CFL Closet Grow Brainstorming

High everyone!!!

Im so excited to get involved with this online community, Im a long time reader but a newbie poster. I have read through the entire FAQ many times and have spent dozens if not hundreds of hours browsing forums.

OK down to business. I have been filling my head with mass amounts of information from this site, others, books, magazines and even some youtube videos for about the past month or so.

After lots of thinking and many nights sleeping on a decision, I have finally decided to clean all the clothes out of my closet and use it as a grow room.

My closet dimensions are 30" deep, 96" wide and about 70" of usable height. My plan is to hopefully end up with 4 females and use about 1/2 of the closet to flower them, the other 1/4 to 1/2 for the clones/seedlings.

So far I have decided on 6 26W CFL bulbs, and 2 65W CFL bulbs from lowes. Im still researching a bit on soil & nutes to find what will work best for me and my somewhat low budget.

Here are a couple problems I seem to be having a terribly hard time finding answers to, otherwise I wouldn't post asking:

1) My main concern is fresh air getting to the plants. I really don't have any way to ventilate the closet as I would prefer to keep the door closed. I plan to use a tall oscillating fan as well as a smaller high velocity desk fan for circulation I just don't know how well it will bring fresh air to my babies.

2) The other concern is with the smell. I had originally been thinking of a closed box design but the closet will provide so much more height. This closet is in my bedroom, without having a vent of some sort what is a decent way to control the odor? I bought some active carbon a while back but I dont know how I would go about using it now that Im using my closet.

I will be updating this or starting a new thread as soon as my seeds finish germinating to document the grow. Everyone here seems so helpful and don't hesitate to slap me around a bit and let me know if I am asking a question for the 100th time. I try my best not to maybe that's why Ive waited so long to post.

Ill work on getting some pics up of the empty closet maybe tomorrow.

OK sorry for the novel, look forward to hearing any thoughts & ideas.

Thanks
KB

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The oscillating fan should be good enough circulation in tha closet along with tha desk fan fresh air will get in there no matter what as for tha odor u can try mabe growing some herbs like basil or something along side the weed 2 hide the smell..jus a suggestion

kryptakrOnic said:

The oscillating fan should be good enough circulation in tha closet along with tha desk fan fresh air will get in there no matter what as for tha odor u can try mabe growing some herbs like basil or something along side the weed 2 hide the smell..jus a suggestion

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Thanks for the feedback Krypya. Funny that you mentioned herbs. The wife and I decided yesterday to get some supplies for starting an herb garden in our completely unused kitchen bay window. We have tons of herb seeds and I may just try that. Plus it gives us an excuse to go to the nursery on a regular basis if we have a small herb garden too.

So the 2 fans should stir the air around enough to give a decent amount of fresh CO2 even with the door closed 90% of the time? If so that is most excellent. Ive inherited a 75w HPS light that I will probably be adding in once I start to flower so I really need to make sure I can control the smell.

The closet is in our bedroom and maybe twice a month we have my parents over for dinner, or once a week have a friend or 2 over that wont know about the grow. They all know we smoke (parents included) but I just want to make sure my house wont smell like a skunk even if we havent smoked in there in days. As long as I can get that under control this should be alot of fun!

So for anyone who is interested, I have started my grow with lots of pics. So far only 4 seedlings but for anyone lookin for some ideas on a closet grow, I have included a few pics of how I modified mine.

You can find the link in my signature, thanks for watchin!!

The two fans will stir the air around but u mabe wanna leave the door cracked 2 get sum fresh air in there wen the lights are one 2 prevent heating issues but u shud be fine with tha door closed &| lights off

get a inline fan with a can carbon filter they sell good on ebay