Garden consist of two seperate rooms:
A Control room which houses Ballast, Reservoir, All Control equipment such as timers, Meters, ect. This room is also used for Clone, Seedling, and sometimes a brief vegetative growth period. This room can also be used to keep Mother Plants.
Room Dimensions: 62" Deep X 78" Wide X 78" Floor to Ceiling.
Lighting for this room:
Seedling and Clone stage: Dual Bulb 80 watt 24" x 24" flourescent fixture.
Vegetative growth: "currently" One 400 watt "switchable" ballast using Super Metal Halide or Hortilux Eye HPS bulbs.
current ventilation is passive and substandard..
Flowering Room Dimensions: 51" Deep X 84" wide X 73" Floor to Ceiling.
Lighting for this room:
2 1000 watt "Switchable" Ballast using Hortilux Eye HPS Only and ventilated hoods.
Ventilation:
Intake: 2 250cfm inline duct fans.
Exhaust: 8" 521 cfm Centrifugal Inline Duct fan which is connected to the 2 hoods using flexible aluminum ducting drawing fresh air through them.. Hot air is exhausted using 6" insulated flexible ducting.
Gardening method: Multi-Site Ebb and Flow System refered to as the Multi-Flow, which consist of 24 plant sites utilizing a 30 gallon reservoir and a Controler unit which ensures and even fill of each plant site without risk of overflow. IMHO, the smartest, most versatile system on the market today. You can literally set it up and walk away for a week or so at a time, it is simple to set-up and maintain.
Nutrients and additions used for this garden:
Seedling stage: Superthrive, B'cuzz.
Vegetative stage: GH Flouro Series Nutes exclusively
Nutrient and PH levels are closely Monitored using PH & EC Meters.