Rubbermaid Stealth Grow *help*

Okay so here it is:

My finalized plan for my grow box is to use the rubbermaid tubs. I have a hood for a light for a lizard so I'm going to put a higher watt CFL in there for above the plants (both of them) and I'm going to keep a Y bracket on eaither side of them:

ex. < > = y brackets | = high watt CFL from above

< plant | plant >

Sound like enough light to start? Once it starts to srpout up I'm just going to add more Y bracket set-ups to account for height.

I'm going to put 2 fans in the top of the box, one inside to circulate air, and maybe one on the bottom for intake. Other than that I think I have everything figured out.

edit: the lights on the sides will probably be lower watts, I have the warm/cool light situation figured out, I just have it written down in my grow book and I don't have that with me

(sorry if some of you are reading this post again, I put it in a more appropriate spot but didn't know how to delete the old post)

id say for the 2 plants you'd want around 175 - 200 watts for them at a minimum... any less then that and i dont think youd see anything really good

100 on the top and 4 - 26 watts around the sides if you are with your set up

the best set up for a rubbermaid is 6 - 42 watt lights with 3 light figures and y breaks and a flour tube up the side...

when i did mine i had a 26 watt flour between the two plants and 10 - 23 watt ones, i kept on having to add more and more till i got to 10... doing it again id go with less lights and more watts

also youre going to have a super rough time venting that from the sounds of youre set up... put 2 large computer fans, or 1 inline fan at the top... and a passive intake at the bottom (no fan) which is a little bit bigger then the holes for the fans

Size for the passive intake is definitely important. I've got a 120mm fan for the exhaust at the top of my box and about 1.5 inch hole in the bottom for passive intake. When I seal up the box the heat goes sky high. If I crack the seal on the box, the temp drops. I was wondering what size hole I should have and I believe that question has just been answered.

Yeah that sounds good (the fans and passive setup). I'm starting with the big light above at 2 on either side, and once it starts to grow up im going to add more Y brackets to match the height, so by the end I'll probably have 2-3 Y brackets on either side, accounting for maybe 6-9 low wattage CFL's, is that what you mean?

here is a step by step design for a rubbermaid box.
DIY stealth Rubbermaid growbox - Dedicated to Cannabis Education, Recreational. Medicinal, and Cultivation.

Thanks but due to the fact that I'm in this forum and not that I can't see the pics, and I don't really want to sign up. I think I've got it all figured out, I've read about 3-4 DIT rubbermaid step-by-steps, I just wanted to finalize some things.

I should be starting the grow in a week/week and a half, I'l throw some pics up and you guys can tell me how shitty I am at growing to help me along. Thanks everyone!

gangjababy said:

here is a step by step design for a rubbermaid box.
DIY stealth Rubbermaid growbox - Dedicated to Cannabis Education, Recreational. Medicinal, and Cultivation.

Click to expand...

thanks though!

the only advice i can give is that you'll want bigger wattage cfls rather then more of them to start

and watch for the heat, 6 - 23 watt bulbs in a rubbermaid can easly go to 100+ temps

I want to have a high watt bulb from above, should I just put the Y brackets so the 2 bulbs sit above one another instead of beside, and just use 4 higher watt CFL's?

It would be like this if you're looking at it:

CFL

CFL P CFL
< L >
CFL A CFL
N
T

Know what I mean?

im confused

Yeah sorry it fucked up, I used spaces and it didn't show it right.

Essentially there will be a plant growing upwards towards the higher watt light, and on either side would be 2 more CFl's in Y outlets, but instead of the Y being horizontal it would be vertical, so the lights can cover the whole plant.

And one more thing... I found a better seed bank than where I was originally going to go but they say this about the strain I want:

Light-green coloured buds, wonderful magical fragrance, lots of THC, fast-growing and early flowering make this seed strain an ideal indoor as well as outdoor choice; lots of green sticky buds with a nice mellow high to remind you of summertime.

Grows very tall, and this plant's best potential is realized outdoors. If grown indoors we recommend to cut the stem early on in the vegetative cycle and allow more than one branch to be come the main cola.

This a very unique plant, grows much like a typical Indica with sativa influence, that is very noticeable for marijuana connoisseurs.







When they say the top needs to be cut early on in Veg do they mean topping it? And how early?

This seed bank also says if you buy 10 seeds and get less than 7 females, they'll give you 10 more seeds for free. How awesome is that!?

Thanks for the help...

...where is everyone on this forum?