GrapeNut
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Hello everyone this will be for my third grow. 1st was in a closet second was in a tent but now I need something smaller and more contained so I thought I would design a grow cab. I don't have measurements for it at the moment but I do have a basic design layout. What I do know is that it cant be taller than 3 feet so in rough about 3 feet tall by 3 feet wide by 2 feet deep. The first image shows a basic layout of how it will look like from the front (this is def not to scale). I plan on growing just 2 plants.
The cabinet will be divided into 3 separate compartments, the right compartment will be where the plants grow in a in a tube (I believe this is called NFT where the plants sit in mesh pots inserted into a tube where water runes through the tube and back to a reservoir where a pump takes the water back to the other side of the tube where the process is repeated). I chose this method because I wanted something where it would be easy to access and maintain the water without disturbing the plants. Also I needed the most amount of vertical space that I could get so I figured I could get a short reservoir and that way the tube that the plants are growing in would be able to be kept as low to the ground as possible.
Now the other two compartments are stacked on top of each other on the left side of the cabinet, the bottom left compartment will house the reservoir and pump. Now as you can see in my drawings there are 2 pumps. One pump will be used to constantly recirculate the water in the system while the other pump will be used to drain the reservoir during water changes.
The final top left compartment will house the air management. An inline fan will draw air from the grow area into this compartment then through a carbon filter and finally out the back of the cabinet. The intake vent will be located on the bottom right of the grow chamber. This should create a negative pressure environment.
The third picture is just a top view of the grow compartment (right side) and the compartment where the carbon filter and inline fan is housed (left side). The second picture is just my attempt at a 3d drawing.
I will be making the cabinet out of 3/4 inch thick oak and it will sit on casters so it can easily be moved around. At the moment I don't have a specific design for how the doors of the cabinet will open (should I just have two left and right doors or a door for each of the 3 compartments?).
Please give me any suggestions or recommendations that you have. Any ideas on what to just for a very low to the ground reservoir that will hold about 10 gallons? Also I forgot to mention I will be using a 150 HPS during flowering and and few CFL's during veg. White Widow will be the strain and I also plan on making this a SCROG.
The cabinet will be divided into 3 separate compartments, the right compartment will be where the plants grow in a in a tube (I believe this is called NFT where the plants sit in mesh pots inserted into a tube where water runes through the tube and back to a reservoir where a pump takes the water back to the other side of the tube where the process is repeated). I chose this method because I wanted something where it would be easy to access and maintain the water without disturbing the plants. Also I needed the most amount of vertical space that I could get so I figured I could get a short reservoir and that way the tube that the plants are growing in would be able to be kept as low to the ground as possible.
Now the other two compartments are stacked on top of each other on the left side of the cabinet, the bottom left compartment will house the reservoir and pump. Now as you can see in my drawings there are 2 pumps. One pump will be used to constantly recirculate the water in the system while the other pump will be used to drain the reservoir during water changes.
The final top left compartment will house the air management. An inline fan will draw air from the grow area into this compartment then through a carbon filter and finally out the back of the cabinet. The intake vent will be located on the bottom right of the grow chamber. This should create a negative pressure environment.
The third picture is just a top view of the grow compartment (right side) and the compartment where the carbon filter and inline fan is housed (left side). The second picture is just my attempt at a 3d drawing.
I will be making the cabinet out of 3/4 inch thick oak and it will sit on casters so it can easily be moved around. At the moment I don't have a specific design for how the doors of the cabinet will open (should I just have two left and right doors or a door for each of the 3 compartments?).
Please give me any suggestions or recommendations that you have. Any ideas on what to just for a very low to the ground reservoir that will hold about 10 gallons? Also I forgot to mention I will be using a 150 HPS during flowering and and few CFL's during veg. White Widow will be the strain and I also plan on making this a SCROG.
