CFL 36" by 24" box grow

[MrBagSeed]

Hello all,

This is my fourth grow, second one indoors. Last year I grew plants inside of a minifridge (the smallest kind) and ended up transplanting them outdoors due to heat issues. This year I've built a much larger cabinet with 9 CFLs and an Inline fan.

 

[putangluv]

that's a nice setup. just a bit small

 

[Spanky's Monkey]

I like it. For the size it's a great personal grow. BagSeeg what inline fan are you using?

 

[cedarghost]

What are you planning on doing when the plants start growing up? It's a nice clean setup, but that's a lot of plant for that size. I'm just a beginner myself, about 55 days into my first grow and the worst thing I underestimated was how much these plants would fill up a space in a short amount of time.

 

[MrBagSeed]

Yea it is small haha but for me it's big. Plus I'm only expecting two of these plants to be female (the strain is undetermined, I got some bagseed 4 years ago and have been growing it since, some dank shit too surprisingly). I'll most likely end up doing my first SCROG, I have much to learn there.

I'm using a 6" inline fan / tubing i got off Amazon which was somehow delivered in under 24 hours for free. It's noisy so I stuffed the Cab into my closet which ironically reduced the noise but increased the temp, the thing the fan was meant to keep down in the first place.

 

[Maxed Out]

Nice setup. Concur with the heat problem. Seems like the smaller you go the more the heat becomes a problem. You could go smaller on the CFL's and add more bulbs until you get the heat issue handled. I was looking last night at a box of CFL bulbs that the power company sent me and it had some 18 watt 2700 K bulbs that I might use on the next grow. Good luck on your grow!
Looks like you have both 2700K and 5000K in there right now. Are you going with auto seeds

 

[MrBagSeed]

Well the heat maxes out at 84 for a few hours during the afternoon then stays around 79. However anything below 86 hasn't seemed to impact this strain in my experience.
Good eye on the lights, I have:
Two 42 watt 2700Ks (2800 Lumens per)
Two 23 watt 2700Ks (1600 lumens per)
Two 26 watt 2700Ks (1570 lumens per)
And Three 18 watt 6500K bulbs (? Lumens)

for a total of = 236 watts and ~16,200 lumens.

All cramped inside ~6 cu ft cab (2 cu ft are used up by the fan space too so that makes it more like 4 cu ft) , so i think the heat isn't too bad considering

 

[Maxed Out]

Well the heat maxes out at 84 for a few hours during the afternoon then stays around 79. However anything below 86 hasn't seemed to impact this strain in my experience.
Good eye on the lights, I have:
Two 42 watt 2700Ks (2800 Lumens per)
Two 23 watt 2700Ks (1600 lumens per)
Two 26 watt 2700Ks (1570 lumens per)
And Three 18 watt 6500K bulbs (? Lumens)

for a total of = 236 watts and ~16,200 lumens.

All cramped inside ~6 cu ft cab (2 cu ft are used up by the fan space too so that makes it more like 4 cu ft) , so i think the heat isn't too bad considering

I may get 2 more surge strips and use all those nice free CFL's the power company sent me. That should make my future so bright, I'll have to wear shades

 

[Spanky's Monkey]

The heat from the CFL ballasts is why I dumped them in favor of HPS. The bulb does get hot but it's nothing compared to the CFLs I had in there..

 

[jewbis]

Sweet stealth grow, but you arnt worried for height? they look close to the lights already, or is this a transition box?