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Ventilation Help

ElDust

Member
OK, heres the deal, I recently gutted my closet for the soul purpose of growing in it. The dimensions are 6.5x2x8 (feet). I am in the process of planning everything out and purchasing all the materials that are necessary for a successful first grow. My first problem is probably the biggest, ventilation. I have a window and a vent in the room. I am wondering if it were possible to blow the carbon scrubbed air into the vent without anything exploding or anything going wrong. But I do have my doubts since the fact that the air blows out of it to heat/cool the room. Anyways, I am totally stumped with this and I know it's a pretty common thing for closet grows. I uploaded a few pictures, if anyone has any ideas/suggestions, all are welcome and appreciated, thanks.

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1st pic:
-General view of closet/side view of vent location, the doors will probably be removed later on.

2nd pic:
Side view inside closet.

3rd pic:
Opposite side of the second picture, I point out where vent is located (on the outside of closet).

4th pic:
The vent.

5th pic:
The window, I included this just in case someone had an idea of their out. Note that the window opens sideways.


I am using a 250 watt hps/mh (digital). Again, any ventilation ideas are welcome/appreciated, thanks for looking!
 
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Patsheba

Member
I agree the pics are hard to see. Is that vent in the closet?

We put a vent into our closet, just enough to fit one of those air filter machines and left it in and running 24/7, drawing fresh air from back (or from the flexible, retractable hose to dryer used for 20 minutes every other day during flower).

We also kept a rotating fan in the closet with grow.

On nice days, I used a big fan to blow outside air directly into air filter machine. Our closet grow came out OK. We would have liked an exhaust vent to attic, but we don't have an attic. Had exhaust thru small (computer type) fan put in door.
 

Maj.PotHead

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Veteran
for starters that door is going to be mega hard to lightproof i suggest hanging black/white poly on the inside of doorway or maybe bamboo type draw curtin.
as for the filtered exhaust run it streight up into attic you dont want heat created by lighting being sucked back into the grow hard to control temps this way during summer.

honestly if your just lookn to grow tasty for yourself try this group of ppl :) wickedly nice setups in there http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=21967 i run a large cab in my closet because of sliding doors on the closet the rest of my closet houses bonsai mums clone erea and veg erea
 

ElDust

Member
Yea, I just started the grow room construction, I am planning on using the black/white poly for the doors. I've also considered venting it into the attic but the thing is above the closet is the living room, the attic is above my laundry room which is pretty far away from the closet.

BTW, thanks for resizing the pictures, much appreciated :).
 
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