Please help me with Grow Cabinet Ideas!

[SOADRULES420]

Thanks! I heard it was easier to grow from clones so I see your point

Your welcome dude!:thumbsup:

and you are totally right Jamstigator, Nobody is rushing me. It probably seems like i am in a hurry. Its because i am so excited!:rasta: Its gonna be great. having some sweet smelling plants. Its gonne be great! But your setup looks very nice, the time that you spent thinking about it really paid off becuase it looks great!

anyway, here are the rest of my questions. Sorry about having so many.

1. Should i use Squirell cages for intake and excaust? If so, How many per chamber and what size?

2.Do i just attach a carbon filter to the excaust on my flowering room?

3.How many fans will i need for each room and what size?

4.How many Cfls will i need for the veg room? I already have 4 new Daylight compact flourescents but i know i will need more.

5.Do you buy the cooltube seperate from the Hps or does it come with it?

I think those are all my questions. Thanks again guys.

[jamstigator]

Get a good-sized fan, centrifugal if you can, for exhaust for your flower box, and use a darkroom louvre (bhphotovideo.com sells 8"x8" Doran darkroom louvres, lightproof, you might need two, I did) for passive intake. If you can't afford a centrifugal fan, then squirrels are the next best thing. For the veg boxes, they don't really need to be lightproof, and since you'll only have CFLs in them, you won't need much of a fan for those. bghydro.com sells some AC-powered axial fans that work pretty good.

Attach the carbon filter outside your cabinet, to the exhaust from the cabinet. Put it on top or behind your cabinet. If it looks suspicious, just throw some stuff around it to disguise it. Mine on top of my cabinet isn't visible at all, unless someone seven feet tall comes by.

Four CFLs for veg/clones and four for mothers is probably fine, actually. WalMart sells the 26w ones pretty cheap, like 3 for $8. If four doesn't seem like enough, you can always add more of those easily later.

You can build your own cooltube; use the search function and you'll probably be able to find some threads showing how to do it. However, a real cooltube has an internal reflector (reflector inside the tube itself), which is better, as the light only has to pass through the glass of the cooltube one time that way. If you use an external reflector, the light can pass through the glass as many as three times, which degrades how much light reaches your plants. If you get your light from bghydro.com, you can get it with a real cooltube as part of the package. Get a digital ballast - they're lighter, cooler, silent, just plain better than the old ones.

If money's a prob (and isn't it always?), well, you can skimp here and there, but I wouldn't skimp on the light or the fan for the flower box, as they're really the core of the whole thing.

And no, I don't work for bghydro.com. They've just been good and reliable for me, so that's who I'm most familiar with.

[SOADRULES420]

WOW DUDES!:stoned:

Thanks for all the Info.

Ok. I am gonna take this step by step now that I have most of the info. My first step is to buy the Mother And clone/Veg Cabinet First. Which is the one that GreenFog posted. I will need to split it into 2 spaces One space for a mother plant or 2. and the other will be clones and then i will veg them there also. How do you suggest i split up the cab? It is 51 Inches tall. Should i go half and half up and down? So i have 25 on top for the clones and veg and 25 on the bottom for the mommas? I will be buying it really soon.:dance: I will probably put 4 daylight compact flouros in each area. Unless i need more, Please tell me if so. Also, how much ventilation does a veg cab need? Do i need to buy a intake and exaust for each area? That would be 4 Squirrel cages! And do i need any oscillating fans in here?

I'm Excited!!!!!