Need a complete list for indoor coco grow

If you give me the brand name and wattage that would be helpful. These lights have extremely misleading advertising which throws a lot of grows into confusion. You HAVE to have light: lots of it to build dense flowers. Not so much in veg when the plants are in their growth phase: of course not enough will cause a stretchy plant and too much will tend to be dense and bushy.

Here are a few generalizations to ponder:

Autos in 3 or 5 gallon, photos in 5 or 7 gallon.

One plant will cover around 6 square feet (like pictured above) and with those lights you will need 50 actual watts per square foot of light and not what the “equivalent” is. The more expensive the LED’s in general the less power you actually need. My advice for that space is one plant, photoperiod. Our lighting expert is @dbrn32 but he’s in and out right now dealing with family.

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You need a decent PH meter and PPM meter. Along with that should be PH up and down, and Reference Solution to use to check your meter. PH is the most critical thing to get right or wrong IMO.

Some kind of control over your water. If your municipal water supply is crappy think of investing in R/O. This solves all kinds of potential problems. Especially in media like coco.

I like the General Hydroponics nutrient line as it’s well made, economical and fairly easy to follow. I am using the entire “Flora” line with the exception of their ‘Rapid Start’ and ‘Dry Kool Bloom’. You can see the result above.

Autos will be a problem in a 60" tall tent as you have very little control over what they will do. Photoperiod plants are more desirable here as you will almost certainly have to train it using such techniques as supercropping, FIM’ing and in my case a SCROG. You can look up these in the guides on the forum or use search. @merlin44 is a good resource on SCROG’s.

Timers and fans and dehumidifiers, a 6" exhaust fan and thermostat or timer, light hangers, trays to catch water, measuring spoons, pouring and measuring containers, buckets etc.

That should be enough to get you started. If you need any advice simply tag one of us using the @ sign: @garrigan62 is extremely knowledgeable in general and a great resource.

Welcome by the way.

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