First indoor grow, steath cabinet style.

[reefersutherlin]

I have never tried my hand at indoor growing before and am starting off small and covert.

I have converted an old 4 drawer dresser into a stealth cabinet and lined it with mylar. I am using 6 23w 2700k CFL's so that I can keep them close to the plants and control the heat easily in my little space. I also made a hood for them out of cardboard wrapped in mylar.

For ventilation, I'm using a 4.5 inch fan and wired it to a dimmer so that I can control the speed for heat regulation and so that I can increase or decrease the speed as needed when I add my home made carbon scrubber.

Currently I have two bagseed seedlings that I am sprouting to clone so that I may determine the sex and pick out the mother that I'll be using until I get this indoor growing thing under my belt a little more.

I also plan on running a DWC system (homemade as well) with Fox Farms hydro nutrient trio instead of soil. I am still debating on weather or not I'll be springing for the three solubles that they recommend on this go 'round.

I have spent countless hours researching it and I figure I might as well jump in feet first and go straight for the legendary hydro!

[reefersutherlin]

Does anyone have any experience with the Fox Farms hydro nutes? What do you recommend that I do? Will I be able to sustain plants and have them come out of this with any kind of satisfactory yield with just the Grow Big, Tiger Bloom and Big Bloom?

[Slevinkal]

The 2700k bulbs are good for flowering but you needs some 6500k for vegging.

[reefersutherlin]

Thanks fella!

I swapped out the bulbs to 5000k's.

One of my seedlings was reeeaaaaly reaching for those 2700's. Will it calm down and veg out more now? Should I still be on 24 hour light?

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. What an awesome community!