Dealing With Height Restraints in 3600 Watt Grow - Advice Appreciated

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razzapiggy Reviewed by razzapiggy on 11-27-2008. Dealing With Height Restraints in 3600 Watt Grow - Advice Appreciated Packed 3600 watts into a small room with 7.75 foot high ceilings - I know many of you have bigger height problems but when dealing with this amount of plants it's pretty damn difficult. To date, I've ran six cycles, my very FIRST one being the best when I simply had them on the ground in three gallon buckets. I gave them extremely low amounts of run off, if any... and still it was my best run! I've since built tables 15 inches tall, so I can throw my 100 gallon resi underneath. The Rating: 5

[Rusty Trichome]

As for your flush... do you take them outta your room to flush them or just give them Ph'ed water? When I did my first run with them on the ground I brought them into the bath tub and it was an absolute nightmare and I'm not so willing to do it again.

I don't grow nearly that much, so I do the bathroom tub thing. If you do 20 or 30 per week, it would split the burden and likely help lower the ambient humidity versus doing them all at once. No doubt about it tho...it quickly becomes a buzz-kill of a chore.

Regarding the pump...I'd make sure to have an overflow prevention/management strategy, as Murphy's Law dictates you will soak everything at least once.

Auto drip sounds good, but don't the plants directly under the lights need more than those twords the outside?

I personally can't justify the expense for salt leechers or flush solutions. Takes a few days, but pre-harvest flushing works well for me, and I can spend the extra cash on stuff like......bills. :thumbsup:

[xxxhazexxx]

A meter squred is like 10 squre feet right?

3ft3"by3ft3"

[razzapiggy]

I don't grow nearly that much, so I do the bathroom tub thing. If you do 20 or 30 per week, it would split the burden and likely help lower the ambient humidity versus doing them all at once. No doubt about it tho...it quickly becomes a buzz-kill of a chore.

Regarding the pump...I'd make sure to have an overflow prevention/management strategy, as Murphy's Law dictates you will soak everything at least once.

Auto drip sounds good, but don't the plants directly under the lights need more than those twords the outside?

I personally can't justify the expense for salt leechers or flush solutions. Takes a few days, but pre-harvest flushing works well for me, and I can spend the extra cash on stuff like......bills. :thumbsup:

Thanks for the suggestion but having several phases of plant growth to break up the work would likely create more problems than it solves for me. That may not be true for everyone else.

As the plants on the outside needing more water than the ones on the inside, sure... but I don't think any significant portion of extra water will be needed. If I need some extra water to one or two isolated situations, I can always just throw another dripper in that plant though I don't see that being the case.

I think I've decided to grow the plants on the ground almost for certain on this next cycle. This requires me taking down all the tables I built and figuring out the logicistics of watering 60 plants with a drip system working against gravity to get the water both out of the resi and then returning the waste water TO the resi.

[razzapiggy]

Haze thanks for the reply. My clone supply is far too small for something like that as of right now, but I will consider a SOG method in the future. As for now, I am going back to basics and replicating what I did the very first time I grew pot, only this time I will be setting up an irrigation system instead of doing it by hand (huge pain in the ass!) I got a pound per 4X4 area my very first time growing grass, so I figure the new technology should help that number out a bit!

[razzapiggy]

Will the pump seen at Amazon.com: Flotec FP0S1300X-03 Tempest 1/6 HP 1,500 GPH Utility Submersible Pump: Home Improvement work to power my drip system with the water being held in a garbage can? Thing can pump 1500GPH so I would assume so

[razzapiggy]

hello m8 with that much light i would do sog how much floor space you got?i would put 50 clones a m2 flower clones when they have 6 nodes and you will get about 1oz per clone:thumbsup:

Your Approach sounds great in a vertically challenged room as well, however I need a hefty clone stock ready to rock... then I'll try that way too.

[razzapiggy]

Just measured my plants just cut and most of them were 19-22 inches tall when they were dropped. Jeez, I vegged the things for like two weeks - wonder why so small.

I'm trying to figure out if I should just do one more cycle with the tables the way they are and try to get the extra height available *with the tables where they corrently* because heck I mean I should be able to grow them about

Err, I always love harvest times, but it sure gets me thinking about what adjustments I should make in the next week or so.

It's troubling for me, because still, two years after I got into this thing... my very first run through was the best, most simple, I had the least logic, and even still... I have not been able to touch it. Pissing me off!

[xxxhazexxx]

goodluck m8 when your up and running post some pics:thumbsup:and check out my cheese grow in indoor growing :jointsmile:

[razzapiggy]

I simply can't decide weather or not to cut the tables down or not... last time I only grew them to 19 inches, I could do another 10 or so inches even with the tables still in place.

How much growing space do you guys have *after* tables and lights and space between lights are accounted for?