First CFL Perpetual Stealth Cab (126W)

These ladies began their journey on New Years, this is my first time. One has been flowering for about 5 weeks, the other over 3.

The idea is to have low power, quiet 100% stealth cabs that are visibly hidden in my room. If I can pull an oz a month, I'll be happy. I'm sick of paying douchely dealers, they're just profiting off their friends.

I have 3 42W GE 2700k bulbs in there. The back 2 are horizontal, and the other is vertical. Its hard to tell from the pics, but the plant in back has its cola bent over between the lights. The one in front has 3 tops growing around the vertical bulb.

When these plants are done, 6 smaller plants will go in (perpetually... 4 will go in a month from now when I harvest one of these). I'll redo those horizontal bulbs so they're all vertical, poking down into the canopy, with tops growing on all sides.

Check out TeaTreeOil's documentation on this kind of light setup. The vertical bulb in front follows this concept, and the back 2 don't, yet. Like I say, I'm changing them soon.

I just got my fox farm 3 pack yesterday, I might need some suggestions with these, since I'm not using them from the beginning.

FYI, My plants will veg in a different box under 6500k lights until room opens up in this flower box.

Oh, did I mention, with the window open just a crack, I CANT SMELL A THING! these 2 filters I made are kicking ass, but we'll see when the buds swell...

Nice looking plants.

Enlightenment is the elimination of that which is unnecessary.

to do:
1. paint inner walls white.
2. maybe reconfigure fans. Both exhaust and filters are at the top front, with the intake directly below. Aside from being illogical airflow (i want air to pass over the bulbs to cool them and move through the plants), the top half of the cab opening is sealed and its a bitch to get things in or out. but hey, cardboard was easier to cut than steel.

Nice looking plants. Whats the first picture of?

Nice grow. Did you start them on 12/12?

Greenspace420 said:

Nice looking plants. Whats the first picture of?

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thats an image of stealth, my friend.

No, they were vegged 24/0 with 6500k bulbs for about a month. I think next time I'll do 18/6 since it saves electricity and the plants seem to get stunted without a dark period.

I did play around a little in the first month, giving them a night off here and there, and I think they grew faster afterwards.

Wow. 4 weeks veg plus 5 weeks flower gets you to todays date and means those plants switched to flowering virtually overnight. What strain are the 5 week ones?

Ah, let me restate. they definately took 2 weeks of 12/12 to show pistils. I've been bad about keeping track of dates... sorry I promise better documentation in the future. I'm kinda paranoid about posting on this site. as an IT student, I know how easily the government tracks internet data (content and ip source). what I DONT know is how this data is used. They could take their list of ip addresses they want to arrest to comcast and force them to hand over your info in a heartbeat. I think they know its not in their best interest to do so because it would be another huge drain on resources, but hey, that didn't stop them in the past (vietnam, iraq, the drug war)... Also, if they bust all the small growers like us, and that only helps the big guys. Still, I hope nobody here plans on running for office....

So the 3 week ones took a month to show.
Sounds like shit to me.

Bye

Paint fumes are bad for plants.

l3ored

I'm gonna bump this thread every day until you go back to my profile page and remove the insult you left there.
If you have a problem with being called a bullshitter then quit bullshitting.

v12xjs said:

l3ored

I'm gonna bump this thread every day until you go back to my profile page and remove the insult you left there.
If you have a problem with being called a bullshitter then quit bullshitting.

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You do act like a dumb ass sometimes.

TeaTreeOil said:

You do act like a dumb ass sometimes.

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Well I've resolved my differences with l3ored and I've asked you nicely to remove that post but it seems you wish to insult me even though this wasn't anything to do with you.
So I assume you are a bit peeved at the fact that you were unable to spot such a glaring error yourself. I guess I can understand as it did require me to add up 4 + 2 + 5 and notice it didn't = 9.
I think it says much of your expertise as well as your maths that you didn't notice it. I wonder if that is related to the fact that all your recent posts seem to involve the smell of fresh paint.

I think it says a lot about my expertise that it says "first" in the title.
I think "about a month" means 2 weeks for the big plant and 4 weeks for the small one (2 + 2 + 5 = 9) (4 + 2 + 3 = 9).
I think my purpose of this thread is to illustrate TeaTreeOil's documentation about maximizing yield with limited CFLs.
I think I've asked you not to post in my journal... (I'm sorry I posted on your profile, that was supposed to be a pm).

Back to business...

I have another cab, If I paint it white and let it dry for a while would it still be a problem?

im just going to glur or staple sheets of paper up to my walls, same effect less work

yea, i might order some mylar and glue it in... I'm done putting money into this for now though. I just want to see the results of what I have so far. I'm hoping this will be enough to satisfy me.