My first Cabinet grow

I finally have the means to start a hydro/bubble cabinet grow! I bought all of my supplies locally and purchased 5 feminized seeds ea. of wonder woman and AK-48 of which I germinated 3ea. and 10 regular seeds of full moon 3 out of the four I tried germinated.
I built the cabinet (mostly) out of 1/2" good grade pine plywood. The dimensions are 4' wide by 6' tall(not counting wheels) and 2' deep. I partitioned it into 3 growing stages as well as ducting for ventilation and a separate area for the o2 pumps.
The idea is to rotate 6 plants on a 3 week setup, but for my first grow I will use both the flower and veg areas the full grow and use clones for the next rotation.
The Veg area is 18" wide by 4' tall and 2' deep and I plan to grow three full moon plants there. The flower area is 30" wide by 4' tall by 2' deep and The 6 AK-48/WW plants will be in there. here are some shots of the cabinet and plants 1 week after germination.

A few issues I've run into, the air temperature in the cabinet stays ok with the door closed but the water temp spikes, so i will be looking into a water cooler. Also one of the full moon plants died overnight, it must have been a weak seed as it was getting water and the others all look really healthy. Also, the other plant with its leaves straight in the air finally relaxed, and the leaves are growing out now.

how many days you in?

Looking good man. Nice setup. What kind of strains are you growing? Or is it just bagseed?

looks pretty sweet.
get some hid lights though,
check out igrowhydro.com (sister site is gchydro.com)
they have sunlight systems mini systems that have the ballast in the hood.
they range from like $130 for a 150w to $200 for a 400w.
they kick ass for small spaces!

I am running AK-48, Wonder woman and Full moon all from nirvana seedbank. About two weeks in. The plant with the leaves pointed up finally dropped them and is now growing faster than the other plants, so that is cool.
I was thinking of running CFLs through veg and then MH for flowering, but I am having trouble keeping temps down with CFLs as it is, also I would lose some height because you are supposed to leave a few feet between the plants and MH or HPS whereas I can have the CFL's a few inches from the plants. I was curious if tanning bed bulbs would be worth trying, but first I'll find out how to plumb AC in there is the temos are too high.

Hey do you think those yellow chains are big enough ?? LOL , Theres a tractor place down the road that sells em even bigger just holla if ya need em heee.

hey i figure if theres one thing to go overkill on, it would be what holds the lights up.

roft said:

hey i figure if theres one thing to go overkill on, it would be what holds the lights up.

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Yup you got a point heeee.

Well i figured its time for an update. They're growing pretty well though not as quick as I would like. I've been thinking about adding more light. I did solve the heat problem, turns out the tupperware needed a vent as the lights were creating a pocket of hot stagnant air that was heating the water up. Also the nutes are at about 1400 ppm, is it safe to go to 1700 yet? I am using hydrozyme, drip clean, and general hydroponics floragro as well as some root stimulant every other feeding.
Finally, does anyone know how much difference there is between diff. ph low solutions mine doesn't seem to keep the ph below 7, or when im adjusting the new water it will get to about 6 (I want 5ish) then drop all the way to 3 and i have to bring it back up to 5.

looking good bro, my babies are about a week old, hopin they go as smoothly as yours

louisianimal said:

looking good bro, my babies are about a week old, hopin they go as smoothly as yours

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quick update the girls are now17 days old and looking good. up to full strength nutes and starting to fill out.

nice, mine are about half the size of yours and are something like 18 days but that is due to a constant heat problem i had for the first week and a half

quick update, theyre almost a month old now and have 4-5 main colas due to trimming select fan leaves and ALOT of light. Its really amazing to compare growth pics 10 days apart considering i look at them 3-10 times a day i dont notice much growth. getting impatient as they're slightly smelling of weed.

what kind of nutes are you using?

quick update hoping to flower by next week they are now 6.5-7 in tall

Back again! the girls have been in flower for a whole week now and looking good. The tallest is now 12" (not counting the new growth that has yet to drop)

Update: The girls are now 20" and 18" and flowers are starting to form.

roft said:

Update: The girls are now 20" and 18" and flowers are starting to form.

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the flowers are looking good and the leaves are nicely frosted with trichomes. the largest ww is now 24" and the largest ak48 is 18"

update, the girls are def putting on some weight now and the next set of flowers are starting to mature hopefully they will fill in the rest of the way soon I wanna smoke!