First time grower.

melesha

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Could I do something like this for under 120 dollars? Not counting the seeds. I have the perfect place to grow, and have even already built up my exhaust. I took an oatmeal can and STUFFED it full of fabric softener sheets, and then poked holes in each side to make it screen-like, so air can be pushed out via a 120mm pc fan, powered by a 12v. Then, I got one of those things for dryers, the metal pipe thingys that can bend all crazy, and i taped it until it was sealed, onto the end of the oatmeal can/fan combo. i led this up to my attic's window, and only plan to turn that exhaust fan when the smell gets too much, or if the case is too hot, etc.

For what I had in mind for a grow box would be my giant, 3.5 by 3 foot-ish drawer in my dresser. This guy's doing it in a pc, so a dresser should be much easier to manage, I'd imagine. I'm only PLANNING on growing one at a time, regardless of it's a male. Should I get a specific "bushier, shorter" seed, or would that be enough for anything that isn't marketed to grow tall?

I have one of those, like 30 inch long, fluorescent lightbulb things, that I could set up to be raised and lowered. I don't have any bulbs, just the things. Should I go that route? I'm just looking for the easiest, cheap way. As, this is my first time.

Or do you think I could manage to grow two at a time? I just don't want the smell, and everything else to be too much. What about hydro? I read a tutorial about getting rockwool or something like that, and putting the germinated seed inside and such. Would this be more recommended?

As for the lights, like I said, I have that and a ton of 26, and 10 watt cfls, that I could end up using. The LED setup looks interesting, is it difficult to set up?

Any tips welcome.
 
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