Hi
I have been growing for 2 years now and have always done soil only autoflowering stealth grows. Everything I have ever done has been either inside a storage container or a hollowed out dresser with CFL's.
I want to rig up my crawlspace in my basement to do another stealth grow with hydro this time. I am fairly handy but want to get some opinions and advice to help get me started with my setup. I have attached a pic of the space I'm working with. It is about 10 feet in length, 4 feet in width and a little under 4 feet in height. So far all I've got is a 450 Watt HPS and some storage containers from other soil grows.
The room is really cold this time of year so I don't think the heat will be much of a problem. At any rate, the duct work in the ceiling is running from my laundry room (dryer) to exhaust outside to the front of my house. I imagine I would be able to connect into it and expel heat from the hood of my HPS directly into the duct? Would this smell bad outside? Maybe I could put a carbon filter in the hose as well to limit that? When it gets hotter, I might switch to try LED grow lights, especially if smell becomes a problem while venting.
I want to build a bubbleponics system like the many DIY tutorials on this site demonstrate. The one thing I am worried about is the height I am limited by. Most of them seem to be using a large storage container. What is the minimum height of the container I must use? Also, what would be the best way to control height in this small space? I was thinking of trying a SCROG method?
I currently have a ton of lowryder #2 seeds from a soil grow I did before. I think those will work pretty well for this for now, but would also like recommendations from anyone who grew in limited height and found good strains for it.
I have been growing for 2 years now and have always done soil only autoflowering stealth grows. Everything I have ever done has been either inside a storage container or a hollowed out dresser with CFL's.
I want to rig up my crawlspace in my basement to do another stealth grow with hydro this time. I am fairly handy but want to get some opinions and advice to help get me started with my setup. I have attached a pic of the space I'm working with. It is about 10 feet in length, 4 feet in width and a little under 4 feet in height. So far all I've got is a 450 Watt HPS and some storage containers from other soil grows.
The room is really cold this time of year so I don't think the heat will be much of a problem. At any rate, the duct work in the ceiling is running from my laundry room (dryer) to exhaust outside to the front of my house. I imagine I would be able to connect into it and expel heat from the hood of my HPS directly into the duct? Would this smell bad outside? Maybe I could put a carbon filter in the hose as well to limit that? When it gets hotter, I might switch to try LED grow lights, especially if smell becomes a problem while venting.
I want to build a bubbleponics system like the many DIY tutorials on this site demonstrate. The one thing I am worried about is the height I am limited by. Most of them seem to be using a large storage container. What is the minimum height of the container I must use? Also, what would be the best way to control height in this small space? I was thinking of trying a SCROG method?
I currently have a ton of lowryder #2 seeds from a soil grow I did before. I think those will work pretty well for this for now, but would also like recommendations from anyone who grew in limited height and found good strains for it.
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