First ever wardrobe grow.

looks great dude, by the way, you're english speaking skills are even better

DankTankerous said:

looks great dude, by the way, you're english speaking skills are even better

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Grow pot and learn a second language. Might be a book title in there somewhere. ROFL

on DVD near you

Tim Fox said:

if you do change fans, try to get a 4" inline type fan, then you can do like @fishdeth and place a glass tube over / around your bulb and then use that vent hose ( like you have in the bottom of your box) and make yourself an air cooled vented hood, using your own parts, you can use those glass tubes that are on old gas lamps, or a glass vase, use a glass cutter and take the bottom off, venting your bulb will give you many possible heat adjustments if neccasary
your coming along good, refer back to my old man in the wardrobe thread for ideas on how to light seal your box, Fish had it easy a little easier because his refriderator doors already had seals, but he still had to seal other holes he drilled, it can be done,,
your coming alone very well,
DIG THE SEED SPROUTING!

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That's a fantastic idea Tim, I'll go check out fishdeths setup. I might be changing the fan sooner then later, because it broke... ;_; I came back one day to find it dead silent. I took it a few days ago to get fixed but I have to wait till thursday.. If all hope fails, then for the time being I'll just get a weaker fan (making sure all the cfm ratings are correct). I've noticed that when I stuck my new oscillating fan, the temps rapidly got knocked down to about 24 degrees... which is fantastic. So I basically would have to have a monster of a fan (which I plan on getting one day) to achieve such an adequate enviroment.

I'll give an update on the fan in a few days.

DankTankerous said:

looks great dude, by the way, you're english speaking skills are even better

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Haha thanks a lot man, it's nice of you to say so. Well, actually I was born in England and lived there for 10 years... so I had a head start.

SO, the seedling has just shown itself today! Amazing that this little thing is going to grow (hopefully) into a huge ass bush. That;s also one of the reasons I like to grow, nature is amazing.

Anyway, I do believe the seedling is a bit lighter green than normal. Could be to do with the soil as bio-bizz All mix has a fuckton of nutrients. Although eople have had success with it, even at the seedling stage, so I need not worry. I hope she will adapt to the enviroment.

Good job I have the oscillating fan running at full speed, because it keeps the temps at around 90F. Air IS escaping through the extraction hole, but at a small pace.. should be enough for the moment.

Wee' little sprout.

Also, I HAVE to start documenting the days properly. So this is Day 1 from sprouting, in the morning I noticed a little U shaped stem poking out of the ground, now she flipped and is exposing her beauty.

I germinated her in paper towels and she was ready in a matter of two days. I don't know how you guys like to germinate, but this is my favourite method. So simple and I've never had a problem.

So after a whole day of fighting with the light leaks, I came to the conclusion that there is nothing wrong with the weather stripping, but with the bloody door... It has a very subtle curve in the middle, which meant that no amount of pushing and squeezing would stop the light from pouring out... and of course the door hinges must be faulty, because the door would spring open.

So I said "fok this" and went out and got some door "hooks", I don't know their proper name. Now of course in a matter of seconds I stopped the light leaks all together (finally), but at a price. The cab doesn't look stealthy at all from the front, unless I convince everyone that my carpenting skills are rubbish (which they are) and the hooks keep the door from swinging open (which is partially true), so no worries.

Now all is left is to buy some 90 degree elbow pipes like @Tim Fox has, and the back will be 100% light proof.

The pictures are of course rubbish quality, but I guarantee that no light leaks out of the cupboard.

Gregor Eisenhorn said:

So after a whole day of fighting with the light leaks, I came to the conclusion that there is nothing wrong with the weather stripping, but with the bloody door... It has a very subtle curve in the middle, which meant that no amount of pushing and squeezing would stop the light from pouring out... and of course the door hinges must be faulty, because the door would spring open.

So I said "fok this" and went out and got some door "hooks", I don't know their proper name. Now of course in a matter of seconds I stopped the light leaks all together (finally), but at a price. The cab doesn't look stealthy at all from the front, unless I convince everyone that my carpenting skills are rubbish (which they are) and the hooks keep the door from swinging open (which is partially true), so no worries.

