my mini grow cab for six plants.

[potman420]

hi everybody im new to cannabis.com i used to belong to overgrow but they got shut down im starting this thread to help people to design and build a small apartment friendly grow box, that can flower six 1 foot tall plants.


I have been growing in my apartment closet for 3 years but recently i decided to move, the landlord in my new building is a nosy bastard,so i cant grow in my closet any more, so i decided to build a stealth grow box for under 200$.

the dimensions of the box are as follows
height 36 inches
width 25 inches
depth 18 inches SEE PIC.www.canadiantire.ca/assortments/product_detail.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=140847439 6669964&PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524442204551&ASSORT MENT%3C%3East_id=1408474396670271&bmUID=1144391257 715&assortment=primary&fromSearch=true

i bought the box at candian tire for 79,99$ fot those not from canada, home depot has a similar product made by rubbermaid, the box is made of a polypropelen plastic material. it weighs
just 24 pounds. without the guts. i found plastic lasts longer and is easier to clean and wont rot like particle board.

materials list

1.plastic cabinet 79,99$
2.1 70 watt hps/1 70 watt mh
u can get these lights free, just go to where a building is bieng demolished and talk to the contractor, some time you will get them for free, sometimes you have to pay like 20$, Ive gotten all my grow lights over the last 3 years from demo sites.
3. 2 120mm computer cooling fans 12,99
4. 6 cubic feet of mylar
5. 2 flat square carbon filters 9.99. SEE PIC www.canadiantire.ca/assortments/product_detail.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=140847439 6669887&PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524441893963&ASSORT MENT%3C%3East_id=1408474396670271&bmUID=1144390535 499&assortment=primary&fromSearch=true
6. 4 rolls of aluminum tape
7. 2 power bars/to plug stuff into.
8. 1 timer
9.box 0f 2inch long wood screws

the construction is very simple it only took me 2 days with common house tools. i will post pics and the rest of the construction prosses within the next week:rasta:

potman420 Reviewed by potman420 on 04-07-2006. my mini grow cab for six plants. hi everybody im new to cannabis.com i used to belong to overgrow but they got shut down:( im starting this thread to help people to design and build a small apartment friendly grow box, that can flower six 1 foot tall plants. I have been growing in my apartment closet for 3 years but recently i decided to move, the landlord in my new building is a nosy bastard,so i cant grow in my closet any more, so i decided to build a stealth grow box for under 200$. the dimensions of the box are as Rating: 5

[potman420]

i just noticed that the beggining of my thread is very similar to bonghitboy420
its just a coincedence i dont know bonghitboy420, but looks like both him and i used to belong to overgrow,this is quite a coincedence i did not even read his thead before i wrote this

[tadaa]

Um you want to grow in a box that's only 36 inches high? That box is too small to even grow in at all, let alone putting a light big enough to grow 6 plants in it.

[MonkeyRacket]

Looks pretty good, that carbon filter looks nice. I'm interested to know how well it works.

I think you should be fine with 36in height if you do a SCROG grow; for full plants you will want at least 5 ft of height. 6 plants sounds like way to much for 18" x 25" but it sounds like you already have some experience - I would grow 2-3 in that size box.

[justaseed]

Um you want to grow in a box that's only 36 inches high? That box is too small to even grow in at all, let alone putting a light big enough to grow 6 plants in it.

you should not give advice when you don't know what you are talking about!!!

this was my stealth scrog cab before i dismantled it for security reasons. it was only 42inches tall and i could have cut of almost a foot of that height without changing the yeild a bit! have you ever heard of scrog?

[justaseed]

i just went back over my old plans and realized that tv stand was only 36" high, and as i said it could could have been shorter without a problem!! i just helped my brother build a cab that is only 28" high and that is plenty for scroggin' . i agree about 6 plants being to many. i usually only did 1 plant at a time but somitimes i did 2. in my 400hps scrog cab i used to flower only 2 plants as well and would get 5-6.5oz per plant! sometimes i would flower 4 at a time and would get 2.5-3oz per plant. it's not the number of plants it's the amount of veg time and training that help increase the yeild, at least that is the case with stealth growing imo.

[potman420]

there a grow box made by suncell systems, its only 2 feet high and 4 feet long, it can flower 16 plants of a short strain like afghani. here's a link

http://www.suncellsystems.com/

also check out www.pottv.com and watch (so you want to grow pot #10)the guy in the video has 15 boxes going at once. he has boxes for ,veg ,clones ,mothers,and flowering boxes with 16 plants inside, its pretty cool check it out- http://www.pottv.com/archive/shows/p...owse-2023.html

[potman420]

the boxes are way to expensive for me, so i decided to build my own for way cheaper, pics and plans too come soon.

[potman420]

in reply to the posts, yes i do grow scrog i use chicken wire it works perfect.
i've seen some people built heir own grid patern using pvc and rope, i found chiken wire works just as good if not better, its the only way to get maximum yield in a very small space, SCROG IS THE WAY TO GO!

[BongHitBoy420]

Yep yep yep! Not me, but I will say I like yer methods Only prob (for me anyway) is to true SCRoG, you need clones. My cab is more like....... a transformer. It adapts and changes around the life of the plant. I germ in the same place I flower -- all from seed. My plants grow into the HPS when I make the final transformation. (and i can modify and experiment w/ what im giving the plants the entire time along the way. :P )

Cabinets in disguise! Tranfsormers!