Looking for a grow tent!!!

WvMade

WvMade

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Anyone know where i can get a grow tent for like $50 just the tent i don't want anything else with it because that jacks up the price alot and im kinda poor so i can't afford a $200 tent i don't need a big sturdy stainless steel tent just one suitable to grow in so plz someone send me in the right direction without it being ebay only one i found was 50 but the shipping was 61.99 and thats more then the damn tent was
 
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T.H.Cammo

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Go to WallyWorld and get yourself one of these:

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Whitmor-White-36-inch-Clothes-Closet/5245009

Get two of them if you want a full sized tent! You can connect them (back to back) with a heavy re-inforcing strip and cut the back walls out. Brace the area (where the missing walls were) with a "Big X" made of wire (from top to, diagonal, bottom).

1. Line the walls with your favorite reflective / lightproofing material - or paint.
2. Reinforce the top part of the frame a little (if needed) to support heavy lights, etc,
3. Make appropriate, lightproof, holes for ventilation and electricity.

Enjoy!
 
WvMade

WvMade

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T.H.Cammo said:
Go to WallyWorld and get yourself one of these:

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Whitmor-White-36-inch-Clothes-Closet/5245009

Get two of them if you want a full sized tent! You can connect them (back to back) with a heavy re-inforcing strip and cut the back walls out. Brace the area (where the missing walls were) with a "Big X" made of wire (from top to, diagonal, bottom).

1. Line the walls with your favorite reflective / lightproofing material - or paint.
2. Reinforce the top part of the frame a little (if needed) to support heavy lights, etc,
3. Make appropriate, lightproof, holes for ventilation and electricity.

Enjoy!
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What about this one? could i use this instead of buying 2 of the others? or would 2 of the others be bigger?




And how do you make lightproof holes?
 
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T.H.Cammo

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WvMade said:
What about this one? could i use this instead of buying 2 of the others? or would 2 of the others be bigger?




And how do you make lightproof holes?
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One of these "Doublewides" provides the same square footage as two singles built together. One "single" = 4 1/2 sq. ft. - two "singles" = 9 sq. ft. The difference is that your "Doublewide" is six feet wide, by 1 1/2 feet deep (long and skinny). As opposed to my "Back to back" which is three feet square. A square tent this size is perfect for a 400 watt HID light system. A tent that's 6' x 1 1/2' could be hard to light effectively (the Inverse Square Law can be a Bitch!).

Lightproof holes can be made a couple of ways:

1. Use a "light trap". It's like three, or more, cereal boxes taped together, "Front to Back". Ports are cut through the side walls, so that the light has to "Zig-zag" it's way though a labrynth of boxes (each box is cut high on one side and low on the other). Inside the boxes are all painted "Flat Black" to absorb as much light as possible. These light traps can be made of thin plywood, cardboard or even actual cereal boxes. The traps can attach directly to the holes in tent walls, or they can be attached to the end of ducting material (using proper light proof material such as Duct Tape).

2. Ducting can pass through a tight, round, hole in a tent that has a small ring of "durable lightproof fabric" sown on to it (something like a "Tee-shirt sleeve"). Then, just duct tape the "sleeve" to the ducting.
 
WvMade

WvMade

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so prety much im gonna put them together line them with mylar or something else seal them cut ventialtion holes? or do i take off there fabric and just use the frame?
 
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don2009

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What you guys think of using PVC pipes, boxes for the wall, rapping paper from the dollar store for reflection? I was thinking of that let me know pls thanks
 
p.rock

p.rock

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don2009 said:
What you guys think of using PVC pipes, boxes for the wall, rapping paper from the dollar store for reflection? I was thinking of that let me know pls thanks
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great idea, thats actually what I was thinking, I just need a way to contain the grow, I don't need super stealth blahblahblah etc. I say pvc pipes, some cardboard (or scrap wood found by any house being built, yes hop on the dumpster and look in it.) and some flat white paint and you should be in business, although if your doing this over carpet floor. i recommend lining the bottom with plastic or something. incase a little "moisture hits the floor
 
WvMade

WvMade

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i hear pvc has a chemical that will harm your plants to that might not be a good idea i would just use wood 2x4 2x2's
 
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