Medical grow. Vertical grow room SCROG octagon cages finished! ;D 5,500watts split 1,100 Hortilux HP
Changing my four
XXXL Magnum/
Raptor horizontal
HPS 1,
100 watt Lumatek's to a type of vertical
SCROG / vertical sea of green in 6' foot cages of 2"x4" welded steel mesh. x) quite the endeavor. I will also add a 1,
000 watt old school magnetic ballast I currently own to this flower room, making it a total of 5,400 watts of pink box Hortilux light. My new flower space will be in a room 24' foot by 8'9" wide by
6'7" heigh, with a 2'x5' bump-in the wall adding extra space.
Currently in my 11'x11' room with 6'9" height
I am running four Lumatek 1,100 watt digital purple ballasts with boost at
220 volts, all with pink box Hortilux HPS bulbs x4=4,400 watts totally from: 3 wide & shallow XXXL Magnum hoods with a
4'x6' footprint and one blazer hood with a penetrating 4'x4' footprint. These four hoods are mounted to 6" ducting leading to a 906cfm 8" inline with a reducer 6"-8", then vented out my second floor window, they stay very cool to the touch. I also use a 440cfm
MTN inline fan to vent out the ceiling of the room itself through a Y split out the window. I am using 4 bags of
Exhale to organically produce extra
CO2. I have central AC and I added a
110 volt 8,000
BTU window AC set to 65 degrees 24/7. This has been the description of my current flowering space of 11'x11', which I am currently moving into the basement space of 24'x8'9" with a 6'7" height.
The new flower space will be transformed into 4 cages 6' foot octagon cages made of 2"x3"'s. The cage is welded at all mesh points, mesh being 2"x4". I can fit 4 of these 6'x6'x6'9" octagon cages in this 24' space. I will use one 1,100 watt pink box Hortilux bulb for each 6' cage within a
360 degree clear 6"
Cool Tube. These 4 vertical 1,100 watt pink box Hortilux HPS bulbs are all pushed with purple Lumatek 1,100 watt HPS/MH 110-240 volt dimmable digital ballasts, always set on 1,100 watts each. To this I will add my one extra 1,000 watt magnetic ballast inside one XXXL Magnum 4'x6' hood to run one massive tree using the "bump-in" making the space big enough for the extra light, it will have an area of 4'9"x 5' with the 6'7" height. I hope the vertically grown plant using the horizontal XXXL hood will benefit from light leaking out of the two 6' octagon vertical lighted, welded mesh cages that border it.
I will have this flower room divided into 2 sections utilizing the "arch", the centrally placed main load-baring support beam of my home. It has two vertical 6"x6" in that section supporting that 8'9" of main-beam. Using this "arch" I will black/block it off. That leaves about 12' feet per side
of this arch. I will house 2 of the 6' vertical cages on one side of the arch and 2 vertical 6' cages and the horizontal ceiling mounted XXXL Magnum hood using the bump-in on that side. This will allow me to harvest half the room, one side of the arch/
Panda wall every month and this will allow me to black out one side in its last days before harvest totally, or it will allow me to further reduce the light cycle to 10 hours on and 14 hours off, if not totally blacking it out for days before harvest. I will vent the 2 six foot cages on one side with a 6" MTN commercial inline fan at
440 cfm. That 440cfm is more than double what's needed as I have kept 4 hoods cool in the very low 70's using one 440 cfm MTN inline on 4 XXXL Magnum metal hoods. So, 440 cfm MTN on those two 1,100 watt Hortilux bulb's and my
906 cfm 8" commercial inline fan will vent the two vertical 1,100 Lumatek & Hortilux bulbs and it will more than handle the XXXL Magnum hood I'm adding. I will tell you a guarded secret: I can house my magnetic ballast within the 6" or 8" portion of my inline ducting. Those inline fans will both join with a Y and then be channeled out the chimney in the summer along with the 440 cfm 6" MTN cooling the 2 magnetic ballasts, bulbs and hoods from the veg side.
Totally venting 440+440+906cfm=1,786 cfm out the chimney in the summer and venting into my central house ducting providing me with 1,786 cfm of free heat each
New England winter. :) I will benefit from the below-grade insulated nature of a full basement in climate noise and smell, also I will gain access to the chimney to vent out heat in the summer and access to the central heat to vent the heat into my home rather than the chimney in the winter months. In addition to the basement location and the central AC I will augment and control the temperature with a 12,000 BTU AC that I will be immediately buying. I will buy this standing-internal AC that has a 6" duct to vent itself, which will also vent out the chimney in
the summer. I will buy a 220 volt AC for this as I figure I have room on my electric panel. I had a master Electriction wired me a 60 amp sub panel using three 20 amp 220 volt "double pull" breakers.
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