Need some expert input for my grow room design

Cory117

Member
I have been growing for a couple years and I finally feel confident enough to step everything up to a larger system, now that I've encountered most of the problems.

My grow room is 8 ft. by 12 ft. and 8 ft. high. This room will be completely sealed with a simple inlet for fresh air. Exhaust will be via an 8" vortex fan attached to a carbon filter. I was planning on having the lights exhaust completely separate. That is, one inlet, with air being drawn by a separate vortex fan, blown through the lights and out a separate outlet. This light cooling system would run all the time and exhaust fan will turn on only when need be to control temp/humidity and to exchange fresh air.

Any feedback as to whether or not I should separate the exhaust of the room and the exhaust of the lights? I have never done this before, but I think it would allow me to better saturate the room with co2 while still keeping the temps from getting too high.

I will be using six digital 600 watt lights over two 3x6 Ebb n Flo tables. One reservoir with two pumps.

CO2 will be delivered using a CO2 tank and regulator on a timer, connected to a CO2/humidity/temperature controller (next time I will get the nice CO2 controllers and sensors but for now I will be using math to figure out how much CO2 to release.

Nutrients will be the complete Advanced Nutrients line (bit pricey but past results have proven its worth it).

Connoisseur A/B
Voo Doo Juice
Big Bud
B-52
Overdive
Bud Ignitor
Piranha
Tarantula
Bud Candy
Nirvana
Sensizyme
Rhino Skin
Bud Factor X
Kushie Kush

I will be growing 36 OG Kush clones.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
 

FootClan

Well-Known Member
Yes you are right about having a seperate fan souly for cooling your lights, however the fan dosnt need to be on all the time, it only needs to be on during the lights "ON" period ...when the lights go off the fan can go off aswell to save energy and prolong the life of the fan and reduce noise too.....
 

Motherhugger

Well-Known Member
I have been growing for a couple years and I finally feel confident enough to step everything up to a larger system, now that I've encountered most of the problems.

My grow room is 8 ft. by 12 ft. and 8 ft. high. This room will be completely sealed with a simple inlet for fresh air. Exhaust will be via an 8" vortex fan attached to a carbon filter. I was planning on having the lights exhaust completely separate. That is, one inlet, with air being drawn by a separate vortex fan, blown through the lights and out a separate outlet. This light cooling system would run all the time and exhaust fan will turn on only when need be to control temp/humidity and to exchange fresh air.

Any feedback as to whether or not I should separate the exhaust of the room and the exhaust of the lights? I have never done this before, but I think it would allow me to better saturate the room with co2 while still keeping the temps from getting too high.

I will be using six digital 600 watt lights over two 3x6 Ebb n Flo tables. One reservoir with two pumps.

CO2 will be delivered using a CO2 tank and regulator on a timer, connected to a CO2/humidity/temperature controller (next time I will get the nice CO2 controllers and sensors but for now I will be using math to figure out how much CO2 to release.

Nutrients will be the complete Advanced Nutrients line (bit pricey but past results have proven its worth it).

Connoisseur A/B
Voo Doo Juice
Big Bud
B-52
Overdive
Bud Ignitor
Piranha
Tarantula
Bud Candy
Nirvana
Sensizyme
Rhino Skin
Bud Factor X
Kushie Kush

I will be growing 36 OG Kush clones.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
Wow...you are a rockstar for using all of these.

Connoisseur A/B
Voo Doo Juice
Big Bud
B-52
Overdive
Bud Ignitor
Piranha
Tarantula
Bud Candy
Nirvana
Sensizyme
Rhino Skin
Bud Factor X
Kushie Kush

I couldn't use all of those at once, but I have GOT to follow your grow to see how you do it. AMAZING...

Rock star. Rock star.
 

Cory117

Member
Yes you are right about having a seperate fan souly for cooling your lights, however the fan dosnt need to be on all the time, it only needs to be on during the lights "ON" period ...when the lights go off the fan can go off aswell to save energy and prolong the life of the fan and reduce noise too.....
Thanks for the reply. That was a mistake, I meant leaving it on the whole time the lights are on. Good looking out
 

Cory117

Member
Motherhugger- Thanks for the reply. In the past I have not used all the Advanced line up but I've heard that it seems to work best when using the entire system together so no skimping this time around. It's very expensive but hopefully the results will make me proud.

I will try to get pictures up as soon as possible of the set up but flowering will not even start for another month.
 
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