New house - setting up dedicated veg/flower/dry rooms!

2WorldsFrog said:

If the rooms are 15x25, I would do three tents in one room.
Put them in the climate controlled room and get a dedicated drying tent with a small dehumidifier.
The dehuey can be used to regulate the room when not needed in the tent if you're venting indoors.
I haven't done DWC in a while, but I had a similar multi tent setup that worked well in a 12x10 space.

It's gotta feel great to have some space for it all, so many possibilities.

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Thanks, it's an awesome feeling! So many options. Well, I should have said that I also need to put my desk, drums, trimming desk, and little studio

I was going with the idea of maintaining different climates in each room. The bedroom doesn't have AC so it would likely be warmer and more humid. The flower room would be cooled down a bit with strict humidity control and the drying room would be sent to 60/60.

medidedicated said:

I see now, two ac units. Thats cool the bathroom with be like a bathroom size cooltron. Yea I mean all looks great, what are your goals? Its capable of a lot, Its like my whole grow but all put together in rooms side by side with a awesome dry room.

My grow is capable of a lot, could do 42oz every 10 wks if all is well. I just need extracts only and gets costly looking for strains so I settled for one quick. You could get strains that yield double that. Idk what your after but people here are knowledgable on strains if you ask. If just for fun I can dig that, I would too if I didnt consume so much.

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Definitely can't handle that volume lol. I rarely grow the same strain twice since i have so many different ones to try. Goal would be to try and stagger them so that i am harvesting every couple months and not 4 plants at one time!

Staggering is fun but also more challenging with the different plant heights involved. You can make it work with multiple smaller lights over the grow space vs a setup with a singular high output light.

Having two separate rooms with climate control options is a nice setup, especially with a basement to keep temps in check. From my experience, independent circuits are a huge help since running multiple tents, AC units, and dehumidifiers can easily trip breakers if not prepared. I’ve never had dedicated plumbing in my grow rooms but I regret not adding at least an extra hose line since lugging buckets always gets old fast.

I didn’t really vent when I started either, but heat and humidity do creep up after a while and recirculating only gets you so far before things get musty. If you want your grow operation to run smoothly, figuring out HVAC and power early on is just like prepping leads for your business. I got into these details after reading up on BestMovingLeadsProviders dot com, where they talk about making every step count for efficiency.

I've been in the house for a couple months now and having set up anything. I knew it would be a while so I have a few plants going outdoors ATM. One of those is in in mid-late flower so I will need to set up the bathroom/ drying room pretty soon.

Two concepts I would like to discuss,

1. Somebody mentioned pulling rugs. I think I will need to put my drums in the same room as the flower room ends I have vinyl floor but my drums will slide around. I usually put a small 5x5 carpet under the drums. This is problematic I'm guessing. Any other options that won't invite insects and mold?

2. What is the main difference between venting outside and having the tents exhausting into the room? I get the obvious. I'm just concerned about getting new air into the space. Where does that air come from? Wouldn't I be losing all of my conditioned air in my basement? I don't want to be pulling air-conditioned air from my main house upstairs.

I updated the picture below. I have an unfinished hallway that wraps around the veg room. There is also a small wooden flap that lifts up for access to the crawl space. I could vent into this L shaped hallway or even directly into the crawl space. I'm guessing my main concern would be moisture.

If you mean me saying remove carpet I just wanted to in my flower room to reduce humidity. It can help discourage bugs in carpet. Water spills leading to mold.

Dont vent to crawl space that indeed will mold or can.

I just found my flower room does better with my ac vent blocked off. Just let my portable ac do its thing. It might help to move it to opposite side of room because my portable ac is mext to ac vent right now. It gets confused with the cool air behind it so it doesnt really run.

The flower room was 83F and climbing but with portable ac just doing its thing, it works better. Just more expensive as home ac is running period so my bill was like 500+ bucks.

Do not go thru the pain of venting outside, your portable ac already is. Thats warming up the rest of your home. It will get worse with tents venting out or etc. I notice no difference venting out it might help with spikes but depends on season.

Summer the ac even the home ac spike the humidity and coupled with plants dumping moisture.. That might be good but in fall/winter I just blow cool air from outside, dont matter how humid it is, my grow is managable. Over packed tents will simply raise humidity sometimes out of control if its just too big.

