ventilation in a closet

ive been thinking about starting to grow indoors, i want to grow in my closet but i was curious how i can do the ventilation? i cant really put holes in the walls, since im renting the place, i cant afford a Co2 tank, so any ideas about how to setup some fans for proper ventilation would be appreciated

Do you have to be stealthy about your grow?

if no, then what you could do is take out the closet door, by un screwing the hinges. Go to homedepot and buy a sheet of styrofoam and turn it into a door.

Buy velcro from a dollar store, and tape it along the wooden door frame and attach the styrofoam to the door frame with the velcro.

Cut holes in the styrofoam and pull air out of your closet and exhaust it out a window with a fan and some ducting. You can also bring fresh air from your room into the closet.

When you need to get access to your plants, you can pull your styrofoam door away from the door frame and work on your plants, when your done just attach the styrofoam door back on. Attach mylar to the inside of the styrofoam door to help reflect light.

Velcro is strong, so when you pull the styrofoam away from the door frame, dont use too much force, your styrofoam door will snap and break. Take a pen and run it along the edge of the door frame to seperate the velcro from one another and then gently remove the door.

hey im growing in a small closet and my plants all look great...go to the begining of my grow and check out how i have the ducting running from the light to the fart fan in the adjacent bathroom

basically you have to get a fan, and some duct, and figure out the easiest, quietest, safest way to vent hot air. Try not to blow it right out side as it leaves a heat signature.
Search a round a bit there are tons of awesome set ups out there, but no matter what, you set up will be different. For the simple fact that your room is different, every set up is different.

If you cant put holes through walls, then your only spot left that you can put a hole through is the door. If you put a hole through the wooden door you might have to buy a new door when you move out, so try using a big peice of styrofoam from homedepot.

Or you can just leave the closet wide open and have a fan blowing into the closet, but your entire apparment will stink of bud.

far better than styrofoam is black/white poly film. easier, cheaper, better. reflective. customizable.

phreakygoat said:

far better than styrofoam is black/white poly film. easier, cheaper, better. reflective. customizable.

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A 96"x24" with 1/2" thickness pink styrofoam at homedepot is like $4 bux. The 1" thickness is like $9 bux.

bam bam said:

A 96"x24" with 1/2" thickness pink styrofoam at homedepot is like $4 bux. The 1" thickness is like $9 bux.

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word, okay its somewhat cheaper to use sfoam compared to buying a whole role of panda film (although my hydro store sells it at a dollar per ten feet so thats what I'm saying), but doesn't sfoam break up messily? It seems harder to use a solid wall than a flexible plastic sheet.

i know your worries brotha...dont wanna cut holes cause your renting. You already know the cleanest and best working solution though..dont find an alternative, less efficient, and ugly remedy. If you could figure out how to grow weed, you should be capable of being able to patch up that hole. id recommend using a tool like a rotozip with a circle cutter attachment. cut out a clean hole and save the cutout circle for when you move out. A little bit of drywall mud and paint and they/ll never know. besides, im sure youd do your best not to let anyone discover that growspace anyways right?

run ducking threw the door knob hole and cover it up when light off

Does it have to be the closet? I figured my spare bathroom's got a 3" ventilation fan already. So i reversed that and turned it into an intake line hooked to a 4" intake fan. Then also used the hole to vent out into the wallspace. Been having ~80degrees temp when lights are on. Just food for thought. Keep racking your brain the solution will slam into you eventually.

Going through the wall is the most direct and efficient way to vent a closet. Try something incognito like adding actual intake vents over intake holes at the bottom of your closet to make it look natural.

When repairing drywall, try techniques such as adding a piece of wood across the hole in the back of the wall as support for the patch.

http://factsfacts.com/MyHomeRepair/Hole.htm

It should help...and add a lock to the closet door!