my mini grow cab for six plants.
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Originally Posted by BongHitBoy420
Only prob (for me anyway) is to true SCRoG, you need clones.
the only reason they say to use clones for scrog is so you don't train a male under the screen. i sometimes used to scrog with seed plants when i got a new strain. as long as you let them show sex before you put the screen on you will be fine.
potman, what size holes in the chicken wire? i started with 2"x3" holes in the screen and yeilded about 8-10 oz per harvest with my 400hps. i switched to 1" screen and not only was it much easier to train the plants, my yeilds jumped to 11-14 oz per harvest. with smaller holes you have alot more options when training branches very precisely to get the most evenly spaced canopy as possible. look at the pics for an example. the 1st pic is 2"x3" screen at week 2 and the second is the same strain(cloned from the same mother) under 1" screen at day 19. see the difference? the second pic shows 150+ tops spaced pretty evenly over the entire 2"x4' canopy! btw, that is the same space just different angles in the pics. damn! i wish i still had a grow!
my mini grow cab for six plants.
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[attachment=o59001]here's some pics of my plants, from the previous year, i will post some pics of the plants flowering in the box within a month:rasta:
my mini grow cab for six plants.
I tried using one of those plastic cabinets and the plastic does fracture easily, I broke it a good amount with a heavy duty stapler, but screws seem to be OK with the material. Its lightweightness makes it unstable for heavy equipment though. I've found that it's actually less expensive to use thin sheets of Handipanel, that's that really cheap brownish compressed sawdust wood. Get wood trim that can be used for where the corners meet, and hand screw everything together using glue where the panels meet the trim. No predrilling is needed, and the Handipanel comes in 2x4 and 2x2 panels.
my mini grow cab for six plants.
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Originally Posted by Crispyfried
I tried using one of those plastic cabinets and the plastic does fracture easily, I broke it a good amount with a heavy duty stapler, but screws seem to be OK with the material. Its lightweightness makes it unstable for heavy equipment though. I've found that it's actually less expensive to use thin sheets of Handipanel, that's that really cheap brownish compressed sawdust wood. Get wood trim that can be used for where the corners meet, and hand screw everything together using glue where the panels meet the trim. No predrilling is needed, and the Handipanel comes in 2x4 and 2x2 panels.
i haven't tried using a stapler:stoned: , but small sheet metal screws work good, as for the fracturing problem, when you cut holes it's best to dill a 1/2 inch pilot hole then cut the rest out with tin snips, you have to be patient and cut slowly, also dont cut anything, unless you are 100% sure thats where you want to cut, as for the weight issue both my ballasts and the rest of my electronics weigh only 15 pounds, the top shelf where its located is rated for 40 pounds, witch is ridiculous, it can hold 25-30 pound max, if you are using one of these plastic cabinets, it's best to go with a 150w hps, cause the 150 ballast weighs less than my 70w MH and 70w HPS ballasts combined
my mini grow cab for six plants.
i used 1x12 #2 pine for my tv stand cabinet and stained it fruitwood so it would look good in my bedroom. i also lined the floor to about 8" up the walls with heavy plastic so the runoff didn't cause the wood to rot over time. i routed tongue and groove type connections so all the joints would be light tight. the plastic storage closets are nice to use but if you build something that looks like a nice piece of furniture it's alot less conspicuous. when i had mine running my father would come over to babysit and he would be 10ft away from it watching tv for hours and never suspect it was anything more than a tvstand with storage underneath!
my mini grow cab for six plants.
i forgot to say that those plants look really good potman! so does the set-up, great work!
my mini grow cab for six plants.
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Originally Posted by justaseed
i forgot to say that those plants look really good potman! so does the set-up, great work!
thank s dude, your cab look's awesome:thumbsup: are you using a 400w hps?
and the answer to your previous question, i use the same 1 inch chicken wire
you have on your last pic, i find the smaller the holes the easier it is to train the plants, the result is you get a nice even canopy, that will absorb more light , giving you a bigger yield:D
my mini grow cab for six plants.
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Originally Posted by potman420
thank s dude, your cab look's awesome:thumbsup: are you using a 400w hps?
unfortunately, i'm not using anything currently, but the tv stand had a 150hps and 4 42watt cfls on the left side and a 125watt vitalume cfl(2700k), 65watt aquarium strip cfl(6800k) and 4 42watt cfls on the right side.
my mini grow cab for six plants.
nice plants man. I LOVE YOUR CABINET...it is so bad ass. How did u do that bootleg(not calling it bad,thats just how i say it:D ) light system in post #12. I would like to do that so i dont have to use just cfl for flowering. Also my box is 4'x2'x2' what wattage of hps would you recommend. And also do you think a 265cfm dayton blower would be enough to cool it.
thanks....much love....nasty
