This is great information.
What kind of lights would you use. Would you go for a commercial dehumidifier straight away or continue with the double 70 pint? What type of control systems do you use? Soil in smart pots with just water? Or coco 70/30 with a dosatron?
I really want other people's opinions. Specifically on the one man size setup
I went with HLG LED lighting. 18 of them for a 20x30 room (about 300 sq ft of actual canopy space), the rest is room for a sink, mix tank, work bench, pumpvac, etc. I don't need any dehuyes during flower, I have to use a swamp cooler to get the RH up there. But like now, Im using 3, 70 pint dehuyes running on turbo 24/7. 3 tons of AC is just right except for the last 2 weeks. I'd like to get it cooler in there, but the only way I can do that is to dim the lights just a bit. Which is not a bad thing, but Im going to look at adding another 3 ton unit for the next run.
We use a Titan Spartan controller to auto control the RH (in veg), and CO2 generator. We run peat based soil in 7 gallon hard plastic pots. We also run an AirROS H203 generator to keep things sanitized and keep the bud form forming WPM, bud rot, mold, etc. (we have failed labs once, and added this $5000 machine).... but like most others have said, there are alot of factors that are going to come into play.. like where you live, the environment, access to propane for the CO2 generator, prob a min of a 200 amp panel, your water source,.. it's just hard to say man. If you want to jump in head first into this project, you're just going to have to experience those hard lessons and adjust accordingly. Every grow is going to be different in the way they react to what you can provide them for success... I know its a vague answer, but then again, your question is vague as well. Read through my grow journal, and you'll see that I have added things here and there over the past couple of years to counter problems... you can skip through the bullshit talk, we do alot of that on this forum during our down time.
