PART 2.A - GROW ROOM DESIGN AND SETUP Choosing Your Space
This section looks at the issues you should think about once you have decided to grow but BEFORE building a grow.
Your indoor grow space needs to meet some general needs and a series of further needs depending on individual factors such as stealth.
Your first considerations should of course be to how much space do I need to grow the amount of marijuana I need for personal consumption?
Once you have decided that, initial thinking should be into security and the safety of those around you, anyone who shares the grow space with should be aware of what you are doing and equally aware of the feasible risks. As we have highlighted in section 1 of the faq cultivating the herb is illegal across much of the world.
You should consider the power supply to your grow space. A single standard wall socket should not have multi-plug after multi-plug attached. Be safe and check that your circuit is adequate for your needs and you have enough convenient outlets. Be sure when locating power in a grow space that they are safe from any possible leakages, water and grow rooms go hand in hand. Water and electricity, well, not such a good mix.
Ventilation is a big issue that many people overlook when they start to grow. HID lamps produce a lot of heat and will need a lot of air movement to keep them cool. Putting a 400w in a wardrobe will need more than a desk/pc fan or two. You will need to consider where from/how you will bring cool/fresh air into the grow space and also how/where you will exhaust hot/used air to.
These intakes and exhausts also lead to the issue of noise, fans themselves make a degree of noise when working (though inline fans are getting quieter and quieter) and exhaust and inlet points will also make a noise of rushing air.
You will also need to think about light escaping from your grow space at these points as well as light getting IN to your grow space from these point if you are running a virtual dark period when it is light outside (lights on at night keeps heat and bills down).
The exhaust also brings in the issue of odor. Good odor control on your exhaust will be invaluable to most growers. Carbon filters are generally the most efficient way to remove odor from an exhaust but ozone generators are another common method, though there are cheaper more DIY methods.
Further issues include access for watering and tinkering, surface covering reflectivity and access to consumables (in particular water).
The rest of the FAQ should point you in the right direction as to what you need in regards to all these issues.
Can I keep my grow stealthy? Do you have any examples?
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Sureshot,
Macgyver &
guerrillase7en)
As a grower you soon get a horrible habit of working out the possible yield and plausibility of virtually any space you're in/see/go near/think about!!
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For outdoor growing, do small patches of a few plants, hidden by surrounding brush. The cops go for the biggest most accessible spots, so make it so it's a pain in the ass to get to, and they will be less likely to touch it.
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