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How to Build a Closet Grow Room Today we are going to show you how to prepare and build a small closet grow room. The space we have chosen for our closet grow room is small. The area for the closet grow is about 24 inches by 24 inches by about 36 inches high. We lined the floor of the closet grow with some plastic bags to protect the closet grow floor from excess water or moisture. You can be more elaborate with plastic trays or saucers but this is the simplest protection. The closet grow room has a power cord for the light, in the back for the light, which is plugged into an outlet several feet away. The light’s power cord will ultimately have a timer on it. We will be using a small LED for our closet grow room. The LED weighs about 5 or six pounds, we need something strong enough to support it in the grow room. Home Depot has 3/4 inch thick PVC piping that, with a small hacksaw, is easy to cut to size. The PVC, hacksaw, joints and couplings along with heavy duty picture frame wire, cost me less than US $20. For the closet grow room we cut the PVC into seven pieces, four (the 13 inch ones) for the ‘feet,” two (36 inches) for vertical support, and one (26 inches), for the horizontal support. We connected all the pieces and are going to see if it fits in the closet grow room space. You can see where I used the elbow and t-couplings to connect it all together. I may have to cut a few inches off the vertical supports but we’re going to try it and see if it can fit . If not we will take a few inches off the PVC. Yes it was too big! After taking a few extra inches of piping off, the support structure fits the closet grow room perfectly. Next we install the light. We are using an XtremeLED grow light. I read about these in Ed Rosenthal’s ‘Marijuana Grower’s Handbook’ several years back. I haven’t used them recently and pulled them from storage for this closet grow room. We chose the LED over a T5 or CFL fixture because we had it on hand (and did not have to spend more money) and it produces less heat than fluorescent bulbs or CFLs and has a built in cooling fan. Keeping your heat down is essential in a small closet grow room. You do not want to over heat your plants. If you are keeping the closet row room open when the lights are on, you should be good with either light source, LED or fluorescent As the Rev would say, ‘welcome to Pluto (or Jupitor)’ and its fuchsia light! I hung the light with heavy duty picture frame wire which needs to be adjusted a wee bit in the closet grow room to even out the fixture. We have put in eight clones and 10 seeds in peat pucks. The first set of clones didn’t manage the trip from cloner to closet very well. The new clones were planted in dirt before being moved to the closet location and seem to be in better shape. There is also a period of adjustment for the clones which, with the LED, is a bit harder for them as they were under CFLs and HPS lights in the cloners. We hope you enjoy the show and please subscribe! Check our other videos for strain reviews and gardening tips. Like and comment! Thanks and stay lifted! Please subscribe to our website at www.uptowngrowlab.net Please subscribe to our YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw0L... Buy our book, The Kitchen, on Amazon: http://amzn.to/1IDBcR7