the Setup...

Hello friends and forum members.

I'm narrowing in on my setup for my first real grow (at least in a while) and I was hopin i could post the basics of it here to see what folks thought of it. (Hope this isn't too general...)

- I'm working in a closet in a bedroom, walls ceiling and door painted flat white.

- ordered 400 watt hps/mh conversion bulbs and ballast, mh for veg, hps for bloom.

- can't cut vent holes through walls since i don't own this house, so I have to use the door for venting, here's where I'm not too confident.

- plan to cut two 4 inch holes toward the bottom of the closet door, and put in flexible ducting, enough so I can have a bend and keep light from leaking too much.

- gonna cut another 4 inch hole near the top of the door and feed a duct over to the top of the reflector, where I'll have a carbon filter hanging, and then install a 4-inch inline duct fan into the flexible ducting.

- so passive intake, active exhaust, and i'm gonna have a wall mount oscillating fan inside.

- i'm not being that technical about the venting at all, i'm just trying to keep this simple and functional to grow two dank plants at a time.

- keep in mind, if anyone has suggestions for temps/ventilation (i'd love to hear em), i do live in a cold climate, external temps over the next few months will drop from max. 40's now down to as low as 15 degrees BELOW zero fahrenheit, and if temps start to rise in the closet, just cracking the bedroom window and the closet door would take care of that right away, i'd think.

- think that's all the specifics i need to give to hopefully get some great feedback, any suggestions or thoughts, send em my way! Thanks a lot and happy gardening!

J

Can you vent into the attic? if so it would be better then venting into the same room your drawing your fresh air from . Not only that , but its easier to patch sheetrok then to replace a door .

what strain/s you gonna be growin ..........peace

spliffbazz

thats exactly my setup, except the 400 is 200 must say its a little hard with all manual venting configuration.. I jut need to receive my new ventilation (100 m^3/h) then the room can almost take care off itself

IF you crack your window, that will let a lot of heat out...it was in the 60s yesterday and I can keep my room just perfect. Lets the smell out too.

The rest of your set up sounds pretty doable.

Sounds like you're ready to get growing. Set it up, test it out for temps and humidity, and keep us posted

Cool thanks guys. yeah i might have to rethink ventilation down the way, it's just the door was easiest at this point because we just had a really crappy old gluon door on the closet. As far as strains, I'm a little over my head right now; I only want to end up with two mature females cause in my state 2 or fewer plants is a misdemeanor (might as well be safe, you know) but I germinated a bunch of seeds with more success than I expected. So I've got one plant that's about a foot tall that was vegging under cfl's for like 6 weeks, just from bag seed, then there's four seedlings from a local friend and grower's seed that he said was a purply kush kinda thing (but it's his own creation) then I've got four northern lights seedlings from marijuana-seeds.nl and one hazeXskunk from the same place. So I'll be having to make some hard choices pretty soon... I might post some pictures on here soon, the setup's lookin prety good so far! Thanks again for the help!