Building single-plant growbox, I want your opinions!

Fractus

Fractus

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oh and my fan says it's 3vdc, i had it running on batt's but will my chager, 12vdc 500 amps do the trick??? just wonderin...
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You're going to want a more powerful fan, not battery operated. Something running on at least 12volts, and if you try to run 12volts to your 3v fan at 500mA you'll probably see smoke lol. It's not built to handle that kind of power, it's just a little tiny ass motor in those fans. You should invest in a real fan that plugs in. You can definitely pick up a 40+ cfm wall plugin fan for 15 bucks or less somewhere. Much more reliable :)

Mine works like this:


That's the top compartment of my box now. Exhaust directly over my plant, passive intakes are low in the sides right beside my plant so the negative pressure just blows on her. My 2 exhaust fans are mounted in side of the upper compartment, along with the wiring for my lights. It's completely airtight so all the suction comes directly through those slats you see.
 
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redivider

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it does have a "plug-in"... but doesn't bring a cable.... so I ran it with two D batts it required.. didn't want to plug it in, and risk burnin it, and ended up burnin it anyways....lol......when I turned it on with the batt's it blows a lot harder than any CPU fan i've ever seen.... and i've gutted XPS's and Alienwares before....
 
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redivider

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i'm gonna return it to walmart today, and gonna run it with a single carbon filter, see what happens..... if it still burns out then i'll get a CPU fan.... someone on this forum(can't remember the thread) recomended me the fan I got, telling me it worked fine....even pushing the air through the filters.... >:(>:(......
 
Fractus

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Mine's an alienware :) Laptop though, not as big fans in laptops as desktops. The fans I'm using have a pretty good blow and they don't mind a little stress. I just know you can only generate so much power from two 1.5v batteries, and that motor probably just didn't have enough torque to muscle air through your filters, so it just burnt up trying. It's probably a great fan for just air circulation around the inside of the box, but doesn't have enough balls to be forcing exhaust through filters. That's my guess.. If you think you can make it work then by all means, try, because for 4$ who really cares if it doesn't work? lol
 
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redivider

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yeah and what the hell, i'll see if it works, i think it doesnt have the umff to push the air thru.... i'll try again today, if it gets toooo hot I'll just remove it before it burns out, and keep the fan for my kitchen when i'm cookin or somethin, and get a CPU fan from best buy.... i need the converter though, cuz mine belongs to my g/f's pencil sharpener... and she uses that shit cuz she's all into art.... i'll figure it out later, goin to bed, need the rest, workin the night shift tonight....
 
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redivider

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oh before i pass out, i'm gonna put a lil journal, no, chronicle of me n my first grow, it's gonna be called to hell n back... jeje.... poor things are getting a lil wilted now b.c of the heat stress this morning, hope they don't die on me....
 
KaleoXxX

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ive been out of the loop for a while and im surprised how fast they showed sex, and they werent even 12/12. how many days do you think it took to show preflowers?

have you cloned yet? id do so asap for space reasons cuz your plant has a while to go and needs all the room it can get


if your cloning id leave em in a humidity dome until they root and just grow em in the window or outside for a while, until mama is out of the grow box
 
Fractus

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07-28-2009 01:06 AM


08-12-2009 04:34 PM


Fifteen days from the youngsters, under 18/6, and showing preflowers. It does seem really fast.. And now look at her 08-16-2009 8:35 PM, 4 days later:


 
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Fractus

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Seed. They were seedlings in styrofoam cups under inadequate* light on purpose just to keep them alive but not grow much (or at all) so they were kinda just on pause. So I put them in right after I pulled my old male out of there. Allof these 3 plants were from the same handful of seeds.
 
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Fractus

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They were about 2.5 weeks old, but going like retarded slow because I wasn't giving them much light or water. I had no place to put them if they got big :S So I kept them small. After the transplant they took off..
 
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No they were 2.5 weeks old as the seedlings you see in the first picture. I just didn't give them anything to live on so they stayed the same size forever lol. They were the same height for like 2 weeks. And 19 days ago I put them in the stryfoam box, and this is what I have now.
 
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hmmm germination... it was just before the weekend of july 12/13. So from sprout I guess they are a whole month old.
 
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I never used batteries, that's redivider that was talking about his fan. This one is still all plugged in :)

KaleoXxX - I'm keepin a close eye on her and she's coming along nicely. No 'buds' yet but I'm seeing a concentration of hairs at the sites where they will be :D I'll post pics as soon as there is something significant to look at haha
 
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