TrainWreck08
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Look I had to go on a budget here so this is the best I could do. Let me know what you think and what I might need to change around. The bulbs are 40w 6500k cfl's 48''..
My new room what you think
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xogenic
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try and get something to put on the bottom of the cups like plastic plates to stop the runoff going into your carpet
also make shure you have lots of wholes in the bottom of your pot to help with aeration and to stop from flooding
also with the cups not having a rim on the bottom where water can get in and out try and cut the wholes through the corner of the bottom rim of the cup so they are half on the bottom half on the side
the best reflective getto material is the shiny insides of crisp (potato chip) packets
and if you can get an old 12v output phone charger and a cpu fan from inside a computer you can cut the end of the charger and wrap the wires to the two wires on the fan like red to red, black to black
just remember to tape exposed wires before you use it to stop fire lol
cut some circles into the crisp packets with a whole in the middle and a slit to the outside from the centre and put it round your plant helps to get the under sides of the leaf
it looks like they are streching a bit try and get some more light if you can as soon as possable
try and get something matt white to put close to the sides of the plants i have once used the wrappers from a coke cola bottle as it is white and it is quite reflective
thats all the getto stuff i can think of right now ill try and get some more for ya
good luck and keep us posted +rep
also make shure you have lots of wholes in the bottom of your pot to help with aeration and to stop from flooding
also with the cups not having a rim on the bottom where water can get in and out try and cut the wholes through the corner of the bottom rim of the cup so they are half on the bottom half on the side
the best reflective getto material is the shiny insides of crisp (potato chip) packets
and if you can get an old 12v output phone charger and a cpu fan from inside a computer you can cut the end of the charger and wrap the wires to the two wires on the fan like red to red, black to black
just remember to tape exposed wires before you use it to stop fire lol
cut some circles into the crisp packets with a whole in the middle and a slit to the outside from the centre and put it round your plant helps to get the under sides of the leaf
it looks like they are streching a bit try and get some more light if you can as soon as possable
try and get something matt white to put close to the sides of the plants i have once used the wrappers from a coke cola bottle as it is white and it is quite reflective
thats all the getto stuff i can think of right now ill try and get some more for ya
good luck and keep us posted +rep
TrainWreck08
Active Member
im not that on a budget i mean i can spend some more money. lol
xogenic
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they get your self an old chest of draws and an envirolite and some mylar
a saw and some screws and knock it up in there
the envirolites are just huge cfl's and generat next to no heat and come in blue spectrum for veg and red for flower cheap to run and buy too and no need for a ballast i use a 200w and have 10 new seedlings growing nice
a saw and some screws and knock it up in there
the envirolites are just huge cfl's and generat next to no heat and come in blue spectrum for veg and red for flower cheap to run and buy too and no need for a ballast i use a 200w and have 10 new seedlings growing nice
GypsyBush
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Hi!
I don't mean to tell this is what you must do, but I think it may give you some ideas...
I am sorry to unload all of it like this, but I thought it was relevant...
Best of Luck...
Gypsy...
Hi...! yes... I'very Hi...!
A while back (10 days or so) I ordered a new light... a 600 Watt HPS w/ a 8" cool tube... ... so I could have one light over the four trays I intend on having..
I wanted to order a Grow Tent as well, but the cash was a little short that day... not wanting to wait this long again for shipping, I decided to go get some supplies and build my own... (with the help of a good friend... Thanks!!!)
Soooo, I just thought I'd post about how I spent part of my day yesterday...
Went to WM... picked up a "wardrobe"... air pumps & stones... Industrial Strength Velcro... and 4 plastic containers...
Then I went to "L" and got a few more things... 4"in-line duct fan (exhaust) @ 80CFM... some 4" ducting... a 4" ducting wall adapter... and some heavy duty tape...
