Closet Grow Room

[Qu33f]

Closet specs for my grow I'm gonna go pick up a small fan that can clip on and my 400W HPS+MH combo is in the mail so I'll have my BlueBerryXChronic soon started

[Qu33f]

these are my supply's I have some tomato fertz and some flower booster for when they get that far and I'm just doing a basic soil grow, I'm going by what a very reliable source tells me,

[Qu33f]

this is where my 400WHPS will dangle and bring life to my babies

[Qu33f]

here are the dimensions 6 foot high(plus shelf above),2 and a half ft. wide and 6 foot long.


Any guesses on how many plants I can put in there without going overboard I was thinking mabye like 4 or 5

any feedback would be great.

[sidious]

a good tip, would be to run the ballst to another room, what's at each side of the growroom, maybe a cupboard, or something, as the ballast causes a lot of heat problems.......Peace out........Sid

[Qu33f]

I was gonna put the ballast above my set up cuz there is a shelf on top with enough room, my aunt said to put it up there so it don't get wet, also I may leave the door cracked during lighting to keep the temp down, but i'm not really sure how hot it will get.

[sidious]

remember and check all the temps for a full day or 2 before putting any plants in........Peace out.......Sid

[Qu33f]

here's a better pic . there is like a 2 ft shelf on top with plenty of room, I was gonna run the ballast up there, do you think it could be a heat problem, and if so what can I do about it?

[sidious]

should be o.k. up there......Peace out........Sid

[Iron Seed]

I am a closet grower too. My spot is 3x2x7. I get great yeilds...

[Qu33f]

my light should be in the mail very very soon , I plan on running the HPS light with the 2 fluro bulbs for 24/7 for like 2 or 3 days and get some good temp readings, I'm also considering going hydroponicly but I have no idea how to make anything that advanced, but I'm working at a pet store so I could adjust the PH and what not whenever I needed to because everything will be at hand and very cheap if not free.

[gr0wer]

4 plants would be great in that space with soil. you might be able to fit 6, play around with plant count, starting at 4 to see what works best. Your going to need bigger containers to step up to after those pots fill out. See how well 4 square will milkcrates fit, line them with garbage bags and poke holes in bottom.

Dont even bother with the flo's if you already have 400w of hps in there.

Are you going to have ventiation blowing out of the box at the top, or just rely on the cracked door?

[Qu33f]

for my first grow or a while its gonna be the old cracked door method until I can accumilate some money to get a nice system going, another thought was getting a cheap desk fan and clipping it on the top shelf, would that help with the door closed, also if I removed the ventilation above in the attic would that all all the heat to escape into the roof fromt the celing inside the closet, Its just a thought

[gr0wer]

thats a good idea, throw a fan up blowing into the attic.

[420 Shade]

do what sid said, and put the ballast in a other room....

now u can take them flo's and put them in the top shelf, it will work great for seedlings, and cloneing........

but then i aging i dont know the size of that shelf, but if u got enuff space.. u should think about makeing a seedling, and cloneing section, so u have all year round flowering, and vegging...