August 14, 2020
Setting up a low-budget grow room is a very manageable task; planning just needs to be approached in the right way.
To set up a low budget grow room you have to follow some certain requirements. It is included with the medicinal plants grow environment. we have to use this equipment to set up grow room.You need to follow the basic requirement which turns to highly effective yields in the grow room. This will save money to set up the Grow Room.
So, let us see the factors and requirements you seek to make a low budget grow room. This will help you to build a cheaper grow room under your budget.
Lightproof
Lightproofing the room is necessary. The most significant reason is that light leaks can wreak havoc especially during the flowering or bloom phase.
During the vegetative phase, most growers give plants 18 hours of lighting. Once ready, switching the light cycle 12 hours on, 12 hours off, triggers the flowering stage. During this time and throughout the bloom stage, lights reaching plants because of an improperly sealed grow room can cause confusion and stress. It might disrupt the flowering process and worse, could turn female plants into hermaphrodites.
The home medicinal plants grow room is usually a spare room in the house. Windows, of course, is the source of unwanted light leaks. Some people try to cover it with fabric. However, what it does is to dampen the amount of light entering the room. As an option, one could cover it with cardboard entirely. Be sure to use lightproof tape to seal the edges to ensure there is absolutely no light penetrating seeping in.
Another possible source of light leak is the door. If that is the case, usually it is at the bottom where there is a gap between the door itself and the floor. One thing a grower can do is to cover the bottom with fabric after leaving the room and closing the door.
Airtight
Your grow room must be Airtight. If the Room is not Airtight then medicinal plants smell Spreads out through the windows and this is not beneficial for medicinal plants grow.
When it starts to smell outside, it is difficult to control it. Neighbors find an unbearable stinking smell around your home. But Actually, your house is stinking due to smell.
If you provide an Airtight environment to plants then the end result will be good in yields quantity. Airtight creates a retention internal climate and it also creates impressive yield from your plant.
So, When you try to make grow room, Be careful about air. You must make the grow room an isolated cell where air does not get into and out from the environment.
Fresh Air
As all green plants use light, water and CO2 to produce sugar through photosynthesis. Likewise, medicinal plants uses all three above vital elements to produce sugar and oxygen. Commonly, the amount of carbon dioxide can be up to 350ppm in any closed space but this can be consumed very easily if the plant is in any closed space like a grow room . Furthermore, not having adequate approach to Carbon dioxide can decline the growth of plant.
To overcome this short coming, you can use a CO2 tank with a controller/regulator but you can also use a small ventilation system to refresh air of inner environment or grow room of your medicinal plants garden. Firstly, you need to place a fan in front of the air inlet and create a hole where air can escape.
Moreover, there are other thousand ways to make sure that there is a good environment in your medicinal plants garden grow room by just buying a cheap door and making hole in it allowing air and it will also work as air extractor.
Lighting
If you have very little height in your grow space, you should not use HID, or LED lighting. This kind of lighting is powerful, and should be kept at around 18 inches from the top of the plants at all times to prevent light bleaching and burning.
Instead, if height will be an issue, you should try using CFL lighting. CFL’s are cheap, and very efficient. You may even have some spares around the house you could use to get you started.
Your plant will use light to make food for itself via photosynthesis. So, it is important to use the best lighting possible. CFL’s will do in a worst-case scenario. But, if it is possible, using HID, LED, lighting is recommended.
HID Lighting
If you have the height required to give the plant and light 18 inches of space, then you should use HID lighting if you afford it.
You will need around 50w per ft². The initial investment isn’t too high, but the running cost can become expensive. Using HID lighting will bring you the best yield at the lowest initial price. This is the most common light used for indoor growing. But as the technology improves, LED lighting is starting to take over HID.
LED Lighting
It is easy to find cheap LED lights online. But most of them are not very good for medicinal plants growing. This can give LED lighting a bad name as a whole, and some growers are put off by LED growing. Over the last couple of years especially, LED lighting technology has improved massively. Thought this has improved the quality of the lighting, and reduce the price,LED lighting is still expensive, and out of the price range of most budget growers.
You may find full spectrum LED grow light for very cheap online, but they will not be good enough to grow your plant for their full life cycle.
When growing medicinal plants with LED lighting, you will need around 35w per ft². The wattage that the bulb states is not always what you get. Be skeptical with LEDS, don’t just buy cheap models. They will usually be a waste of money and you should go with CFL, or HID instead.
Reflective Walls
It is very important for the setup of your growing space to make sure it has reflective walls as it will not only increase coverage but will also help in maintaining a uniform environment. The reflective wall that is the most recommendable is Mylar using a heavy duty silver tarp because it is the best stuff currently on the market for reflecting light and increasing coverage.
It is a little more expensive than black-white plastic but reflects some 99% of the light that your lamp gives off back at your plants which of course pays the cost in the long run. When it is water proof, it won’t rip and is a wise color because it still has some reflective quality and hides dirt well.
Air Extraction
As we have seen Air Circulation is a must to create oxygen and sugar which helps to grow medicinal plants. When it comes to a close environment, Then lamps can create a lot of heat in the closed environment. But Too much heat is also harmful to plants So, Somehow you need to remove the heat from Grow room.
To remove heat and balance the temperature, the Air extraction process is a good option to use. Using Air extractor with the filter will get a better result in removing heat form Grow room.
A benefit to using Air extraction with filter is it won’t create a stinky environment in grow room. It doesn’t let the medicinal plants smell expose into the air.
Air Distribution
To grow all plants properly, you need a proper air distribution in grow room. So make sure when you take fresh air from outside, it is properly distributed all over the room. So, every plant gets an equal amount of required air.
To distribute Air all over the grow room, put a fan/ventilation kit on which will circulate the air in the room. It creates ventilation for Air and it also creates a circulation of air in and out of the room.
When you are doing proper Air Distribution in the Grow Room, it creates a balanced temperature and flows which is necessary for carbon dioxide.
Grow Tents
Indoor Grow Tent is used by those people who want to grow medicinal plants in indoor places. By using indoor grow tent kit you can make a Grow room easily.
Grow Tents can be used for multipurpose. It comes up with the Airtight, Lightproof and Waterproof Features. By zipping you can make it Airtight and you can preserve the internal environment of plants.
Not only it is used for this purpose but can also be used as an Air Exhauster. Grow Tents comes up with the holes where Air can circulate properly. Through this hole, Fresh air can come in and it also removes heat from the environment and the internal side is reflective.
Those who want to attach lamps inside the tents can easily do it. Easily and quickly you can set up a Grow Tents. If you want to purchase a Lamp to put it inside the tent, Then it is available and the market value is in the range of the $60 to $100. You can place it anywhere in the house, you will also get optimum yields from the Grow Tents.
Maintaining an environment suitable for high-yielding medicinal plants can be a bit tricky on a low budget, but through proper use of space and resources, it is an entirely reachable goal.
The idea is to make things as easy as possible to control, that way a bunch of unforeseen costs don’t begin appearing halfway through a grow. To that end, the things listed here should give any potential growers some idea on what to look out for.