I originally was going to put it in a closet but there are two major issues with that the main one being I don't wanna risk a fire. and the 2nd one being that although I live alone my mom comes to visit and when she dose so do my niece and nephew, all three of which are prone to snoop around inside the house so I would have to lock the closet which that alone would cause suspicion as to what is inside. I choose to go with the shed because 1. if it burns down no loss i don't care. and 2. It is locked preventing anyone access and sense its always been locked this wont draw suspicion. Now back to the grow room, It seems that you guys are thinking that I will use the entire shed as an open grow room, which i don't think would work well at all (light leaking, temp control etc etc) so the plan is to build a small closet size grow room inside the shed sense I only plan to grow 5-10 plants at any given time ranging from seedling to veg. (This is mostly to supply myself and some friends with good buds for cheep not a commercial set up) This also solves the problem of light leaking sense if it did it would only leak into the inside of the shed, and any secondary light leaking should be mild if any at all, and any sound leak would have to go through the small box, the insulation for that box through open space and through a 2nd wall, I don't think the fans required to cool a closet size grow box will produce enough noise to an issue. I did some research online and found some portable AC/Heating units for around $200-$300 thats more expensive that i want to spend but idk what else I could do during the summer to avoid the temps inside of the box from going well over 100F with the lamp (400w HPS). Do you guys think I would need the heat for winter? outside temps will be around 5F but I'm thinking the heat from the 400W bulb in a light tight box combined with the box being insulated should keep the temp in a 60-70F range but I have yet to deal with the heat from on of these lights so I may be over estimating how much heat it will put out but I've assumed a 400W bulb could easily heat a 30 cubic ft box.

So if anyone has experience growing in a hot space id love to know what you have learned from the experience. ATM all I have been able to come up with is maybe cutting vent holes in the shed, mounting fans to them to force a steady flow of fresh air, but the air temp would still be into the 90's so all this dose is provide me with fresh hot 90 degree air before the lamp heats it up, so maybe 110 in the box...

Also advice on growing inside to avoid suspicion / fire hazard would be wonderful. Sorry if I'm asking a lot of questions but I'm the type of person who dose a ridiculous amount of research and trys to learn more than they will ever need before they start a new project.
shahji Reviewed by shahji on . need help with my first grow room Hey guys, I'm gonna be building my first real grow box soon and Ive decide I wanna set it up in a shed in my back yard for various reasons, the problem with this location is that during the summer the temp reaches over 90F and during the winter will drop to around 10F. I was thinking that the best solution would be to put insulation around the outside of the grow box (as it will only be about 3x2x6) which should keep the heat from the lamps in during the winter, and maybe rig a mini fridge up Rating: 5