Kitty's Commercial Grow Room
This is a work in progress. It is a journal and a discussion thread. Chat it up all you like, but please, stay on relative topic to the methods of growing or suggestions for improvement. No side chats on soil or your personal grows, start a new topic to keep things neat and tidy.
Welcome to my commercial grow room. I've been an amature grower for a few years, grown in Hydroponics all my life, and finally have expanded. This is a 2600 sqft commercial building in an older section of town, but newly built, originally intended for a bakery. The entire building is now mine, and the "upstairs" is just office storage now. Or at least, thats what it looks like.
Starting off, we have the original 7,000 watts of power from my last grow, plus another 8,000 watts on the way. All 1000w hps for flowering, and 400 watt in cloning/veg.
Ebb & Grow, 2 or 3.5 gallon buckets depending on the plant size and which room I put it in. Mostly 2 gallon buckets. Ballasts and Reflectors are C.A.P. ValueLine and the bulbs put out some 140,000 lumens or so. Humboldt for Nutrients, I get the biggest yields off of their nutrients. Pricey, but worth it.
There is no air conditioning, and wont be either. This location has a lake behind it, and I plan to use water cooling pumped from the lake into a reservoir, and then through the lights with water cooling, and then back out to a different part of the lake. That is all in the future, and CO2 is in the future too, but for now its so cold that just fresh air from outside and a little ventilation will work.
Right now area is in early construction. Here's what we got:
002: This area will be all sealed off and finished up. It will be the trimming/harvesting room since its between the flowering rooms.
003: Another shot of the trimming room
004: Power for the first 16 lights. I went with individual timers because I dont like that many lights starting up all at once. Pretty cheap to build your own electric anyhow.
005: Plants that have been moved a few hundred miles. They started flowering yesterday, which means they will be harvested Christmas Eve.
006: The rest of Flower Room #1. Room for another 6 lights in this room.
007: Some are mommies that are flowering too, always get new mothers in a new place!
008: Only one controller now, the floor will be lined with 8-10 control boxes.
009: Nutrients and tools
010: To the right of the nutrients is the room for all the reservoirs, water, and control boxes for the ebb systems. Its a little empty right now with only 4 lights turned on, but we'll fix that soon.
011: Just installed the sink, a little cleaning up to do still......
012: Fresh water left, always let the water sit for a day before using it to dechlorinate it. PPM out of the tap is about 150 so no R/O.
013: Sure looks ugly, but we'll get to pretty'n it up soon.
014: View from the reservoirs out to the hallway
015: Flower Room #2 -- its 22' x 22', same as flower room #1. Next week we get 8 lights and 128 plants to go under them.
016: Flower Room #2 from the corner
017: To the right of Flower Room #2, and kitty corner to Flower Room #1, is Flower Room #3.
While Mr. Kitty takes pictures for me, I'm painting a shelf for ballasts.
This room is larger, 22' x 28'.
018: So much to clean up and install still...........
019: View from Room #3 to Room #2. We'll get drywall up and all that fun black/white film later.
020: Misc.
021: View from trimming room to Flower Room 3 and veg room entrance
022: This empty room will be either Flower Room #4 OR Mushroom Heaven. I havent decided yet. It has carpet and paint, so probably shrooms.
023: This little side area on the other side of the wall from Room #4 is the veg room. It'll have a 4x8 flood tray in the far back, and the 400w T5 doing clones and mommies in the front eventually. Right now its just doing a little veg/clone work all in one.
024: Plants!
025: More babies!
So that's all I have to show now. It isnt much - yet - but will be as the construction continues. The thread will be updated as often as I can to show any progress. There's a ton to do, and a ton more equipment and upgrades and things to install.
My goal in the end is a solid commercial grow with each room harvesting perpetually. I'd like to harvest every 2 or 3 weeks, but that'll be after February or so as more equipment arrives.
I'll try to answer any questions that come up, but if someone else can beat me to it and save me the time that'd be handy too. If you arent sure, search within the thread, after it hits 100 pages the question has probably been asked.....
Kitty
