Building single-plant growbox, I want your opinions!

have you ever seen anything that is 100% malfunction free?

and you can hold a bic lighter to a 2x4 much longer than you could to a piece of foam...

Have you ever heard of a house burning down because of a malfunctioning lightbulb?

Only because styrofoam is less dense. May take more exposure to the heat to ignite but it will also burn for 10x as long once you get it lit. You have to physically touch a flame to styrofoam to get it to ignite, if you only expose it to the heat it just melts away from it. Wood will stay in the same place and get hotter and hotter until it blackens and ignites 50 degrees prior to when styrofoam would. I would rather come home to see a hole melted through styrofoam than to a room full of wood smoke. For the sake of comparison, I've seen what an incandescent bulb can do to a wood wall from sitting too close and it wasn't pretty. The same bulb beside stryofoam will only make it melt and recede. Glad we aren't using those bulbs anymore. But I personally think you would be safer building your grow designs out of styrofoam than wood, but you gotta love the structural stability you get from wood. If I had tools I wouldn't be in styrofoam because it lets light escape and it's not as durable. This was cheaper than building a sweet ass wood box + buying all the tools.

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Gypsy I would really like to see you step down from your 50$ tent to a 20$ stryro setup You'll love it if you have one, and with your head you could probably come up with some wicked ideas that I didn't think of. Just by doing it right the first time you could make yours a lot more effective than mine. Like someone said before, I was the guinea pig haha.

sorry bro...

my op needs a little more space...

Holy fuck man! You're my hero. I would love to go that big someday haha. Sick light cooling setup. Anyway as of this post I now have a new goal in life lol. Maybe this is my purpose in the world! You have a better geographical location for it though I think, I'll be doing something like this when I get older and get my life established with a bitch and a job in a more remote location, I think some refer to this as "settling down".

All of my advice has been from my real life experience... not from reading it on the computer..

and on top of that.. I am an old fart who has done a lot of things in life.. most of them successfully...

But go with what you know bro...

You should have told me this sooner, that beats the fuck out of science any day. Maybe I should go back and read it all again, I bet it will all sink in a little farther this time lol. You seem like the kinda guy I would hang out with haha

Fractus said:

Holy fuck man! You're my hero. I would love to go that big someday haha. Sick light cooling setup. Anyway as of this post I now have a new goal in life lol. Maybe this is my purpose in the world! You have a better geographical location for it though I think, I'll be doing something like this when I get older and get my life established with a bitch and a job in a more remote location, I think some refer to this as "settling down".

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he lives in AK. haha idk if we could say thats a better location. maybe alittle colder we can say hah.

A lot easier to get away with higher power bills because of the cold climate. And that's the last place anyone will ever look and it's worth a fortune lol.

I have only tried to help from day one... despite you thinking I wanted to make you look bad...

But everything I said was geared twds great bud at a low price...

And you said you're not worried about that...

And as far as Ak goes... I pay 10x more for everything you guys can just go down to the store and buy.. and I gotta wait at least 2 weeks..

Even the milk I drink goes on 4 different planes just to get here..

Winters are really fucking cold...

And as for power... We generate our own power with diesel @ $14 a gallon...

No one knows how much we use... but then again I know how much it costs...

And still I get my bud for 1/4 of the price I could get it for...

AK or FL has nothing to do with how efficient or stealthy your set up is...

People do it RIGHT all over the world...

Like I said Fractus... the day you decide to get serious about the final product, I think I can help... maybe...

That's crazy dude, but what if an individual happened to be a pilot?(Hence the name stratus "fractus" ) Wouldn't that make things easier? Anyway I'll keep that in the back of my head, if/when I go big I'll be in touch haha

Being a pilot in AK is like having a driver's license in the lower 48... can't get around without it...

And you don't have to go big to be efficient...

You can get 1 gram per watt from as little as a 250HPS...

But big means I get more weed right?

I rather have efficient over big any day...

But yeah.. in theory... the more you grow, the more you get...

Wow... That's some real shit. Nice grow bush - we should talk some time.

Gad to see that's all worked out now.



Hey Fractus - you can definitely build a small box very cheaply - instead of using styrofoam.. I mean, I know you like what you have, and it is a cool experiement - but I saw you talking about how you'd like to use wood but it's expensive and takes up more space.

but really... it's not.... lol. You can easily build a box that fits in your closet, even up on a top shelf. If you made a frame with 1x2 and covered it with 1/4in paneling or OSB, it'd be light too... instead of using 1/2 or 5/8in plywood and no frame.

I got mine for free from my work.. ... but I could have easily built it $30 man... as log as ya have some access to power tools you're good.

But I don't have access to power tools right now. I'm not from here, this the apartment I stay at for school. But I've had all sorts of ideas since the styrofoam. Inside a tower speaker box for example. It's already built for you, depending on the model it may have intake and exhaust holes already there. I also considered one of those big green rubbermaid garbage cans with the lid. And I had half a dozen other ideas too. I see things I could use on a daily basis, it's like I'm always looking out for it now haha. But for what I'm doing, 20$ for a box that is already built was pretty sweet. All I had to do was stab some holes in styrofoam.

its def how ideas come to be, next year people will be duplicating fractus's grow box once they realize how well it works

Something to consider....some info.

"Why is styrofoam recycling important? Polystyrene or styrofoam is manufactured from petroleum. As such, it is highly flammable and may not be safe to use as improvised wall insulation. It is illegal to burn styrofoam because this would release harmful chemicals to the atmosphere, notably benzene, a known human carcinogen used in the manufacturing process of polystyrene."

I would REALLY caution ANYONE on growing ANYTHING inside styrofoam.

Yes, very innovative. Very neat.

But NOT practical OR safe over A LONG PERIOD OF TIME.

The science just isn't on your side Fractus...

Build yourself a SMALL tent, insulate it with reflective material, vent it properly. You will be much better off.

And yes, one CFL can burn down a whole house. Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought, my mechanically inclined growing brother

yo be careful homie...i said fuck the styro ill save that for my drank, and i just planted outside....cant risk burnin my pad down ...not downin you or nothin shid if it works for you then do it...i aint knockin you...but as for me....i cant even risk it...sun is always better anyways