something. The room has an air conditioner and venting heat is nothing new to me (same principles as a data centre).
The light config I plan on using:
- 600W M/H
- 4 CFL 420 Pro (2 in pure veg config, 2 in multi)
- 4 clap 65 (2 veg, 2 flower config)
Too much? too little? 8400 lumen per sq ft seems ideal, I think when I get my pure veg room it will be all cfls and use the HPS in the flowering room, not sure 5x5 seems to require ALOT of cfls.
So the questions I have are:
- advice on the setup (i.e. lights is it over kill? I want to max the potential yield)
- Darkroom Tent 150 (5x5x6.6) is that going to be too tight to get all 4 planters into it? It *should* fit but theory vs real world that doesn't always work.
- General comments
btw: BIG thanks to Roseman and MostlyCrazy and all the contributors, wish I had a resource like this back in 98(last grow I did...did NOT end well...man I was a stupid kid). Roseman you tutorial saved me from going down the aeroponics route which seems much harder and more expensive to do. THANK ALL OF YOU!! YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME!! and I promise to get a grow thread going when I get it all setup (3-4 months down the road, then when taxes come in doubling the setup )
p.s. I wasn't sure if this should go to the grow room specific forum or not, I posted here since I am looking for specific advice on Deep Water Culture room.