Hey, King, I'm still new to this---on my second grow---but I'll put in two cents...

Firstly, your space is fine. People have had stealth grows in file cabinets. There seems to be as many types of grow rooms as there are growers. The secret seems to be to maximize what you have to work with.

Can you paint the room white? Or can you coat every surface in mylar? Look at some of the grow rooms and you'll see that the good one's are all as bright as possible. No mirrors and no shiny side of the foil.

What to do for light? CFL's (compact fluorescent lights) are cheap and run cool. Buy a few and then grab some of the mini, clip on ballasts. Every hardware store has them.

It is possible to grow pot from it's vegatative state (it's first 30 to 60 days of 18 or 24 hrs. light each day), as well as it's flowering stage (12/12 for about 60 days) with CFL's only. You'll have NO worries of fire or heat build up. You can run one fan to control temps.

The trade-off with CFL's during the flowering stage---as opposed to HPS or others---is the yield. A 400w high pressure sodium light gives off a ton of heat and you'll need a spot for it's remote ballast that is outside your grow room. But there's no comparison as to how much more bud you'll get from the HPS over the CFL's.

"An ounce or two a month"? Again, depending on strains and growing method, you'll need anywhere from 90 to more than 120 days for each crop. Using CFL's only in a 4ftx5ftx4ft room gave me 2 ounces, or so, despite dozens of screw ups.

The same room will give me a pound (fingers crossed), with more attention and a 400w HPS light coupled with nine CFL's.

Sry, this went on...I'm sure the talented growers on this site will have much better advice, but that's just my 2cents thrown in.

Good luck and JUST DO IT!
9ski9 Reviewed by 9ski9 on . Just need some starting off advice... Longtime enjoyer of this little hobby, but never grown. Little bit shy and protective of the fact that I do this, so I've never made real great connections to get high grade shit. Always your mid-grades with some kind once in a while when I could find it... Anyway, I've sort of come to the conclusion that it would be a lot easier on myself if I just took control of the situation and created my own stuff. So now what I need to ask is, what do I do? Here's my situation, I live in a mobile Rating: 5