SUPER Stealth Rubbermaid growbox

[Mistawes]

This looks pretty sweet man, I'm thinking of building something pretty stealth and this looks like the kinda container I need.. I was gonna try source a pretty beefy computer case (had a perfect one, was a huge server sitting round my shed for years, but just last week my bro gave it away!) but I wouldn't mind trying something like this. I think the two boxes looks safer than the one..

Can I ask, roughly how much are you planning on getting per plant? I wanna start growing (prices here are a joke when you CAN find something) but I don't wanna bother if I'm not gonna be getting atleast an O, per plant if I can..

I've been checking out the Megaman line of Clusterlites, they seem to go up to pretty high wattages, their top dog is like 320w, but it's hard to find what spectrum they are, and how many Lumens they produce. I only wanna use CFL/Flouro's not HPS, because of elecy bill/safety reasons.. Would I be better off using relatively low wattage and plenty of them as opposed to one/two whopper ones? I feel this would give a better spread of light.

Let me know what ya think!

And to re-iterate, whopper looking grow! Can't wait until I'm raising something like this!

Mistawes Reviewed by Mistawes on 03-07-2008. SUPER Stealth Rubbermaid growbox So here is my newly constructed super stealthy rubbermaid growbox, i have seen others with the same concept but they don't use the lids and it doesn't really look that stealthy so i came up with this, i think i only loose a very minimul amount of space from this design compared to the others.I hope it all works well.I plan on putting a screen in there to do scrog, as well i plan on LSTing them.The plants in there now are clones i cut off a budding plant about 3-4 weeks into flower,i don't plan Rating: 5

[pokherking]

Thank for the encouragement and friendly comments mistawes, well to answer ur questions......you can never really judge how much you get from a single plant, too many variables, how much light,what strain,how much stress the plant had,the nutrients, you know what i mean. But an ounce per plant is about right if all goes well i beleive.But...... this is my first grow in the rubbermaid so i have no idea what kind of yield i will have, but if it all goes well i hope to get about 2 ounces or so and i have 3 plants in my totes.I have topped and lst'd these plants as well.As for the lights,i would suggest using more lower wattage bulbs rather than a few high wattage bulbs, more light to spread around,more of an area.I would say stay with cfl's DO NOT put an hps bulb inside the rubbermaid idea, i think it would be a complete fire hazard and you would also have major heat issues in there.Just make sure you have good air circulation,lots of air going out and lots of fresh air getting in.And don't forget to use 2 different spectrum bulbs for the 2 stages of growth, cool white or daylight bulbs for vegatation and warm white for flowering.Good luck ! and let me know if i can help with anything else.

[adr0510]

I have for an exhaust fan a 4' inline fan with an attached carbon filter for my intake i have those two computer cooling fans. It sucks pretty good at 144 cfm. Is that important to use cool white for vegetation and warm white for flowering. What is the significance?

[pokherking]

adr0510 you may not be getting enough air "out" of ur box due to the carbon filter ?? i'm not sure if thats the case or not ? kinda sounds like it, whats the temps in there ? that you need to know if you wanna know if it's too hot or not.As for the lights,the difference is the spectrum of the bulbs and yes it does make a difference.More on the flowering end of it though, what i mean is, from my experience, which isn't much by the way,you can use both types for vegging but it really seems to make a difference in flowering when you use warm white rather than cool white.I can't get into the specifics of the bulbs themselves, just look it up,it has to do with the heat they put off (Kelvins i beleive)

[adr0510]

The temperature is usually around upper 80's to 90 degrees. It could be that my Odor Sok Carbon Air Filter is blocking air too much, it is a good filter but maybe too good. I have to be stealthy and cannot afford to use duct lines to a ventilation shaft. So cool white is what I have I think it gives off a pale white light, while the warm white gives off a more yellowish, less bright light is that correct? I guess I'll go with 5 32's instead might stablize the tempature a bit

[pokherking]

here's some pics i took 5 minutes ago

[stuartambient]

I probably need to go to the original gro box thread. I just came across it the other day. Are the specs and install of the lights included in there ? Well I guess I'll find out but in case I miss it perhaps a link or something.

Thank you!

[stinkyattic]

I have for an exhaust fan a 4' inline fan with an attached carbon filter for my intake i have those two computer cooling fans. It sucks pretty good at 144 cfm.

Odorsoks aren't rated for a fan that small. You need a real blower to run carbon filtration correctly.

You REALLY need to lay off jacking other peoples' threads. Another warning.

[pokherking]

Well i am back from vacation, well it was actually a really long drive to check out a seed store about 2000 km's away,kind of an adventure......Anyways, my friend has done a great job taking care of my babies and they are doing great, in my eyes anyways.So today is day 36 in flowering.A very resiliant strain thats for sure, it's nice and easy to train and just easy to grow all around, wish i knew where it's "roots" came from.So i picked up some seeds on my venture, i got some "skunk indica", it says it grows nicely at around 3 feet so training it a bit shorter should be no problem.The strain i have now is a sativa and it seems to train nicely even though they normally grow tall, lets just hope this strain is as tough as this one is.Well here's some pics

[Hennessy1414]

Well i am back from vacation, well it was actually a really long drive to check out a seed store about 2000 km's away,kind of an adventure......Anyways, my friend has done a great job taking care of my babies and they are doing great, in my eyes anyways.So today is day 36 in flowering.A very resiliant strain thats for sure, it's nice and easy to train and just easy to grow all around, wish i knew where it's "roots" came from.So i picked up some seeds on my venture, i got some "skunk indica", it says it grows nicely at around 3 feet so training it a bit shorter should be no problem.The strain i have now is a sativa and it seems to train nicely even though they normally grow tall, lets just hope this strain is as tough as this one is.Well here's some pics

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