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Essential Tips for Setting Up Your Indoor Grow Room · Hydroponics Daily

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  Welcome back to Hydroponics Daily. Today we're going to talk about factors to
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  consider when looking to site your grow room, especially indoor growers.
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  There are a number of factors to consider before you go out there and purchase
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  all of your equipment, and they're all very important.
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  The first one is ceiling height.
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  This will determine how much room you've got for your grow, and certain plants,
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  like the ones that can't be named,
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  require very high ceilings, so
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  at least two meters normally to get your
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  crop to harvest things like tomatoes cucumbers even
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  more always go for a larger tent
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  than you think you're going to need because simply
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  the size of air in there
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  makes it a lot easier to control the environment if you've got a really small tent
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  the smaller the tent the harder it is to control temperature and
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  humidity you might think a smaller tent requires less energy
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  to heat and control the humidity that's not true if you look at the greenhouses
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  that they use to grow tomatoes and cucumbers commercially they're really really
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  tall and they're really tall for a reason and that's because it's easy to control
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  temperature and humidity in a really tall greenhouse conventional wisdom until
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  about the 90s was smaller greenhouse,
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  cheaper to grow but you'll see that those smaller greenhouses have gone out
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  for in in and replaced by what are called venlo greenhouses where you can control
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  it so always go for a much larger one the Minimum I would use would be like
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  1.5 metres by 1.5 metres.
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  I don't know what that is in feet. Is that five foot?
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  Comment below if you know that's five foot maybe even
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  less but and then two meters tall and 2.2 you
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  can get 2.2 grow tents as well and so
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  that's important but also you want to have room around your grow tent because
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  there's vents going in and out and it's really if you if you make it too large
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  you can't get in and around and that will be an issue for maintaining your tent
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  changing things as you go through
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  the grow but also getting your tent up will be very difficult if you.
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  Try and cram it in you've got to factor in where the
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  air is coming from fresh air that if you're if
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  you're not using co2 infusion you're going to need fresh air
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  with fresh co2 coming in and you're only going to get that stale out and you're
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  going to need a vent to do that you might need to install a vent you're going
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  to get some water even if you're not having an automated irrigation system fed
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  directly from a pipe you're still going to need to water that crop and so you.
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  Need to get the water from somewhere that's a problem here our grow
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  rooms are on the first floor and we don't have a tap which means
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  we have to have a very complicated hose system
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  in when we grow when when we water our
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  plants once a week electricity and where
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  is the electricity coming from the and and this is
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  where most grows when you see a report of
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  a fire in a hydroponic unit it's because the electricity has been
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  borsed up not been done properly and there's lots
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  of hanging wires and things like that and combination
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  of water and electricity that's a recipe you don't want to mix and
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  so keeping all the electrics away from all the water is.
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  Always important and that leads on to safety not
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  just on the electricity and the water heat as well fire alarms
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  things like this you want to consider and keeping
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  it away from children and pets and things like this other safety
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  items if you're not going to use something like gold leaf which is
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  ph perfect then you're going to need to use ph up and down which
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  are extremely hazardous chemicals and not
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  to be messed with and not to be kept anywhere around children and
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  anyone who is vulnerable and then
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  the other one is growing media movement if you're if you're
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  using something like a soil living soil things
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  like this they're extremely heavy and if you're on the fifth
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  floor and there's no lift or elevator then you're going to be in trouble so
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  there are probably other factors i've not considered here so if you've missed
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  something leave a friendly comment below ripping the absolute crap out of me.
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  And i'll take it in good spirit thank you very much.