My Journal is totally open for discussion. If you would like to chat it up or give me some pointers, tell me what I am doing right and wrong, I totally appreciate it. Thanks a bunch everyone!!!


This is my second attempt in this very small closet. First attempt resulted in 2 males and just poor room design.

This closet is a room within a room. I have a barn attached to my house. Years ago built a small room (6x10) within a large room 20x 16

Closet is 2x4 framed incased within 2"foam insulation board

Closet has two doors. one leading to my house the other leading to the barn in which this closet is housed.

Within that closet I built a 2'x2'x5' enclosure, this is where the grow will take place. Its located in the far corner of the closet. right next to the eve of my roof.

Enclosure is painted top to bottom with one coat of kilz latex primer

then 2 coats of kilz white latex matte finish


I wired the room up with its own 15amp breaker. 2 gfci outlets in a series. both outlets have exterior h20 proof housings




1 70 cfm bathroom exhaust fan mounted in the center of the ceiling of the room - exhausted out of the room via 4" ducting totaling about 3.5' ducting to reach the outside of the room.




At the end of the ductiing I installed a carbon scrubber I made out of
4" ducting
Gorilla tape
Activated Carbon
green scrubby cloth

I wrapped the small piece of ducting with gorilla tape to make it stronger, then i taped on piece of scrubby cloth on one end of the ducting.

then i filled it with carbon,put another piece of scrubby on the other end and taped it down.

once I did that I taped it to a painters cup with the bottom cut off, this is acting as a reducer flange so I can fit the scrubber right into the exhaust ducting.

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Papaya CFL & HPS Grow
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I built a new light housing all CFL lights.




8 cleat sockets all wired in a series. this is the standard light array, I have it setup so there is plenty of space inbetween each cleat so I can add and configure y splitters and way i want. this way I can adjust the lights to fit the plants size and needs.

I wont be turning this on till I get some plants growing. right now I only have one pathetic clone right now that is trying to root some legs on her.

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Papaya CFL & HPS Grow
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I added in some power bar fixtures as well. I have 3 one on each wall. These are nice because there cheap, easy to make, easy to install, and even easy to move around. These will be nice to help with the growth under the canopy.

These are plugged in a series of power bars leading up the the digital timer.


right now I only have one power bar fixture turned on, it has 3 26watt 6500k cfls on it. using these to root some leggs on a clone. Once I start the veg stage on her and the papaya seeds I ordered(if i get them) I will move these 6500ks into different spots threw out the different fixtures in the room to spread the spectrum out a bit.


The picture above shows the cool air intake. This is a 4" ducting with 2 4" inline fans one on each end all pulling in cool air into the room.

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Papaya CFL & HPS Grow
BlackJack, Papple Express, Papaya, AK47

Got my papaya today. have them germing right now. Tropical strain so I wraped in scotch cloth and baggied them then placed under my laptop on my desk. laptop is keeping the pouch nice and warm. hopefully not to warm.

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Papaya CFL & HPS Grow
BlackJack, Papple Express, Papaya, AK47

Well I think putting the seeds in a towel in a baggie under my computer was a great idea. One of the already spilt and opened up today. I put them in the towel around 4pm est and this morning around 7am est already one split open.

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Papaya CFL & HPS Grow
BlackJack, Papple Express, Papaya, AK47

Looks like a nice setup, you could easily later change to a HPS system and have side lighting with CFLs!

It's great overall...but plants are not going to grow uniformly. Some will rocket ahead of others...most often they are males...but sometimes they are just phreaky ladies. You will need to be able to individually reposition your cfls. More than 6" away from the plant and they become less and less effective with more light wasted.

Cfls are a p.i.t.a. but absolutely can produce fantastic results if you tweek the lights every few days.

I thought about this a bunch and I have decided that I am going to the hps route. I will be keeping all of the cfls i have and use those for floor and side lighting.

I am also moving my setup to a tent I have made out of piping and plastic.

I have one papaya seed in rockwool right now. I started germing it last night and it split with the tap root poking out about a inch or so, I was truly amazed at how quick it germed. like 12 hours

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Papaya CFL & HPS Grow
BlackJack, Papple Express, Papaya, AK47

They'd be great for side lighting...

Also cfls are fantastic for veg period. Less heat, less cost and plants don't usually start really out growing each other until 3 or 4 weeks from seed. By the time it's really becoming an issue...you are ready to move onto flower anyways.

You definately did not waste money in getting them.

I purchased all the lights and other equipment over a period of a month or so. This gave me the oppurtunity to be able purchase what I needed without it really putting a damper on my wallett. what else helped out alot was my first grow turned out to be all males. This allowed me to purchase more equipment and completly start over, which was well needed thats for sure.

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Papaya CFL & HPS Grow
BlackJack, Papple Express, Papaya, AK47