Dorm room grow

hippiegrower18

Active Member
Sup everyone, I'm a newb and this is my first post. I just want to say I'm glad I found this website because it has so much information and I'm happy to be a member.

Anyway, as the title says I want to grow in my dorm room in college. I've never grown but I do enjoy the herb and am SICK of paying top dollar at college with these jackasses selling bullshit weed. I'm in a different city and don't know anyone to buy legit weed from like back home. I got to thinking and decided one night to grow weed in my room with my roommate.

I've learned so much from the internet in the last month of reading forums and faqs and have weighed the outcomes of growing in my dorm room. I've decided I'm going to and am completely set on doing it.

So to grow I will need a box of some sort, it cannot be anything other than self contained. I've looked at all the prefabs and before I pulled the trigger I decided to build it myself. I have a few options in a dorm room but the most favorable would be under my bed. The bed can be raised up (and down) so that I can fit slightly less then 4', maybe like 3' 8". The space under the bed is long though, like 5', so i can have a wide box. I want to be able to fit a fridge next to it under the bed so maybe i can have a 4' wide box.

I want to basically make a stealth grow, my plan is to make a box something like 4' wide 3'8" tall and 3'10" deep. I want to have an aquarium in the front of the box so that it looks like a piece of furniture with an aquarium in it. I plan on building it out of wood and painting it black so that people cant tell how far back it goes under my bed. The back of my box will open up (I'd have to climb under my bed to get to it but whatever) so that i can tend to the plants.

I plan on growing two plants in 2 gallon DWC bubblers with a scrog grow and a 400w hps/mh air cooled hood from hid hut. I keep going back and forth on ideas but i think the scrog is the most reasonable. I have a place (not my dorm) to do a perpetual harvest like al b fucts but id rather wait till i can actually grow! I would do a sog but i dont really need that many plants if i get caught red handed in my dorm.

I'll keep you guys posted on how my box comes along. I'm going to start building the 22 of this month (payday). I'll take lots of pictures incase anyone wants me to explain in depth how i built my box.

I want to grow with seeds from nirvana, the wonder woman feminized strain. Anything wrong with that strain for me? I want to grow for yield and middle potency. But thats later, I want this thing to grow in the first place!

Sorry for the length, any suggestions welcome!

Hippie
 

Njsurf14

Well-Known Member
think what you want, if you can get away with it and nobody ever checks your dorm then more power to you, But is it worth geting kicked out of collage
 

chuckbane

New Member
i think thats an even worse idea than growing in mommy and daddy's,, lol,, you dont own that property and they can come in as they please if they think something is up... this idea is 100% bad.. if you want it that bad wait untill next year and get your own place.. i cant even stress how bad of an idea that is
 

moonbeam

Well-Known Member
the only way you MIGHT be able to get away with that is to grow in a computer case with CFLs. I agree that is a bad idea in the first place. no fucking way your gonna get away with using HID lights
 

chuckbane

New Member
another problem is light pollution during flowering.. i can imagine dorms dont shut down at 8 pm... you would have to make a box completely sealed to light.. and it would have to be small... this small sealed box will get hot as fuck quick and your plants will die,,, and how do you plan on venting properly?... soon enough (when you start growing) your roomate is going to be getting drunk and bragging to people yous are growing dope and then you are either going to get jacked or worse,, caught

Good Luck!
 

hippiegrower18

Active Member
Thanks guys for the advice, I was iffy on growing in the dorms. I have another place to grow like I said but it involves me having to drive 5 min to see my plants. I guess an ebb and flow system would work better since its supposed to be lower maintenance?

Any advice is welcome, thanks

hippie
 

LiveVibe

Well-Known Member
I think you could get away with a PC grow with one or two plants. There was a great thread on here with a guy that had White Rhino with three CFL's in a PC box. You might be able to use a hepa filter or ionizer along with some scented oil in your room to lessen the smell. Honestly two or three foot tall plants is not going to stink so much that you cannot cover it up. You can get a strain that is neutral in smell. You could even build a fan to draw air out of the box into a charcoal filter. Your main concern is the smell and any weird sounds but if you live in a dorm there are so many weird sounds and smells anyways. You also have to be real secure about it and make sure you are always there or know if somebody is going to be there aka maintenance or monitors, etc.

Here is the thread and this was some damn good stuff this guy had set up. It was bad ass stealth too.
https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/54700-white-rhino-pc-case-grow.html
 

stiffer

Well-Known Member
i think if you wana do it go for it, im sure you can pull it off, i would either get some auto-flowering plants or go straight to 12/12 to get erm done fast
 

hippiegrower18

Active Member
Alright guys I've decided to do it at my buddys house 5 min from campus, the reason i didnt want to do it there is because i would have to cut him in. but whatever, thanks to those that told me not to grow in the dorms, you guys probably saved me from getting kicked out. and at my buddys house i have alot more room to work with....which means more bud:mrgreen: i will post another thread asking questions about my grow there.

til then stay green.

hippie
 

hypernovax

Well-Known Member
yea growing at your friends house is def. a better idea, you wouldnt even be able to use a HID light with 3'8" of height as it needs to be 2ft away from the plants..
even f you have to cut your frend in if your growing at his house you'll have alot more space to work with which means more yield
 

choop

Well-Known Member
i think thats an even worse idea than growing in mommy and daddy's,, lol,, you dont own that property and they can come in as they please if they think something is up... This idea is 100% bad.. If you want it that bad wait untill next year and get your own place.. I cant even stress how bad of an idea that is
i knowwwwwwwwwww
 
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