Clearandblue's 1 square foot nightstand grow

[Clearandblue]

Hi,

I'm back from a long sabbatical from growing and have got back into it in a small way ha. Last time I was part of this online community was on a forum called Overgrow. After having a look about I think I'll settle down and call ICMag my home.

I've been lurking about on the other current forums for inspiration for a couple of months now and am almost about to chop my first run with this little setup. It's super ghetto but I'm pretty pleased with how things are going, all things considered.

The Setup


Basically I got a flat pack night stand (bed side cabinet) from Argos for cheap and modded it to suit. Instead of running the 3 drawers I stuck the drawer fronts together. It still sort of looks like a nightstand until you take the front off . .



I lined the inside with mylar sheeting (stuck with blu tac for now shamefully). I fitted 5 bayonet light fittings to the left and right sides at the top and wired them all to 1 plug using some spare twin and earth cable annexed from an extension cable.

At the back and at the top I cut a 4" hole through which I fed some ducting for ventilation. This leads to the ground at the back of the cab and into a 4" Ruck fan. From this there is a short section of ducting into a carbon filter. Power for this goes through a 5 step fan speed controller I rigged up. There's also a little pc fan at lamp level that is wired to a phone charger to give some air movement in the cab.

 

[Clearandblue]

First run

First run



Right now I have an Iced Grapefruit (Female Seeds) starting to ripen up nicely. This was vegged for about 2-3 weeks and topped around the 4th node. It ended bushy as fuck and I've actually pulled a load of fan leaves out on a few occasions already. Flower started around 6th June so it's been going almost 7 weeks (46 days). I was initially thinking 10 - 11 weeks but looking now I think I will start the flush at the next water and keep an eye out for the next week or two. She smells awesome and looks beautiful. Pictures don't really do justice, she has a real friendly tasty look.

Also in there is a Royal Dwarf (Royal Queen Seeds) that came as a freebie. This was put in as an afterthought probably a day or 2 before switching the cab to 12/12. It's in a 600ml double cream pot haha. It's basically just a bud on a stick and pretty fat. Trouble is it has this weird parsley like smell that isn't all that appealing. No where near the same resin as on the Iced Grapefruit either. This will probably do as my first smoke to keep me going while the Iced Grapefruit gets a bit of a cure.

 

[Clearandblue]

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Here's a shot of one of Iced Grapefruit's branches under a whiter light. Can see she is well developed for less than 7 weeks under CFLs

 

[Dion]

nice work

 

[MicroRoy]

Nice.

Have you started another round.