VivaLaOvergrow.com
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Hello Rollitup.org!This is my first posting in almost two years now. I had a feeling that Overgrow was going to hit the fan so I pulled my profile down about 8 months before she went down in her not-so-glorious ball-of-flames.
What a crazy two years it's been since then.
I've gone through some personal health struggles, and, although I don't really want to get into it here, have been relatively healthy for the past 9 months, enough so that my doctors have pulled me from pharmaceutical medicine, and prescribed marijuana. They have granted me the ability to grow and posses 24oz of dried cured medicine (what they feel is a 60 day supply), and enough plants as I feel necessary to grow my "60 day supply."
So with this new found liberation I venture once again out onto the net, to hopefully inspire other medical patients to take their medicine into their own hands (or gardens)
After doing some very brief searching here I couldn't track down any long threads on cab growing, or any complete overviews on entire closet systems, so I decided to clog the servers with my thoughts and ideas on how to grow this versatile plant.
Lastly, I don't claim to be any sort of guru, or BS like that. I haven't been growing all that long, relatively speaking, and this is just what I have found to be a relatively easy system to maintain, which produces sufficient amounts in a reasonable time, time after time.
My main structure comes from a Mills Pride wardrobe closet available at any Home DePot. It comes with a adjustable light rail that you may choose to use, or you can scrap it if need be. After constructing the cab, it's time to let her breath. I put 4, 2in holes in the floor of the cab, 1 hole in each corner. This is the passive intake for the grow cab. If stealth is a issue for you, I also recommend buying 4, 90 degree PVC elbows. Insert these in holes that you just made to stop the light from leaking (Light CANNOT BEND)
Next I put a 4in hole in the back corner of the upper shelf. This will extract air from the lower bloom cab, up into the clone chamber, and out the last hole in your cab, the 6in hole on the very top of the chamber.
From here I have my 6in ducting running down to my carbon scrubber. Its being pulled in by my seriously over kill fan, a Can-fan turbine. It's got a 6in opening, but it's really like a 10in turbine. I don't know how much it pulls, both it and the light that I got were gifts from friends in high places let's say
As far as what's inside, I'm using two Stackable filing crates, available at officemax, or office depot, or just about anything with office in the name, as bubble buckets. Inside those I dropped two airstones, each attached to it's own pump, per bucket. (2 Buckets, 4 pumps and stones.) I decided to put three plants per bucket, just cause I thought I could get away with it using a 400w light. So I cut 3 5 3/4 holes in the top of the buckets, and there you go, simple hydro. I decided to use Ionic nutes this time, but for my next round I'll be going with Botanicare. Hmmm what else. Ahh yes, my latest addition, my second cab, this one I use for Veg. Threw a teeny 70w hps in there, and that keeps the 6 plants that I have in there happy. They have a little smaller res, and only one pump, but still two airstones. The last harvest that I pulled out of here weighed in at slightly under 8 oz dry. I don't know if these will do as well, as they fell victim to a faulty timer when I was on vacation, which caused the lights to stay off for 3 days, But we'll see!
I'm definitely up to hear any suggestions, or comments that anyone might have. I'm going to post some photos of my system tomorrow when the lights are on, as it's already late here, and I still have to finish making my special butter... It's going to be a long night~
Pleased to make your acquaintance Rollitup~
~VLO~
