Hey Tty, need help with a set up.
Friend has two rooms, 6 1k's in bloom and 4 1k's in veg. He's getting over 90 degrees now and I want to set him up with chilling. You use 2 tons with vented hoods right? He's got open lights and I think two more than you if you have all the lights on. How much of a chiller would you recommend and do you have any preferred brands / sources?
Edit - I'm looking on Amazon and finding chillers rated in HP, 1/4 hp, 1/2 hp - and a 1 hp unit for $999. Are these way to small?
first, my chiller is currently broken. The service tech broke it...
Second, WAY too much veg lighting! Why so much? I run just one kW of veg lighting, plus a 130w led, for three veg stages. The last of these delivers a bloom ready plant to the open room every 16 days. The bloom room has 4kW, and they fill it right up! The key is to run enough stages of veg to grow a big plant.
Try to reconfigure for at least two bloom rooms on a flip, preferably of equal size. Run four bloom spaces for 15-16 day cycles, or two for 30-35 days each. I like four, all with separate blooming spaces. This allows for precise tailoring of conditions for each stage of development. This holds true for both during veg and bloom.
Taking this idea another step, if all the plants in a given zone were the same, environmental conditions could then be tailored to the needs and timing of the strain as well as the lifecycle stage it's in. This is how both yields and quality get maximized...