Ikea 5-Drawer Dresser CFL/HPS Stealth 1st Grow

Week1 Clones and building the box.
Week2 Lights and an open back.
Week3 Lights, Timer, Fans, Closed back.
Week4 Veg explosion!
Week5 More Growth and a haircut.
Week6 St. Louis Arch LST, and 18 shoots on 12" of plant.

Five weeks of vegging a White Widow x Sour Diesel and a Trainwreck.

Four 13w 6000k White CFL's on 18/6.

Two PC fans powered by a Linksys Power adapter.

Dollar store Windshield Sun visors lining the Veg Chamber.

The Flowering Chamber will be painted flat white, and under one 60-100 watt HPS

PC Fan intake and 4" duct fan with a carbon scrubber for the exhaust. I live directly under my landlord in the basement.

This is a fun project! I think I am going to mother the Diesel plant (Patriots Tin) and put the Trainwreck into flowring in two weeks.

looking good bro i'll try to keep up with it just finished some of mine and have a green house grow going on check them out.

Thanks for the love!

I like this ... I once made a similar setup for a friend inside his old upright piano. wish I had journaled it.

goodluck

I also like the DVD's under the plant pots ... lol
Tropic Thunder
School of Rock
The Matrix
and Kill Bill ??

You know, the classics!

Thanks again guys.

The girls are doing well after their first haircut. I took a bunch of fan leaves off to get some light love to my new branches!

nice nice nice love seeing stealth jobs!! ive got some og on the go in a similar setup looks nice man i would rip out the shiny tho and spray some flat white paint in there... less light absorption by things besides the plant and you might want to throw a ten inch fan in there but like i said nice setup im in til the end!

Can you post a couple of pics of how you are holding the bulbs and the fans ? also what did you do with the drawers, is the door in the back ? what's the size ?

Looking pretty good mate, nice cab

I just copied a lot of other stealth setups.

There is a power strip mounted to the top of the VEG chamber.

Then I used a few 110v plug-to-light socket adapters at Home Depot.

I split off one outlet to a "Y" adapter to get two lights on one plug. So there is the power to my VEG fans, and 4 13w CFL's on the strip.

I built the VEG chamber with the dresser for $30!

I screwed the fronts of the drawers back on, and the door with all the fans mounted is on the back.

The fans pick up cool air from the lower left side, and exhaust out the upper right side. Heat rises.

Ambient temps are around 70 degrees, and the way I setup the fans, there is a nice cross breeze strengthening the stalks. So no additional fans are needed for the VEG chamber.

For the Flowering chamber I have a 90w LED UFO, and a 4 duct fan I will make the carbon scrubber out of. All enclosed of course, stealth!

The room I have is about 1.5x2' up top and 2.5x3' down low.

I am going for a perpetual grow, so I am mothering the White Widow x Diesel Clone, and flowering the Trainwreck in a few weeks.

LST is going great! I counted 18 shoots out of my 12" WhiteDiesel clone using LST and CFLs!

Paying for Medicine is just plain silly. I am really excited how its coming out!

My girls are doing sooo good!

Here are some Extreme LST shots, and a side view of the box. Week 6.

I had topped the mother and there is some brown on the stem a few days after.

Is that normal? Or will shoots grow off the side of the branch and not out of the cut?

I also ditched the Miracle Grow soil, rinsed the roots and re-potted with Pro-Mix All Purpose Soil.

I have a feeling it's going to be much better!

Some more LST on the Trainwreck. This thing is going to look like a pretzel when I am done!

I had to prune the mother quite a bit after I changed soil. She has 2-3 small fan leaves left that are green. Most of the lower leaves were yellow.

Let me know how I am doing. Anything I should change/ look out for?

What are some simple but effective Nutrients I can use throughout VEG and BUD? There seems to be so many.

It seems I have a PH problem and some Nitrogen deficiency. This seems to be just as common as overwatering.

Thoughts? Comments?

StrawberryKough said:

What are some simple but effective Nutrients I can use throughout VEG and BUD? There seems to be so many.

It seems I have a PH problem and some Nitrogen deficiency. This seems to be just as common as overwatering.

Thoughts? Comments?

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as for using nutes i would only recommend using them if you have a few grow's under your belt so u know somwhat what you are doing but the nutes i use for my plants are strate foxfarm nutes becaues i go with the foxfarm soil and a lighter soil to mix them togeather because foxfarm tends to stay moist longer and u cant water/pump them with nutes as often....so for nutes i would use anything that blends well with your soil aka same brand nutes..(thats just me ofcorse im ocd when it comes to my plants) and for your ph problem try adding a few drops of lemon in your water or add some dulimite lime to your water every so often(also helps to know what kinda water your useing) going back to my grow's i use gallen bottled water every water but i let it sit for 24hours prior to watering so the ph is right about 6.0 because all the stuff evaporates out and what not so if your useing strate tap water let it sit over night b4 u water and also watering with the same tempature water as your growspace will help alot aswell watering plants with cold water when they are useto being in mid 70* weather can put a bit of a straine on them but thats just 1 growers point of view.......

hope i helped

How come you are using such a small part of the dresser? Looks like you could make better use of it and use the whole thing? Or are you making a veg level and a flower level? Also you said you are only using four 13w 6500ks? I would DEFINITELY add more.

Thanks for the tips Dr. Greenthumb!

Foolet, I am using the dresser in two chambers. Just haven't finished the Flowering chamber yet. I will use a small HPS down there.

Right now I have 4 13w 5500k CFLs in the veg room.

StrawberryKough said:

Thanks for the tips Dr. Greenthumb!

Foolet, I am using the dresser in two chambers. Just haven't finished the Flowering chamber yet. I will use a small HPS down there.

Right now I have 4 13w 5500k CFLs in the veg room.

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That is WAY too little. I'd have at least 100 watts.

That LST is looking nice, a bunch of growth along the main stem.