Id just prune and defol and lst the crap out of it but ya. You can drill hole in door and allow portable ac to draw air from anywhere else in home thru grow and out the grow room window. Your plants will like the replenished co2 levels.

Otherwise it can deplete so Id just fix a fan to a window in grow room to blow air into it from outside regarless of season to bring co2 to a closed loop system somewhat. The home ac could help with that too but uts best from outside.

A home is closed loop but its better drawing air from there than nothing.

Your gonna need to vent that bathroom ac into either veg room or out that window in flower room. It will dump hot air and those rooms are pretty small looking. If basement that helps but only minor if you vent it somewhere vast. A small sspace or room will build up heat fast even if its a cool basement.

Might be good for veg room where lights are dimmer but if bad option, vent it outside, the bathroom ac. The veg room can handle and infact love warm temps but if its hot already then thats why I suggest that.

Flower room typicaly is excessively hot but in basement if its like 200 sq ft or smaller it might still get hot. The ac in flower room probably wont be used much if its in basement. The leds throw a lot of heat on ground floor small rooms. I should check if this is basement or not to ramble less but cant see anything.

I said most I could anyways, basements absorb more heat better being naturally cool and humid. You might actually need that bathroom ac to vent to veg to raise temps. My temps are too cold for veg. Perfect for drying tho. Id love something similar to your idea just incase it ever hits 64F for whatever reason. Keep it a perfect 60F.

I do drain to waste coco and dont have any plumbing in basement I use for that. Its salt fertilizer so unless the drain pumps it to land near your home it goes to city and most have ordinances against that. I just carry a bucket upstairs and dump.

I have bigger 25 gal reservoirs I pump upstairs with tubing right outside away from foundation. You have a window which is nice, you can pump it out there but of course 6 ft from foundation or more. Im paying to install a faucet tho.

Just my experience in a home with basement in mid west. edit Northern midwest. If youre in desert like area its gonna be different, youll prob use your flower room and dry room ac’s more often but ya. Just things to look out for as it happened to me. The grow room being the lung room has been fine for me.

I use a lot of dehueys like one per 50 sq ft of about 22 sq ft of plants. More plants, more humidity but still manageable. The room gets humid bubbles. Especially near the ac area so I know its the ac but got to do what I got to do. Venting outside for whatever reason even if its all tents didnt really effect grow room rh.

Neither did blowing humid air in from outside. From what I recall and see, you dont seem to be planning a super large grow so I wouldnt stress too much. Things only got tougher when I reached 40 sq ft of plants for flower.

Thanks for all the help! I'm on Long Island, zone 7Ab.
My last house I was growing in a completely unfinished basement. Cement floor and poured concrete walls. I paid $500 to have three bibs installed in my basement and although expensive, so worth it!

Omg, drain to waste without waste irrigation set up? That's madness! Lol

I hear what you were saying about the air conditioner in the bathroom/ drying room. I am going to put a hole in the wall and vent the hot air from that portable AC unit into the flower room where the window AC unit can dispose of it.

My basement isnt finished either. I have a irrigation system I was just saying no drains to prevent floods or just to dump solution. It might work but like I said I would be prepared to move the duct from bathroom ac to veg room or straight outside thru flower room window if possible.

Idk if the window in flower room that also has an ac unit if it can be rigged to have a duct port for the bathroom ac. Idk what long island environment is like but seems similar to me. The basement might be cool enough to work out however way you choose.

I was thinking of using a ac unit in my dry area if it does exceed 60F by a little bit. I have a portion sealed off with drop cloth maybe the ac can vent to the rest of basement area thats like 300 sq ft total in that room. Laundry/utility room etc but thats where the rest of my grow is.

It doesnt heat up easily so maybe that will work for me too.

So the portable ac, is it self draining along with a drain hose? Mine will try to self drain by evaporating the condensate with the condenser coil. It only pumps condensate out the drain tube when thats full. This could dump humidity into your flower room.

Im north of mid west it gets snowy and humid summers humid winters sometimes. Rarely dry outside of humidity. Rains often. Anyway so my basement is humid my house humid but its controllable in small spaces.

How big is your flower room? Basements have a natural humidness too which can be hard to get to flowering standards. You can try putting tents in one side of room with dehumidifier and use drop cloth to close off the grow space a bit.

My room is 100 sq ft with two 280w dehueys and barely keepts things in order. For 6 plants 2.5x2.5 each and one 3x3 plant.