Then I went to a gardening supply store and picked up some 6 MIL black/white Panda Film, but I had to buy a freaking roll of it... 1000 sq Foot roll... yeah.... ok... and I found these neat little zippers... probably $1 from China, but I paid PREMIUM, let me assure you hehehe, what a rip off... I needed them so I got them... and they were very easy to use... if only they were a better zipper... I hate cheap, flimsy shit that you know won't last... especially when you have to pay a lot for it...
Oh my other beef with the zipper is that you NEED 2 to make a door... all of the pictures showed what I needed... but you can't make an effective door with just one... everything I said before... just doubled the price... rip off....
So I guess a few pictures of the assembly are in order...
This is not a tutorial... I am not a teacher and I don't have patience to explain anything to anyone unless the person is willing to pay genuine attention because they are really interested...
With that said, I would be glad to answer questions here on this thread (please do not PM me ABOUT THIS)... just make sure you are asking a relevant, specific question... Thanks...!
So Yeah, it is pretty easy, if you have the patience to deal with a very large piece of plastic that needs to be folded neatly several time...
I still need a piece of thin plywood for the bottom, the cardboard looked good for the pictures, but it's not permanent...
I put little velcro tabs, attaching the frame to the panda film...
I had to make an extra section to cover the back of the zipper, as it is not light proof, and to make sure, I ran a strip of velcro lenghtwise, to make sure light cannot go in because of the zipper...
I'll take a better picture of the thermostat, but it is just a regular cooling thermostat... you set the temp and it lets power go to whatever it is you are running...
Kinda like a timer..... but instead of turning on and off with hours and minutes, it is controlled by temperature...
So I can have the fan kick at ... say... 75F...and when it gets below 75F (+- a few) it shuts off....
Passive intakes should do it... but it would be easy to add at any point...
I know I will not get true 80CFM out of this fan, but I have a small tent...
true 80CFM would circulate the entire airmass 3.3 times every minute...
I bet I am still getting full volume transfer every minute... I got 24 cubic feet of space...
Well, it's time for me to go and enjoy some torture at physical therapy...
Be good boys and girls... and remember "Always Drive Rowdy...." lol...
Gypsy....
When the light gets here, it will have 8" holes on the sides of the tent for unrestricted blow by ventilation... provided by a 265cfm cage fan (not an in-line blower...
Damn... and I still got the joint...
Ok... so I will start pretty much where I left off... with one overlapped picture to illustrate a change....
I decided to change the exhaust flange because I found one that will block the light a little better than the previous... and I think it looks slightly better...
...and a little fan to ... "..stir it up, little darling stur it up..."lol
Oh! I was wrong about the fan all along... it is a 170 CFM in line blower...
I have always been scared of cheap plastic timers on anything more than household lamp... so... here we have a real timer... that probably won't catch fire, melt or be overloaded...
Of course we gotta know what we are feeding our plants, so here we have a HANNA Pronto TDS/PPM meter.... everything to keep my ladies happy...
The thermostat will kick the exhaust fan ON when the temperature inside raises to what the user sets it to...
This power strip will be used for non-ballast/non-timed/non-heat generating items such as the circulating fan and 9 watt CFL (just in case I need a light and don't need to fire up the BIG GUNS...)
Everything else will be staged outside... airpumps, ballasts, transformers... etc...
And here is the whole strip with the goodies....
... and last but not least....
I really wanted to use some of the "neoprene" medialess "disks"... but there were none to be had in this town...
So, again, I found something that works at a fraction of the cost....
I wanted to get away from absorbent foam once the seedlings grow a bit, to avoid stem rot...
So this closed cell foam is perfect, even if I have to tape or glue it once the thin seam busts...
It's perfect for what I am doing...
Well boys & girls.. it's been fun so far... but I am not finished.... soooo... I will get busy again and check with you guys a little later...
Take care...
Gypsy...
stickyfingaz89
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Very very nice like what you have done with the clothing wardrobe i had the same idea but didnt owrk as well lol terrably in fact so i went out the lazy way bud box lol check out my grow
