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gavin posted an update
I have been thinking about ways to grow more weed and cutting back on the electric bill, so this is the plan, I have a perpetual setup in a 2.2m x 1.7m shed (overall size, inside the shed).
I have a small cabinet in my bedroom with a few light bulbs(great for clones and vegging plants for the first week or 2), next I am going to build a veg cabinet, 41cm x 41cm x 90cm high, (tops going to be a table) 4 plants in 7 ltr pots, only veg them for 4 weeks( 5 if you include the week in the clone cabinet).
next I want to build 2 flower rooms, first ones 90cm x 90cm and the second ones 120cm x 130cm
the smaller flower rooms lights on 7am until 7pm and the larger ones on 7pm until 7am
I will move plants into the small flower room, pot up from 7ltr into the 24 ltr pot and flower same day4 weeks later they go into the larger flower room, it will change the light cycle, mid flower but I don’t think it will effect the plants, the big advantage is mixing the air between the 2 flower rooms means I don’t need a heater, the temperature will drop in each room when the light go off but it may only drop 5-10c.
if I open the canopy up before they go into the larger room, they should fill all the space and the extra space should reduce the humidity in the canopy etc
I could be pulling a crop every 4 weeks which sounds amazingjust wondering what all you fine growers think.
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Check what time your off peak ours are at your electrical supplier. I made thqt change and it saves me alot of money. And in the winter time it helps even more because my space heats uo and I dont need a heater and in the summer time its cooler at night so not as MUCH A.C Dehumidifaction
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That sounds great, Thanks I will look into this, tried a few years ago and the electrical supplier I contacted did not support off peak rates, maybe I will have more luck this time, in general my humidity never goes below 40% and above 60% but I often control the humidity with temperature and extraction fan speed, adjust it as the humidity increase or decreases from about 50%
Talking about summer and winter, when you have one large flower room(800w led) on 7pm to 7 am and a 500w heater on 7am to 7pm(8 months of the year, extractor fan on 80%) or 500w led(7pm to 7am) and a 300w led (7am to 7pm) with the extractor fan on 50%- 60%, its going to be easy to keep the temps the same, day and night and cut back 50% of the electric, noise etc, hottest part of the year I will just use one of the flower rooms
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