Hello all,

The flowering light is going to be the E-conolites 150W High Pressure Sodium Vapor Tight light fixture. I am planning to disassemble the fixture, wire the light and store the ballast in a metal wire box in the power/filter chamber. For venting I am creating a DIY cooltube rigged to the exhaust. Basically air will be sucked from clone and veg chambers (via 65cfm PC Fans) through the cooltube and then pulled through an inline fan in the flowering room through the carbon filter stored in the power/filter chamber. The glass for the cooltube is a Pyrex Bake-A-Round.

dont worry Cannabolic this thread will be a newbies' DIY wet dream.

the mother plant part looks pretty small, dunno if thats gonna work for u. but goodluck with everything.

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Everything I say is based on fiction, and all pictures were taken from the internet.

just my opinion , but what i'd do is maybe even evenly space the veg and mother chamber 50/50 hight wise. and get rid of the supplies chamber on top of ur flowering chamber. that'd give u enough space to get ur vegged plants up to about 12''to 18'', then would have more than enough space on the flowering side to get bigger since the supplies chamber would be gone.

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Everything I say is based on fiction, and all pictures were taken from the internet.

Suggestion noted. What I will do for the next update will be to remove the shelf from the left side and make that the flowering chamber. I will scrap the idea for a supply chamber and go for a small cupboard to store them to maximize flowering space (after all, I need to fit a 150w HPS fixture with cooltube, 2 4" PVC 'T's' and an inline fan. I will keep everything in place on the right side as per my design.




This is my exhaust diagram to illustrate how air intake and exhaust takes place.

As you can see, air comes in through passive intakes, is blown around via oscillating fans (not pictured).

When the air rises enough to get sucked through the exhaust the inline fan forces all the stale air through the cooltube and into a carbon filter via an intricate series of duct and PVC.

The computer fans + the inline fan will keep each chamber full of fresh air, cool the flowering chamber significantly and eliminate smell from all of the chambers.

I am confident that one 62.2cfm fan per veg chamber and one 4" inline fan (between 80-120cfm) for the venting, filtering and cooltubin' should suffice, however if anyone thinks otherwise let me know.

Tomorrow: The Clone/mother chamber build begins.

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Yes it turns out the tools I purchased for drilling my fan holes were a little too powerful for my upright wardrobe, so I need to go to home depot and purchase a 4" circular drill bit. Update on Tuesday.

good luck, love to see the work in pogress pics

I'll have them all in the updates. I didnt show how to assemble the wardrobe because it was such a bitch to put together. But all the grow-related parts will be DIY-friendly.

Alright. So I found the right tool for the holes: A handheld cut-out tool. Its kind of like a handheld jigsaw. I will be drilling the holes for tomorrow but for today:



I added a dry erase calender for keeping track of lighting schedules, watering schedules, nutrient concentrations and a myriad of other statistics. Right now it's just a hint as to whats inside...



I realized the stupidity of installing a chain lock on the outside of a wardrobe so I removed it and installed one of these key-latch type locks. Works like a charm.




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I've also started work on my Zen-inspired DWC cloner. Today was the trip to petsmart.

Ingredients:

Two plastic shoe-box containers w/ lids (1 for humidity dome) $5.00
One Whisper 20 Gallon air pump $18.00
One BubbleAir Bubble Tubing 36" $10.00
One 6" Air Stone $5.00
One 25' length of 3/16" vinyl tubing $2.50




Take one of your shoe box containers and make a small hole using a screwdriver or drill towards the top of the container. Make the hole wide enough to fit the air pump hose through the container like so:





Once the tube is in the container you can connect an air stone to it. An air stone is a circular disc used in aquariums to both make a aesthetically pleasing volcano of bubbles in the water, but also can give oxygen to the roots of a cloning plant by keeping the water aerated. Attach the end of the hose to the air stone.



Now I bought this air stone just in case as I wanted to experiment with a new bubbling technique.i purchased what is known as a bubble wand. It is 36" long and is a tube with miniature holes that bubble. Hooked up to a 20 gallon air pump, I imagine this would do a fantastic job. A airstone disc like this only bubbles in one area whereas this tubing, as you can see, will wrap around the entire container keeping it nice and aerated.



The other end of your tubing is attached to the air pump. Now in my case I have to attach the hose to an anti-siphon filter to regulate the amount of air coming into the bubble wand, and then into the air pump.








Join me tomorrow for more cloner construction and exhaust construction!

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you gonna put duct tape on that container or somethin to keep light out ?

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