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Bozga's DIY CFL micro grow =)

bozga

Member
Hi mates :wave:

Well, I was thinking about sharing some pics and ideas, and of course show you what I do under 82 - 138 watts of CFL light.

BOX

Dimensions: 63high x 55wide x 50deep centimeters. Two 80mm computer fans, one at the bottom for intake and one on the top for the exhaust.











LIGHTS:
Reflector DIY with 6 holes for CFL. Made of computer's box metal side board, and drilled holes for the lamps and sheathed with aluminum foil.
On the sides there are two little hooks for the reflector.
Two 23w warm CFL 2700K and four 23w 6000K cool lights.
Every bulb has light efficiency of 1500lm. So I think I'll get some more bulbs and improve it up to 15000 lm and app. 230w of fluorescent light and buy some extra 2700s. :D












MIX
Mix is just regular potting soil, Compo Sana for medicinal herbs and spices with quartz sand for better drainage, some guano and peat with AGROSIL root activator. It says Ph 5.0 - 6.5.

NUTRIENTS:
Compo food for green plants NPK 7+3+6 with micro ferts (B, Cu, Fe, Mn, Mo, Zn)
Compo food for blooming plants with bat guano NPK 4+5+6 with micro ferts (Mn, Zn, Cu, B, Fe, Mo)

STRAIN:
The strain is good indoor smoke I had few weeks ago. Good up, happy and thought provoking with fruity smell and spicy taste. :joint:
I was at the holiday with my mates and we took some indoor weed with us.
Accidentally I've found two seeds in one of buds and decided to keep it.
Both of them sprouted, but one didn't survive - it's root was kinda fcked and it didn't grow.
But now I have one nice, green, smelly and fast growing plant that I'm 90% sure its female.

GERMINATION
5 Bubbleberry 99 seeds that didn't pop and 2 seeds of indoor I was talking about.
Both put into jiffy peat cups. After few days roots have started to came out from jiffy so I put them into bigger 3l pots.



VEGETATION

So this beautiful lady had been kept around two weeks under 18/6, topped on day 10, few more days under 18/6 and after that put under 12/12.

















FLOWERING

It's been 5 days since I've switched to 12/12.

Here are the pics







Stay tuned, all the best

Boz :rasta:
 
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Mr.Kade

Member
you sure about that cardbord box? thats alot of light surounded by highly flamable material. Do you close the top of the box?

It does look like a nice , clean setup. I just dont whant you to burn the house down. lol, good luck though.
 

bozga

Member
Hi Mr.Kade :wave:
Well, I don't have better solution for the current situation in the house so I'm left with this.
This is stealthy and quite secure. I think there should be no problem :joint:
When I re arrange my apartment I'll get a closet and install 400w HPS, but for now this is what I do =)

Boz
:rasta:
 

Berry_Coughin'

Active member
Veteran
looking good bozga! just for your info, I ran 4 26 watt cfl totally enclosed in a cardboard box, with no fire.... I'd just be around the house for the first couple days, and get an idea of how hot it gets..... if it's too hot to the touch, you might think about a different material for your case, as Mr.Kade said, we'd hate for you to burn up.
 

bozga

Member
Hello B_C :wave:
I mean, the box doesn't get even warm. Under the reflector where CFLs are it's little bit warm just below the bulbs, but reflector doesn't get warm at all.
Also, I think it's a bit cold in the box when the lights are off. Yesterday was 16 C, and when the lights are on it's around 24 C so the heat is not a problem.
Eventually some sparks if something explodes, but I don't think something can explode there lol :bashhead: :D

Boz :rasta:
 

J-Roc

Active member
seroiusly the plants look fine.. but dude!
you want to be working with wood here.
or at least a rubbermaid.
 

bozga

Member
Hello :wave:

Well, I think this box is nice, but as Zoltan (lol) says about card box being permanent, that's it! :D It's only a temporary solution and will do something better ASAP when I do some work around my apartment. I've checked them now and man, now I'm 100% sure it's female! =) And is growing real fast. I guess 50-60 days to go :D

Boz :joint:
 

Dr Dog

Sharks have a week dedicated to me
Veteran
am not sure of teh cardboard either, but good luck with your grow.
I guess that would make transport very easy.
 

bozga

Member
Day 9 12/12

Day 9 12/12

Hello everyone! :wave:

So it's been 4 days since my last update and you can see the difference!
This beautiful plant smells sweet already and I think she (hopefully I'll find out in a few days) really likes the environment! Temps are between 18 and 25C , humidity around 50 and 60% so almost perfect! :D
She recovered from little K deficiency and really liked the feeding and now she is healthy and green! Very happy about that :jump:
So here's some photos :joint:

Peace, Boz

Day 21
9 days 21/12








 

Rob547

East Coast Grower
Veteran
Nice lookin plants, looks like theyre growin fast. I just grew under some CFLs for my first time got almost an oz.

ill be checkin your post so keep it up to date

:lurk:
 
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G

Guest

well i sure wouldnt do a cardboard box, but its working for ya so right on man your plants look good.
 

Dr Dog

Sharks have a week dedicated to me
Veteran
That plant looks like it is liking whatever you are doing to it, very healthy looking!!
 

bozga

Member
Well... Bad news. It's a male. So I killed it.
I've put some Blue thunder #13 to germ so we'll see if it's gonna pop.
Peace,
Boz :badday:
 
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