Ok, ignore the stupid post.

I'm in the east coast.

Yes, I knocked through the drywall already.

I like your plan. It's making me think. But ...the added working is making me sweat just reading. I was using one 4 foot cool fluoro for veg before, and that's how I got my plant all bushy at the beginning, and it seemed to work fine. I wish this wasn't so hard! Arrg.

I would have to get permanent smaller pots for the veg box. And grow about 4 plants in there at once. With ..hmm..maybe just a bunch of ...:] "lampholders" drilled into the ceiling, and dual bulb fixtures and then a bunch of CFL's.

One or two fans with a good vent coming out, maybe with a couple elbow PVC pipes facing the wall and painted black on the inside.

Hahahahahahah. Yea I Could see how I could continue expanding. But I don't think the people I'm living with would want that. Eventually I'm just going to take out a room, for the whole thing, seal it off from the rest of the house and just put it to work. Nothing too big, but nothing too small either.

Funny what you said about finding another space for blooming or vegging.

I have this dresser. It's pretty big, I could probably fit 4, 5 gallon pots in there, and do a small SOG.

But the hell with that, in anything I"ll veg the tiny bastards in there, and then load all the clothes that are in it, into the top of my closet, and then bloom them as huge as the closet will allow, while rotating another few babies into the dresser for vegging.

That sounds nice, and it would be almost the same amount of work as building a box for the closet. I'll have to think about this.

Just to re-cap.

Right now there's four huge 12'' potters from home depot sitting on that top shelf, with a 4 foot fluoro hanging over them, and turned OFF.

On the bottom there's the single 5 gallon adolescent currently in bloom, waiting to show sex. Right now, because of the heat, I only have a couple CFL's on the plant, in a few when I get the inline, I'll probably start flowering with the HPS, and hopefully this one will be female, just so I can get a little taste, even if it's mid-grade.

The light is partially blocked out. And for that I'm thinking either leave it alone, and just live with the tiny light leaks that are coming out (i keep all the light OUT, I just can't keep it IN) or buy a black out curtain, but I'm not sure that's going to work.

Will it work better than the black and white poly? Because that was supposed to be light proof, but it failed.

Aside from the light, I may build a box inside of the cabinet. A small one for about 4 small pots, and vegging plants, with a ceiling made of CFL's, sides coated in mylar, and a few small fans inside, with one small fan and a few elbow pipes exhausting and working to keep the light contained.

That might be nice, but I've never built anything in my life, aside from a few skate boxes/grinds from about 5-6 years ago.

On the other hand. I have this. http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/21/1003413am8.jpg

Which is about 33 inches across and about 35 inches tall, so tell me...do you think that would make a good veg container once vented and lights installed?

I could cut the insides out, all the drawers, but leave that whole face on, and just turn that into a door, or simply take out the back or one of the other sides or anything like that.

Too much work for something simple?

Once again, thanks for the advice/help, it's been excellent so far. :jointsmile: :hippy: