Check Out My Growbox

Hows it goin' everybody?

So I have a large cabinet (roughly 5'x2') in my bedroom that I have converted into a growbox. I have a 130 cfl exhaust blower running through my cool tube 400 watt HPS which is hooked into a carbon filter. I cut out the back of my box so I could figure out power cables. But now that everything is hooked up, I'm curious whether I should replace the back or not. The wall behind where the back should be is white (so it should reflect well). Also, I'm growing in 5 gallon pots with Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil. I have germinated my seeds (5 out of 5!) and placed them all in individual root cubes which are inside the 5 gallon pots. I'm running my HPS on them right now at a 18/6 cycle. The seeds themselves have a large tap root but the seed casing is still in-tact and is growing towards the surface. Is this normal or did I not germinate long enough?


My basic question is, should I put the back on it, or should I leave it the way it is? If I do decide to put a back on it, should I cut a hole for the fan's intake or should I cover the whole thing up?

I got some pictures because its probably hard to picture...

Thanks y'all.

Peace!

C'mon folks. Help a fellow stoner.

Yes you should put the back on and cut proper holes for ventilation
Nice setup though dude

Thanks mang. She's been a bitch setting up, I'm just ready for the final product ya dig?

The growing medium and all that ish sounds good as well?

yes ffof is a great soil mix
Are you going to be using fox farms nutes with it as well or another brand of nutrients?

Haha to be honest I haven't really gotten that far.. What do you think?
And everything sounds straight with the seeds germinating too right? I don't need to worry about the seed casing?

Thats a funky ass icon picture dude haha

Yeah the germination sounds good bro
That pic is of my purple strain that I have, it came from some bagseed and I just kept her going through clones and seeding