cabs or plastic walls for garage grow?

ok, potential medical garage grow planning

1. garage is seperate from condo, so i'd have to open the door, close it, and garden

2. no water lines, just electric; so thinking soil just so don't have to haul water

3. i have a 250w hps for flowering, and some 26w cfl's for vegging

4. would like to have 3 flowering plants, 2 mothers, and perhaps 4-6 clones at a time


what i'm trying to decide is whether to grow in cabs or to drape black/white poly to use as grow walls


here's my pros/cons

-cabs are much more discreet, i'd have to hang some fabric or some other unfortunately conspicuous thing to block-off the hanging plastic "rooms"
-cabs are solid and easier to hang fans etc.
-cabs will be hotter, and will need better ventilation for hps
-cabs are easier to light-proof potentially
-cabs are smaller, and i worry about canopy blocking light to the lower leaves
-plastic walls are easily modified to be smaller or larger

and the list goes on; basically i'm stumped; if i do cabs, i'll buy a few "wardrobes" or the like used off craigslist.

the garage is in a row of garages, there is absolutely no ventilation, it's sealed off completely, so i'd just be exhausting the grow rooms into the rest of the garage; i don't see this as a big problem because the garage will be opened several times a day for fresh air

this is in southern california

i intend to run flowering room from 6pm to 6am, and vegging from 3pm to 9am, will most likely do gardening in the evening

i will be cloning and mothering

if anyone can think of a reason to go one way or the other, i'd really appreciate it; i have plenty of space (two car garage, and only one car in it) for whatever i want, i just want something simple and effective, that can control the heat well

in the end i think the deciding factor might be that cabs would be discreet; the big plastic grow rooms would look pretty awkward, and any big wall of fabric covering them up would look just as suspicious. this grow is to be legal (if it wasn't i wouldn't consider growing in a freestanding garage), but for obvious reasons i want to keep things on the down low, and don't want anyone to know about it if possible; this is another reason to go with soil as i wouldnt' have to be in the growrooms every single day, multiple times a day, changing pH and whatnot, hopefully

oh, and if i can get good seeds or clones from co-ops i'll probably start with that, but if i order seeds than it will be nlxc99 from joey weeds, hempdepot

there's also the option of buiding some basic 2x4-and-plywood boxes to grow in, it could be cheaper and i'd be able to get the size i want. that is intriguing, and it would be kind of fun, as long as i didn't screw things up :)