Setup:

Lights:

2 - 23 watt Daylight CFL
2 - 27 watt Soft White CFL

Medium:

Miracle Grow Organic Outdoor + Perlite

Nuets:

5-5-5 Generic big ass tub I got on sale a while ago, been working great on my vegitable garden.

Equipment:

Alpha Server Case
2 PC Case Fans
Micro ATX Power Supply(to supply 12v to fans)
Variable Speed Fan Regulator
Electronic Temp/RH Monitor
4 Small Cat Litter Pans

Synopsis:
So after several failed attempts at growing outdoors due to animals raping my plants within a couple weeks of transplanting, I decided to try out the microgrow method utilizing a PC Case. I got a hold of an old Digital Alpha Server case which is about the height of a mid tower but double the width. After drilling out about 50 rivets and removing the guts you can see the results in pic 1-2.

Mounted 2 27 soft white and 2 23watt daylight bulbs on the front and backsides of the case on 1x3 strips with screws to move the lights up and down(yes its probably not the best idea because it jumps like 2" on each increment, I'll figure out a different way next time). Pic 3-4

Mounted exaust fan in the back along with a larger fan up top of the case to circulate the air around inside the case.

Since I want to make the majority of the space in the bottom of the case soil to grow eventually a SOG setup, I took 4 cat litter pans, cut off one side of each of them and hotglue'd 2 of them together to make two sets(1 to hold soil with holes drilled in it, 1 to hold water runoff). It gives me an area of about 16"x22"x5" to grow in. I call this my "Flower Bed".

Mixed up the MG organic + perlite +

I have 3 lowryder seeds left that a buddy gave me(Germinated them 2 days ago and planted in the "flower bed" last night). Hoping to just turn these into seed producing buds to harvest a bunch of lowrider seeds for future growing.

Please post questions/comments/suggestions as this is a learning experience for me!

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Nice case.
Good luck with the grow.

May want to invest in some of those wire ends that screw in rather than just the electrical tape, but great set up, good luck!

I have some wirenuts, but I figured I would have to modify the case a bit and I might use them on the final product. Right now I am having a heat issue. It's running about 93-94F in there which is a tad too warm. The exhaust fan just isn't pulling out enough air. I think I'm going to have to do a little more modification to provide better air flow and add an additional fan to bring air in instead of relying on only the exaust fan to suck in through misc holes in the case.

Little Update:
I have one sprout so far out of the 3. I will snap a pic tonight. Will too much heat damage the sprouts?

Here are the updated pics...now have two confirmed seedlings, and the 3rd is just barely under the soil...should see that one pop up tomorrow. How does the stem look on the first one? Should it be purple like that?

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A couple more questions:

Right now I have two of the warm whites on one side and the two daylights on the other side, should I have one of each on either side?

How often should I rotate the flower bed?

Drilled some holes in the wood that was blocking part of the exaust fan. Should allow for much better airflow out the case...will be monitoring the temp tomorrow to see how it does

That double wide server case is the tits. Keep it real and good luck with the grow. +rep for the interesting case

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Update on temps:

So the temperature in the case has now dropped to acceptable levels. The max/min on the thermometer is 89.4/86.9 which is MUCH better than the 96.5/91.3 I was getting before

Oh and confirmed 3 seedlings Cmon babies grow!

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The humidity in the case was around 45%...added a cup of water to evaporate into the area to get the humidity up. Also purchased the following:

1 Bottle of Wine(Barefoot Cabernet Sauvignon) <-- Will be drank tonight
1 big jar of yeast
1 bag o sugar

And I have a stretch of tubing already from other misc things. If you haven't guessed it yet...I'm going to pipe CO2 into the case here in a week or so. I figure the lowryder has a 2 week pseudo veg period and CO2 is best during flowering, so another week or so and it should be time to introduce the CO2

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