Hello friends and forum members.

I'm narrowing in on my setup for my first real grow (at least in a while) and I was hopin i could post the basics of it here to see what folks thought of it. (Hope this isn't too general...)

- I'm working in a closet in a bedroom, walls ceiling and door painted flat white.

- ordered 400 watt hps/mh conversion bulbs and ballast, mh for veg, hps for bloom.

- can't cut vent holes through walls since i don't own this house, so I have to use the door for venting, here's where I'm not too confident.

- plan to cut two 4 inch holes toward the bottom of the closet door, and put in flexible ducting, enough so I can have a bend and keep light from leaking too much.

- gonna cut another 4 inch hole near the top of the door and feed a duct over to the top of the reflector, where I'll have a carbon filter hanging, and then install a 4-inch inline duct fan into the flexible ducting.

- so passive intake, active exhaust, and i'm gonna have a wall mount oscillating fan inside.

- i'm not being that technical about the venting at all, i'm just trying to keep this simple and functional to grow two dank plants at a time.

- keep in mind, if anyone has suggestions for temps/ventilation (i'd love to hear em), i live in a cold climate, external temps over the next few months will drop from 40's now down to as low as 15 degrees BELOW zero fahrenheit, and if temps start to rise in the closet, just cracking the bedroom window and the closet door would take care of that right away, i'd think.

- think that's all the specifics i need to give to hopefully get some great feedback, any suggestions or thoughts, send em my way! Thanks a lot and happy gardening!

J