What would you do with this grow space? 200sqft

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Itswoody

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I have 200 sqft and was wondering how many lights and how many plants? I’m trying to do a perpetual grow and trying to get the maximum yield from the space I have. The dotted lines is where the plants will go with a 2ftx20ft walk way. This is a upcoming project and we still have to build the shed so I got time lol 07AD0CF8-2BE5-4867-838F-6FC9D426A691.png
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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Perpetual grow so you’ll need separate flower and veg spaces. Lights will depend on the size of each area.
 
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Hanrahan

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Itswoody said:
I have 200 sqft and was wondering how many lights and how many plants? I’m trying to do a perpetual grow and trying to get the maximum yield from the space I have. The dotted lines is where the plants will go with a 2ftx20ft walk way. This is a upcoming project and we still have to build the shed so I got time lol View attachment 4975193
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Keep your two canopy runs a good 12" or 18" from the outer wall. This way you can access plants from both sides. It will reduce your pathway width unless you instead build your shed 14' wide. A narrow pathway would give some overlap from the lighting on each side too. Also your wall mounted oscillating fans won't be banging into your lighting array as they move back and fourth.
The plants right up against the wall will never get the same attention as the ones along the pathway. Yeah sure you can reach through to the other side but your limiting yourself if employing a 5' net trellis and a sea of green. Really hard to maintain plants on the far side if the first layer of net wants to be under 24" from the floor. May as well build it to suit multiple growing styles.
If your using flood tables to discharge your run off that's (2) 8' tables on each side leaving you 8' for reservoir etc. Make it 30' long and fit 24 running feet of planting space on each side leaving 6' imo which is enough for reservoir etc. That's alot of additional lbs for that extra 6' in length.
Consider though if cooling w a mini split and one head unit the rectangular space will be a few degrees dif at the opposite end of the room unless you rig up two head units (ideal) imo one on each end.
Just my 2¢
 
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Hanrahan

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Hanrahan said:
Keep your two canopy runs a good 12" or 18" from the outer wall. This way you can access plants from both sides. It will reduce your pathway width unless you instead build your shed 14' wide. A narrow pathway would give some overlap from the lighting on each side too. Also your wall mounted oscillating fans won't be banging into your lighting array as they move back and fourth.
The plants right up against the wall will never get the same attention as the ones along the pathway. Yeah sure you can reach through to the other side but your limiting yourself if employing a 5' net trellis and a sea of green. Really hard to maintain plants on the far side if the first layer of net wants to be under 24" from the floor. May as well build it to suit multiple growing styles.
If your using flood tables to discharge your run off that's (2) 8' tables on each side leaving you 8' for reservoir etc. Make it 30' long and fit 24 running feet of planting space on each side leaving 6' imo which is enough for reservoir etc. That's alot of additional lbs for that extra 6' in length.
Consider though if cooling w a mini split and one head unit the rectangular space will be a few degrees dif at the opposite end of the room unless you rig up two head units (ideal) imo one on each end.
Just my 2¢
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This is if this entire area were be a flowering room. My bad I assumed it was.
 
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Hanrahan

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Your looking at either 8 or 12 lights total 4 or 6 on each side. That's for both Hid or Led. I recommend laying out the actual grow area in multiples of 8' to simplify things.
 
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Itswoody

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I posted an updated thread and picture with better description thank you guys! Couldn’t figure out how to delete this thread.
 
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