10x10

Isbell Izzy said:
In a 10x10 will it be impossible to have different cycles of growing? Meaning I can’t have 1 in flower and another in veg at the same time?
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I run a 10x12 room and a 4x4 tent for a veg room so I can keep mother plants and be popping seeds. I take cuts for clones and pop beans around week 5 of flower and by the time I reset I’m about 3-4 weeks away from flipping to flower.
 
SofaKingHigh_ said:
I run a 10x12 room and a 4x4 tent for a veg room so I can keep mother plants and be popping seeds. I take cuts for clones and pop beans around week 5 of flower and by the time I reset I’m about 3-4 weeks away from flipping to flower.
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Im afraid to be efficient in a 10x10 I’d need have all 4 spaces active with lightning. Which I imagine is 30+ plants. I wanted to use half the room at 1st but seems like I’ll use loose yield not having 4 walls of reflection. Your thoughts?
 
Isbell Izzy said:
Im afraid to be efficient in a 10x10 I’d need have all 4 spaces active with lightning. Which I imagine is 30+ plants. I wanted to use half the room at 1st but seems like I’ll use loose yield not having 4 walls of reflection. Your thoughts?
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I just used panda plastic or Polly plastic. That’s a lot of plants. I’m only running 9 at a time under 2 scrogs with 4 lights. IMG_8790.jpeg
 
So you don’t believe u lose yield in that setup versus a tight canopy like a tent? I’m curious bc I’ve had ppl tell me I can’t get the same yield in a 10x10 vs four 5x5’s.
 
Why impossible? Suppose you could pop up another smaller tent right inside the bigger 10x10, and keep it on a different light schedule for veg or whatever. Even route its own separate ventilation ducting, so it doesn't interfere with the environment in the main flower section.

Better yet, just buy a big roll of the same diamond embossed mylar material they use for the grow tents, and use velcro strips to hold up another interior wall section (2 layers of the mylar, shiny sides out?), and partition another 5x5 area off instead of stuffing an additional tent frame in there. 10x10s usually have an extra center support right? If so, then I would think it would be easy to wrap the material around that and make another space inside, however you want.
 
This is gonna be amazing!! Now how best to power all of this.... wonder how much the electric company would charge me for running a new line to my garage, anyone have experience with that? I think I only have 30 amps running to this garage and I don't think that will cut it... especially with the fact I already have a deep freeze and an old fridge running on it...
 

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Isbell Izzy said:
Im afraid to be efficient in a 10x10 I’d need have all 4 spaces active with lightning. Which I imagine is 30+ plants. I wanted to use half the room at 1st but seems like I’ll use loose yield not having 4 walls of reflection. Your thoughts?
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Divide the space with reflective panels.

Was going to suggest a tent a few are designed for multi use.
 
You get light loss if not all the tent is lit and you don't use reflective sheet.
But it's not hard or expensive to hang mylar or something.

If I was going to do it I'd probably buy a roller blind and reupholster it with reflective material.

It doesn't need to go to the ceiling or floor, just the mid level where light will hit and bounce back .

Or you could pop a 4x4 in there and use it to veg and just add those plants every 5 week to the main chamber to flower.

If you light up the whole 10x10 it's going to be much the same as 4x 5x5s because your not losing light, it's just hitting other plants , which is beneficial .
Obviously you need room to work, be able to get in and around all plants.
 
Assuming that the other inputs are the same, the amount of light hitting the canopy determines how much photosynthesis takes place. That's why PPFD is so important.

4 5' tents have same floor space as 1 10' tent (100 sq ft) but the problem is that if you light 4 tents, you're not going to get as many photons on the canopy because of light fall off at the edges. If you're in many small tents, you've got 4 tents each with 20 feet of edge = 80 feet of edge. With a 10 tent, you've got 40' of edge. If you've got a larger area, it's much easier to provide even light levels to the canopy because there's so much more room to move things around to get the right set up.

Having said that, there may be a value in having > 1 tent. It's a lot easier to have a VPD of 1.0 (veg) and 1.2-1.4 (flower) in separate tents. Not easy to do in an open space. :-)

From a yield perspective though, it's really just all about getting photons on the canopy - that's the only way a plant makes food.
 
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