I’m in the beginning stages of planning my indoor grow area. I have a 7’ x 16’ room that I’ve commandeered for this endeavor. My state allows 12 plants in flowering total but an unlimited amount of non-flowering plants.
I’m very new to growing, but my hope is to eventually have one area designated for flowering and another for vegging and a pretty decent rotation going.
If you were starting from scratch what would you do? Would you have tents in the room or just use the whole room? I was thinking originally to set up a 5x5 tent for flower and a 4x4 for vegging, but once I got the tape measure out I realized that would be very tight. I could just turn the whole room into grow space but I don’t know how to calculate light size or exhaust. A tent setup just seems easier to control the variables.
Tents allow veg and flowering rooms. No issues with a continuos grow. 3 4x4 gives 3ft in front. 2 feet between tents. Thats a lot of grow space. Each tent tuned to what you need at the time. Just my thoughts. Cleaner area. Controllable environments. I had a 4x8,4x4 and 2 3x3 up for a bit.
The two tents make sense, it’s definitely the way I’m leaning towards. I’m just concerned about not having enough grow space. My plan was to grow in a big fabric pot (or several) and scrog it. With a 4x4 I’m looking at a 3x3 fabric pot and maybe 4 plants in flower?
With you wanting a perpetual grow, I would go 4x8 for flowering plants. For veg/clones/seedlings I’d do something like a 4×4. Only issue, and it’s not really an issue is running out of veg space while waiting on plants flower. Especially if your running a mixed bag of sativa’s and indicas. If I were you I’d start slow and then understand your timings for transferring plants into flower but keeping enough space in the veg tent.
Or you could have a tent for veg and just use a corner of the room as your flowering area so your not restricted.
As far as lighting goes, I hope you have the budget because if you want to do it right, your looking at a couple thousand give or take to PROPERLY light a space that size.
With ventilation your gonna need to tell us what your options or ideas are and we could help from there. As well as your climate control.
Thanks. I do plan to start slow I’m just trying to think ahead so when I purchase things it’s with the end setup in mind. I hate buying things and then having to rebuy something because it didn’t work out with the overall “plan”. With 4/20 coming up I’m thinking there are going to be sales and I’d like to take advantage of those.
I’ve been eyeing the AC Infinity stuff. I recently bought their small 16” led lights and the attention to detail and their customer support have been stellar. I was thinking whichever way I go I’d buy their inline fan/filter combo with their controller. I also bought a couple 800 watt lights from medic grow just because they were really good deals and I read decent reviews on them.
4x8 and a 4x4 gives 4 feet between tents and 3 ft in front. Good numbers. That amount of space is a LOT. Not sure you realize just how much. 4x4 starter. 4x8 finish. Auto mixed in 4x8 with photo. A harvest of at least 1 girl a month.
You’re 100% accurate, I have no idea how much space that is. I read somewhere 1 plant per square foot but 16 plants sounds insane. Is that more like 4 plants comfortably?
The 4x8 can fit 10 easy. Nice 5-10 gallon pots. 4x4 8 veg. Take to 4x8 for flip. If slow on photo just stick a couple auto in flower tent from seed. Once you actually stand in each you will see.here are 8 in a 5x5 organic with room to spare.
