Item9 - College Student Budget Closet Grow

akilleez

Member
Item9 - Closet Grow





I am attempting to build the cheapest grow box possible, and see if I can successfully grow some dank dope. I am naming this strand "Item9". If you have ever seen the movie Pineapple Express, the US Military was experimenting with the effects of Marijuana and they used the codename "Item 9".

Anyway, I am going to attempt to grow this with an unemployed college student's budget. I used two old cabinets that I found at my apartment's dumpster to make a small grow box that fits perfectly in the corner of my closet.

Lighting
2x 27W(100W) 5500K CFLs
4x 23W(75W) 2700K CFLs

Medium
Some standard planting soil from Wal*Mart
 

akilleez

Member
WEEK 1

I found some pretty good-looking seeds from a few different bags. Out of about 6, only 4 germinated.

Stupidly, I germinated my seeds two days before having to leave for the weekend, so I gave my seeds to my roommate to take care of. Even more stupidly, he planted two in the same cup.


My tiny grow box. I am only planning on keeping one of the plants...whichever turns out to be the sexiest looking female. I plant on making a separate ghetto grow box where I can keep her as a mother.


Two girls...one cup...


Gorgeous baby
 

akilleez

Member
Week 2

My two siamese girls were looking good, but I am pretty sure my other two germinated seed are dead. I think I waited too long to put those ones in soil.

I decided to transplant the baby plant before her roots grew anymore.


Transplant success!


Ready to grow!


Lookin healthy!
 

JN811

Well-Known Member
lol, funny man, im also a broke college student doing agrow in my closet. Hopefully they both pull through, I wish you luck though. This is actually my second grow, my first I did exactly what you did, got a seed from a bag and some cheaper lights and grew them. They looked great for about a month and a half, but eventually died, I think because they needed more lighting. That was about 4 years ago and I'm giving it another go, this time I sprung for a 400 watt hps and bought some (femanized) Ice, Snow White, and AK48 seeds online. I will subscribe and try to help if you have any questions I've done a shit load of research. oh, BTW the rule of thumb is you should transplant into a bigger pot when the stem is as long as the amount of dirt used so it looks like you need to do it soon for the bigger one. Good luck!:blsmoke:
 

akilleez

Member
Thanks for the reply man!

That stinks about the first batch ha hopefully mine can make it! We will see!

And about transferring my plant, I was actually thinking about doing that today. Like I said in my post, my roommate planted them while I was out of town. I don't know what he was thinking. But yes I will be transplanting the one into a cup with more dirt.
 

akilleez

Member
Week 3

The big lady is looking good. She just grew her next set of leaves and they are starting to get big. The little one seems to be struggling, but I'm gonna keep her alive anyway.


Marla looks pretty



 

skunkman98536

Well-Known Member
nice man@!

Ima college student myself, so I know where you are coming from. Although I have advanced my set-up by far since those days!

GJ and GL on your gro, bro.

Skunk~
 

Platipy

Well-Known Member
Hey man am in the same kind of situation broke college student. First off have a question about your box. do you have any ventilation or air blowing on your plants? make sure you have a fan blowing on them and have those cfl's as close as possible your plants are gettin a little stretchy. Also you should fill those cups full with soil to provide more root space also transplanting to a bigger container after they get a bit bigger, that is why your plants are so little for three weeks. Also i would reccomend gettin just some decent organic soil for a few bucks. it will last a long time and save you headaches just start feeding nutes after three weeks or before if they start to yellow. you can find some pretty decent organic nutes at home depot and wally world and the likes. If you are lookin to keep small plants check out autos. I am growing utoflowering blueberry right now and it is flowering after two weeks (already super bushy)! stays small (around a foot and a half) cant clone um but they are nice and easy. ill be stickin around to check whats up. also, check out the homebox xs i think im gettin one and puttin in a diy cooltube 250 or a cfl set-up using bathroom vanity lights. Have any questions ask away, i am no expert but i know plants pretty well.
 

