Clone / Veg Closet

maineyankee

Active Member
If you were starting all over ... and had a closet that comfortably, you could only use the door entrance space (Appx 30 inches wide, 30 inches deep, and 6 feet high) How would YOU set it up so that you could do clones and a veg in the same space? I have on hand for lighting a 2 foot fluorescent unit that I have used for cloning, and then a 150 watt unit for the veg growth. Just looking for ideas ....

Thanks so very much for your thoughts and ideas.
The MaineYankee :-)
 

stonerman

Well-Known Member
Uhm I would just make a small lightproof box at the bottom, take up the entire floorspace, with a drop down door kinda thing, and that would be the "cloning chamber", lights are usually left on 24/7 while clones are taking root. Then everything above the clone chamber would be the set up for the veg room. I believe even a 150 hps has be a little height from the plants, so just hang it with the ability to raise and lower it. Id probably end up going with a scrog being such a small area for the veg. And I would assume once you want to flower the veg room becomes the flower room?
 

maineyankee

Active Member
Thanks Stoner and Brimck for the reply. The reason that I posted was because I was at wit's end with the top and bottom (which to do). Both are great info. In matter of fact, some of the research that I have done seeing what members have on here, as well as with pre-fabricated grow tents, it's still a 50/50 crap shoot.
I have plenty of heat that was generated by my first grow use of the closet, so heat is not really the issue, but I can see where you are coming from Brimck. I guess this morning I will be hitting Home TeaPot and getting (3) 2x4x8's and making a 24" X 24" X 30" chamber for the clones. Black & White Poly on the inside and hanging the 2 foot fluorescent on top/inside. Then place a 1/4" plywood table on top of that for my veg station. I do have a seperate cab that I built for the flowering station.
Thanks again for the ideas though.
The MaineYankee :-)
 

fallinprince

Active Member
Honestly once you nail down cloning it will be the side thought. AS its winter you do need to keep the temps up to 80F but no lower than 74F. Simply find any old box you used to keep something in... Including a uhaul moving box.Press up the bottom of the box so its flat against the sides then Get 1 lightbulb socket on a cord (1.50$) then a Y - lightbulb splitter(1.50) 2 23watt(100equiv) DAYLIGHT!!! cfl's.. Then stick the Cord through the closed portion (attach bulbs after). Leave the rockwool on a pan or plate and mist the whole box daily.

Then i love using Rockwool it can also be used for soil and hydro grows. Also if you are placing it into a bubble bucket setup you can just peel the rockwool off the roots dont worry if you break a bit of roots it will grow back.

As far as feeding/cloning nutrients. I took R/O water added (dynagro "bloom" + Magpro) to 300TDS then added Superthrive
Then Add the Dry rockwool cubes and ph the nutrients to 5.8. (it will drift slight up due to cubes allow time for cubes to be fully soaked b4 ph)
. And i got amazing clone results.(7-10days till roots at bottom of cube)

Recently with me getting some clonex i skip the superthrive. But dip the clones in clonex and plug them into the wet ph.d cubes. 4-7 days roots show through the bottom of the cube

I personally store them in a domed cube tray(they sell these 10$ everywhere) that gets misted daily. With the lights laying on top
 

overTHEman

Active Member
maineyankee,

thank you for stopping into the veg bin build. have you decided on plan for your space? will you post when you do? also, have you looked into the PAR bulbs?
 
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