Man that looks like a nice closet...
I am gonna say that you never grew before right? Well if not, taking that into consideration with my advice to you. First empty out the closet and take out the shelves/poles. We should have one big grow area about 8x4x2 now right... right. Moving on, the way I am looking at this closet I would want to find a way to make it somewhat perpetual. We will need a mommy chamber, but not a big one of course. I would set up a wall about 1' in from either side wall. I would also construct a ceiling about 6' high, from my closet growing experience you will not have enough room in there for a few big plants. About 3.5' tall around harvest is about as big as they should grow not including the grow container.
So looking in we should see three chambers, one measures about 6'Hx1'Wx2'D, the one right next to it measures about 6'Hx3'Wx2'D, and the third should be on the top of the other and measure about 2'Hx4'Wx2'D, right? You can see where I am going with this I hope. You have a flower power chamber, a mommy, clone chamber, and ballast/nute/supply storage up top... starting to make sense right. Cool moving one to the next step... lights and venting. Not knowing your situation, be it you live alone, or with your folks, maybe a roomy that you need to hide it from. I will assume that you live alone and are renting a place. With the lights I personally like to rig my own, its all I have ever done and have never spent more than 100.00 bucks on a complete light system. Not entirely true I recently bought a new bulb that cost me 50.00
(special 400w
CMH !!NEW!! to the market), plus a 50.00 ballast and a 26.00 reflector. This is for a 400w setup so about 146.00 shipped and I need to put it together not a bad deal. I would suggest you do the same as I did. Buy the same light system for your flower chamber. Whats that you say... won't 400w heat this little chamber up? Well yes it will but a 400w
CMH is considerably cooler than any other 400w HID light. And they output more light/watt, AND they are more efficient, AND they have a MUCH better color temp, AND they can easily plug into a HPS ballast... sound great huh. The other room (mommy chamber) can easily be lit with
CFLs. Go an buy two or three
85w CFLs, not the one that are rated at 40w, and say equal 100, I mean the
85w CFL's that equal 400w regular bulbs. It is uber easy to rig up your own outlets and fixtures for your lights. You can look it up on the internet, or go to Lowes/HD and read a book for 10 minutes. Now that the lights are set up and the rooms are layed out lets get to venting. This may be a challenge depending on what you are working with... tools, landlords, neighbors, etc. We will say the situation is extreme and you need silent and secret. You will have two priorities, get the smell out and get the heat out. Now when I say out I mean out of the whole closet not just the grow areas of the closet. This will be hard to explain with out pictures but I will try in this next paragraph.
Ok we have all seen the rectangular
heater vents and the ducts that connect to them. Well if you put one of those at the top of your door and connect flexpipe to it and then to a fan you at least have your exhaust setup. I would also say that you need to have a scrubber at the fan inlet so that it pulls all the air through the scrubber then out of the closet. I am thinking that you could put two other vents in at the bottom in front of each chamber. This way you can use one fan to exhaust both chambers. I am say that you will need to find a way to attach the vents to each chamber and pull cool, clean air in from the bottom of the closet. Then you will need to cut holes in the top board and connect a centrifugal fan, scrubber and exhaust pipe, and vent.(SEE MY PIC, hope it helps). As far as a setup goes it come down what you want to do soil/hydro/aero. Tell us and we will help you with that as well.
