Metal grow cabinet build for 1st grow

my 2nd Easy Ryder seed officially popped his morning. paper towel method seems to work just fine. its just barely poking out of the shell thou so i'll leave her in the paper towel for the day and transplant tonight when i'm back from my Two Jobs... sigh the things a father has to do to support his family in a bad economy. My work schedule is really limiting my time to work on this grow so i'm glad its going well so far.

pics of my girls first pic is of "rudy" the lil seed that wouldn't give up. germed at same time as my white russian but just popped recently,

second pic is "rudy" the Easy Ryder after she opened her shell and guess what... She already had 4 leaves!?

3rd pic is newly germed easy ryder which is now in soil in solo cup

and last pic is my g13 labs auto white russian which doing well

good job not giving up on ole rudy there. "RUDYYYYYY"

three seeds all still going but i swear i've hit some kinda time warp where they have all stalled... seems to be little to no progress in last day or two? i'll throw up pics soon

I did fix my light leak thou! only one stubborn bottom corner is showing any sign of light from cabinet and i'll get it soon
I hung a mylar sheet with velcro all around the sides, its odd because i can see right thru the mylar since the light is on the inside of it but it keeps all light leak in

I still need to fully secure the mylar sheet that is blocking my light leak its got velcro along the top and part of one side but not the rest. i rolled up the end of the mylar sheet to put a light thin board inside (basically a yard stick to keep the sheet flat and down all the way to the bottom. that seems to work well and isn't too bad to work around. but here are some pics of the plants progress:

looks like you're running into a similar issue i had (getting my sun shield to roll flat)... where you used a board I used a cardboard tube filled with baggies of MG soil i no longer use

the 2nd easy ryder seed i popped for this grow.
this one was done with the paper towel method and germinated quickly, thou it took an extra day to pop out of its shell

but again not just the two cotyledon but i've got full leaves popping out of my seeds? maybe i just got a freak pack of Easy ryder...
We'll see how they turn out

This morning i gave my first dose of nutes Fox Farms Grow Big at 650 PPM in 3 cups of distilled water it was only little less than half a teaspoon so i'm surprised the PPM was so high. Only gave it to the white russian the two easy ryders just got distilled water.

White russian is really starting to fill out but still not really growing up so internodel lengths should be good. but problem was a leaf tip was touching soil this morning... i lifted the leaf up and it seemed to stay off the soil, but should i trim the tip off anyway?

All seeds are in their final pots now. No more transfers. White russian seems to have responded to nutes well. Many more leaves popping out. The two easy Ryder seedlings got a lil FF big bloom mixed in their water only 57ppm thou.
And noticed an odor for first time today when I opened the cabinet door. Very mild just smelled like outside and fresh plant growth. But nothing with cab closed. I'm loving this. This growing hobby could be addictive even if the plants really aren't

PrezDickie said:

lining the inside of the cab with plywood would make mounting things much easier but since i was going to use reflective insulation i don't think i'd want to give up the space inside the cabinet the wood and insulation would take up.
the more builds the better thou! +REP for medicine, for fun, for a hobby, or just as an act of disobedience, the more people growing the sooner our whole country will be free to do so on a federal level

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I just put the ply on top of the cab so I would have something to screw into threw the metal and hold the weight. I here you on the interior space! There is not much to start with. I used foam core for my backing with mylar spray glued on it. On the sides I used a matte board with spray mounted mylar. The foam core is 1/4" thick and the matte board is about 1/8" at the most.
I am still working on my second cab and will post pics when I get it finished. I took out my middle shelf today like yours. I was looking at it and you don't even have to cut it out with anything. I took a flat head screw driver and heavy hammer to it. If you find the spot weld places and put the hammer to it they snap in three for four hits. It all took ten min and with no more metal flakes! Big plus! I am still cleaning up after the first shelf. About to buy a magnet to get the rest out of the nooks. Hope all is going well in your grow!

just updated my journal with pics... any feed back is welcome.

https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/480806-led-auto-not.html#post6584096

as you can see in 1st pic the cotyledons from my 2nd easy ryder were still stuck together after the seed shell fell off after this pic i forced them to seperate

plants as of morning on Nov. 7th 2011. I'm trying to track progress so anyone can check their plants (if same strain or similar) and see how they match up, but also so i can compare to future grows and see how i'm doing and learn as i go



you can see how much the white russian has grown between these pics and last, lots of lower leaves and stem is thickening. i'm little concerner about "crumpled" look to main leaves on my two easy ryders but i think its just because those are leaves that came from seed shell. new growth doesn't show any worrying signs that i can see but again i'm a newb.

Lookin good man. The nodes are starting to look pretty crazy.

White Russian got 420 ppm of grow big but 32 ppm of that was cal mag and a drop or three of big bloom. Rudy got a taste of the mix too but only 82 ppm.

I wanted to add a touch of cal mag because I've read plants under led need more

i didn't noticed in person but when i was loading these pics up i thought i saw the first pistil showing on my white russian it's hard to tell with all the crazy vegetative growth going on but i'll have to take a look when i get back.

are these new pics? I think we started about the same time if your first three pics are current. I would like to have someone else grow to judge my against. I think my stuff is stunted or something not really sure though. This is my first grow also. Your stuff looks good either way keep it up!
https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/480806-led-auto-not.html

Awesome grow, seems like you have it set up nicely. It's inspired me to turn a metal gun cabinet I have into a grow cab! Aside from the shelves being a pain in the ass to cut off, how was the vent holes? Just as bad I assume? Keep up the good work ^_^

lookin nice man.. lovin that cab. keep it up

GrownInTheUSA said:

Awesome grow, seems like you have it set up nicely. It's inspired me to turn a metal gun cabinet I have into a grow cab! Aside from the shelves being a pain in the ass to cut off, how was the vent holes? Just as bad I assume? Keep up the good work ^_^

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if you can get your venting set up a gun cabinet would be great for a grow cab! they are usually tall enough and it would be secure. thou i would consider lining the inside of the cabinet with like plywood and covering that with mylar that way your not always struggling to figure out how to mount things. you can just screw into the wood. Good luck and good growing.