My Stealth Box v2

Heey!

It will be first time i will be trying to use Hempy method with GH nutes, i have full formula - Flora, Micro, Gro + Rippen.

So, you can have and take your time to look at my signature to check out my previous grow in this minibox.
This time i have made some new updates. I installed:

* 70w remote ballast + fixture + diy reflector
* installed a rails, so i can move a height of my CFL's (big improvement)
*New bathroom fan + DIY scrubber
* Fresh light proofing.

I planted in my first Hempy bucket some autoflower strain wich a friend of mine gave me, i think it is LSD, anyways - i'm waiting for my order to come and i will do a scrog + hempy with - Delicious Seeds Cheese Candy and later Secret Valley Seeds Northern Flame or vice versa.

Auto just for the lulz in 1,2Liter pot, i will manage it, haha....

Turned in first CFL on 18/6 for AF, big bathroom fan off (no need, and it makes some small noise, so when flowering i will put on scrubber...

Also i think i need a big hole somewhere down there, because when i close doors, i feel, that no air is coming out of ducting, but when i open a doors just for a bit, i feel that there is a lot of flow air flow...

Also i feel little bit awkward with coco...

Thanks for reading!

SHE HAS BEEN SPROUTED )

How much space are you working with? I'm subbed.

THanks @Greeengal -
Space is small - 75cm (h) x 45x45 W x D, small cupboard!

Pic from inside:


I want my own flat - so i could make normal sized tent, and grow there with 400-600 HID, that would be cool ...

Really hate, that i cant get 6500k bulbs, only 2700k. so a lot of streching and slow growth due hempy and too red spectrum...

Little Update Here:
So i have received Seeds, i think i'm going to plant a Femed first, afaik i would have problems with reg too...


Here are the seeds:
I hope they ARE NOT AUTOFLOWERS, because i want to scrog them!

Little Seedling of AUTO:

You see there is some burn ( i think i pre soaked with 0,1mm nutes COCO), now i'm watering PH'd water 5,8-6.1

And i made a passive intake, as i felt - when doors are little bit opened i can feel wind blowing out of exhaust, really powerfully, when closed, there was some real vacuum, and it makes a lot noise and no air comes out, feels like it was sucking in - so i drilled a finger long hole, and now i feel fresh air coming thru with closed doors - NICE!

Also made a light trap for that hole too, to be stealthy (anyways, when someone comes over, i'm forced to turn a fan off, so i should install a switch
Here is she:

Really slow growth, but i think thats because of two factors:

2700k BULBS (cant get anywhere close to 5000k or +)
And hempy bucket first weeks of root development.

And i got a question - is it normal, that coco is almost wet for 3-4 days?
I watter her really not so offten, she is not showing nor overwatering, nor too much water... hmm...

EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE ALLRIGHT!

CHEERS - I'M BLASTING A BONG!

After a two days nothing much can change, haha!

That's like, when you have kids, you see them everyday, and they are not growing at all, but then by time - they are mature...
Sometimes about cannabis there is thing - those first two weeks of cupboard opening, every hour, and watching if something happened, haha...

hmm, something is WONG...
i thing those ar ph problems, cuz i dont have a good buffer, im using vinegar (more stable than citric acid)
hmm, growing really slowly...
dont have places where to get ph down...
need to score some acid...

I gave her 0.04g Mg Sulphate + more nutes, 6ph, after day it was 7.00 hahaha
but - woualla, big success at growth, new leave coming, but still very sslow
i will post pictures soon

So here is small update...
Bought a stable pH-, for Aquariums, i think it is shit...


so some small progress

yeah, i think now she knows where the food at is...
watering daily with nutes + Mg
ph range 5.6 - 6.2 (i think it is too mutch, i should stick to one like, 5,6 - 6.0 and that's max fluctuation)
Setup - 120W 2700k CFL's / PC Fan + Bathroom Exhaust with ducting

Plant has progressed:

i don't get it, ok, there is happening a lot of sideleaving (new leaves between nodes coming up, it's getting bushier, but still - those leaves are like half of my finger in lenght - they are really tiny and this is my second grow, where leaves are very tiny, as far, as i have seen other cfl grows, with almost same wattage - they got big leaves...
Maybe i got some radiation over here haha


And she has been vegging for 26 days, and is very small...

I think i had poured nutrient solution all the time 50% weaker than i should...
But i started to gave her a water- she drinks lot water, so i think i need to go for stronger solution now [?], cuz i dont have bigger pot, i cant give her more water... ph sweetspot - ph water to 5.5 and then water every day, gradually ph of water goes up by three days in solution to 5.8-5.9, so some swing there is good...

Here are some close up of roots- they have successfully made down to reservoir :


Some close-up of my babe:


And some small error too - is this a heat stress?


By this time i really feel for Hempy bucket, definitely gonna make grow in bigger buckets, i have never seen her droopy - by overwatering, really wow!

Wow! When roots hits the reservoir (and giving normal ratio nutes, not diluted i got messed in my measurements) - wonderful things starts to happen

she's looking mighty fine.

Spanky's Monkey said:

she's looking mighty fine.

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Thanks man for post! When there is no posts i feel little bit scared, should trust my own guts, haha... Feels like there is something wrong...

Nice setup. You in an apartment? I'm looking at builds for a tiny perpetual grow.

Iscariott said:

Nice setup. You in an apartment? I'm looking at builds for a tiny perpetual grow.

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Yes, sir! Living with other mates, this is in my room, i have made an emergency fan switch, so if someone of stoners come over, i turn fan off and go to living room, you know - to be stealth...
Only one mate knows, he is my buddy, i trust him, haha...

Yeah, so basically it's a cupboard - by best advice would be, to use LED + HPS 70w ( i will buy this soon), LED's will give more better spectrum and less heat + HPS more lumens per wat than CFL's...
*For vent i could use something smaller, the problem was i didn't had an intake, now i have low temps and loud room, i have to leave speakers buzzing, to mask sound, but i think it will be ok, when i will put a filter on, and some noise is coming from duct..
And for being more stealth, i totally recommend using DIGITAL TIMERS instead of analog ones, because analog ones makes some cracky noise, so when i'm in room and when girl is sleeping i hear that tick-crack noizes from timer, so sometimes someone asks - what is that crackling noise, i tell it's somewhere outdoors...

Little update here!
She is growing really fast, i mounted one side of lights lower, so side branches get some light too...
And started to give like switching to 12/12 nutrients, but still 18/6 as auto, maybe i should go 12/12, to avoid high, because i think, i've burned some tips...

And something with nutrients too or ph, dunno...


But the growth is huge:


BOX:

I'm dreaming, to take 2x 30W Cree 3000k or some brand LED (afaik China LED's have low efficiency) and put them on each corner...
So HPS + 60W CREE 3000k (or maybe just single 100w) gonna bring some results...
I'm draeming about DIY led, maybe there need some Royal Blue spectrum... I'm so confused!