MY 1st closet grow

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SUGGEST THINGS,and thanks for droppin in, as some of you know i had to work out some sprouting problems that i was having well I purchased some lock tweezers like jewelers use and it helped me to plant my germinated seeds a lot mor affectivly. ok here it is:

I'm using a 8 bulb t5(40k lumens) to veg, i love this light it seems to work very well. I will be growing 7 bubbilicious plants, I had 15 but killed my other 8 so i will continue with these guys and i have 10 bubba kush seeds for the next grow.

the 5 largest sprouts are 4 days old and 2 of the others got a late start sprouting. I have a 400 hps and a 250 hps that i am gonna replace the t5 with when i go to 12/12. I plan on air cooling my 2 lights from attic air intake/outtake thus not involving my ambient air and just independantly exausting that with a carbon soke on the end for stankyness lol.

here are some pics, ITS NOT THAT GREAT TO LOOK AT NOW but I will keep updates regularly some reason spell check wont work so those of you that are gramatical freaks forgive me,lol

the pics hahah oops lol

few more pics:

man nice set-up. Lookin good

thanks man its been a lot of work, but i have to say being new and having this site goes hand in hand....so much great info and good peeps help.

I am germinating 5 bubba kush's to add to the grow. I have heard that the kush is a slow veger and a great flowerer, but i worry about them being a bit behind the bubb....but we gotta have variety I cant wait to get these babies under the hps in a few weeks..........

well, best of luck man Cheers!!!

yeah i like your setup, you will have a great crop, just started my summer hobbie a few weeks ago

thank you guys for the response, yeah its great to have RIU lets us all communicate and relate with one another with a passion. ok enough mushy talk,lol I am gonna update my pics often. I just watered the guys today, they are looking great thus far.

Was wondering can i germinate and start some kush with the current bubbilicious, even though they would be a week and 1/2 behind? thanks guys.

they are under the same light??? Im pretty sure it wont make a huge difference.. as long as they all on a veg cycle and you turn them all to flower around the same time... the week old ones maybe a tad bigger and what not

yeah they will be under the same veg light. I just started germinating 5 of the 15 kush seeds that i have and will get them planted and in the grow room as soon as I can.

Hey is that a picture of you in your avatar?

Please don't take this the wrong way but if it is..do you think it's a good idea to have a picture of you as your avatar when you're posting picture on this site?

Just lookin out for ya!

no I respect that, thanks for looking out. but yeah thats me I figured if there is somebody in the world that could locate me from a pic of my car and I with no numbers,plates,addresses then i deserve to get nabbed,lol and they can have my 7 personal plants too. If anyone was to recognize me...Wait a minute good point bro i am changing that bitch LOL, even though i own my own business(no boss) wouldnt want some hater who knows me in town and recognizes my wip from town tippin johnny law off...Thanks man

can anybody help me out, i have two hps lights a 400 and a 250, I would have just bought 1 600 but these two lights where an old friends that thought he wanted to grow and paid for the 2 lights but never even started,lol (NO IDEA) so i got them and hung onto them, now a year later I am putting them to use. I have an inline 4'' fan going into the wall resting on my top closet rack, i plan on air cooling both lights with this fan wall to wall using attic air. I am having doubts that this 170 cfm fan will do the job with both lights. QUESTION, do you guys think i will be ok cooling the 2 lights enough (or) do i need to put the 250 aside and use just the 400? Not to mention i really want to use both obviously all light will help, and moving to a 6'' fan isnt really an option b/c the fixture is already 4'' duct compatible thanks for any help you can give me.........

how big is the closet?

I would have thought for any closet, a 400w would be plenty.

I guess if you have 3000 lumens or more per square foot of grow space, you're fine.

and with a 400w HPS you want to be able to change the air in your grow room 3-5 times a minute. To calculate your room size, multiply Width by Length by Height, this will give you the CFM rating required for one room change per minute. Times that by 3 at a minimum and you have the minimum required CFM rating you need.

well my closet is 5'x4'.......and the height of the ceiling is 12 feet(I hang the lights at 6'), huge closet! i cut it off to make it 5ft with wood board. well using your calculations i need a 240cfm. I will have a 170 on the lights exaust. and i have right now a 6'' 440cfm bringing cool 70 degree ac air into the closet, and plan to install ambient room individual exaust with a carbon sok. I mean i might be lagging on the cfm's for the reflectors, but i am gonna have a lot of cool air coming in for the room.

they are both nice, would like to use them both...

looks bad ass, did you get that light (t5) set up as a whole?? i saw one a local hydro store and the price wasnt too bad....lol having two lights and not knowing which to use is a problem i would like to have...use the big one IMO ?? either way baller set up. wish i had a closet to work with again

yeah those lights look awesome... Blinky, i just started some seeds about two weeks after my first plant sprouted so we are in the same boat, should be fine tho... Yeah, did all thatcome with the light??? i have a hps buld but nothing to make it light up sadly just dont have the cash money, do you know where and how much that costs?

Thanks guys for the props, Tryintogrow I got my t5 at a local hydro shop on sale but it was still kind of costly 285.00. I love it though, and it took me 4 years to get my own place and start growing so that closet will happen for you. What up caddy, yeah i had the 2 lights in storage when i got them about 4 years ago. They both didnt come with the hoods i just picked those up...they just came with a medi reflector and ballasts/bulbs from a company called P.L. lighting. I have decided to go ahead with both hps lights when 12/12 comes around. i am gonna move the 6'' inline fan bringing in the AC to the top to use on both hoods. seeing how the hoods are already equipped for 4'' ducting and a 4'' fan i am going to use a 4'' to 6'' reductor and run the duct from the 6'' fan through the 2 hoods and back into the wall which i am pretty sure runs up to attic. then we will just use the inline 4'' fan to bring in fresh air for ambient grow room and exaust that independently with a fan and a carbon sock i have laying around. SO STAY TUNED THERE ARE GOING TO BE SOME COOL TRANSFORMATIONS AHEAD.