Hey all. Really getting tired of mystery product and paying for packaging, so I found myself a cheap beat up cabinet and made a bunch of trips to the home improvement stores. I also made a trip to a local hydroponics gardening store (got coco and Botanicare nutes).
The cabinet is 2 feet deep, 3 feet wide, and 4 feet tall on the outside. Inside is around 21"x32"x41" once I cut out the base for the drawers at the top (as shown in the upside down picture.) The cabinet has an adjustable shelf - you can see the support rails along the sides.
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At first, I was going to leave a strip of wood and cut out a hole, then mount the drawer fronts back in place. I decided to take a more clever approach to make full-height doors but in retrospect, I should have went with plan A. I would change a bunch of things next time. Oh well - I think this will work. I forgot to take pics step by step so I'll just jump to the finished cabinet:
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I was going to make a custom light (CFL) support that could be raised, but because of the cramped space and limited height, I attached bulb sockets directly to the top. The ventilation system is a basic 4" vent fan and some ducting, exiting out the back. I have some holes in the floor and front base with light baffling for passive intake of fresh air. There is a constant hum from the box, but the house heater (you can see a vent on the floor) makes more noise when it kicks on. If you look real close at one corner of the door, you can see a tiny speck of light. The power strip is up there, so I may re-do that. However, even in the dark room at night, you have to look real close to see that bit of light.
Since I can't adjust the height of the lights, I kept the adjustable shelf. I'll cut holes to suspend my pots, and have a drain tray (hand water and runoff whatever the acronym for that is) on the cabinet floor. I know it will be a pain to adjust the shelf when the plants are growing, but I'll just have to deal. Ultimately, I want to build a bigger second cabinet, and keep this one for stage one, or even use the shelf to split it into two sections.
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The shiny stuff goes most way down the sides. The large bulb is a 68W (300W eq). If I use four of those during flower, that should be plenty. With those lights on and the fan off, the cabinet got up to 96F. With the vent fan on, the cabinet stays at 71-73F. There is no filtration as of yet. I designed the vent system (poorly) to be able to retrofit something later on. If this winds up as a cloning cabinet, I might not need anything.
I germinated two different fem nirvana seeds in paper towels - they only took a day. They were just moved to cups of coco in the photo. I plan on attempting SCROG or LST - I can tie down to the adjustable shelf the cups are sitting on and the pots will sit in.
Source: http://www.rollitup.org/stealth-micro-cab-growing/588310-another-newbie-cabinet.html
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