Well if you are good with tools then how about?.you go full hydro and do a screen of green method. Pick up a climate controller for temperature/humidity & Co2. Install Mylar in your grow area to increase side lighting to the canopy and increase bud size. Pick up a Co2 tank, timer and regulator to start but you really need a PPM controller for max efficiency (1500 ppm) and bud production. A home mister will handle the humidity in that small of an area. The controller will turn it on and off and maintain the required level of 70-80% during vegetation and lower it to 60% when you flower. Always keep the temperature between 72-80 F even if you need to use a portable AC unit. Temperature control is very important to maintain a stress free growing environment. Air needs to be provided to the lower part of the plants too not just the tops.

There are some other things too but in your small area I don??t think they will be a problem, but you still should exchange the air in your room twice a day minimum. I bet you??re now thinking how can I grow more in Hydro?

Well I will try my best to explain. If the whole area is square I mean 18? top 18? bottom and 7?? top and 7?? bottom then this works. If not just look at the area where it squares off and put up a back wall.


First you build a wood box holding tank that will fill from wall to wall 18? and is 36? long up to 40? long depending on how far back you can reach to work the plant. For the sake of argument I will use 36? here but just know you can play with the dimensions of course. You can install low caster wheels or use a heavy-duty 36? cabinet drawer roller. Just make sure you can push it in and pull it out with little effort. Here and I assume there you can purchase pond liner there too. It??s thick plastic so you can use one whole piece to make the tub to hold the water. Run it over the top and down the side so you can staple it to keep it in place. Waterbed liner will work too about the same thing. Now you have how you are going to hold your water and change it so next?..

Make sure you save enough liner to make 2 cover??s about 18? wide by 36? long.

You install 2x2x2 all the way round about 8? above the top of the holding tank you just built and installed.

Install one of the liner sheets at the back of the frame and let it hang into the holding tank it??s like a splashguard.

Making the deck lid?.
This is not a hard as it sounds. You need some marine plywood (if you can??t get any that??s fine) ½? is ok to use. Now here we can purchase plastic tub sheets that are just flat sheets of plastic and again I assume you can find something like that there. The deck lid dimensions are only from wall to wall and 36? deep. You need to make a plastic sandwich with the plywood. You do that using contact glue once it dries you are good to start making your holes and plumbing. The ends just cover with glue and let it dry you can and should use plastic to make a full sandwich but you don??t really need to.

You can use 24 3? net pots in that area and they just hang through over the reservoir so when the drip?.drips it goes back in the reservoir and the capillary action will help to oxygenate the water.

You can use ½ ?? PVC and attach it to the deck lid on topside and just drill the ¼? drip fittings into the PVC and use a 90 to kick it into place. This way if you need to take a pot out you only need to deal with one feeding tube, just swing it out of the way and you are free to work. No emitters are needed they just clog up anyway and get in the way. Now I said you could use 3? net pots when you get those don??t forget to get the covers too. You can use them at the start and then later to help keep the waste from collecting on the grow rocks and light out too. If it were me building this I would put the PVC on the bottom and make a 1? standoff with PVC and just poke the ¼? tube through the top and then use the 90 and another little piece of tubing to swing it into place. You cap off the end of the PVC of course so the pressure builds up to feed all the tubes. By using a good power head you can use the diverter that is supplied to both circulate the nutrients around in the tub and feed the plants. Something like the Via Aqua 526 GPH. would work or the Rio Pumps 692 GPH. You can use a soft hose to connect to the PVC attached to the deck lid because you will be pulling out the holding tank to change the nutrients and clean it every 10 day??s a few feet. You can use the same pump you feed the plants with to also drain the old nutrients into buckets for disposal. Wash out the holding thank with each water/nutrient change and use a flusher in between cycles and every 30 day??s to flush the system and keep it clean. You place the second plastic sheet like the one you made in the back of the holding tank now you place it the front. It staples to the front of deck lid to cover the holding tank and keep light out.

About 24? above the deck lid install 2x2 to hold the screen this is just the holding frame so you only need 2 sides and the back firmly attached. Build a full frame to attach the chicken wire or I use 3x3 steel concert wire it??s stronger but most use chicken wire. Stretch it tight and use strong staples to keep it in place. One carriage bolt installed from the underside and acting like a stud bold on each of the 2 sides will hold the screen in place using a fender washer and wing nut. This way it can be removed until you need the screen so the light can get closer. Once the light is raised above the height of the screen you can then install it and should start the Flower cycle.

That??s about it, Mylar, Hydro drip 24/7, temperature and environment control along with Co2 will grow you better then 1.5 ounce per plant to 2 ounces per plant. Keep the canopy an even height by bending and tying down when you need to and crop them twice in the first 30-day??s this will make them bushy and short. There is not much room for side growth so just keep the long shouts pointing to the light. The idea of this type of grow is short bushy and poke just the buds through the screen to maximize the light??s effectiveness. After all you are only using top lighting so this is the best I can think of. Another thing is it??s a good idea if you have extra pond liner you line the sides from the bottom to the deck lid down into the holding tank. Just remember to put them back into place when you role in and out after each service to protect the walls.

I don??t have a working digital camera so I can??t show you pictures but if I can borrow one I can show you more detail.

I will be on and off over the next month or so. We are selling our house and moving. It??s time to downsize with the kids grown and gone and get out of the city and move into the mountains. So lots to do around here but I will check back as often as I can.