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CanadianGrowMan

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by scrog i mean screen of green... sog mean sea of green. i'd consider doing sea of green, only if i can get a good short strain to clone. pretty decent advantages to having many small plants in a very small area, especially since it doesnt take much time. but i think i want to try out the scrog method. I'm checking out the 420 seedbank to see what they have for good indica strain :D

Thanks for the help everyone! I'll try to get this box built soon so i can post pictures of it!
 

CanadianGrowMan

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how's the ventilation on that thing?

I'm actually considering hollowing out a speaker box or two and using that. maybe one plant in each. could work :)
 

mane2008

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you might want more than 26w maybe like 1-2 85w. you can get da spiral bulbs. Wat strain you plan on growing or bagseed?
I', trying to build my clone/seeding box now only halfway done though cant wait to see yours.
 

CanadianGrowMan

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Well I'll clone at a friends house, if I decide to go that way. He's got a cloning box. But I'm gong to a seedbank friday to see what kind of feminized seeds they have. if they have no feminized seeds, i'll just pick up something mostly indica and kill any males that show their balls and just start over. we'll see.

And yeah, I'll look into the 85W ones. I'll start building asap
 

sic6sic

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dude, I went to Home Depot and got 2 , 2ft ballasts with two T12 fluorescent 24" tubes in each one. I use Philips Natural Sunshine bulbs for veging and the Plant and aquarium bulbs for flowering. They work amazing for small spaces, like mine, and yours. If you can, find a ballast that you can use T8 fluorescent tubes in; they're a much better bulb and they use less electricity but a higher output.
 

CanadianGrowMan

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I have a quick question to anybody... when you refer to the wattage with a CFL bulb, are you referring to the actual wattage, or what it is equal to with a regular incandescent bulb? cause it says that a 26W CFL bulb is equal to a 100W incandescent. Does this mean that for my setup I should maybe have 3 or 4 26W CFL bulbs, basically 2 focusing on each plant? (assuming I get two). Also, how can I tell if the bulb is a warm or cool light? At Home Depot I see some in green packaging and others with the same exact specs in a blue packaging... neither say anything about warm or cool light (which I would switch between veg and flowering)
 

growman3666

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i say get the daylights, 6100k perfect for vegging yes a 27 watter is equiv. to a 100 watt incandescant.
if you are looking for a good way for ventilation use computr ffans, they can be easily rigged to a normal cord and plug right into the wall
 

hybrid

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Dude here is your first clue.............perhaps if you live with mommy and daddy you shouldnt grow weed in their house?

Now I dont condone the crap youre up to but basicaly you want to grow lowrider and you want to use speakerboxes that have the woofer falsed. Take the woofer apart (use some cheapies to destroy and just leave the cone. then run your electricity thru some heavy gauge monster cable into the box which then gets spliced into the socket for the lights. You can run your cable behind something and splice them together and put a plug on it.

Fan? good luck, none of them are quiet enough to not attract moms attention when she peeks in your room after folding your clothes.
 

CanadianGrowMan

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thanks, hybrid. that was an extremely polite way of giving your advice. I figured there would be someone out there who would say something like that tho, and that someone turned out to be you. I've heard it before, other peoples threads of hiding it from parents and whatever, and people giving them shit for doing it. I don't really care. I'm 18 and will be moving out soon anyways, so soon enough I won't have to worry about the parents. Anyways, I'll at least try to find the quietest fan I can, and it doesn't have to be running all the time. I can put it on a timer to go on while nobody's in the house and at night. And maybe to cover up the noise run a fan in my room or something. So thank you hybrid, mostly for your advice but also for your concern, but you're not convincing me not to do it.
 

growman3666

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hey man get a few tupperware bins stack em in the closet and cut holes in the top, if you hide them behind some clothes it works
 

CanadianGrowMan

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I'll consider that. Not too sure if it'll be the right size for me, but I'll look at dimensions of tupperware containers.
 

hybrid

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my post wasnt intended for you to stop what you are doing, it was to let you know that I disagree with your methods but I would help you out.

I think the speaker box and using speaker cable for electrical supply is pretty slick. I know that no one esle would mess around like that.

You need to figure out the fan thing yourself but if you use a rectangular port with 90* bends you can kill the escaping or entering light and muffle the exhaust a bit with the port.
 
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