My Self Built Stealth Cabinet Grow (how to build a cab) My Pride And Joy

dusty26 said:

well Thank you matey... I'd be happy to draw you up something..
hell i'd even love to make it for you,, we both know that's not practical but hell ya I would...
lol I get high and build shit lol ... the ol lady loves it... have a real nice oak 25 gun cab... 3 big cherry display cases (for the wifes collectables) numerous shelfs and stands , coffee table end tables lol I love to build... i've got a huge garage and work shop in the back yard so i'm pretty set... have everything I need now... (planner, miter, scroll, band saw, jointer, drill press, air compressor and numerous attachments, just a hobby i do beside my daily 9-5 job...
And I dont sell I grow because I love to ... iI try to change my grow ever year ... was a member of overgrow.com for many years went though a period of my life where I had to work my ass off for the company I currently work for for 2 years so I took some time off and the last 6 months i've been back into it again... I love all the different strains of mj and love growing ... I love walking into my grow area and seeing them from day to day...
so now that u know my life story lol what do you have in mind for a grow ?


I'll be on later fellow growers , i'm off to home depot.....

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trips to home depot are the shit! i think im a gonna try and be the first all around professional stoner, i love everything about cannabis from industrial hemp to getting high as shit off some dank indica to just looking in every head shop i see......but as for a grow box not sure of dimensions yet but i would have two 400W slanted towards eachother for flower and then a 250W or something next door for mother and veg and all that...would type more but im off to check on my plants in flower...peace

dont insulate your walls thatd be nuts, its shoot your temps way to high, most of the noise from your fans comes from the fan vabrating against the side of your cabinet or the ducting where it passes through a wall... just put some rubber between them to cut out the noise. also have ya thought about going down to the local glass shop and buying a pane of glass so you could create a seperate light from the flowering area, minimising the heat where the plants are flowering meaning you could use to smaller fans, one for the light and one for the flower area and you could just attach a small carbon filter to the flower room as well.

zechbro said:

dont insulate your walls thatd be nuts, its shoot your temps way to high, most of the noise from your fans comes from the fan vabrating against the side of your cabinet or the ducting where it passes through a wall... just put some rubber between them to cut out the noise. also have ya thought about going down to the local glass shop and buying a pane of glass so you could create a seperate light from the flowering area, minimising the heat where the plants are flowering meaning you could use to smaller fans, one for the light and one for the flower area and you could just attach a small carbon filter to the flower room as well.

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ya know bud i was thinking that... about heat build up... do you think insulating the cab will create an major heat problem ? I mean If I had a good blower to exaust the air... and glass seperating the flowering room ? as in like glass under my light or a roof of glass over the canopy ? i've never heard of that ?

wildfire97936 said:

trips to home depot are the shit! i think im a gonna try and be the first all around professional stoner, i love everything about cannabis from industrial hemp to getting high as shit off some dank indica to just looking in every head shop i see......but as for a grow box not sure of dimensions yet but i would have two 400W slanted towards eachother for flower and then a 250W or something next door for mother and veg and all that...would type more but im off to check on my plants in flower...peace

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lol I know... home depot is by far the shit I love it... smoke a fat blunt and go walk home depot lol nothin beats it lol...
2 400 watters for flower eh ? nice... what kind of area are u looking at ?

and your going to check on your bitches ... what kind of setup do you have now ?

ok well I'm back from home depot... I got more studs to frame in the doors and another sheet of osb... hinges, handles... still thinking of a design to lock it... (want heavy duty locks) ... hmmmmmm

dusty26 said:

lol I know... home depot is by far the shit I love it... smoke a fat blunt and go walk home depot lol nothin beats it lol...
2 400 watters for flower eh ? nice... what kind of area are u looking at ?

and your going to check on your bitches ... what kind of setup do you have now ?

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hell yea you have to smoke the blunt or else you get lost in there and its not fun rather than getting lost and finding cool shit... yea im thinking maybe a 3 x 5 x 6.5 for the flower part and a 3x 3 for veg...right now i just got a 400W for flower in a closet and a 100w and 70w hps for veg

wildfire97936 said:

hell yea you have to smoke the blunt or else you get lost in there and its not fun rather than getting lost and finding cool shit... yea im thinking maybe a 3 x 5 x 6.5 for the flower part and a 3x 3 for veg...right now i just got a 400W for flower in a closet and a 100w and 70w hps for veg

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bro, i'd def go with a 1000 watt.... it's only 200 watts more but you'll definately be alot happier... than 2 400's

dusty26 said:

bro, i'd def go with a 1000 watt.... it's only 200 watts more but you'll definately be alot happier... than 2 400's

