Water cooled grow room

[Racker]

Hi,

My name is Racker and i am building a new grow room. Not very big but a little sophisticated.

The plan is to use all of the available space for plant grow. Al the equipment will be on top of the sealing. (cooling, heating, dehumidification,ballasts, fuse box etc..)
Set-up:
Climate control> Opticlimate 10000pro2 watercooled climate control unit
Lights> 14x Dimlux 400volt/600watt ballasts with philips greenpower 400volt el bulb.
Hoods> Gavita pro-line reflectors
Pots> 100 Airmaxx white softpots with cover 29ltr (6,5 gallons i think)
Medium> RFX-1 flakes
Co2&light control> Dimlux maxi controller

Building starts soon so enjoy, questions, remarks and commends are more than welcome.

 

[Racker]

Building in Progress....

Foil is to keep poison fumes out and co2 in.

 

[GenghisDon]

I like that air-supply manifold a lot. Clean setup for sure!

 

[Eternal Student]

pretty dope

 

[nMEEKS]

This should be interesting. I'm sub'd, thanks for sharing the buildout.

-Meeks

 

[Racker]

Cold air blow-out and hoods.

Opticlimate on top of the room

Intellidose with pumps and home made eb/flow timer with overflow safety...........still busy, plants are coming soon.

Gr

 

[half baked]

very nice very clean room bro, ive got the same hoods on my gavita pro1000's, bit weird looking at them with no ballast tho lol they are great, so small with such a great spread of light :)

i'll be lurking in the background ;)
hb

 

[Racker]

Plants are in. Lights are on 12hours and i use 24 hours fluorescent lamps as veg back-up.

 

[Racker]

Another update.

Lights are on /off 12/12 now for 7 days.

Daytemp is 86gr (30gr C.)
Nighttemp is 71gr (22gr C.)
Humidity @ night is over 80% and in daytime arround 50%.

Gonna raise night temp now to prevent stretch, some picas;

 

[Racker]

And some plant picas

 

[Smoking Gun]

Really nice set-up. You are using some gear I have never seen or even heard of, that only makes this project that much more exciting to watch. Would you please tell us a bit more about your medium please? Is watering totally automated?

 

[Racker]

Sure,

Opticlimate cools, circulates,filters,heats and dehumidifies the air in the grow-room. There is a little filter+fan at the back of the room to prevent the good old smell outside the room. There is also an uvonair ozon unit on top of the room. The fan refreches the room 5 times every hour.
http://opticlimate.absolutecs.gr/

The dimlux ballasts are auto or manuel dimmable. They dim when growroom gets to hot or when leaftemp rise above room temp. (no evaporation) The controller that controls the lights has a vpd calculator and co2 controller build in.
http://dimlux.absolutecs.gr/

The medium i use is rfx-1. By the application of Earthwool the product is almost 100% natural. Raw materials used are all new, so there are no recycled raw materials processed in RFX-1 mix. Therefore no diseases or contamination of mold from the outside. It looks the same as the old mapito with rockwool and foam flakes in it.

Watering is eb/flow. The autogrow intellidose dosingcomputer fills a watertank (1200ltr) with fresh water from a well. Nutients and PH are set automatic. Every other day a timer pumps all the water in the growroom (flood) and leaves it there for half an hour. Another pump on the floor of the growroom is than activated by the timer and pumps all the water back into the tank. Water will be filled again and the whole cycle starts over again.

I just sit and watch :p

 

[GenghisDon]

Ballpark figure on what you have invested?

Any plans for a camera system so you're not obligated to sit and watch locally, but able to monitor from the VIP at the strip club when you're not busy getting your dick sucked like a pimp?

 

[Smoking Gun]

I would love to see a picture of the period where the plants are flooded. From the pictures it looks like the plants are on the floor, but I am now assuming they are in a tray of some kind.

 

[The Mulls]

OH SweeT jeebus!! .... rackeR ..... your room is juss F'n tech AWEsum .... . jaw on tha floor! .... sO many pretty toys ..... butt i juss gotz to know ................ who's tha girlz?? ;):D .... cheerz N tuned ... Mz Mull :p

 

[jkbeing]

Wow. That looks awesome. Great planning everything out Racket.

 

[Racker]

@Genghis, small investment for so much fun ;) No camera system, only sms when something goes wrong (water, fire,break in) Dick sucking is also covered :rolleyes:

@Smokinggun, Very sharp, pots are on grass tiles.
The tiles help draining the pots and make sure all pots are drained all the way, even when the floor is not level. (it never is) I'll make a some pics of flooding.

@The Mulls, Casey jones

@jkbeing, Thanks for the compliment.

 

[true grit]

very nice!!

 

[Smoking Gun]

Mmmmm... A room full of Casey. Can't wait to see the flooded pics. How high up does the flooding get. It looks like you need 3"-4" inches of flood to properly soak the pots.

 

[SodaLicious]

Mmmmm... A room full of Casey. Can't wait to see the flooded pics. How high up does the flooding get. It looks like you need 3"-4" inches of flood to properly soak the pots.

Is that Tuco in your avatar?