Growbox, anything missing?

Hello again! First time as a cultivation hobbyist, I was growing outdoors but decided to try with a grow box for better pest control. I might take it back outside and use the box just for babies, if the box proves useful. I got all of the supplies from wal-mart. Consists of:

2 x Stacked Rubbermaid tubs
2 x cans Flat white paint (made for plastic)
2 x 100W fluorescent growlights
Drilled intake ventilation holes
1 x 4-inch high intensity fan

Pretty basic, I know. Did I mention it's my first attempt at a growbox? I've attached some pics, not very good quality, the camera sucks. At times i'm not sure if it's getting enough light, and other times the tips of the leaves brown a bit and i'm afraid it's getting too much. The leaves stay about 5 inches from each light. I plan to add CFL's through the top of the box later, think this will help enough to matter? Suggestions are very appreciated!

-Caleb

looks ok to me mate but you might wana put you're light at an angle like this

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over you're plant lol sorry best i could manage......

UKcyrus said:

looks ok to me mate but you might wana put you're light at an angle like this

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over you're plant lol sorry best i could manage......

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Good idea! Except the lights are bolted on from the top half, the lights extend all the way to the top of the box so i'm pretty sure light reaches the whole plant evenly

fair enough buddie but i would get some reflective sheeting n watch that fan mate could give ya plants wind burn...
but i'd wait untill i see it before i'd move it

but yea mate looks good

wow, i was about to go to a shit ton of trouble to build a big wooden box, this looks so much easier and low budget, which is exactly what i'm lookking for, can you take a pic of outside the box, showing the whole setup?

i have 5 plants i just started trying to grow and they're in a temporary cubby hole thats a little more than 2'x2' with 2 24" flouros over them...think i could use what i got and put it into a box like yours? with ventilation and fans of course.

are you going to use an HPS for flowering?

reinstorm said:

wow, i was about to go to a shit ton of trouble to build a big wooden box, this looks so much easier and low budget, which is exactly what i'm lookking for, can you take a pic of outside the box, showing the whole setup?

i have 5 plants i just started trying to grow and they're in a temporary cubby hole thats a little more than 2'x2' with 2 24" flouros over them...think i could use what i got and put it into a box like yours? with ventilation and fans of course.

are you going to use an HPS for flowering?

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Yes, the lights I have upright on either side of the plant are 24" fluoros, the whole set up stands about 3 feet tall, I decided to use the lights on the sides to promote bushing as opposed to plant height. There's a very light breeze inside the box because I only use one fan for ventilation and holes for intake. I screwed the lights on the top half so that the box is easy to break apart for access to the inside. The holes make for a good way to observe the plant's condition without actually opening the box. Im having a high humidty though, so If anyone has any good tips for that (besides the open water containers that I have). I dont plant to use an HPS, though I would really like to, because of the price. As I said, I'm just dabbling in cultivation right now and see no sense in spending money on something i'm not really good at yet. I'll add another 100w in CFL's to hang inside the top of the box soon.

But to answer your question again, I think you could easily fit 5 plants into a rubbermaid box.

More pictures! Got that outside view for reinstorm, to prove it's practicality. Im germinating somemore bagseed, I'll probably take big ben (whos hopefully a girl!) back outside mid august and use the box for the seedlings.

BTW, anyone feeling charitable feel free to buy an HPS for me ^____^

-Caleb

On a side note...

does anyone know how to distinguish wind burn from excessive light?

what spectrum do your lights hold?

nemad said:

what spectrum do your lights hold?

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I'm....not sure. Fluorescent? I'm not sure what you mean. I think I still have the box they came in. How can I find out?

Ok uhm...I know the pictures make the lights look like blacklights, but they are just white light. Not soft, just white ass fluorescents.

sup smoke bro howz it goin mate......
kk so don't worry bout wind burn for a while mate!!
you might not get it cause you got small ass fans but i dunno so just watch for it k man.. the 100w over the top sounds like a good idea make them bushy bastards

Nice little box, but I would advise painting the inside with flat white paint. Better light reflection that way.

C Smoke said:

More pictures! Got that outside view for reinstorm, to prove it's practicality. Im germinating somemore bagseed, I'll probably take big ben (whos hopefully a girl!) back outside mid august and use the box for the seedlings.

BTW, anyone feeling charitable feel free to buy an HPS for me ^____^

-Caleb

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thats bad ass, thats almost exactly how mine is, except blue, and i painted the inside white...tell me what you think about mine so far, i posted a thread/journal thing
https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/94986-first-grow-45g-rubbermaids-need.html

Cr8z13 said:

Nice little box, but I would advise painting the inside with flat white paint. Better light reflection that way.

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Thanks!

The box IS flat white on the inside. The very bottom of the box isnt painted because I ran out, heh. But the rest is covered very well and the box kinda glows from the inside from reflection. I couldn't find any place around here that carried mylar, which is what I would prefer.

I'd like to re-pot the plant into organic soil, as it is in Miracle Grow soil and i'm kind of afraid to add plant food or fertilizer to the mix.

I'll take more pictures later as the plant progresses or setup alters.

-Caleb

P.S - I've heard lots of things about bat guano as a fertilizer and was considering ordering, would it be worth it?

whats up smoke mate you know the siver reflectors people put up in there car windows you could use one of the mate lots of people do..

lmao sorry use one of them i meant....

"P.S - I've heard lots of things about bat guano as a fertilizer and was considering ordering, would it be worth it"

i dunno mate maybe someone else could fill u in on it

damn ok thats fuckn hott im shocked u can make any thing work if u put sum thought into it u did a fuck'n great job that shit is tight so keeep that plan t going and if u want the humitidy dow nthen take the bottles out and if you want it up then put a container with a larger opening but gety u sum more light and keep that alive good gro'!!!

looks excellent
maybe put some fans for intake and exhaust
but other then that
damn great job