Well i'm sure excited. After many hours, drafts and edits, I am finally going to start building my:

Stealth Perpetual Harvest Multi-Chamber Grow Cab

If you are not familiar with this I have been thinking of a way to clone, veg, and flower on a perpetual cycle so that 6 plants are harvested every month, but I wanted something clean, organized and localized into one particular space.
I started looking into storage boxes, cupboards and pantry's but neither offered a partition that could separate plants on 24/0 and 18/6 with those on 12/12 nor have enough space to store the plants along with lights, timers, fans, etc.

Then I found the Rubbermaid wardrobe from Canadian tire.




The wardrobe took me a long and drawn out four hours. Instead of building it to their specifications, I modified the shelves and drilled everything together for solid reinforcement. There were a couple of minor aesthetic foibles on my part: for example,



As you can see the doors do not align. However they still cover the entire grow space so I'll keep it for wabi-sabi.

This one isn't my fault



Apart from the chipping on the door (thank you Canadian Tire!) as you can see the doors are not flush to the wardrobe. I will need to rectify this with some weatherstripping later on.

Also they gave me a cardboard backing for the wardrobe which is no good. I will have to buy some plywood and reinforce it.

Now on to the inside:



When I was planning out the dimensions in my blueprints, I estimated based on the actual wardrobe dimensions, 72x48x12. Now that it is built I have measured and displayed the actual dimensions of each chamber. Turns out to be more than I estimated, which is good. However this required me to turn my original design upside down to accommodate it. Instead of the clone/mother chamber going top shelf, they now go bottom shelf. And instead of the flowering room exhaust venting up to the filter in the filter chamber, it now needs to vent through the supply chamber (most likely via PVC)



I purchased some flat white wood spray paint to paint the entire inside of the wardrobe flat white. I figure flat white is simple and economical. Plus I plan on having adequate lighting for all chambers.

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I will update this thread regularly as I purchase materials and will be sure to take plenty of pictures for you.

I encourage suggestions. I have blueprints, but I am always looking for some good advice on how to improve this cabinet. I hope to use this cab for years to come so I really want to get it right.

Till next time.

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dude youre gonna run out of space so fast
our grow box was 60 inches long 40 inches high and 30 inches deep it was split into two parts for veg and flower (btw i see alot of ppl who make speacial clone rooms separate from vegging i wonder why they can be kept together perfectly fine)but it worked till a few weeks after flowering when to could no longer raise the lights any higher and my plants are heavy indica.

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R.C.C (Rollitup CFL Crew)-mistaphuck. http://www.rollitup.org/grow-journal...nk-indica.html <thats my pink indica

Well my plants will only be vegging for 1 week after the clones root.Its perpetual so it will most likely be several smaller plants. It will be a process of trial and error im sure, but I'll start them 12/12 from clone or seed if that's what it takes! Plus I'm keeping a mother for cuttings and the clone propagator in the same chamber and the vegging plants in another larger chamber. I felt that was the best route as I wanted to give the plants room to veg without a DWC cloner getting in the way

you dont get much out of 12/12 from the get go i know im in the middle of one not all of them but my one little clone expirament has just got little weak popcorn buds

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R.C.C (Rollitup CFL Crew)-mistaphuck. http://www.rollitup.org/grow-journal...nk-indica.html <thats my pink indica

i like how you had to pointout the thing with bullshit i laffed. laffed indeed

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R.C.C (Rollitup CFL Crew)-mistaphuck. http://www.rollitup.org/grow-journal...nk-indica.html <thats my pink indica

Good idea but also: don't store your supplies above anything important like your flowering ladies.

unfortunately that was the only place I could put the supplies. Unless I get a seperate cabinet for supplies and use that space for a miniature dry-box venting to the carbon filter. Well see, I guess.

nice idea dude, what kind of light are u runing for flowering ?
may want to make that a little higher ...
and just use that compartment above it for bud drying

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pretty tight bro, pretty tight. keep us posted ok?

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My friend Pedro has been thinking about doing something like this. He has available space of 2ft wide by 6ft high by 6ft long(or about that). He was thinking of doing the same sort of thing.

Interesting how this turns out and following.


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