Platipy

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oops saw you transplanted, make sure you dont overwater as seedlings too, i have sent plants to their death that way
 

widow0maker

Active Member
I think many understand the college brokness, and lots are probably in college. my view on it, if you have money for weed, you have money to buy some decent materials. at most think of not buying pot for 5 months, thats assuming 2 months stopping just to buy some good equipment, and then if you didnt buy at all while growing for minimum amount of time to get a decent amount of bud. I guess it really depends on how much you smoke. I am of habit where if I have access to it I will smoke a lot, but if I don't, I will not smoke it all or even look for it. So if you smoke little and generally just don't have money then what I say doesn't apply. But otherwise, its worth the wait in the long run. Just imagine after that first time around having enough pot for months, knowing you already spent all the money and everything is just "free" pot from then on out. I think for those who do smoke a lot buying good equipment is the best long term investment, since you will pay a lot up front, but pay very little compared to buying weed from then on. You also have less risk of getting caught buying weed since you don't buy it. All you need to do is not tell anyone and you have very little chance of being caught with all the right equipment. Either way good luck. I'll be watching. It is nice to see what others are able to do under restricted conditions.
 

akilleez

Member
Thanks for the comments guys!

Platipy - I don't have any ventilation now other than the fact that the door is made of cardboard haha. I'm gonna get a small fan to put on them soon though.

WidowMaker - I really don't have much money for weed, I generally split a large amount with a friend or two, and then set aside a certain amount to smoke myself, and sell the rest. This way I can pay for myself to smoke. I usually don't make a profit at all, so I don't feel bad about it.
 

nukkchorris

Well-Known Member
I'm a broke as fuck college student as well. You can still grow good pot. Check out my grow, I have slowly gathered my nutrients, recently a 250 W Metal halide I got for 75 bucks used at a hydro store, fans, and all the good stuff over the last year. It can be done right, first get some good nutes or soil, then work your way from there. btw I am also growing in my closet.

https://www.rollitup.org/aerogardeners/260382-blue-moonshine-lst-250w-mh-2.html#post3299746
 

avtoker15

Member
ha nice...currently a student myself and doin a closet grow and i have mine up and posted too.
yours are lookin real good.... good luck!
 

JN811

Well-Known Member
get that lady some more soil!!!! any recent pics? Looking good so far keep it up!
oh btw my best plant looked like that one after about a week and I left my closet door open to get some air flow and shut my room door... at least i thought i did... my kitten pushed the door open and ate my best plant!!! So now i'm down to one good plant and one kinda crappy looking one.. kinda looks like ur smaller one only more yellow. Just got some good seeds in the mail from Nirvana . Bought some fox farm happy frog soil so ill let ya know if theres a big diffrence between fox and mg. Later
 

Platipy

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for ventilation cut a hole in the bottom of the box for intake. then cut a whole in the top (to specs of fan of course)put a fan in it to pull air out for exhaust(in your case a decent computer fan, around $15 at micro center try to get as high cfm as you can). that part will get fresh air in your cab. then get a little clip on fan to blow on your plants. Total cost for a decent vent system for this little box will only cost around 25 bucks and stop stunting from heat (not saying you have it) and get you some thick strong stems to help stop stretching.
 

akilleez

Member
for ventilation cut a hole in the bottom of the box for intake. then cut a whole in the top (to specs of fan of course)put a fan in it to pull air out for exhaust(in your case a decent computer fan, around $15 at micro center try to get as high cfm as you can). that part will get fresh air in your cab. then get a little clip on fan to blow on your plants. Total cost for a decent vent system for this little box will only cost around 25 bucks and stop stunting from heat (not saying you have it) and get you some thick strong stems to help stop stretching.
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Yeah I know how proper ventilation works. I actually have the knowledge for a very nice grow/build, but I am only limited by my money...or lack thereof. I don't even have the tools right now to make holes in my box, but I'm going to borrow some from my parents next time I'm home.
 

Platipy

Well-Known Member
word not tryin to be offensive just tryin to help. yeah bein broke and in college sucks. i had to get a job and still am broke. thank god my parents pay for most everything necessary or i would be fucked. what part of the country you comin from?
 
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