2000 Watt Flower Closet by GrowGoddess

[GrowGoddess]

Part 1

I thought I would add some information to this site about how I built my flower room.

I started off sacrificing my bedroom Posted Image and had to sleep in my living room for almost 9 months! I have a new bedroom now though Posted Image .

The bedroom measured approximately 11' x 12' with an 8' ceiling and a crawlspace underneath. I chose (2) 1000 watt switchable ballast lights to go with 50 Watts per square foot. I am running 7,500 lumens of light per square foot. So the closet comes out to be 40 square feet in size, which measures approximately 4.5' x 9'.

There was a window in the closet which I removed and boarded up with insulation and wood and used that to install the ports for exhausting my fans. I went with (2) outdoor prehung triple insulated doors for full lightproof and convenience of accessing the plants. To the left of the closet you can see a door, that is there to access the furnace pipe mostly, it was a tiny closet for the bedroom, it was pretty much unusable space for the flower room, so I painted the door white.

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In this next picture, you can see I added 3 vents on the outside of the closet at the top. The vents go through the wall cavity and they work like light traps. There are 3 vents on the inside of the closet at the bottom near the floor. This is so the closet can intake air and be able to breathe while the lights are on or off.

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In these next pictures you can see I added (2) 6" high output can fans 440 cfm each for a total of 880 cfm exhaust out the vents where the window was.

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To Be Continued....

GrowGoddess Reviewed by GrowGoddess on 12-01-2011. 2000 Watt Flower Closet by GrowGoddess Part 1 I thought I would add some information to this site about how I built my flower room. I started off sacrificing my bedroom Posted Image and had to sleep in my living room for almost 9 months! I have a new bedroom now though Posted Image . The bedroom measured approximately 11' x 12' with an 8' ceiling and a crawlspace underneath. I chose (2) 1000 watt switchable ballast lights to go with 50 Watts per square foot. I am running 7,500 lumens of light per square foot. So the closet Rating: 5

[GrowGoddess]

Part 2

Here is a picture of the outside window vents each 6" with dampers.

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In this picture you can see the lighting system is done and there is also in the center a 16" osculating wall mount fan. For the custom cooling, I took the lenses out of the light hoods so that I can exhaust air from both ends of the light hoods, so there is suction from each end of the light for maximum cooling efficiency. Each fan is hooked up to each hood so that I can have the option to run only one fan but still run both lights. Like in the winter when it is cold, I only need to run one fan. It also serves a safety purpose. If one fan fails, the other fan will still be cooling both lights. I did the same with the electrical, each fan is plugged in on a separate breaker/fuse.

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The room needed an air conditioner for the hot humid summers, minimum required 12,000 BTU. This had to be custom installed too, my windows slide open sideways.

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Well, after building it all like above, the system worked, but I wasn't fully satisfied with the cooling and the efficiency of it. So I added an 8" high output can fan at the ceiling, I call this an air exchange fan. It only takes air from the grow closet and back into the main room. It helps keep the air temps balanced between the closet and main room. This solved a lot of problems. Like in the winter, the main room was too cold which made it unusable, even though the flower room temps were just fine. If I restricted fresh air from outside to prevent the room from getting too cold, then I was exhausting heat out of my house just as fast as it was going in. Now with the air exchange fan, that is not a problem, in the winter, I am only exhausting about 100 cfm out of the flower closet. The air exchange fan at 740 cfm putting warm air back into the main room now lets the room be usable, there is only about a 5 to 10 degree temperature difference between the main room and flower closet. The air exchange fan also helps with the closet getting too cold in the winter during lights off. Also, during humid times of the year, it helps prevent mold/fungus issues in the flower room. The air exchange fan is set up to be light proof. I can leave it running at night and keep the temps right where I want them. One other benefit of installing the air exchange fan, I was able to make use of that dead space where the furnace pipe is. Posted Image

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To be continued....

[GrowGoddess]

Part 3

All three fans are equipped with a speedster speed controller so I can adjust the cooling system to meet any temperature I desire by dialing up or down the fan cfm. Now, after all of this, the lights and cooling system are all working in harmony.

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Here is a picture of the electrical (it is not complete in this picture). The ballasts and the electrical is mounted in the crawlspace. I choose a 220 breaker that goes to a throw-box which converts it to (2) 110 outlets with slow blow fuses.

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Here is a picture of my first test run with the closet after making sure all the equipment and temps were A-Okay, especially making sure the closet was 100% light proof. This required a lot of caulking and extra drywall mud.
There are 12 plants in this picture on a perpetual grow, I typically only have 8 bigger ones flowering. This was the first test run of the new flower closet.

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This is a close up of me and one of my babies in the closet, Dr. Atomic Blueberry Jam

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Here is a picture of half of the closet with 5 Querkle plants

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To be continued.....

[GrowGoddess]

Part 4 - Last but not least

Here is a picture of the 5 Querkle plants harvested.

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Here are some more pics of some of the bud harvested from the closet.

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My next project...... we will see

[GrowGoddess]

I chose to put this post here hoping it may help other closet growers with some difficulties that they may be experiencing.

I used to love to drive muscle cars. Now I love running muscle closets! :thumbsup:

[CanGroIt]

Love your closet GG :thumbsup:!!!!

CGI::::::

[GrowGoddess]

Love your closet GG :thumbsup:!!!!

CGI::::::

Thank you

[painretreat]

: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

[GrowGoddess]

I wish I could go back and edit some things.
I forgot to mention the flex pipe for the fans that cool the lights. Normally I would not use flex pipe on the intake side of a fan, due to the possibility of the flex pipe collapsing. In this case, with the Y pipe being right at the intake side of the fans and splits into two 6" it has reduced the stress of the flex pipe collapsing. If it were not for the Y pipe, I would not have used the flex pipe at the intake side. I would have used all rigid piping. Also, I was sure to use the more heavy duty flex pipe.

[pushit]

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.