New to growing! Anyone wana help?

[justanotherbozo]

So this will be my first attempt at growing. I have yet to order seeds and i am planning on ordering White Widow it seems to be rather easy to grow and clone and does well in doors, at least that is what i have read. I have a few questions and i am hoping someone can help

welcome to can.com, if you haven't done it already, i'd suggest you start
an introductory thread so people can just stop by and say hi to ya

now, to your questions

1. Is white widow a good strain for a first time grower?

while i've never grown it, i understand that WW is fairly easy to grow although,
for a first grow you might want to go with free bagseed

2. Will i be sucsesfull in growing in a small closest, about 4x3 and 9-10 feet tall.

that's the wrong question, you should ask 'can you be successfull'? and the
answer to that is yes, you can, i can't answer whether you will succeed or
not because i don't know you and what your skills are

3. Will i be able to split this closet into 2 5 foot tall sections to maximize the space

lol, as in the last question, i don't know your skill level. that being said, the
space is splittable

4. Is lining the walls ceiling and floor with tin foil covered by a clear plastic the best route to go

no, that's a horrible idea, tin-foil is a lousy reflective material that creates
other problems, you'd be much better off just painting the inside of your
closet flat white. you can also use Panda Plastic which is very heavy duty
so very durable, plus it is black on one side and white on the other plus it's
light proof (this is actually a material you can use to answer your question #3

5. What type of lights should i buy and can they be obtained from a hardware/garden store.

this is another question that's difficult to answer due to lack of info
personally, i use CFL's only because of cost and availability, if i had the dough,
i'd be using HID lights

6. Any recomendations on soil i should purchase from a garden store

any decent, non-nuted, general purpose potting soil that you will mix with about
30% perlite for drainage and moisture retention and some blood meal and bone
meal is a good place to start

7. How many seeds should i purchase if i plan to grow 4-6 plants at a time (if i can split the closet into 2 5foot tall sections i would plan to be growing 8-12 at a time)

again, not enough info. what style will you grow? what kind of yield do you hope for? etc., etc., etc.,

8. Is it better to buy feminized seeds or just regular

again, as a noob grower, i'd recommend you start with bagseed until you know
enough to not kill all your seedlings.
that being said, fem seeds are great in that you know with almost 100%
certainty that all your plants are fems. and they suck 'cause they cost
3 times more than regular seeds, sometimes even more than that.

9. What site do you recomend to buy from

that is the $64,000.00 question. myself, i've only tried it once and i didn't
have a good experience, i ordered from Seedboutique and all i got from them
is e-mails. i'm still trying to get them to make good so i'm not ready to really
trash them yet

anyway, spend some time looking around, read through a few threads, get
to know a few people and let them get to know you and don't forget to have
fun, if it aint fun, why bother

come by my garden, maybe you'll see something you can use