New UC 8XL13 plan

Looks like a sound plan....rock that shit.

Every inch your dividing wall moves to the right is another inch to add to your shitfaced grin about 3 weeks into bloom when that bloom space is wall-to-wall nug.

I would go with a 4 bucket or 6 bucket system.... it's gonna be incredibly crowded in there with an 8, IMO.

Maybe someone who has successfully ran TOP LIT UC gardens can speak to yield and offer insight, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that I think it doubtful you will rival the weights in a top lit garden that you have been seeing/dreaming of as you view all of these VERTICALLY LIT gardens. In the end your space (IMO) isn't large enough to grow big trees and that is what it takes to get the big weight.

but hey...if UCMENOW says "rock it".....rock it!

good luck

s h

Sure. Horizontally lit UC gardens yield more than vertically lit UC gardens in terms of grams per watt.

It's nice jerking off to large trees, but keep in mind there's several bulbs per plant. Give me the 4 bulbs it took to get a 2Lb bush vertically and see that number turn into 8Lbs when lit horizontally.

However, if plant numbers are the limiting factor it is smarter to go vertical lights as the yield increase far outweighs the electrical input cost.

I have my 8 xl in a bigger room 10X11 I stretched a screen out over em 5x8. I could of easily used 9x6. If your gonna grow in that space your gonna have a lot of training. You can get 3.5#s with a good yielding strain and a dialed room. I got that off my last run and Im shooting for 4#s this run but who knows we'll see
Good luck
BG

Thanks, rollin. Good info to know....especially since my next UC run will be horizontally lit. ;-)

Thanks everyone for the great info. I'm also glad RollingEndough and BudGoggles commented as both of your grows were inspiration to me.

Sky high that is a good point about numbers.

Just to give a little info.. one night while I was way too baked from a cookie (who says fans leaves are waste?!!) I got myself way too paranoid. At this moment, I use the entire room as shown above for flowering, and another room the same size for veg. Instead of pulling the plug on the whole thing, I was hoping to just cut it in half, and still hope to pull the same weight (3#ish or more) by doing things better and more efficiently.

I don't want to go over 2 -1k to flower. Would widening the flower room and adding width to the rows help? I can do that. I could easlity make it a 8'6" by 8'6" room if that would help. I could still veg in a 4' x 8' room no prob. Would it make sense to do what sky high says and just stick to 6 plants?

I cant thank you folks enough for the help. :)

I don't want to add length to the room.. ie, go past the 8'6" for stealth reasons.

Just bc ur epi will be outside the room, doesn't necessarily mean u wont need a chiller. Hopefully u wont, but just keep it as a possibilty within ur budget. Good luck and welcome to the club.

I would surely get a chiller. Ya might do fine with out but ya might not. It aint worth risking it.
If ya wanna get more out of your room and only run 2K just set up two UCs under 4k and flip flop the lights every hour or two like rollin you will easily get way more than 3#s. Youll just have to crawl around your grow room.
BG

Very good point about the chiller.. I was thinking that if things got warm I would pump a cool coil through that 100 gallon rez back into the epi. That room stays 60-65f so the rez water should stay the same. If not, I'll add a chiller for sure.

You know that flip idea reminded me of I think it was your thread, someone talking about a mover. What do you think about doing the Evo x13 with 9 sites. They are more spread out evenly in a 8x8 room. They even show a scenario like that on their website. Of course they recommend 4 - 1k's and I was thinking I could run my two on movers?? What do you think.. am I just trying to get too much out of this.

So I guess it comes down to 8 sites with two stationary lights, or 9 sites with movers for the two lights.

ok, I drew it to scale and it does fit better using the 9 site evo style. I have it setup on the 25" centers (per the CC website) and it fits nicely with room to work. It fits better than I have it shown in the above picture, and better than trying to do the 8 site system xl style.

So I'm just going to set it up like that with the two 1k's on movers for now. If I'm not happy with that then I could very well break down and add two more 1k's if push came to shove.

Thanks everyone for your help and I will post pics once I have everything up and running.

peace

I personally like movers Ive had great success with em. If it doesnt yield what your looking for just add another 2K. It definetly worth a shot. You just want to make sure you dont have your mover move to far. Go like 1' each direction from center and you be all good
BG

1' from center, actually that will be perfect really over this 9 site footprint.

thanks again and I will let you know how it goes.

Hey St3ve,
I'm designing a UC room now too and I'm tired of killing trees (the kind you write on ;)
What program did you use to sketch up your floor plans? Is there something free and easy on the internets I could get my hands on?
Best of luck with the build!
-Ben

Hey Ben, yes its called "SmartDraw" and its extremely easy to use. Google it for a free download. :)

Its great for drawing things to scale the quick and dirty way. Best of luck

good looking out steve
gonna get these things drawn up!
:nerd

also, check out Google SketchUp. I've been spending HOURS building different grow room layouts for a UC setup. Great program, free, & check out the engineering toolbox plugin, they have piping and elbows and T's and all kinds of good stuff!

true story, SketchUp is also a great program, especially if you like to see it in 3D..

I've just started my ladies in a UCE9XL13 set up in a 8ish x 8ish x 7'6" space but with 4 1k's and am wondering why I did it, and they havent even grown any yet...LOL!!!
Anyways it will be a jungle in there and believe these would need to be trained/topped/tortured , which is what I plan on doing to fill every inch with tops!!!I am just wondering how I plan on dealing with any maintenance in this space, or the lack of I should say.