So, complete my post here. First time grower. Built a 2'x4' grow closet in the corner one of our wood frame sheds in the back. Closet stands 6' tall, probably 64" usable interior height. Studded it out with 2x4 and insulated the walls with R23 roll and then insulated mylar on top of that with plywood exterior. Taped literally all interior seams with 3" wide mylar tape and foamed all wall seams and openings around air vents and electricity. So disregarding the two roughly 30x30 openings in front, it's airtight.
For ventilation I'm using a 4" stealth blower pulling out the ceiling of the closet. Blower and carbon filter mounted to the roof of the closet itself. I have 5' of 4" ducting routed along the floor of the closet exiting out the side and drawing in outside air through an opening in the exterior wall. Opening is screened to block out anything larger than dust particle, which I imagine should be alright as you can't grow outdoors here so just don't see much pollen in the air that will impact the goods. The reason I have the ducting routed along the floor of the interior is to hopefully warm (or maybe even cool a day or two a year :) the air as it's brought in. I'll have to get an infrared therm to measure the intake and outtake air temps at some point.
For heating I have a small ceramic heater that uses a 2speed fan and adj. dial therm control. Stands approx. 8" tall and takes up about a cubic foot. I've gotten it dialed in a bit where I can raise/lower temps between 68-80 with it, so think now I need to learn the fan controller to use that for temp control so that the adj. aren't so dramatic as they are with the heater. If anyone has anything of interest to add to this subject, please do :)
Lighting, or the "wtf, man" from all the champions of the high-yield out there :) Using a pair of GalaxyHydro 300w chained together hooked to the power through a digital timer. We'll see, but if I get results that provide me with bud that is as good or better than the stuff I get through the "retail" market, then so much the better.
Using Roots organic soil, no nutes other than what's in the soil and water filtered through a Brita. Our well is a nice 6.3-6.4 ph, so I really hope to not have any ph or nute uptake issues. Once a week, I'll also be using the local tea brewed down at the south grow shop for the mycho thingies and good probiotics.
This grow is starting out as 5 Mandala Satori seeds and 2 Dinafem Cheese seeds. I am planning on doing a SOG with the large number of plants and if room allows do LST on the cheese strains. Please, any thoughts are welcome :)
Well, hopefully that does for now and when I have some seedlings I'll post some pics. thanks for any feedback and for reading :)