New Closet Grow Room, Help with Heat

room looks nice.. CFL's work..i've used them..but takes way longer.

best of wishes bro!

ok so I went ahead and dropped the loot to get a 250 hps cool tube for my flowering. I'll keep the CFL's for the veg since I still have a bunch of CFL's. I'll just improve my venting in the veg area. I hope the Flowering area will be good now with the cool tube and hps. As for my veg, if the cfl's don't work out I'll just put in some floros. Thanks for the help all.

yeh dude that works even better but when ur broke and growing weed use ur imagination i had to build one my self it work perfect just tryin to help out good luck

Ok so I got the new 250 watt HPS and cool tube. I also changed up my light schedule to have the lights on at night (to give me a couple of extra degrees).

I also changed the CFL's in the veging area (bottom) to 26 watts instead of 42 watts. Temps the veg area are at the 80-82 degrees area. Good enough for me!

However, the temps in the top (flowering) are the still a bit high. Before they were at like 96-100. Now they are at 88-90. So big improvement but I'd like to get it down more.

I have a 465 watt squirrel cage blower sucking the air out over my 250 HPS. It is also acting as my primary exhaust. I have 2 fans blowing the remaining heat toward the exhaust.

Any ideas?

Ugghhh, last night the temp got to 94 degrees. I'm guessing I'm either going to have to do a veg only and then flower only or I'm going to have to buy a mini portable AC. Just hate to dump the money into one. Any one have any advice???

I've already got it exhausting out the top. I cut a whole in the top of the closet. I just need to get some cold air into there. I'm found a cheap portable AC unit i'm gonna stick in there. I'll vent the heat from it out the top and drain the water out the side into another room. Hopefully that should fix this issue once and for all.

Did you try blowing the hot air out with the squirrel,instead of sucking it out?

you mean putting the blower in the closet with "out" pushing air through the cool tube? no, but I wouldn't mind trying. Any added benefit you can think of over pulling?

Is the cool tube attached to the 465 cfm blower? That is what it should be attached to

yes the 465 cfm blower is pulling the air out of the closet through the cool tube

And you are still having temp problems? I use an air cooled euro reflector with a 250 watt HPS and a 306 CFM fan pulling the heat out through the reflector. I have a carbon filter attached on the other end and I have no temp problems

Got my temp problems fixed i think. Overall here are all the things I had to do to fix the problems.

1. use cool tube 250 hps in top section (for flowering) instead of the 6 42 watt CFL's. Regardless of what People say in a lot of forums larger CFLS produce some heat quickly. You can't just put a bunch of them in a closet and hope that they'll be good. Its been an expensive and time consuming lesson.

2. I had to change my intake a bit for the flowering section. I used to have an intake in the bottom (veg) which fed up into the top (flowering) and then and exhaust at the top pulling it all out. The problem is I was putting air that had been warmed up a bit in the veg into the flowering so it was starting off already warmer than the outside air. Now I have an intake for both sections and an exhaust for both out of the closet.

3. Finally i bought an AC to cool the room outside the closet down. That room is about 3-4 degrees hotter than the rest of the house so I had to cool it down.

So before all this my temps in flowering were 96-104 and for veg 85-89.

Now my flowering area gets temps between 83-86 and my veg gets 73-78.

NICE!!!