New Grow Closet Running!!!
I am finished building and setting up my new grow space. I wish I'd built this from the start given the expense of building 2 grow spaces, but there's a lot of things I've learned in a year of growing that I wouldn't have known ahead of time so I'm confident this is a pretty ideal setup for my purposes. Lesson one, don't try to work around paying for purpose built quality equipment, none of my previous DIY inventions paid off, they all got replaced with better stuff with much better efficiency.
After getting it all set up I did a full power test run and temps are in the high 80's on a cool night in my basement... so it seems my little 80cfm bathroom fan is not going to cut it in this space so I ordered a 400 cfm inline fan as the final upgrade. At least I'll have my old box fully equipped and able to run for breeding purposes.
Here's the specs followed by pics:
2' x 6' footprint, 5' max height.
Veg area is 2'x2'x2', Flower area is 4'x5'x2' (more or less, the ceiling is slanted)
Lighting: 90w lighthouse LED for veg, 450w hps cool tube for flower
Ventilation: 6" 400cfm Hydrofarm inline fan w/ speed control, CAN 33 carbon filter, 2"x8" passive intake with baffle
Its lined with bubble wrap mylar bought from a chain hardware store.
And the best part is that its SUPER stealth!
My next grow better not suck as hard as this one did.
Veg area:
Flower area: