New grow room advice.

Hello

I am new to the forums.

I recently got a new place and I want to start growing again. I have previous experience with growing bio (dirt) but now I am looking to get into growing hydro.

The closet that will be used is 3 x 3 x9 feet.
This area will be divided to have a main flowering section and a mother/clone section. They will have to be stacked but I cannot decide which should be on floor level and which on top of it.

A 400W HPS will light the blooming and either fluorescent lights or a 150W sun system the mother and clones.
I was hoping to get advice on what hydro system would fit this space and be good for a beginner.

Also ventilation and smell is a big concern.
I don't wanna cut my walls so I am considering using a jigsaw and cutting all the fan holes in the closet door. I will need a carbon filter on the outtake fan which I was thinking of attaching to the door as well.

I am not sure if the clones and 2 mothers will need much cooling and/or a separate in and out take fan...

Any ideas and help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm growing in a very similar closet right now. I ran some tests with equipment before putting babies in and controlling heat in that area is the real issue, however with a 50w extractor (with CF), 20w shower fan for input I can run a 400w HPS in there an keep temps in range.

I'm lucky and have space to put a small mother/clone box elsewhere, but if I were you I would divide the height into 3' at the base and 6' at the top, with mother/clone in the lower section, well boxed in and light proofed and flower in the top 6'. I might be wrong in saying this, but personally I would run vent in and out of the veg box from the main compartment using PC fans or similar just to move the air through, then let your main extraction handle temp control for the whole room. This <i>should</i> give you a stable temp in your veg box.

I would point out I'm on my first grow, so my words might not be nearly as valuable as more experienced people, but I have done alot of reading in the last few months and have made the same considerations as you are now.

you want quick easy and cheap? i grow in perlite its called a hempy bucket the bottom 2 inches always has water to mimic ground water.each bucket cost $6-8 depending on the size you need,but for you i would say get square 2 gallon plastic mop buckets this will be good for a 3ft plant.(walmart $2) put a pencil sized hole 2 inches from the bottom and fill it with perlite(walmart $7).then you can put your seedling or clone into it as soon as you have roots out the bottom of your rockwool or peat puck.

I would split the room into 2 sections of 4 1/2 ft high the top section i would have a mother plant in some good soil bio mix.The lights for the mother and the clones would be 4 ft flouresents cool daylight spec have these on a lowering sytem also have 4 warm daylight cfls wall mounted this should keep any clones and a mother plant happy.You will need to get a good quility tray for any water that runs off after watering.But if you do all the watering in a bath and leave the plant in soil in there till there is no run of then you should be fine but the tray is always a good extra bit of safety.The hydro system that i would go for in the bottom section would be a airoponic fast rooting system flower the plants all small and you should get a nice yeild every 8 week if you have clones ready rooted so there ready to go straight after harvest.I have just made a 60 plant airoponic rapid rooter cloner for £30 flower the plants small in this sytem and the yeild will be just fine you would be looking at half ounce a plant x this by 60 and this will give you a nice smoke......................tyke...........................

Thanks for all the advice.
I am still looking for some system for the flowering plants.
I was thinking ebb and flow since some people have been scaring me with post about difficulties with many more sophisticated set ups.
I assume that space could fit at least 9 plants. maybe more since I am going to flower small and early to get nice colas.
I know soil is the easiest option but I did that in the past and it looks bad to carry a lot of bags into a small apartment... Keeping the mothers in soil sounds like the best option though.
Also anyone have a good name brand I can google for a filter/fan set up for the budding space?

Does anyone have any experience with the Turbogarden Aeroponics System? I was looking into it and it comes in many different formats.
Ebb and grow looks nice too but I think its too big for my room.