Whats up everyone I hope all of you are good Just thought I would share my idea and get some ideas from anyone here that has done anything this big for a up coming grow Im getting ready to start I have grown in soil before so yea I have some experince well enough small talk this is what I want to do. Im only using the bottom bay of the warehouse for growing 15'x30'(upstairs office will be turned in living quarters for partner) 7- 1,000 watt lights hps 84 plants Nirvana (Venus Fly Trap) 2.5 ton central a/c for temp controls Dutchmaster Gold nutes The system I was planning on using is a multi flow system with 2 gallon buckets with a 55 gallon resv. I have never done any hydro growing and I wanted something with ease of growing b/c I dont want to be going there everyday so if this system is not for me me please let me know and give me some ideas of something that is and how to run it for best results Last thing on my last soil grow I was able to pull 2oz off each plant using 5 1000 watt lights do you guys think I can double that in this grow using all the info above Thanks for all the help ahead of time
I was expecting that I would need a bigger resv. I thought that the buckets were going to be too small too but I think are fine I saw another grower use them and had some really big plants My main concern is that I need a system I can fill the resv. and let run for 7 days then come change tank and let run again for next 7 days without having to go there all the time
wow , 15x30 and your only using 7 lights???the home depot by my house uses 175 lights of 400w mh each, when you got a warehouse, or any building in a comercial/industrial property, you can really boost up the electricity bill without bieng nervous, 22 1k lights would put you at about 50 w per sqr/ft, i personnaly would really use this space to my advantage, if you look at my thread in my link you will see somthing similar in the works
i would also use 3-5 gal buckets, 30 lights, 15 ballasts, split into 2 rooms, have the lights on a timer and relay switches, that way half of your lights are on at a time, that way you can make it a continuous grow, and harvest big every month
this is a rough sketch i found online about how to relay ballasts, http://www.onlinepot.org/grow/wiringlights.htm and heres the link with the info on how to do it