2000 Watt Flower Closet by GrowGoddess

[GrowGoddess]

:greenthumb:Your sharing will surely help a lot of n00b's here! Thanks for sharing! Just love it! Shows a lot of $, eyebrow sweat and rewards!! Rocs! :rastar

Thank you painretreat. I do hope it does help somebody.
I would not recommend 1000 watt lights for a beginner. I still don't have the 1000 watters fully mastered yet. I would recommend 400 watt or at the most 600 watt for a beginner.

As for the high cost, I purchased the highest quality equipment I could find for safety reasons. That is a lot of wattage and heat in a small area. In a closet like this it could be dangerous to use lower quality equipment in my opinion. It took me about a year of saving and a lot of work to get this closet put together. It went up piece by piece over a year span. Now that I have been running the closet for nearly two years, it has paid for itself and has helped many patients.

I would also like to mention about the air exchange fan for the closet. The air exchange fan can offer an additional safety benefit.

Without using an air exchange fan for this type of flower closet: Let's say a fire broke out for some reason, where would I put the smoke alarm? In the flower closet I probably will not hear it, due to fan noise and the closet being sealed shut. I won't smell any smoke, all the smoke will be pumping right out of the house through the ventilation fans. If I put a smoke alarm inside the main room, it would not even get triggered off due to no smoke returning to the main room.

With an air exchange fan in this type of flower closet: Let's say a fire broke out for some reason. At least half of the air flow of the closet would be pumping smoke back into the main room, where the smoke detector should be placed. The smoke going into the main room would trigger off the smoke detector and I would be able to hear the smoke detector go off and I would probably be able to smell the smoke also.

I will always utilize an air exchange fan for any flower closet I build from now on.

My old closet was very similar and I was running (2) 400 Watt lamps, but built with make-shift parts. More so due to the fact that "growing underground" was the only way then (before the law went in to effect in MI). Wasn't too keen on visiting sites or stores.

[GrowGoddess]

Very nice:thumbsup:
So is it normal for you to hang the whole plant, fan leaves and all? I started doing that a couple months ago and i swear that the bud has a better taste and smell doing that way instead of trimming then drying. Just curious to your reason.

Thanks.

There are two reasons that I will hang the plant. 1. For legal reasons, in my state they cannot count it against the legal amount because it is not yet considered usable. 2. The plants in the picture, being that it is querkle, I prefer to hang them for at least three days. It guides the small purple leaves around the buds and helps to show off the purple color in that strain. (Per patient's request, they like to see a lot of purple (bag appeal)).

For me personally, I like to do all the manicuring as soon as possible, mostly because it is easier for me to manicure it when it is more fresh. It is more difficult for me to manicure it when the leaves start to dry and curl (excluding querkle). That is just a personal preference. There are many people that prefer to manicure when they are more dry.

For quality differences, I have found different methods work better for different strains. Some strains, I prefer them quick dried, or even bone dry.
However, with the blueberry jam, it seems to come out best when it is slow dried and long cured.

You just have to go with what seems to work best for you.
I will keep that in mind though, and pay a bit closer attention to it on comparing it hanging a few days vs. manicuring within 24-48 hours of harvesting.

[painretreat]

If I had the computer skill of Dutch Pimp I would post an attachment of a FireExtingisher! Nice and well thought out plan! pr

[GrowGoddess]

If I had the computer skill of Dutch Pimp I would post an attachment of a FireExtingisher! Nice and well thought out plan! pr

Fire Extinguisher.... Great idea! I have one for each of my wood stoves, I should also have one for my flower closet!!

In all my time growing, I have not had an accident, never even had a light bulb blow up on me, but that stuff happens. For example, a brand new fluorescent for my neighbors garage, just caught fire one day. You just never know a fixture could fall, electrical failure, lamp explode, etc. Better to be safe than sorry.

Thanks again for the extinguisher suggestion!!

[painretreat]

Grows with fires are freq. on the 6PM news here! As it has become so popular for people to rent homes and start grows with no one around! Just an added safety measure! Since, you live there! Very well thought out! reps to you! pr

[GrowGoddess]

Grows with fires are freq. on the 6PM news here! As it has become so popular for people to rent homes and start grows with no one around! Just an added safety measure! Since, you live there! Very well thought out! reps to you! pr

Thanks for the info. I don't have tv service, so I don't get any news besides what I read online. I am in a rural area with few options for tv service. I really didn't know that is was so common.

No worries about no tv, I got my big screen and lots of movies and internet too!

[painretreat]

:S2:I have lived in Cablelessness for the past 28 years -counted every one of 'um! Puts a new meaning on Direct TV for me (had it since 1991)! No cable, no Natural Gas and no do it again! Experiencing Fiber-optic experience right now and loving it HDTV (was using a USB Thumbstick drive for a few months). Past up a real good deal on a new home yesterday-All Electric! No fiberoptic, no cable and no gas But then, I did have a lot more time for gardening :greenthumb:!

Gonna hang a 55" TV on the wall tomorrow, any advice? Last one was 47" and has smaller wallpod! first 55" and not lifting it alone!

My niece doesn't sign up for cable and does everything on-line also! I use to go to the library to jump on Hi-speed once in awhile and assumed anyone younger than me can operate a PC. However, have learned differently from conversations at the cell phone company! Some can sell 'um and know nada about 'um! Oh, on no cell phone service where I was, either! Remote and private! :rasta: pr

[GaGrown]

If I had the computer skill of Dutch Pimp I would post an attachment of a FireExtingisher! Nice and well thought out plan! pr

Here's one,pain..

Ga.

[drudown11]

looks beautiful........ your setup looks very clean and organized. you can tell its not your first time.


That querkle is beautiful, i love the color change on the fan leaves. What are the average temps? does the plant naturally turn purple or do you need to introduce colder temps in order to bring out the purple? Ive seen some querkle thats bright green, but ive also seen some that turn a really pretty purple during late flowering. I guess it all depends on your pheno

I dont know if you have access to any other of Subcool's genetics(hes the original breeder) but everything else is top of the line. From what you've posted it seems like your really into the medicinal aspects of cannabis, subcool has a strain called Jack the ripper that has been tested at 26% thc, with a reaaaaallllyyyyy high % of CBD's, THCV's and CBN's. It contains a lot of the rare cannabinoids that have shown promise to slow cancerous cell growth.

What exactly are you growing those beauties in? Are they soil or soilless?

[bayou bud]

Check with a local a/c mechanical contracting company and see about what's called a fire damper... install it behind where your vent louvers are, if and hopefully not , a fire breaks out these dampers shut thus sealing the room , no air in or out .... a few dollars for security... imo