Now all is left is to buy some 90 degree elbow pipes like @Tim Fox has, and the back will be 100% light proof.

The pictures are of course rubbish quality, but I guarantee that no light leaks out of the cupboard.

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Looks fine, go ahead and put a lock on there if you want

That's actually a good idea, although that will be harder to explain if someone were to ask. Although I will give it some thought.

or you have to explain what they see when they open the door,, think about the lock, ,, then work on your story, having your story ready to go is half of good stealth,, you can say,, its just storage of things, part of the story can be,, " i cant find the key right now",, and then be ready to change the subject,, practice stealth

Damn, that's really good, never crossed my mind. Cheers Tim, tomorrow I'll be getting a lock for sure.

Update on the fan.. bloody motor burnt out... On monday when I came home the fan was actually pressing against the plastic casing.. could be exactly that. Oh well, now I have to get a replacement if I don't find a motor.

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Update on the fan.. bloody motor burnt out... On monday when I came home the fan was actually pressing against the plastic casing.. could be exactly that. Oh well, now I have to get a replacement if I don't find a motor.

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Glad nothing caught fire or anything.
Circuit protection?

Me too. I mean the only thing I did was solder the cables, I think I read somewhere that that helps. Apart from that I make sure that the raw wiring is not exposed in any way. From now on I won't be messing around with the wiring until I am 100% sure what I am doing is correct. For the time being I "connected" my oscilating fan to the exhaust hole. The fan is about 12 inches, much to big for that 6 inch hole, but it does a great job at keeping the temperature at 86F which is more than enough for me.

Also, since we are in the electrical topic, where do I connect the "earth" (yellow) cable near the lamp? Should I just screw it to the reflector? The one near the ballast is screwed, because there was a screw especially for that. I'll get some pictures up to show you what I mean.

So, nothing much to report now. My attempts on documenting the day by day process of my girl is as always failing. That's what I get for being lazy.

Maybe a wee update on the light sealing. After two days of failure I managed to seal one intake, although I had to decrease the size of the vent a bit... the biggest PVC pipes I could get my hands on were 100 or 120cm in diameter. I hope that won't cause any problems and if so, I can always add some PC fans for an active intake. (?)

Tomorrow I might order the same fan that I had, since I was unable to repair the motor of the last one. I got a suggestion to check the thermal fuse, so I'll go ahead and do that soon, although this motor a bit different (than a oscillating fans one, which I am used to) and I think I located the fuse.

I have no idea what the humidity is, but I placed some tray of water inside. I also willbring back my USB mini humidifier to see if that will change anything.

Seedling is about six days old. She looks healthy, and her growth rate isn't that bad, although it isn't as fast as some people manage. But then again, she's developing a nice root system, so fingers crossed for explosive growth next week.

Peace guys!

This was her two days ago + the fan motor:

Well, I was very pleasantly surprised by my girl when I checked on her today before popping off to university (first day and I've bloody had enough). In the space of 10 hours she managed to nicely develop her second set of true leaves, with the third just coming out. Here is to hoping.

Either than that not much to say really. I moisten the soil three times a day, making sure it doesn't go bone dry. Looks like the All Mix is being really forgiving, which I am perfectly content with. No burnt tips, discolourations of sorts, nothing. The first few days were a bit scary, hearing all those stories of seedlings burning up, because of the soil.

Update. Seedling at day 13. I kind of feel she is lagging behind a lot... oh well, never had luck with explosive growth.

I also bought myself a new fan. The funny thing is, that it is a 80cfm, but it works five times better then my previous one.. weird. Oh, it also works five times louder, I swear it's like a tornado is locked up in my cupboard. That doesn't bother me for the time being, but I will get a fan speed controller one day and crank it down a notch. The cab is 90% light proof, because if you look really hard you can notice a very subtle light leaking out from the vents. I'll have to spray paint the inside of the pipes black one day.

It's really cramped in there, but when I decide to go hydro, I'll buy a much smaller fan and hang it on one of the walls. For the time being the oscillating fan doesn't bother me and really helps knock down the temps.

I'll let the soil go dry today and give her a proper watering in the evening. I can see a few white roots when I look at the bottem of the container.