Bigol'Bong
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Ok this year I in the spur of a good idea decided to build myself a closet grow cab to grow myself a few plants. The dimensions of the space are 23"x22"x just under 5' tall.
This is the Area before Construction started
This is what the area looks like with the closet in place....its completely undetectable unless u go inside the closet and move the clothes
I made myself a basic frame using 2x4's. The frame is used to hold the doors in place and secure the bottom and top to the cab. The Cab is just about completely Light Proof, i still have to fix the door up a little bit as it does leak a little bit of light at the very top. To light proof the cab i cut up an old bathroom rug that was very shaggy and staples it to the 2x4's and the door so that when they close on each other they will make a lightproof barrier.
For lights at first, i just wired some old cords i had to some light receptacles but i found that they were too cluttered in the box, looked very unpleasant. So i went down to a thrift store near my house and picked up a bathroom vanity for like 2 dollars, The vanity was the perfect size for the cab i made. On top of the Vanity i made a hood out of tin oven trays i had lying around.
Right now ive only got 2x 29 watt 2200 lumen cfl's in the vanity because my plants have yet to sprout so i dont need to put all my lights in there yet. AS of right now the lights i have are :
2x 43 watt 2700 luman cool white cfl's
4x 29 watt 2200 luman cool white cfl's
4x 13 watt 1700 luman cool white cfl's
The Closet is wired right into the house power through my attic so there are no suspiscious cords lying around anywhere. The Closet is also vented via my attic. Right now there is a 10' ducting pipe going into my attic that is sucking air into my closet, My attic does have vents so the air inside isnt old stale air thats been there for 40 years.
The Exhaust fan is a 25 watt...not sure how much cfm it is... its just a small 4" fan that blows a decent amount. Right now its just beeing vented into the wall that goes out into the attic but i think i might try and get some more ducting and vent it right out one of the vent in the attic to get all the moisture out and not in the wall as some people say that it will in time lead to a much bigger problem.
For my Closet lining ive got this stuff that im hoping is mylar or will do as good a job. I was told that mylar can be found on the inside of those big metallic silver happy birthday ballons or on the other side of some gift wrapping papper, Unfortunatly the one i picked up has this very trippy pattern on it. It does still reflect but im not sure if it will negativly effect the plants... If any1 has any comments on it please do share.
And now for the stars of the show, the ladies. Right now i have 2 plants inside, They were germinated on the 5th of march and yesterday 2 of 3 were cracked and planted. They were almost unreal as far as size, i would say that they must have either doubled or tripled in size from the oringinal seed to the germinated seed. One is still germinating and getting bigger in size. As of today there are still no sprouts but im hoping maybe tomarrow or late today. I also have a pack of 48 seeds coming from cannabisseeds.com. The pack of seeds includes 24 white widow, 12 silver haze, and 12 hymalyian gold....best part is they are all FEMINIZED
Please subscribe and post comments or advice or tips on indoor or outdoor growing. Thanks Last year my friend bought seeds from them and they were very decent for the price, came within a week and for a begginer u couldnt ask for a better deal. My plan as of right now, with a pretty good chance of changing, is to plant the majority of the seeds i get outdoors for my summer grow. Last year was my first time and i think there is alot of room for improvement. From about 5 females out of the 20 plants in total we had we only got about 2 o's dry which is pretty much garbage esspecially considering these were outdoor plants. Im not going to concern myself with it too much at the moment but closer to the time i plan on planing outdoor i would like to possibly germinate and veg the seedlings in this grow box, Maybe have the bottom section for the new plants, then have another platform about 1' from the bottom or so and keep that as a vegg area so while i have my plants vegging in the top i can still grow some clones and vegged plants without having to start from seeds. If i do manage to do it this way my plan would be to have a harvest cycle of 1 plant every 2 or so week. So in the vegg chamber there would be say a 8 week flowing old plant a 6 week, 4 week and a 2 week, etc. Then every time i harvest a flowered plant i could pull out a vegged plant from the bottom and a clone or 2 and stick them in the vegg area so there is a constant cycle, this is still in the planning stage since i havent had a successfull indoor grow yet and it will take me about 4 -5 months before i would have enough to get the cycle going.
