Monday, June 24, 2013

Easy Guidelines To Build Sealed Grow Room For Your Indoor Hydroponic Gardening


Indoor hydroponic gardening are divided into two basic types viz. open and sealed. The open grow room draws air from outside the room and removes air from inside the grow room through a circular venting and ingestion exchange. Another type of hydroponic grow room is a sealed room which avoids an exchange of air outside the grow room. A sealed grow room gives you a chance to work with CEA –Controlled Environment Agriculture. Through using CEA, you eliminate plants diseases and pests; providing ideal temperature and humidity for your hydroponic plants. In almost all cases, you get the higher yield per watt and less danger to plants, using CEA. So how to build an ideal sealed grow room for your hydroponic indoor gardening? Here are basic guidelines:
  1. Measure total space you have for your indoor hydroponic grow room.
  2. Calculate the amount of lighting required, air conditioner size and electricity requirements for your grow room. Estimate the electricity requirements of any electrical gear like fans, monitors, light movers, pumps, security equipments etc. You’ll end up using all electricity needs and hence make sure you have adequate electricity supply, outlets, junction boxes, circuit breaker, wiring, and infrastructure. If not, add up the expense and hassle of upgrading your electricity infrastructure, purchasing solar power unit or generator, economizing your tools to decrease your electricity needs. Figure all this out; before you start structuring your own indoor hydroponic gardening grow room.
  3. Visit your hydroponic store and look for the range of equipment, installation factors and expense of building your CEA room. Make sure that you have the financial support to shell out for the room, and time to build it.
  4. You need to sterilize walls; floor, ceiling, and any other indoor grow room building structure. For this, you can use antifungal or mild bleach solutions.  If you’re using any hydroponic equipments that need to be install outside the grow room such as the wire fitting, kindly install them before cleaning.
  5. Cover the hydroponic grow room ceiling and walls with an infrared blocking materials to manage your outside walls and ceiling that doesn’t run away through them.
  6. When you build a sealed grow room, avoid using carpeted floors. Instead of using carpeted floor in hydroponic grow room, you can cover floor with thick water-resistant tarpaulin.
  7. Install light stands, movers, lighting, monitors, CO2 generators and other equipment. If you wish to save money on air conditioning, you can use plasma or LED lighting. The new kind of lighting that provides specialized wavelengths alter to create valuable oils in your flowers with emitting less heat and saving electricity as compared to HID. This light is ideal for crop-specific wavelengths, dense and bushy plants with not more than 5 feet tall. Another advantage of using plasma or LED lights as it generates less heat than HID.
  8. Install your grow system. You can consider the Hydro Stacker, Easy Feed or Under Current systems. You can also install security system that consists of closed television cameras, hydroponic monitors and motion detectors that defeat electrical problems, fires, water shortage, pump problems etc. Now, you can install your plants.
These are basic guidelines to install a CEA hydroponic indoor gardening grow room.  Building your own sealed grow room is a big investment of money and time. If you’re a beginner then get practical hands-on experience running the sealed grow room. If you switch over to new hydroponic equipment then get yourself acquainted with operating procedures before installing your plants. A hydroponic CEA grow room reimburse for itself in increased yield, growing easiness and prevention of plants disease and pests.

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