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Hey man I built myself a bucket. Come check it out and lemme know what you think. Your girls are looking great btw!

I got bored today and built a "spacebucket" for my new seedling. I got the idea from another thread in the micro grow section and also outlined here http://www.spacebuckets.com. I made my bucket out of empty cat litter pails. It has 4 26w cfl's and two exhaust fans with a passive intake on...

Yeah that's what I was saying. Use what's free. I think the filing cabinet will work out fine. I don't see rust affecting anything at all. It's probably just going to be harder to work with than other stuff since it's metal. Any idea what you are going to be growing yet?

I'm using a dresser for my cab. The only thing that worrys me about a metal cab is the electricity. If any DIY wiring comes loose and grounds out to the cab the you could be in trouble. Just my .02 cents, I would be extra careful how I set up my lighting. Also a metal cab may be harder to...

Well here's an update on the plants. 18 days old and 6 days after going to 12/12. They are looking mighty fine. I made a mistake of supercropping the fan leaves along with my tops. Lol so the fan leaves don't need to be super cropped, and also don't recover the same way. I will eventually...

Good advice there robnarley. I have stepped up from the pc fans as the exhaust to a stronger 4 inch fan that still didn't work well. I think the problem may be that my intake surface area is not big enough. The intake is a 120mm which is smaller than the 4 inch. The fan pulls hard but when I...

Looking awesome man! I'm loving them. Peppers looking healthy too.

Wait you vegged for 50 days and are 5 days into flowering? Or you are 55 days into flowering? If your 55 days into flowering you should be done soon. If you vegged for 50 days in a pc case and then flipped it sounds like your fucked. You will have to find something bigger to flower in as the...

The biggest heat problem is that ambient temps in my house are 80F so it's not to far a stretch for a box full of light bulbs to hit 90 or 100. I'll check out the small hps kits but really this was meant to be a low budget grow and I feel like I've already spent too much. Basically I've...

The t12 bulbs aren't very powerful and or efficient. I'm assuming they are 18 or 20w? I would just lose those in favor of more cfl. I'm using two 65w and four 26w at the moment and the plants are doing just fine in veg. I'll let you know if I end up having to add more for flowering since...

I like the setup you have. Your box is about the same size as mine is. I am having serious problems with heat and have tried a couple different things that haven't worked out. It looks like you lined the box with foil tape? I have read several threads that foil causes hotspots and burns...

Super cropped the plants today right before feeding time. They are growing strong so we will see how long it takes them to bounce back from this and hopefully we get some nice strong nodes. The girls are starting to STINK! The smell on my hands after bending the stems was making me light...

It appears to be another fail on the temperature control. Close up the box for 20 minutes and it hits 90 and still climbing. I have no idea what to do now and I'm about to give up with this damn cab....

alright we have some updates tonight. I got my box sorted out with the new fans. Just took a little bit of work after dinner and we were good to go. One fan is installed in the upper left as exhaust. The other fan is inside for air circulation. I also installed a foam dust filter/ light...

Got my fans in today. Just waiting to get some time to install them after dinner tonight. Update with pics coming soon

I just watered both of them this morning so that shouldn't be the problem. I have been watering every 2-3 days and they are on half strength nutes now. More than likely I'm thinking its just heat stress. Hopefully my fans will hurry up and get here.

Plants looking good man.

How the buds doing man? I just switched mine over to 12/12 so hopefully in 2 weeks I'll have a female.

I made some more changes with the lighting today. One of the fixtures for my 65 waters broke and while I was at lowes looking for a new one I found a great adjustable 3 arm desk lamp on clearance. It was missing all the lamp shades just had the sockets and I got it for $7. I proceeded to...

The current exhaust and intake are already on the sides of the cab. Intake is bottom right and 2 exhaust are top left. The closet is only 18 inches deep so the cab just barely fits to begin with. I think part of my problems came from the high temps here last week. Ambient temps in my house...