Ok this year I in the spur of a good idea decided to build myself a closet grow cab to grow myself a few plants. The dimensions of the space are 23"x22"x just under 5' tall.
This is the Area before Construction started
This is what the area looks like with the closet in place....its completely undetectable unless u go inside the closet and move the clothes
I made myself a basic frame using 2x4's. The frame is used to hold the doors in place and secure the bottom and top to the cab. The Cab is just about completely Light Proof, i still have to fix the door up a little bit as it does leak a little bit of light at the very top. To light proof the cab i cut up an old bathroom rug that was very shaggy and staples it to the 2x4's and the door so that when they close on each other they will make a lightproof barrier.
For lights at first, i just wired some old cords i had to some light receptacles but i found that they were too cluttered in the box, looked very unpleasant. So i went down to a thrift store near my house and picked up a bathroom vanity for like 2 dollars, The vanity was the perfect size for the cab i made. On top of the Vanity i made a hood out of tin oven trays i had lying around.
Right now ive only got 2x 29 watt 2200 lumen cfl's in the vanity because my plants have yet to sprout so i dont need to put all my lights in there yet. AS of right now the lights i have are :
2x 43 watt 2700 luman cool white cfl's
4x 29 watt 2200 luman cool white cfl's
4x 13 watt 1700 luman cool white cfl's
The Closet is wired right into the house power through my attic so there are no suspiscious cords lying around anywhere. The Closet is also vented via my attic. Right now there is a 10' ducting pipe going into my attic that is sucking air into my closet, My attic does have vents so the air inside isnt old stale air thats been there for 40 years.
The Exhaust fan is a 25 watt...not sure how much cfm it is... its just a small 4" fan that blows a decent amount. Right now its just beeing vented into the wall that goes out into the attic but i think i might try and get some more ducting and vent it right out one of the vent in the attic to get all the moisture out and not in the wall as some people say that it will in time lead to a much bigger problem.
For my Closet lining ive got this stuff that im hoping is mylar or will do as good a job. I was told that mylar can be found on the inside of those big metallic silver happy birthday ballons or on the other side of some gift wrapping papper, Unfortunatly the one i picked up has this very trippy pattern on it. It does still reflect but im not sure if it will negativly effect the plants... If any1 has any comments on it please do share.
And now for the stars of the show, the ladies. Right now i have 2 plants inside, They were germinated on the 5th of march and yesterday 2 of 3 were cracked and planted. They were almost unreal as far as size, i would say that they must have either doubled or tripled in size from the oringinal seed to the germinated seed. One is still germinating and getting bigger in size. As of today there are still no sprouts but im hoping maybe tomarrow or late today. I also have a pack of 48 seeds coming from cannabisseeds.com. The pack of seeds includes 24 white widow, 12 silver haze, and 12 hymalyian gold....best part is they are all FEMINIZED
Please subscribe and post comments or advice or tips on indoor or outdoor growing. Thanks
Last year my friend bought seeds from them and they were very decent for the price, came within a week and for a begginer u couldnt ask for a better deal. My plan as of right now, with a pretty good chance of changing, is to plant the majority of the seeds i get outdoors for my summer grow. Last year was my first time and i think there is alot of room for improvement. From about 5 females out of the 20 plants in total we had we only got about 2 o's dry which is pretty much garbage esspecially considering these were outdoor plants. Im not going to concern myself with it too much at the moment but closer to the time i plan on planing outdoor i would like to possibly germinate and veg the seedlings in this grow box, Maybe have the bottom section for the new plants, then have another platform about 1' from the bottom or so and keep that as a vegg area so while i have my plants vegging in the top i can still grow some clones and vegged plants without having to start from seeds. If i do manage to do it this way my plan would be to have a harvest cycle of 1 plant every 2 or so week. So in the vegg chamber there would be say a 8 week flowing old plant a 6 week, 4 week and a 2 week, etc. Then every time i harvest a flowered plant i could pull out a vegged plant from the bottom and a clone or 2 and stick them in the vegg area so there is a constant cycle, this is still in the planning stage since i havent had a successfull indoor grow yet and it will take me about 4 -5 months before i would have enough to get the cycle going. 
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