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well i already have the one 400 so i was thinkin it would be cheaper to get another 400W and then i could run both bulbs HPS and MH on light movers so that way they just dank out from both spectrums...and yea i know you can get the special bulbs but i dont want to get rid of this 400w that is still good and doin its job

wildfire97936 said:

well i already have the one 400 so i was thinkin it would be cheaper to get another 400W and then i could run both bulbs HPS and MH on light movers so that way they just dank out from both spectrums...and yea i know you can get the special bulbs but i dont want to get rid of this 400w that is still good and doin its job

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well I didn't know you already had the one 400... ya do both mh and hps for a dual spectrum... your bitches'll love that

Looking grand. Extremely grand. Looks like you'll have multiple memorable grows in front of you. Good luck mate.

dusty26 said:

well I didn't know you already had the one 400... ya do both mh and hps for a dual spectrum... your bitches'll love that

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yea man i did a mini experiment and but i 100w mh on one side of my veg box and a 70 hps on the other and the one plant i put in and left in the middle did better than routinely switching the others around

wildfire97936 said:

yea man i did a mini experiment and but i 100w mh on one side of my veg box and a 70 hps on the other and the one plant i put in and left in the middle did better than routinely switching the others around

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wow really ? I'd like to do an experiment with 2 400 watt lights...

2 flowering rooms, one with dual 400 hps ,

and one with a 400 mh and a 400 hps ..

you think there would be a substanial difference ?

greenleaffarmer said:

Looking grand. Extremely grand. Looks like you'll have multiple memorable grows in front of you. Good luck mate.

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Hopefully, it's just wicked crazy tryin to get everything just how I want it. as soon as I like one thing, i think of another lol ...

whatta u got goin on bud ?

looking good

dusty26 said:

wow really ? I'd like to do an experiment with 2 400 watt lights...

2 flowering rooms, one with dual 400 hps ,

and one with a 400 mh and a 400 hps ..

you think there would be a substanial difference ?

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oh definitely a difference would be noticed i mean if you can see a big difference on a small scale think what would happen on a big scale...i mean a lil gunpowder in a firework is ok but the blast is bigger as you add more gunpowder so that is my thinking.. if i can make a difference on a small test scale then i will have large notable differences when i actually implement it

wildfire97936 said:

oh definitely a difference would be noticed i mean if you can see a big difference on a small scale think what would happen on a big scale...i mean a lil gunpowder in a firework is ok but the blast is bigger as you add more gunpowder so that is my thinking.. if i can make a difference on a small test scale then i will have large notable differences when i actually implement it

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exactly .... When you get it all setup you should start a thread and post thru out your grow... you said your gonna go with a cab right ? and where are you thinking about buying your lights from ... there's so many places on the net... which one to choose from lol I need to pic one very very soon ... (600 and a 250 tho)

downtown said:

looking good

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thanks what do you have growin ?

Lookin good. I didn't re-read the thread, but are you a carpenter by trade? Really good looking work. I'm mess with carpentry as a hobby but nothing I build is ever straight.

Any photo updates for us?

Good lookin cab dusty, i have a veg box that i lined with 1/2'' foam insulation. While im building my flowering box im keeping my 250w hps temporarily in my veg box with 18 light 6 hour darkness(auto flowering) and its creating alot more heat than i thought it would( i have T5's for vegging). I had just bought 1'' foam insulation that i was going to line my flowering cab with, but i dont want to create alot of heat that'd i'd have to cool and then having that as a weakness. But at the same time, the foam installed for dampenig noise. I'll be putting mylar over the foam but i dont know if fans alone could keep my 250w and the air being exhausted behind it cool. I originally had a 110 cfm panasonic whisper line fan for exhaust, but that was going to be for a 600w hps. I had to minamize my grow space inside my newly built cab so now i only grow in half the space, so the 250w inside an ultra cool, glass air-sealed, lamp fixture will be taking up almost all the head room in the box, but its 66'' tall so i have good growing space(especially with side lighting) Sorry for going into such detail, i just got done chiefin some good shit so you know how it goes , But my main issue is trying not to create a hot box and allowing the box to breathe a lil so the air leaving it will also be cool in temp. So any input would help me out, thanks

Isthisnametaken said:

Lookin good. I didn't re-read the thread, but are you a carpenter by trade? Really good looking work. I'm mess with carpentry as a hobby but nothing I build is ever straight.

Any photo updates for us?

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Thanks bud... actualy I work the normal 9-5 ... but contract out carpentry and welding work on the side...
lol nothing you do is straight lol... my buddy's the same way... i try not to laugh at him but... it's easy matey