The Veg/ Clone room
At the time of starting the grow the only space i had was a 0.6m x 1m x 2m built in wardrobe. I used black and white to light proof the wardrobe as i had originally thought this room may be used for flowering the plants too. I salvaged a 600mm x 600mm light fitting from work which has 4 x 18w 2foot flourescent tubes in. I also chucked in a fan to stir the air up a bit ( rather large i know but it was lying around doing nothing and produces nice gentle breeze on low setting). The fan and lights are controlled by segment timer with a 2 way extension plugged into the timer giving 2 timed sockets in the room.
Santa bought me a nice XL bud tent for chrimbo, which meant modifications to the now veg/clone room. I felt that the plants were a bit slow growing under the existing light so with more bits scavenged from work and the need to increase capacity, i installed a self at 1m height and added a twin 55w CFL fitting to the bottom section and kept the 4x18w fitting in the top
Still need to sort this room out a bit, the light in the bottom section creates a fair bit of heat which makes the shelf quiet warm so i need to swap top for bottom and maybe add a small extraction fan to keep temps down.
All in all im dead chuffed with this room and had only cost me about £20 to set up- some black/ white sheeting, chains+hooks and segment timer all the rest was courtesy of work (benefits of being lighting engineer/ electrician)
Flower room
My nice new shiny Flower room is a XL budbox, its 1m x 1m x 2m and is white inside. The tent was from Greens via Santa and was dead easy to put together .
Again i was really lucky and had a 600w son/halide ballast and a cheap reflector hanging around from growing some 8-10 years ago, i have even got the lamp still a 600w grolux with 1 crop under its belt. So thats gone in there and a 100mm bathroom type extactor fan.
I know the fan is pretty weedy and im gonna upgrade to a 5 inch ruck and possibly a carbon filter if the stinkies live upto their name when ive got some more pennies spare, but with the low ambient temps at the mo its keeping the tent cool for now. The hot air from the tent is ducted to nearby window left slightly ajar via 4 inch ducting.
I kept the controls nice and simple the light and fan are run thru a 20 amp 2 pole contactor with a cheapo segment timer (3 for a tenner- wickes) operating the coil on the contactor only, i chucked it all in a chinese takeaway tub which will do till something better comes along from work foc
So thats my set up, plenty of things still need upgrading
5 inch ruck fan in tent+poss carbon filter
200w CFL and reflector for veg room
Better temperature and humidity gauges for both rooms
Some extraction for veg room
But these will come in time as budget allows
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