Lately I've been toying around with a new cabinet idea:
Step 1: Buy one (or a few) of these for $175:
Step 2: Buy 270 1.5" grodan rockwool cubes (or something similar. Could use hydroton. Even soil.)
Step 3: Root 270 clones (or root 27 clones per week for 10 weeks).
Step 4: The moment they're all rooted, throw the whole thing into 12/12.
Step 5: this is where it gets interesting. The whole plant gets maybe 6-7 inches tall at most. Each plant is nothing but a 6" top.
Step 6: Harvest.
1 gram per plant = 270 grams (9.5 oz.)
2 grams? 540 grams (19 oz.)
3 grams? 810 grams (28.6 oz.)
4 grams? 1080 grams (38.1 oz.)
With one of these, you could either harvest 270 every 10 weeks or so (strain dependent) or harvest 27 a week for 10 weeks. You could probably fit two of these in a cab with similar dimensions to mine. (the fixture above is 47"w, my cab is 48"w.)
The thing i like about the idea:
#1 All of the 270 plants would be within 6-7 inches of the light source, so penetration even at the soil level would be BETTER than the rated output of the lamp.
#2 All of the 270 plants would be tops. No flimsy popcorn.
#3 Would require significantly less height and depth and therefore could be easier camouflaged. Dimensions of the lamp are: 47" x 15" x 2.25". Pretty sure the whole setup including fans, carbon, potential drying chamber could fit in a 4 ft wide, 1.5 ft deep, 2 to 3 ft. tall cabinet.
I've started messing about with it in Sketchup. let'cha see something when there's something to see.
Thoughts?
sounds like a blast, but you gotta have some huge stones to be thinking about 270 plants...if you were going commercial, I don't think that would honestly be the best way to do it...keep it up dude, great thread
I've seen other T5 fixtures that house 6-8 tubes and that's what I would go with personally. I've used 4 tube (30w each I think) T5 for veg and growth was much slower than my 150CMH.
Might not build it. Kicking the tires at the moment. I like to think out loud. That's how I built the current cab. Many ICMaggers contributed ideas that got implemented into the final design.No matter the direction you choose I'm sure it will be a successful grow and a fun one to watch.
yah this looks like a really badass grow dude. wow wow wow wow.
holy fucken moly I see a forest there. great job there.
so how do u vent that cab.
Anti-I would love to see you use the same growing style under an HID light. Dr Bud said a few times in his epic thread that he wished he could still play with HID's and I have always been curious how the final weight would compare to CFL's.
I dont want to thread jack here is a link for answers. I apologize antiyah this looks like a really badass grow dude. wow wow wow wow.
holy fucken moly I see a forest there. great job there.
so how do u vent that cab.
I spend 10x that much time POSTING and READING here on this board in a week.
29 pages and nobody asked the most important question....is this you or your girlfriend in the pictures?
Thanks mate but I'm not into this foot fetish stuff.It's not me. But if you look carefully, you can see my foot in a few of the pictures. (Not any of the ones that feature boobs.)
Lately I've been toying around with a new cabinet idea:
Step 1: Buy one (or a few) of these for $175: