Hello all, have been lurking around this site and dreaming of starting a garden for about 6 months now, well finally saved enough and gathered enough supplies together and am starting construction on my new growing space. This will be my first grow and really need advice on how to set everything up. I am very handy, so electrical, plumbing, and carpentry are no problem, so let me tell you what I am working with......
Climate: am in the south, very hot summers, mild winters, and high humidity.
Room: 6 x 8 x 8, but can only utilize an "L" shape, meaning 4 x 8 and the small part of the "L" being 2.5' x 2.5', leaving me a lung room of 2' x 5.5', there is a washing machine in there and the entry door. Was going to split the room up to a 4 x 4 flower room and a 2.5' x 3' veg room, leaving the middle area for equipment. Am going to run a 4 site undercurrent system with 3" PVC for flower, would like to run a smaller UC system for veg also with 2" PVC.
Some equipment I already have is, all the plumbing and uniseals, 2 inline 1100 gph pumps, 1 550 gph inline pump, 1 950gph air pump, 3 300cfm squirrel cage blowers, I also have a chill water a/c system that one of the squirrel cages hooks up to, I think the coil is a 60gph for cooling the air. 1 8" inline duct fan, 1 6" inline duct fan, about 8 80cfm computer type fans, but bigger, about 4" x 4", 2 TDS testers that measure in ppm & ec, 2 ph pen testers. 1 6k window unit, 2 stainless steel 6-pass cold plates, a small refrigerator, an ozone generator for a 1200 square foot room.
The whole room, including the lung room, will be sealed. The roof lined with 4mil black plastic, reflectix, another layer of plastic, r-12 insulation, then 5/8" Sheetrock, the walls will be the same just without the reflectix. It will also have a 100amp subpanel.
Really all I need is the light and nutes, I have 5 3' flouro fixtures with 2 bulbs each for the veg room, i also have 2 175w MH lights, was thinking about buying a 1000w hps air cooled hood for flower room.
So this is how I envision it...
Flower room: sealed 4 x 4 area, 1000w hps, pulling air thru carbon filter attached to hood, over bulb, using the squirrel cage attached to chill water a/c unit mounted in the lung room, hot air travels over chilled coils and back into flower room, I figure this would also help add humidity. Was going to put window unit outside flower room and use the small fans hooked up to a themostat inside flower room to pull in air conditioned air ( thru light baffles ) if needing additional cooling. So how am I doing so far? Any input would be greatly appreciated, would like to build it right the first time, so am reaching out to all the pro growers for room setup advice. Thanks.