250w cab, 36" tall stealth grow.

**cues** · 07-07-2012, 03:37 PM

Ok peeps. Just a few pics of my latest 250w single plant stealth cab grow in progress.
First, I'm going to grab your attention by showing you my single plant at day 24 of 12/12.
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1) The build
250w Security lamp, ebb-flow tables timers, contactor, 6"inline fan&filter, hi-lo thermometer. Cabinet 36Hx26dx48L.
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2)Home-made co2/yeast bottle on the intake side. (Doubt if it helps!)
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3)Later added a vertical fan and a humidity guage.CRIM0010.jpg
4)Was using this to keep humidity up in early veg!
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This is a tomato trained up the left side-wall scrog. (Heck, why not use the free light!)
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And the right-side gets used for peppers, Aubergines, basil and cucumbers.CRIM0028.jpg
This clearly shows the light cut-off point. You can see the basil in the back and the peppers in the foreground.
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This is the stem of the weed plant.
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So far, the grow has been going reasonably well. The indoor garden has provided us with enough tomato, pepper, cucumber, chili, basil and aubergine plants to fill the back yard. (about 100 decent-sized seedlings in all). The Cayenne peppers have been particularly succesfull. The only dissapointments so far have been indoor growth of basil (which I hoped to continue through winter. I suspect the problem has been to high an EC due to the requirements of other plants) and trasnplanting tomatoes that I had attempted to scrog, (which I put down to my own stupidity)

The weed has been a worry. It was a seed of GHS Big Bang Feminised. It came through Female (fastest plant I have ever seen show sex) but I underestimated it's bushiness. I topped it at four nodes then fimmed at the next 2. Ever since, it has been a constant battle of tucking away leaves to allow the top to reach some light.

Also, I underestimated the weak power of a 250. It's obvious that just 2" into the canopy it's already getting dark.
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**stormannorm82** · 07-08-2012, 06:49 AM

nice scrog that screen has filled up nicely

**cues** · 07-08-2012, 08:46 AM

Cheers, I would have vegged for another week to fill the screen right up to the edges/corners but the whole point of this grow is to give me some smoke for my birthday and I just didn't have the extra veg time.

**KidneyStoner420** · 07-08-2012, 08:53 AM

Love it man. Looks tasty.

**Matchbox** · 07-09-2012, 01:46 PM

Finally managed to get a proper grow in this cab lol

good job though! looks pretty sweet with weed instead of other 'erbs XD

And the 250's penetrate further than you think, just 'cause it looks dark there's still photons and what not passing through the leaves

mine penetrated about 20cm (that's only 'cause my buds were 15-20cm) with the light 35cm away from the canopy.

I wish I veg longer in my ScrOG's but I get bored of watching veg, I like budz!

Keep up the good work, see if you can beat my final yield! I don't know how much I have dried and cured yet, but so far dry it looks like 4-5oz and I have another flowering one going still, so try for 5.5-6oz!.

Stay Frosty!

**cues** · 07-09-2012, 07:21 PM

Cheers MB! Yeah, I talked her into letting me grow one for my birthday. Of course, I've taken a clone and when this one is finished, I've got to talk her into letting me grow one for xmas!
I used to get almost bang on 16 oz of kush off a 600 in 4x the area so i'm hoping for 4 oz off this.
I think the penetration is poor because this strain is so dense. There's an average of 2-3 buds in each 2" hole! At the moment, stretch has finished and most bud tips are 5-8 cms above the screen. Next time I'll lay off the fimming I think.
Do you mean you kept the bulb 35cm from the screen or the top of the canopy? Mine's about 32cm from the screen and that's all the room I've got!
About 5 weeks to go.
It's good to be back growing my favourite plant again!

**Matchbox** · 07-10-2012, 07:54 AM

Yeah 35cm from the screen, all the height I have

going LED's for my next stealth grow, slightly bigger re-modeled cab (inside this time not in the bloody shed) with webcam and all so I don't need to physically look in there as often.

**cues** · 07-10-2012, 10:47 AM

Cool. Will be subbed on that. I want to see an LED grow from someone independant.
Not saying this site gets overtaken with the manufacturers, but I find some of the LED grows on here very suspect.
I suspect scrog will be ideal for led (although a flat-scrog!)
I want to try a vertical 250 scrog next but the only space I have is the one you've seen. I know it's going to be tight but I think it can be done.
Whereabouts you from? (not exact area, just north/mid/ south etc). I'm right down on the south coast.

**Matchbox** · 07-10-2012, 04:37 PM

I've only seen a few legit LED grows and they seem really good, the plan is to get an LED with the 120* angle so I can still use a dished ScrOG very effectively, thinking of a 370-500w LED panel but they get quite expensive :s

You'll have to mod the box a bit for cooling to mount the 250 vertically or mod the box so it can stand on it's side you'll get more height that way, might be better that way.

I hale from Ye Olde London XD

Stay Frosty!