1st from Seed Grow (Cowboy Style)

[Don Gin and Ton]

plants in their new home

 

[cheetah2007]

they look happy

 

[Londoner]

1.2m x 1.2m x 2m sounds quite small when you look at it in actual fact its frickin big, and a bastard to put together after a smoke.... a two person job ( my lass had to help her not being stoned was deffo the key )

i got a secret jardin(£114.82) over the bud box(144.99) and to be honest i think i should have paid the extra looking at it, the airflaps have nothing to hold them up and are far from lightproof...also the cross bars for tensioning the roof dont quite fit properly though there was an extra one?!?! see pics

the reflective inside is nowhere near as reflective as the mylar in my cupboard either but i guess thatll change when the 600hps is fitted.

overall am happy with it as the plants are now stinking up a spare room instead of the cupboard under the nieghbours stairs.....

Easy geez.

The top bars are supposed to cross eachother mate, thats why one sits lower than the other, the intake flaps are just additional intakes and should be left closed, your extractor will still pull air through them, theyre far from air tight when closed, and most of the air is drawn in through the round intake in the bottom anyway, provided you have an adaquate extractor??

And you thought that was hard to put up? You wanna try doing a budbox mate, took me good part of a day to do mine, after all the connectors broke because the skins are too small and wont fit over the frame, and had to make my own connectors!

Putting up my new DR street took all of 15mins, no problems.

My budbox shone light out from everywhere when i first fired up the 600 in it, its only because the budbox is in a dark cupboard with the door ajar that keeps light from entering/escaping!

Isnt that the DR street range tent you got? Looks the same as my DR street, theyre advertised as not being quite as light tight and less reflective than the standard DR's but loads cheaper, and you can always line it out with mylar later on, which would make it more reflective and light tight, i lined my budbox xl with diamond mylar a little while ago.

Check out what ive just done with mine, new journal link in sig.

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

alright man?! yeah id twigged the crossbars were different n one sits on the other, i still dont know what the third ones for? the floor/spare?? anyways it just doesnt seem to fit i mean i put it on and start moving in the tent and theres a metal ping sound and its popped off?! it actually hit me on the head when the tent skin wasnt on it... anyway i duct taped the thing down n alls well

as for an adequate fan i decided perhaps against my better judgement to not get a fan/duct/filter deal and get the bits in part cheaper... i got this(see pic) at Fantronix Home Page

• Up to 250 m3/h airflow rate and will handle up to 370 Pa resistance.
• Low consumption 59 watt long life ball bearing motor with thermal overload protection, 240 Vac
• 47 dB(A) @ 3m distance sound level.

£32.41 Including VAT

sadly no thermostat or wires either

as for the tent it does look like a mirror copy if the DR??? i imagine they all come from the same factory and just have a different logo stamped onto the corner?! n yeah ill be putting the mylar in later possibly depending on how reflective it is with a 600w in? guess i wont know till then but ill still have the mylar, i was going to use it in the mother cupboard but its cheap enough...

good work in the new journal mate cant wait to see them puts full of sweet MJ

 

[crazy-mental]

cowboy style?.

 

[cheetah2007]

lmao i was wondering da same

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

in the uk we call shoddy stradesmen cowboys, no offence to any real cattle ranchers etc

 

[cheetah2007]

bloody uks....

 

[crazy-mental]

i am from uk.
i thought was a rancher version of getto.lol

i understand now when you say cowboy.

 

[Londoner]

lol never heard of cowboy builders etc??

 

[crazy-mental]

lmao i was wondering da same

hey cheeta.
i like your sign pic.

 

[cheetah2007]

lol me 2 man !

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

so i got time this weekend to wire up my my new fan which is a beast! seriously i plugged it in for a test run n it sounded like a chopper had flown into the room, am pleased i got insulated ducting and i still might have to wrap some foam round the thing...

i was wondering whats the consensus on running the fan 24-7 for odour control reasons? good idea bad idea should i just get a pot of ONA n only use the fan when the light is on? am also thinking the cost implications?!?!?

i also knocked up my own version of one of those green eye see in your grow room when its dark torch devices

i took a quick pic from the corner of the tent! the ladies are coming along nicely...

its roll on payday time n i get a new 600W HPS and a carbon filter to go on the end of the beast then 12/12 begins

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

i reckon im going to leave them for another week n a half then 12/12 those babies!

 

[Londoner]

Great link to them fans mate, theyre dirt cheap!! Nice1

Been wanting an intake fan for my flower room just for the summer grows, one 'o them'l do nicely!

Yea you wanna keep that fan running 24/7 mate.

Plants looking great! Bet ya cant wait to 12/12 them fuckers eh?

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

yeah i couldnt believe it when i did some price comparisons i was looking at £55ish i thought naaa as usual it'll be hiked up if it has owt to do with hydroponics and therell likely be an ordinary alternative much cheaper!

only thing to bare in mind is that theres no cable/plug with it but i picked up 3m of cable from maplins for £4.50 n used an old plug n fuse

i was thinking 24/7 otherwise the smell would just escape anyway haha

roll on payday when i get a carbon filter and a new 600w setup and BOOOOM 12/12 i was hoping to do it sooner but the plants are still a bit small some of them. Some are about a foot n a half others only a foot so a further 9 weeks on is going to be past xmas

 

[Londoner]

roll on payday when i get a carbon filter and a new 600w setup and BOOOOM 12/12 (

Thats the shit mate, theyll love ya for that!

12-18" tall is well big enough to flower if you wanted to 12 em sooner?

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

i do want to but it means using the old light setup which doesn't even have a reflector im tempted to do it anyway as itsonly short term.....

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

so the ladies are developing weird traits i think this is mostly down to them being random bagseed.... some leaves are hanging like palm leaves some are curling at the edges others are just plodding along at about a foot tall and two of them are nearly double the size of the rest?!?!

im thinking of taking the two biggest and 12/12ing them in the momma cupboard and letting the rest mature in height a bit more before i 12/12 them

couple of rusty looking spots but am not too worried about them...