How To - Rubbermaid Tub Growbox

[Completely Stoned]

Where you get that Foil Tape? Home De Pot?

[Balkey]

The cfls are in a regular cheap, bathroom fixture. With the fixture comes 3 wires, usually, a red, black, and ground. Your extension cord, has 3 wires, usually, a red, and black, and a ground (ground is sometimes odd colors).

With my box, which is bigger than Bodoms but similar, you cut off the end of the extension (female end or in other words the end that you DON'T plug in) and cut the orange protective plastic back as far as you need to and strip the wires so the bare wires are showing. Now you eye ball it or measure or whatever you want to do, and find the amount of wire you need to stretch across the box and to the other wires for the other fixture.

For the other side/fixture, find where you need to cut it, give yourself some play in it, and cut the extension cord there. Then peel back the orange covering on BOTH sides of the cut you just made. Strip the wires on BOTH sides of the cut you made so that the wires are showing. With this cut, you should have 2 red wires OF the extension cord to connect to the 1 red wire of the light fixture. Same goes for the black. etc.

On the side you cut the female end off, you will just twist the wires together red to red, black to black, ground to ground. (my ground on the light fixture was screwed down to the fixture itself, simply unscrew it and there ya go).

Make sure you used caps for all your wires and electrical tape to cover any bare wires.

Here's a link to a tub, I have better pics but can't post them right now.

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P.S. Foil tape is at lowes and HD. Just search for it, its there.

[the image reaper]

you've been asked several times now, with no response, "how big are the pots you're using ?" .... is it a secret ?

[Balkey]

you talking to me!!!!!!!!


Seriously, you talking to me?

[Cyclonite]

Im sure 2 1 gal pots would be just fine with that setup.

[Balkey]

I use 8inchers. I can fit 8 8incher in my setup. My tub is a 50 gal. Growing LR2 so 8 is slightly a little much but only have 4 going at the moment. Obviously for regular marijuana plants, 8 pots would be wayyy too much. I think 2 2 galloners would fit nicely. The tub is about 34 inches across.

[marijuanavillebilly]

yo bodom.
did you think about takin the lids and tapin them together cuttin out the insides and using them as a lock to pop the top tub to the bottom tub?

[Balkey]

Bodom hasn't posted for like a year, so I doubt you'll get a response. Your idea is a good one, but not all tubs come with lids. I know mine didn't. Really, all you need to keep the top tub from moving or slipping off is to anchor anything onto the inside of the top tub, say, cardboard even. Your idea would probably be best but those lids would have to be connected to the tubs somehow, and it would be probably make it so no light came in at all.

[rawtunes]

hey im pretty much building this same setup
and when i went to lowes to get my supplies
they said that caulking would melt the plastic
so i got some epoxy super glue and it didnt work very well
what kind of caulking did you get?

[jklmnc3]

hey man u do have full spectrum right?