8 x 6 x 8 room setup help please

[kronos416]

Hello was wanting some insight from some more experienced individuals about starting a grow room. The room is 8ft long x 6ft wide x 8ft high. I have some supplies 400 watt hps for budding and wanna use fluoroescents for cloning and veg. I have 4 48 inch cool whites for cloning and a set of 4 48 inch full spectrum bulbs for veg. I have a cloning machine as well. I also have an ozone genorator to combat smell and 4 inch vortex fan + hose running to chimney to be blasted out roof. Id like to grow "sea of green" method. Can someone please let me know what else i should get for the room setup. Was also wondering how many moms i would need and how many plants for each growth stage to maximize my room size. This room will have to be used for both cloning veg/ and budding. This would be my first time trying this method so all the feedback is welcome please share your knowledge so i can set this up properly..... thanks

kronos416 Reviewed by kronos416 on 08-16-2007. 8 x 6 x 8 room setup help please Hello was wanting some insight from some more experienced individuals about starting a grow room. The room is 8ft long x 6ft wide x 8ft high. I have some supplies 400 watt hps for budding and wanna use fluoroescents for cloning and veg. I have 4 48 inch cool whites for cloning and a set of 4 48 inch full spectrum bulbs for veg. I have a cloning machine as well. I also have an ozone genorator to combat smell and 4 inch vortex fan + hose running to chimney to be blasted out roof. Id like to grow Rating: 5

[Penngrove]

Maybe treat it like two closets. Like seperate it into a flower room and a growth room. Maybe rack or layered system in the growth room like split the verticle space 60 / 40. Could have mom down below and kids above. Saw something like it somewhere online.
I am sure you have read all the post about reflective material or paint. I made sure my vents were at the top of the room and that worked out. I had air inlets below but that is a problem. I should have more fresh air coming in and now I have to find a way to cut another hole to outside. Dealing with exhaust cooled Sodium required another in and out for the air. So that was my mine mistake. I have eight footwalls and use yo yos to hang from center and that has worked out.
I am sure you have thought about wiring and where you want your stuff. I wish I had put mine just inside the door. Anyway it sounds like you have a prime piece of real estate and the experts here will chime in and help you out.

[psteve]

Hello was wanting some insight from some more experienced individuals about starting a grow room. The room is 8ft long x 6ft wide x 8ft high. I have some supplies 400 watt hps for budding and wanna use fluoroescents for cloning and veg. I have 4 48 inch cool whites for cloning and a set of 4 48 inch full spectrum bulbs for veg. I have a cloning machine as well. I also have an ozone genorator to combat smell and 4 inch vortex fan + hose running to chimney to be blasted out roof. Id like to grow "sea of green" method. Can someone please let me know what else i should get for the room setup. Was also wondering how many moms i would need and how many plants for each growth stage to maximize my room size. This room will have to be used for both cloning veg/ and budding. This would be my first time trying this method so all the feedback is welcome please share your knowledge so i can set this up properly..... thanks

I recommend 50W per square foot. I would say you need at least 2000 more watts of HPS, if you're using the whole room for flower.

[kronos416]

No i need to split up the room for both growth and flowering. I also have been thinking of doing somekind of shelving for moms and babies in the one side and have the other side just for flowering so if im splitting the room up like this wouldnt the one 400 hps do the trick for the flowering part of room? any other suggestions?

[bongerstonerd00d]

Buy a MH conversion bulb for the H.P.S and use it on the veg side (after you partition). Buy ya a new 600 or 1000 watt for your flower side(w/digi ballast) and grow some forearm sized budz.

Use them 4' flouros for seedlings/rooting yer clones.......and yer all set up.



b0nger

[kronos416]

Do you think the 4 inch vortex fan is big enough for a room this size or should i go with bigger unit? Do you think the ozone generator is good enough for combating smell along with venting out roof or should i look into a scrubber?

[psteve]

wouldnt the one 400 hps do the trick for the flowering part of room? any other suggestions?

400W is enough for 8 square feet (2'x4'). If you make your flower room 2x4 feet, the 400Watts will be enough. You might get away with 4'x4', but your bud density will suffer.
I'd get more light.

[jamstigator]

I'd get two 600-watt lights for flowering, and build a medium-sized cabinet to hold your mothers and clones and put that near the doorway so it's easy to get to. You'd have to restrict your access to your veg stuff to the day part of the flowering cycle that way, so as not to freak out your flowering plants.

A 4" fan won't be enough. I don't think a 6" fan would be enough either. That's almost 400 cubic feet. I'd get at least an 8" fan, and a beefy carbon filter to match.

I use a 400-watt HPS in an area that's 20" deep by 46" wide -- not quite 2' x 4' in other words, and it's barely enough. Not much canopy penetration, especially at the edges of the 46" width (so I supplement with some CFLs at the edges). I guess it depends on how much of that space you want to devote to flowering. If you use a significant amount of that square footage, you will need much more than a 400-watt light.

[Penngrove]

I went a took a look at the guys set up similar to the size your working with. He does have it split in two. The first section has two sections. The larger being the bottom and the smaller on top. Uses flourescent lights above both. Then he has a lightproof barrier between the two sections. The second part is the "sea of green" and he has an 1000 watt HPS. It is a really slick setup and I sketched it ( sorry he said absolutely no pictures). I believe the moms live below, cuttings are grown above and then moved over when ready. He is a nice guy but really did not want to discuss details. The results have looked really good. I copied some of the ideas when I set mine up but his is sweet. He had all that space to work with.

One thing I did encounter with mine was power. I replaced the line with 12 gauge and no more problems but if you have not wired yet, put in big stuff, you wont be sorry.

Good luck and have fun. Sounds like a good project. Let me know if you want me to post the sketch.

[kronos416]

Yes please do im still trying to decide how to set it up and im up for all kinds suggestions, especially if your buddy has same room size similar to mine.