Hydroponic Grow Room

Temperature is one of the most important design considerations you must consider when setting up a Hydroponic Grow Room. Most plants do well in a temperature range of 20-28°C, with the mid twenties being optimal.

It is not that difficult to achieve this temperature range in your grow room, especially when the lights are on. In your warmer climates if your temps become too high, a squirrel box fan pumping the hot air out of the room will control temps well.

You can set up a thermostat to your fan to automate things. When the lights are off you need to make sure that your temperatures to not become too low. Most of all you will want to avoid huge temperature fluctuations between the day and night cycles because this will make your plants poorly formed.

Atmosphere of your Hydroponic Grow room is also important to take into consideration when setting up your grow room. Lets delve into the contents of air that an outside plant will encounter. Growing plants need a constant supply of the air they breathe which is CO2, unfortunately CO2 levels inside are usually not efficient for all plants.

We need to figure out a way to produce the CO2 in levels that are good for the type of plants that we are growing. In general plants need a level of about 330 parts per million of cO2 to maintain a healthy growing rate. CO2 can be injected into grow rooms several different ways, there are CO2 bottle that can be used to deliver CO2 through a regulator.

There are also CO2 gas generators that burn propane and produces large amounts of Co2. Other areas we need to think about when it comes to Atmosphere is Pest control and negative ions.

Another aspect of controlling the conditions in your Hydroponic Grow Room us maintaining a healthy humidity level. excessive humidity for long periods will create conditions that are perfect for grey mold. Grey mold once started will quickly spread and affect your entire crop.

Using a device called a hygrometer mounted on the wall inside your hydroponic grow room will let you know at a quick glance what your humidity levels are. Humidity levels of just above 50% is perfect and should not go above this. It is important to keep nutrient reservoirs covered at all times so that they do not contribute to higher humidity levels.

Humidity levels can be easily controlled as with temperature by using extractor fans to rid the room of heat or humidity. As a general rule it is good to keep your grow rooms dry. This will prevent any mold problems.

If you had to choose one thing that was the most important in maintaining a hydroponic grow room it would be Lighting. Now this will not matter much if you are in an greenhouse located outside, but if you are in a cellar or in a structure with a normal roof you will have to provide the light yourself and recreate light that is similar to the suns rays.

The good news is that with modern day horticulture technology has created sun lights that operate in a efficient and cost effective manner. In fact if you are choosing to set up a hydroponic grow room indoors it is best that you use only artificial lighting and do not bring light in through windows or skylights. Artificial lighting is easily controlled and provides the growers the ability to set the lights on timers to turn them on and off.

By using artificial lighting the grower can simulate the long days of summer for high growth levels, and slowly start reducing the light to simulate fall and induce the plants to start flowering. A hydroponic grow room designed well will produce great results in almost any type of plant that you decide to grow.