Helloooo hellooooo...... hope everyone is well on this fine day...

Finally i have joined this wonderful site... and talk about information overload, jeeeeeeeezzz!!!!


Well ladies and gents...

I have just purchased a new house with plenty of space and thought its about time i start growing my own LUSHHHH smoke as there is so much shit floating around at the moment i can barely survive....

The room i want to use is approx 2.5m/2.5m/2.5m which has a side vent (once i have completed on the purchase i will put up a pic). What i really want to know is what equipment to buy for the best success and how if poss to split the room so i can start using cut-offs from my first grow.

I have approx £600 (a little more if needed) to allocate to this new project and would greatly appreciate ur advice as to what i need regarding fans, lights, carbon filters, wall lining etc etc......

Once i have the room completed (prob 2-3 months) i will post grow diaries on every crop from many feminised varieties i have in mind.


Again thanks for your help on this... and i look forward to becoming a valued and respected member of 'UK420'


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Hello mate welcome to uk420 unfortunately I have a feeling 600 quid aint gonna be enough to set up that size grow.

Could be a bit of stretch to get everything you need. The most important things are lighting and extraction/filter. But you have to account for materials for blocking up windows, lightproofing doors and making a waterproof floor area to sit your plants. Then theres pots, nutes, fans, timers, extension leads and all sorts of other bits.


You probably wont want to use the entire floor area as 2.5 meters will need a lot of watts. Maybe work out how much you want to grow and work out a floor plan from that. You can use the rest of the room as storage and to access your plants.

Probably the most efficient grows and the easiest to set up are vertical grows where you literally hand a lamp/lamps vertically and surround the my plants. do some searches on vertical growroom design here and on other forums.

Well you need to consider a couple of things, where can you bring fresh air in from and where can extract the hot air to.

Also are you planning on growing in a tent or are you just going to split the room into a veg room and a flowering room using sheeting etc

As for lights i'd stick to 600W for flowering there the best HPS to go for.

Fans i'd go for ruck and filter i'd stick to a decent brand like Phat rather than buying budget filters.

Of the top of my head if i had that space and was growing in tents i'd prob have the darkroom DR120 for my veg tent with a 5 inch high power ruck with a phat filter for extraction and just use passive intakes and a 600W MH with a good reflector, that setup will cost about £390 from greens.

As for the flowering tent i'd go for a Darkroom DR240W with a 6 inch high power ruck with a phat filter for extraction and prob an active intake but you could maybe get away with passives if its decent air in the room unless its to hot, but if i was going to stick in an active intake i'd go for a 5 inch low power ruck i think.

And i'd have 2 x 600W HPS lights there, you'll also need fans to move the air about in the tents, i've just bought a couple of circulating fans there that are great compared to oscilating fans, a little more expensive but worth it.

Your flowering room setup will cost you about £640-690 depending on whether you get an active intake or not.

But youve still got to add on pots and a tray to water them in and compost plus your nutes.

You could prob build the rooms yourself which would save you buying the tents but i just find them nice n easy plus you can pull them down in 10 min when your done.

E2a:- plus like was mentioned above you'll need to block off windows and makesure the floors are waterproof etc tents are nice n easy n well worth the money
Hope this helps mate

Hi Jamin ,have you thought if a two tent set-up ?
If its percy that is a big area to light and BIG yields
Good luck
Oh bugger ^^

Wow, you guys really dont waste any time ehh.... now i know why UK420 has such a good rep!!!


The room i want to use is kind of under the stairs with no windows whatsoever. There is an existing air duct where i assume there used to be washing machines etc and i could easily make another duct enabling me to have fan extraction and fresh air intake.

Regarding equipment and £££ i suppose i could go up to £1,000 as in the long run i will save far more...


My aim is to try and produce a 280g yield which i suppose would keep me going for a 3 month period until i get a decent cycle in place...


What has me a little confuse is whether i should kit out the room itself of put grow tents in the room. To be honest i am really new to this and have not got the slightest clue as to how i would set up the room as a whole to enable me to veg & flower as i hope to take cuttings from the cream of my crop. Would it make sense to kit out half the room for flowering and have a small grow tent on a different light cycle for vegging?

Also i dont mean to be a pain but if someone would be kind enough to tell me what to buy rather than give me the options that confuse me i would really appreciate it, u guys obviously know exactly what ur doing. I want fairly good quality equipment and if i have to spend more then fuk it, i will.

There is no extreme rush as i wont be moving in for a couple of weeks but would like to compile a full list of the things i need for the initial buildout.


And once again, thanks very much for your wonderfully quick replies

Its kind of up to you if you want tents or not but if your planning to stay in this house for years to come i would prob build the rooms but then tents are easy, if you build the rooms you'll have a greater height to which is a bonus.

It would be very easy to split the room using some 2"x2" wood n Gyproc, just a simple frame with then screw the Gyproc onto it, i would also insulate the wall that go's to the outside even just with the cheap fibre glass insulation, just to stop any heat escaping through the wall.

I would prob do it so its still like 2.4-2.5m long and 1.2m wide, this leaves you plenty of room to take them out to water them etc

I would have 2 holes going to the outside, one for extraction and one for the inlet.

As for you hoping to get at least 280g well with that size of room for flowering running 2 600W lights you should be getting at least 0.5g per watt so really you should get a min of 600g of bone dry weed.

I'm on my 4th grow now and i've not hit less than 0.7g per watt i think, maybe not even as low as that not to sure.

So with that in mind do you need a separate veg area? Or could you not just work with the one area?

But then if you have 2 areas you can keep mothers and take cuttings when you feel like it, or when the jars start to get low

Also just noticed your planning on using fem seeds, the reason that most people seem to use them is lack of space to be able to sex them n ditch the males.

With your space i'd 100% go for regular beans, i certainly wouldnt pay money for a femmed bean there more expensive and have serious risks of going hermie and fucking up a full grow, not my idea of fun

I've grown in a tent thats 2.4m long by 1.2m wide and i did it SOG style and i had 15 in there which was to much so now i'll stick to 18, 9 under each 600W light, works perfect for me

I've got plenty of space and use fem seeds, they're bloody convenient.

Same setup almost as suggested except I dry in half of a 8 x 4 veg tent, saved on buying odour control for both the vegging plants and the wet buds.

Start a batch of seeds every 5 weeks, harvest a batch every 5 weeks, running like clockwork. 10 minutes a day apart from harvest day etc.


When it comes to choosing a grow system, do try not to be influenced by what yields the best as it's all much of a muchness. The lower yielding systems aren't lower by that much once you're into it and there are pros to go with the cons. No such thing as a perfect grow system.


Best to have a rolling budget, there's always something and even if there isn't we're boyz and we like toyz.