Alright guys, I need some help.
I have a box that is about 1 foot deep, 2 feet wide, and 3 1/3 feet tall. I want to turn it into a stealth growbox but before I spend the money I wanted to consult the experts.
These are my rough plans, Are they possible?
I was going to pull in air in two places to minimize the heat in the box(i grew with 400 fake watts of CFL's in there and it got to be over 100 degrees if I didnt vent the box by leaving the doors open) and have one passive outtake hole. I was also going to build a cooltube and have it be a closed system with a fan on the back of the box blowing air into the ducting which will then pass through the cool tube and through ducting and out another hole in the back.
The modified wick system is an experiment that is on going. This past try I put a tray of water out, aerated it, filled it with a mild nutrient solution and then put a cup containing a 1-1-1 mixture of vermiculite, perlite, and stryofoam directly into the solution and watched what happened, the plants are doing amazing. So I was going to do something along those lines, or just a straight up DWC(i guess in my case it would be a shallow water culture), but whatever.
With just 2 square feet of space the 150w will give me 75w/square foot, however I was thinking about getting a 250(way overkill I know) because I was thinking it would be more versitile for uses in the future. Would this much light (125w/square foot) be detrimental to the plants?
And of course, the box would be painted with a flat white matte(currently spray painted white, horrible idea, just looks shitty)
Any comments, complaints, suggestions, anythings would be greatly appreciated. I am currently on my second grow of bagseed(using a 400w HPS my friend loaned me, the plants are about 3 weeks from harvest, give or take, I have one clearly indica plant and two sativa hybrids, and two clones growing in the modified wick system, one of each of the sativas), once I get this box in order I want to buy some real seeds and go from there, so strain suggestions for a space this small would also be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for the help!
p1gswillfly
P.S. Long time lurker here, I joined several months after I started reading the threads. I just never felt the inclination to post. Glad to see that i finally got my first one up there.