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3 room grow layout

Discussion in 'Grow Room Design/Setup' started by fr0sty_d0g, Jul 29, 2020.

  1. #1 fr0sty_d0g, Jul 29, 2020
    Last edited: Jul 29, 2020

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  2. I'd walk into the clone room before the veg room

    often its the small stuff with germing that makes you go in and out

    a small clothe vestibule in the flower room will prevent light leaks, from the germer

    , often you may need easy access to the electrics I'd swap walls

    Now for the venting and air extraction...?

    good luck
     
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  3. Personally I'd make the flower room a little bigger proportionally and have less plants in seedling/veg stages. I've grown perpetual for many years and I always end up with too many babies and veg plants waiting to move up the line while my girls in flower finish.

    Also you don't need two separate rooms for the seedling/veg areas, even if the lights over the seedlings are on 24hr and the ones over the mothers/veg are on 18/6 it won't hurt them to have some light coming from the seedling lights during their "dark" hours.

    I am assuming you're doing perpetual with this setup? If that's the case, what is your planned rotation schedule? How often do you plan on harvesting and how many plants each harvest? That affects how much room you need for seedling/veg greatly.
     
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  4. I’ve always seen the Veg room be about half the size of the flower room on perpetual setups. I built quite a few in Pueblo CO and they were basically all setup with the 2:1 ratio on Flower Space to Veg.

    Personally I’d just use the flower space + the one veg space where you have the 18hr cycle marked and run all of my equipment out of the 3rd room (ballasts, timers, pumps, reservoirs, gardening supplies, etc etc). You could even use the equipment room as a giant fresh air supply for the other two rooms and use it as a harvest space as well. Just depends on your building skill level to pull that off.

    But just from a glance it looks like you’re overestimating the space you’d need for veg/propagation.
     
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  5. Thanks for the replies everyone, I revised the drawing from your comments and wanted to show it to you.

    @vostok i think that's a good idea about swapping walls

    @Jemgomez that's a good idea about making the flowering room bigger, i adjusted it in the new drawing. i'd like to stick with strains where i can crop about 4 times per year, with 8 flowering for medical here in Colorado.

    @CarpenTiger thanks, that seems like a good ratio, and i like the idea of having an equipment/reservoir room. haven't thought about the fresh air supply just yet!

    Let me know what you guys think about the new layout?

    3_room_grow_revised.png
     
  6. Buddy I forgot to add that I too did this...and then made the flower room 50% bigger,
    2 years later I then made the veg room 75% bigger( to carry the males) ..lol
    Ad infinitum

    Cheers
     
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  7. Looks pretty good to me, I also started out using mothers but found it unnecessary as I just take clones now from the ones in veg before I put them in flower and have more than enough clones from just that.

    4 crops a year will be quite well attainable even with some of the longer flowering strains in there.

    Have you considered staggering your harvests? Say putting a couple feet of space between two groups of 4 in the flowering room and having them about 6 weeks staggered so you harvest every 6 weeks instead of 3 mo?

    My last setup I harvested every month and had 3 stages in the flowering room, it lets you keep less plants in veg and have less to harvest/process at a time. Just a thought.
     
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  8. Good luck on realizing your dreams and honing your craft. I admire those like yourself who put more forethought into things where I'm a captive of my erratic obsessions. I operate on a shoestring budget in a 10 x 10 small bedroom that also works as my computer viewing space. Flowering is the 2 x 4 ft closet and I've got three enclosed shelving units 3 x 1.5 and two wall mounted seeding cabinets 3 x 1.5 (only half the height of the others). Lighting consists of a galaxy of LED from full spectrum to blurple with 200w on average for each unit.
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    The closet has the newest and best - a pair of Mars Hydro TS600 that are killing it that don't have drivers (hence less heat). The three cabinets alternate between veg and flower depending on how backlogged the main is. All these are well within the constraints of my circuit breaker and give me the flexibility to accomplish the mission. I fall short in the execution of said by poor handling at times but living in a non compliant State I'm forced to do my thing indoors. A very generous yard gives me the space to adapt to other freedom should that ever be legislated however I'm not holding my breath. Three greenhouses with a fourth on the way allows me to try my hand at understanding the challenges of the Seasons and shelter things when it gets too cold.
     
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  9. That's awesome, thinking of picking up some LEDs myself. Has anyone run autoflowers? I've personally never run them and wanted to know if autoflowers would change the grow layout in any way?
     
  10. I have done autoflowers in the past yeah, and it would change it if you were going to do just autoflowers as you wouldn't need anything besides one main room. But if you were just wanting to throw the occasional autoflower into your system it wouldn't change the layout all that much, you could put an auto into either the veg or the flower room, it will just grow bigger under the veg cycle lighting.

    I have on many occasions put Autos in both my veg and flower areas to fill an empty spot and they grow fine in either.
     
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