HYDRO Grow room plan C for new grow

[alltatup]

George, I won't even add up how much it has cost me to fine tune my grow room environment. It's a challenge indeed, and I applaud your creation!

 

[George4green]

Thank you and I feel your pocket pain.

 

[George4green]

Has anyone used “O2 Grow”? Maybe the next thing I get and then I can get rid of my O2 bottle I use

 

[alltatup]

George, I actually did look into that around a year ago. I called Nennich on the phone, and I felt pressured by him, like he was really trying to pressure me to buy. I was totally turned off to this product and decided just to stick with air stones.

I don't remember all the details, but it didn't end up impressing me as something that would be worth the expense (incl. replacements) or make a significant difference for my plants (just for pocketbook). I would have had to run it every other hour or some such thing. It sure wasn't going to fill the water with oxygen for hours and hours.

 

[George4green]

Why kind of stones do you use? I’ve been using eco I believe there name was. I’ve used medium and large but seems like every time there 2 or so that don’t work well and it’s kinda annoying

 

[Sww]

that was fun to build...jealous i dont have the opportunity where i live..

 

[alltatup]

George4green I use Marina 12" air stones: https://www.petmountain.com/product/marina-air-stone-long?variant=22261 I buy a case there unless I find a better price elsewhere.

 

[George4green]

I bought some CCH2O ones for this go around so we’ll see how they work. They better for $20 each kit

 

[George4green]

Thanks. Still not 💯 legit where I’m at but..... maybe soon

 

[alltatup]

I looked up CCH20--it was totally too complicated for me.

 

[George4green]

Finally got more done. Been having slot of knee pain but hell we all have our issues. 4” ducts ran. Still have to do soft pipes for adjusting hight and install new boxes. Ya changed the boxes for the lights. Got the fan hung. Still have to get the carbon filter box done. Still have to close in the shelf to block the light from nutes and RO filter. Seeds are in but waiting to have room 💯 done and clean before starting which means I need to hurry up

 

[HappyDaze]

Wow....you're making a pretty serious investment in your air moving set-up. I'm gonna be a dick and suggest that you change your duct arrangement so your fan is pulling from the center of the manifold into your filter box. The way you ran it, you're going to move a ton of air through the first inlet, and next to nothing through the one at the end on the right. A blower would possibly have been a cheaper and more efficient choice than the inline fan, but if you're like me, you use what you have.

 

[George4green]

Ya I thought of coming through the middle to my fan but I plan on piping in a line off the other end to a box that will house my air pump and have a feed from outside. Probably be 3” from outside to air filter and air pump then 1 1/4 from air pump to 4” exhaust ducting of lights. Was going to tape off holes in the boxes to get close to equal air pull though out system. Had an idea off buying an wind speed measure to achieve this equalization

 

[HappyDaze]

Some dampers to adjust and balance the airflow might be required, but any time you do that, you get more noise and lose efficiency. We had some pretty elaborate air collection systems in the welding shops I've worked in, and the headers had some serious design work done on them. I don't know exactly how to use an anemometer, but I know they aren't very expensive. You should be able to tune the flow so it's not sucking crumbs off the floor through one lamp.

 

[alltatup]

It's looking fantastic, George!!!