sgr42o
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I'm finally done building my grow room and I'm curious to hear any advice you all might have. I would take pics but sadly no digital camera right now.
I've sectioned off part of a small room with B&W poly which is awesome; nearly no light leakage at all! The grow room is 10 feet tall, 8 feet long, and 2 feet wide. (its already a small room and its also my office) I have a total of five 1850 lumen 27watt CFL's in there now and the temps hit 75F max, 69min. A room fan is blowing on the lights and the plant during the light period. (It gets too cool if kept on during the dark period) I then built a ghetto intake system to get fresh air. It consists of a 120MM 90CFM fan tightly fit into a small cardboard box using duct tape with a small vacuum hose on the other end. I obviously made sure there was no leakage in the box. The hose sits next to the A/C vent and intakes cool air and brings it into the grow room. (It dropped temps by 5 degrees!) This also switches off during the dark period; otherwise it hits about 65F. I also have a digital thermometer with the sensor connected to one of the pots. There's also a cheap webcam that gives me the ability to see how close the plants are to the lights at any given time. I don't have anything to check humidity yet.. is something like this essential?
I plan on doing two plants to start off and once the plants get past the seedling stage I'll be adding some more lights to bring it to a grand total of 6-8 27watt 1850 CFL's. (6500k veg, 2700k flower)
What do you all think, will I have enough light? Anything else I should improve on?
I've sectioned off part of a small room with B&W poly which is awesome; nearly no light leakage at all! The grow room is 10 feet tall, 8 feet long, and 2 feet wide. (its already a small room and its also my office) I have a total of five 1850 lumen 27watt CFL's in there now and the temps hit 75F max, 69min. A room fan is blowing on the lights and the plant during the light period. (It gets too cool if kept on during the dark period) I then built a ghetto intake system to get fresh air. It consists of a 120MM 90CFM fan tightly fit into a small cardboard box using duct tape with a small vacuum hose on the other end. I obviously made sure there was no leakage in the box. The hose sits next to the A/C vent and intakes cool air and brings it into the grow room. (It dropped temps by 5 degrees!) This also switches off during the dark period; otherwise it hits about 65F. I also have a digital thermometer with the sensor connected to one of the pots. There's also a cheap webcam that gives me the ability to see how close the plants are to the lights at any given time. I don't have anything to check humidity yet.. is something like this essential?
I plan on doing two plants to start off and once the plants get past the seedling stage I'll be adding some more lights to bring it to a grand total of 6-8 27watt 1850 CFL's. (6500k veg, 2700k flower)
What do you all think, will I have enough light? Anything else I should improve on?