Divider ?

Ok this might be a stupid question but i got a 10.5 x10.5 ft room butplan on just growing in a 10x5 footprint leaving half open for equipment and such plus i hate crowded. Will i lose light effectiveness without a dividet? I dont want to put up a stick wall and was thinking of running a wire across room and make basically a shower curtain with panda film. Good idea,bad idea, needed? Thanks

Opinion. Debated this for 2 yrs now. I'm not sure it's worth the hassle. I'm running half an 8x8 room and the outer plants do just as well as the ones near the wall. Also, that outer edge of light is spectacular for tomatoes, peppers and such. Just sayin'.
If I were still running HPS I might feel differently.

Thanks for the input

bam0813 said:

Ok this might be a stupid question but i got a 10.5 x10.5 ft room butplan on just growing in a 10x5 footprint leaving half open for equipment and such plus i hate crowded. Will i lose light effectiveness without a dividet? I dont want to put up a stick wall and was thinking of running a wire across room and make basically a shower curtain with panda film. Good idea,bad idea, needed? Thanks

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I have a 4x8' expansion planned for my basement grow room and using a panda film wall hanging like curtains is part of that plan. It's cold down there and I'm 2.5" short of being able to put a standard 4x8' tent in the spot thanks to a support beam that only leaves me 77.5" height about 5' from the grow room wall. The wall for the new space will taper from 7' to 5' wide to keep the cold air out while working on those plants but a panda curtain will define the space to 4' wide along its 8'6" length. 2 - 4' sections of panda, weighted at the bottoms so they don't blow around and rigged so I can pull a cord to lift them up and out of the way when I have to work with the plants. Two 600W HIDs mounted back-to-back running on my Light Rail 4.0 to make it into a great flower room.

I got all the gear together to build this except the 5 sheets of 3/8" plywood and now they are over $100 each so will frame it in and use panda film to cover it rather than plywood. The hardest part is cleaning up all the junk down there and finding somewhere else to put it so I can make the space available to build the room.

Good luck with yours!

It depends on your concerns about odor control
Panda is always a hassle with much air movement and raises temps
If any way possible I would use drywall or
Greenboard if affordable but just doing panda … never again

Not concerned with odor. Excessive noise and heat yes. Im thinking i may run one as is and go from there thanks again

Similar deal here. I've contemplated getting some type of reflective surface that I could easily move to the side as needed. I just didn't want it to interfere with my airflow as my fans were sitting a little ways back, not in the actual grow space itself.

So if I were to relocate fans for circulation, I'd still want access so I was considering something along the lines of doing a light framing with some reflective foam board that I could use on little feet for a stand or even something like using a cable wall-to-wall and find the brightest plain white shower curtains you can, etc.

I was also just considering getting another small led panel to put on some type of stand and just add more light from that side and move the light as needed - the fans go right around the pole I'd use (old floor flight salvaged for the pole/heavy base) and I could use the extra heat anyhow during the cold months.