300 watt Jillybean SCROG

Here is my cabinet... Starting with no supplies the final cost for materials (lumber, paint, screws, chains for lights) was $117.32 (not including vent fan, thermometer, timer, lights, etc.) and took one weekend to put together. The dimensions are roughly 3ft. wide, 4 1/2ft. long and about 5 1/2ft. tall.
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The lights I am using are from HTG Supply via their eBay site (free shipping!) and cost about $75.00 each including the bulb. The total of the two lights came to $145.90. As for the other equipment such as timers, thermometers, and the vent fan, the total of all that after shipping came to $87.91. In the previous post I wrote that the lumber, paint, screws and hanging chains came to a total of $117.32

So, the final cost to set up just the cabinet with no soil, growing containers, clones or nutrients, came to $351.13.

So these are the Jillys right after being topped. They were planted on July 14th, and these picture were taken on July 19th and 20th. They were each left with 4 main shoots coming out. No nutrients were being given at this point, just plain water, which I know is supposed to harbor plants and cause nutrient lock-up amongst other things due to the chlorine levels, but its what I have always used and it seems to work just fine. Someday I wish to have to the space to be able to try things side by side like that and see if it really does make a difference. But for now I'll just stick to what I am capable of.
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Here they are 8 days later on July 28th, looking good...
At this point they were being fed with the General Organics Biothrive Grow and their Ca+Mg supplement. I also forget to mention that before I planted the clones I mixed in a little bit of the mycorrihzae with the soil. The lights were initially running on the 18/6 schedule but has since been moved to a 22/2. I never liked the idea of leaving the lights on 24 hours a day, not for the plants sake they would love it, but to me it just feels dangerous leaving them constantly running.
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Lookin good buddy.

Two days later on the 30th...
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very nice, plants are looking great.

Here they are yesterday on the 3rd of August...
I dont really have a full-on feed shedule and all that, I just feed them when the soil starts to lose moister which is about every 2 days or so, and have been giving them nutrients with each watering. Coming this Monday I might flip the lights, not sure yet though, if not I will let them go one more week and flip on the 15th.
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