thanks for the details LOC.. BIG Thanks!! I am absorbing as much as I can.. my 6x6x8 room is coming together.. just invested in a co2 controller too.. 1000 watt hps with hortilux eye as well.. I am using 4ft t8 digital flouros at 6500k as side lighting.. went garage sale scouring this weekend for a window unit but came up empty handed.. will keep looking.. is 6000BTU enough? I have dry air here, in my veg room I have a full size humidifier that maintains 50% and uses over a gallon a day.. thats for a small space too!

At first I was like super anxious and nothing was growing fast enough but now its kind of nice as I have FAR exceeded my budget for this project and have to kinda buy things as I can come up with funding.. Now its a race between me and the cron to get the grow room together in time.. although I can buy a little more time by turning the vegging plants into a clone army in preps for the super grow room.. hehe

Im a little worried about cloning though.. I tried to clone some tomatoes (rea l tomatoes) and neither of the two i tried took.. I will probably take initial clones in a week or two and when they are established I will bud them to sex the parent plants and eliminate the males.. Bubble bags will be standing by.. hehe

I should be able to get away with that and probably not even lite off the HPS.. just save some electrons and run floros since all i care about is sexing the first set.. they will be destroyed once sex is established so I can finish up the room for the clone army

Thanks again for the detail and I still have not picked a nute schedule or the hydro setup for the flower room yet so that is very good info for me.. Im kind of leaning toward ebb and flow unless anybody gives me a good reason not to.. The way I can set it up the nutes can sit outside the room completely and be pumped in for flood period and completely drained otherwise.. this affords nute changeouts without disturbing the dark period and will allow me to have more plants closer to the ground so they can grow more of the 8 ft up that I have for them.

Not trying to invent anything yet, just utilize the existing stuff to the best of my needs. Thanks again for the info.. its VERY helpful to me!