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Me and a partner are starting a new project from scratch. Our budget was $80,000 and we were quick to learn that you should always have extra finances on hand....but I'll get into that later.
It took much deliberation of wether or not to go into a small house to cultivate or if we could afford a warehouse. We spent about a month shopping around and were coming up very short with finding a 420 friendly warehouse around 3k square feet that was in our budget. We wanted to be transparent with the landlord to avoid issues down the road. Finally I found a broker (I can give you details if you need it just message me) who solely works on finding warehouse spaces in CA, NV, OR and WA. He had a set fee and once I gave up on looking myself I decided to utilize him. He email blasted me with about 200 locations in my area and in the next 2 weeks I finally found the perfect location with a landlord who was open to cultivation. The plan is to do as much of the project ourselves so Im hoping this forum will help us along our ways. Wish us luck and well be sure to keep the thread as up to date as we can.
First stages were construction. We were working with an open area and decided to do 2x Flower rooms and 1x veg rooms.
The Flower rooms were each 40' long and 12' wide with 10' ceilings. In order to utilize the most space we would put a row of 4' tables all the way down each side of the rooms and leave a 4' walkway in between. These numbers allowed us to do 20x 1000w de lights each covering 4x4 area in each of the flower rooms for 4o lights total between the two flower rooms. After some additional research we found out that we can move to a 4x5 coverage with each of the double-enders so we migrated to only needing 16 lights in each flower room instead of the original 20. This reduction in 8 lights saved some money upfront, reduced heat in the rooms while not impacting the yield. The Veg room is going to be half the size so only 20' long and 12' wide with the same general layout.
Construction wasn't the worst....but it did suck. Some pictures below of start to finish. We did plywood on the inside and outside of each wall to create an air pocket to work as an insulation for heat/ac. The ceiling was plywood with R19 insulation. All of the seams were filled with painters caulk and window foam. We painted all the walls with flat white paint (two coats) and after some deliberation decided it was best to build some 18" tables so that were not working on the ground.
We decided to go with Nanolux 1000w DE instead of Gavita for this grow. They were only $300 a piece so we saved about $150 on each unit and have heard good things with the Nanolux units. They also have a usb drive that plugs into each unit so you can set them up remotely instead of running ethernet wire from each light. We went with 8 T5 units in the veg room (4' long with 8 bulbs each).
We had a 200amp single phase panel and 100am 3-phase panel available to us. We are going to be doing most of the work from the 200 phase panel. 200 phase panel is going to 3 separate 100amp sub panels (one for each room). The veg room panel will also feed the AC units which I will go into down the road.
As you can see the room is finally coming together. We are still waiting for some of the equipment to come in but as you can see we hung all the Nanolux and T5 lights on draw strings. This should allow us to adjust the height and really dial in for the best yield as we go along. Each flower room has 6 hurricane fans on the walls and 2 ceiling fans to really get the plants moving and some good air circulation. We are in the process of hanging some giant charcoal filters in the room to make sure we keep the smell as controlled as possible.
Throughout the next week we should be finished with the electrical, RO system and AC units. Each flower room will have 9 tons of AC and 3tons for the veg room.
Since we are coming to a close we decided to start shopping around for teens. We are hoping to find some through our local contacts so we can jump into our SEA-OF-GREEN layout. We are estimating needing about 220 teens and I know the average price is about 20-22 bucks a piece so by the next post I will hopefully have those in hand and under the T5 getting ready to turn within two weeks from now. Expect some updates on that in the near future.
Me and a partner are starting a new project from scratch. Our budget was $80,000 and we were quick to learn that you should always have extra finances on hand....but I'll get into that later.
It took much deliberation of wether or not to go into a small house to cultivate or if we could afford a warehouse. We spent about a month shopping around and were coming up very short with finding a 420 friendly warehouse around 3k square feet that was in our budget. We wanted to be transparent with the landlord to avoid issues down the road. Finally I found a broker (I can give you details if you need it just message me) who solely works on finding warehouse spaces in CA, NV, OR and WA. He had a set fee and once I gave up on looking myself I decided to utilize him. He email blasted me with about 200 locations in my area and in the next 2 weeks I finally found the perfect location with a landlord who was open to cultivation. The plan is to do as much of the project ourselves so Im hoping this forum will help us along our ways. Wish us luck and well be sure to keep the thread as up to date as we can.
First stages were construction. We were working with an open area and decided to do 2x Flower rooms and 1x veg rooms.
The Flower rooms were each 40' long and 12' wide with 10' ceilings. In order to utilize the most space we would put a row of 4' tables all the way down each side of the rooms and leave a 4' walkway in between. These numbers allowed us to do 20x 1000w de lights each covering 4x4 area in each of the flower rooms for 4o lights total between the two flower rooms. After some additional research we found out that we can move to a 4x5 coverage with each of the double-enders so we migrated to only needing 16 lights in each flower room instead of the original 20. This reduction in 8 lights saved some money upfront, reduced heat in the rooms while not impacting the yield. The Veg room is going to be half the size so only 20' long and 12' wide with the same general layout.
Construction wasn't the worst....but it did suck. Some pictures below of start to finish. We did plywood on the inside and outside of each wall to create an air pocket to work as an insulation for heat/ac. The ceiling was plywood with R19 insulation. All of the seams were filled with painters caulk and window foam. We painted all the walls with flat white paint (two coats) and after some deliberation decided it was best to build some 18" tables so that were not working on the ground.
We decided to go with Nanolux 1000w DE instead of Gavita for this grow. They were only $300 a piece so we saved about $150 on each unit and have heard good things with the Nanolux units. They also have a usb drive that plugs into each unit so you can set them up remotely instead of running ethernet wire from each light. We went with 8 T5 units in the veg room (4' long with 8 bulbs each).
We had a 200amp single phase panel and 100am 3-phase panel available to us. We are going to be doing most of the work from the 200 phase panel. 200 phase panel is going to 3 separate 100amp sub panels (one for each room). The veg room panel will also feed the AC units which I will go into down the road.
As you can see the room is finally coming together. We are still waiting for some of the equipment to come in but as you can see we hung all the Nanolux and T5 lights on draw strings. This should allow us to adjust the height and really dial in for the best yield as we go along. Each flower room has 6 hurricane fans on the walls and 2 ceiling fans to really get the plants moving and some good air circulation. We are in the process of hanging some giant charcoal filters in the room to make sure we keep the smell as controlled as possible.
Throughout the next week we should be finished with the electrical, RO system and AC units. Each flower room will have 9 tons of AC and 3tons for the veg room.
Since we are coming to a close we decided to start shopping around for teens. We are hoping to find some through our local contacts so we can jump into our SEA-OF-GREEN layout. We are estimating needing about 220 teens and I know the average price is about 20-22 bucks a piece so by the next post I will hopefully have those in hand and under the T5 getting ready to turn within two weeks from now. Expect some updates on that in the near future.
