i have two 3x3 setups 1 for veg and one for budding.i need advice with lights,vent,good nutes,
lights- figure on 50W/sq ft of HPS lighting.
ventilation- the exhaust system needs to be able to shift the room air volume in about 3 mins, so a 500cu ft room needs a minimum 167CFM blower. If this is not sufficient to keep the temps down, use cooltubes on your HPS lighting.
nutes- most any commercially made hydro nutes will do. Joe's are as good as Jim's for the most part. Name brand nutes are usually more consistent in quality than those from small makers (like your local hydro shop which may mix up something in the back room, but I've seen house-brand nute raise fine plants.
anybody got some good advice for me
You posted your first request for info at 12:46pm, this request at 1:09pm. You don't think you're being impatient or anything,
do you? :/
i could get the ebb and flow fittings,pump,res and tray no problemif i need anything else let me know
You need to familiarise yourself with the basic necessary equipment to run a grow.
SimplyHydro's resource is good for that. PLEASE do your own research on the basics before asking for help. Nothing annoys me more than someone who won't do their own legwork, instead expecting me to do all the basics for them.
I believe I have the right thermometer, and measure ph with hydroponic store chemical tester. The one where you collect water then add some drips and chart it by the color change. I would get tds or ec meter if I could find one for about
$50. Yet all I've seen are $300 and up.
You need to shop better. Lots of ppm meters around for less than $300. Try the Bluelab TDS Truncheon.
Colour-match pH kits just don't git it in a hydroponic op, probably OK for your swimming pool... They're inaccurate on a good day, not a lot better than guessing.
If you have the right thermo, you know the max high & low temps because the thermo saves those peak values.
Lol I live alone is that family and friend sometimes come over so with the enclosure people would just think it's a closet or cabinet.
You're kinda on your own with specifically how to keep the noseynellies out of your op. About all I can suggest is to lock the door!
OK larger then the tray how much larger to rum a 1000 watt air cooled and of course good vent.
The room can be a tent made of pandafilm which is only large enough to fit the tray in, just need to plan to have about 2m vertical height to work with. In such a space, cooltubes will help keep temps under control. Ventilation system should be able to shift the tent/room airmass volume in about 3 mins.
Also with one big tray rotating 1/4 can the tray be flooded with the same nutes as all the pots in different stages.
All my tanks run flowering nutes at 1400, except for wk6, when plants get dosed with Canna's PK1314. If you plan for about 5L of tank volume per plant , a single tank will be pretty big. Also, with a single tank, you can't do stuff like applying a PK additive for wk 6 plants without dosing all the plants. I used 4x 900mm^2 trays (23 plants each) because the biggest el-cheapo storage tubs I could get were 125L.
