How To - Rubbermaid Tub Growbox

:cool: I love DIY projects. Thanks so much for sharing your project...it's great. Now what does the final product look, taste, and smell like?

Thanks again

I should have said how much was your yield not what does it look like...Sorry.

I'm more or less modeling my own growbox on this one. It'll be my first, but there seems to be alot of information here to give it a go. I have a couple of questions;

first would I need to do lst (low stress training) of my plants because of that size growbox?

I've heard two things about exaust/intake. OP says one size, and someone said another. Does size matter as long as presure is maintained?

Are the lumens or amount of cfl dependant on how many plants? I would only grow 3-4 plants while OP seems to have half dozen or more. I happen to have 4x cflu lightbulbs (13w, 800 limens, 10,000 hr life).. Is that enough for that size grow?



I posted a thread in this forum and I hope to get something started soon and not rely on anybody else for my pot.

will that same method thos CFLs work for a open room job?

I just grew a single plant in my box, not multiple. I also lsted the hell out of it. When I chopped it it was like a banzai tree. The canopy took up the entire space. It was vegging for a very long time though. Multiple plants would cut down on the veg time. I also used 6 cfl's that were 26w each(equal to 100w). Really have to watch the heat with that many though. I was up close to 90 once the summer came around. Might be why it was so stunted now that I think about it. I also had 2 small fans inside, one was a little metal desk fan I kept under the plant. The other was a computer fan I kept up high on the roof of the canopy. Halfway through flowering I added another light underneath the plant to get light to the lower parts, but I think I ended up taking it back out due to temps. Not really sure if this helped or hurt though. Buds were light and fluffy but still a decent yield. 2.5-3oz.

Quick question. When you switched to flowering did you change your cfl's to 2700k or did you continue to use the same 6500k lights?

When I did my first grow I used 2700K lights the entire time and it came out fine. This time I'm starting with 6500k and will switch to 2700k for flowering. I may keep 1 or 2 lights as 6500k. I hear having a little of the light at the blue spectrum helps.

what exactly did you line the inside of the rubbermaid tubes with? is it mylar? but Great work man, im seriously considering trying a set up like this now!!

nevermind, i saw that you used foil tape..

Hey guys I had a few questions can this box be used from seedling to harvest without adjusting the light height.