Stelth Grow Box

Hey everyone! Today I went out, bought my material, and created a light- stelth box to keep hidden in my closet. I put a small-ish fan inside its box, sealed it up, and hooked it up to a duct which connected it to the bin. Inside the bin is all tinfoil to reflect the two lights I have. Then on the other side of the bin is an Active Carbon filter. So the fan blows in fresh air and it is pushed through the Active Carbon filter to remove the smell of pot. And this will create a nice air flow current and provide fresh air without getting caught due to the smell. Then I stuck the lights through a strup of styrofoam and stuck it to the top of the lid (I tried to avoide creating any more holes... wanted to to look like an ordanary bin...) In the picture the lid isn't what I have for a finished product... The lid is entirly covered in tinfoil. I added that on after the picture. So I plugged everything in and put it in my closet, put my babies in, and put on the lights. the cool thing is since the lights are hanging from a styrofoam strip, I can tuck and pull them down closer to the plant, and them bring them back up to the top of the bin. Right now I have seve plants groing in there, but I plan on narrowing them down to maybe one or two females once I find out which plant is what. I also plan on topping the plants to stunt the growth and keep them from getting too big for the bin. Now I wanna know what you guys think of the box? What should I fix... add? Do you guys think it will work? I'm going to post again with more pictures.

Here are the other pics. YOu saw above what it looked like in the closet before I hide it... this is a picture of it hidden. And yes.. sadly I do have a chucky doll and a michael mysers mask.. but thats not important! There is also a picture of the carbon filter coming out from the back of the bin. it is not yet filled with carbon because well... I have no plants yet! Well, they arn't old enough to smell yet. Then there is the picture of the fan which is inside the box connected to the bin with a duct. I did this because I didn't want air inside the box to be blown back through the fan, I wasn't sure if that would happen or not, but I know it wouldn't come back through a duct. The box is there because the fan couldn't connect to the duct dirrectly so we connected the duct to the box, turned on the fan, and then sealed up the box (it turns off when the main light switch is turned off). Then there it is... fully light, I actually removed the blowish grow light because I was worried the bin would heat up to much... so i replaced it with a 15 watt compact fluro. Then thats a picture of one of my babies, all but 2 look like this. How is it lookin to you guys?

its beautiful

Too short -- you'll only have a few inches to grow before you reach your lights. With massive bending and stuff maybe -- but the concept itself is really well worked out.

What type of results will make it worth the time and effort you're putting into this?

You have LOTS of room for improvement. The important and vital ones being space and lights. So you plan on using that bin the entire time? How much more money can you spend on this project?

I recommend browsing this forum http://overgrow.com/edge/forumdisplay.php?f=87 for great information on micro stealth grows.

we devised the plan together.. i'm going to be making the same thing once i get to college.. i'm not sure how much more $ can be spent on the project, we'll have to cross the bridge when we get there... i guess $ can be spent on finding the right soils and nutrients to provide it with..

Hey! Well, money is not an issue. I live with my parents and have a job. I can put my money I make from my job tward anything I want... anything. I realize I'm going to have to make something bigger and better. I just am not sure...what...

My biggest problem is my father. He is to stupid to ever come in my room and rummage through my closet. But just incase he ever did... he wouldn't ever know I was growing because of my stelth box. But I need a taller stelth box. The lights are to close to the plants (the leave's tips kinda started turning yellow- help?) so I moved them away a little. I'm not positive that I'd be able to build anything much bigger than that... I know you guys don't like u s growing in out folk's houses, but I can seriously get away with this! its just too easy. But I do need a bigger space. Recomendations?

Suggestions:

-Get a bigger space OR only grow 1 or 2 plants in that space. I don't know what you plant to do with that MV bulb, but you ain't gonna get shit with it.
-More light! What you have there is not near enough for the amount of plants you have. To get a decent yeild, you want a min. of 50W per.sq.ft. So for 2 plants in that space, I'd go for 200W. You can use CFL's, they work amazingly well for veg, but when you hit flowering, things are going to move very slow.
-Turn that CFL bulb sideways instead of it pointing down. There is 25% more light output coming from the side rather than the bottom. We all know, more light=bigger buds.

This is what I would do, all in a nutshell. I would keep that space, grow only 2 plants, get more bulbs, min of 100-150W CFL's.

OR, get a bigger space, more bulbs, I suggest an HPS bulb for flowering. Hope this helps.

As for your leaves yellowing already, have you been giving it ferts at all?

Hey thanks for the suggestions. I do plan on frowing only 2 small females in the box, so I t hink I can pull this off. I will move the lights sidways as you suggested, and I will get more. As for the fert... I planted my germinated seeds in a soil that I believe had MGro in it already. like it was new soil out of the bag... I just think it was "pre-Mgro"- had stuff in it alread. Is this bad? Should I get my plants out of that soil asap?

I haven't had any experience using MG, but I've also heard that it is not the best to use for MJ. Does it have any N-P-K ratios on the bag? Any word on added ferts? If it does, I would suggest putting it in different soil. No ferts are to be used until 3-4 weeks into vegg.

I buy my soil at wal-mart. It's like $10 for a big bag, has added vermiculite, and is a basic potting soil. I've had good results using it.

If there is no word on the bag about added ferts, or added food, then don't worry about it, just leave them.