My Grow Cabinet, Stealthy enough? Options

[estpaul]

Here is my grow-drobe, its actually an old tv cabinet picked up from the second hand furniture shop, costed me 15 Big Ones whoever said buying a tent is cheaper has got it all wrong.
Took me two days to cut what i needed to and put my stuff in there( with kind help of the missus). I got fed up with the black and white reflective so i just sello taped all of it in there, thought that bathroom sealant may have too many chemicals in it for the plants This is my first grow-cab, but im quite impressed by it, and since i put the black and white curtains in, almost no leaking light! The light is a 150 Watt HPS, and is plenty for me, because in the end there will only be two mamma's sharing this sexy little place.


At the moment there are 4 pots, as im hoping to get two fems out of the four, and ive got a standard household CFL in the reflector socket and one CFL hanging from the ceiling just for some extra lumens.


(Female names to help them realize that they are in fact females, so i can get lots of sticky green buds )

There is no fans or extraction but by tuesday there will be : two pc 4" fans blowing air in, and a 4" extraction fan coupled with a carbon filter, the good thing about tv cabs is that they already have air vents in them ( old TV's needed it, new ones too ) so mounting all of this will be a good hour job, instead of a two- three hour job (Yes, i like to take things one step at a time if you thinking im slow).

Any thoughts?

What do "stealth locks" look like and could they be fitted on mine?

[estpaul]

Open to suggestions ?

[Shrimper]

Hi fella, nice looking set up. All you need is a Sky box on it and no-one would eva know

[billious]

Female names to help them realize that they are in fact females, so i can get lots of sticky green buds

Luv it

I hope you labelled both sides though because if you didn't then they will see thier names through the paper and Lehcar and Yleek at least are going to be very confused. Thats how hermis start a bit of gender confusion and they split it down the middle!

I prefer to label them clearly with male names and a pick of the last male victim in my growroom in its death throws...... just in case they are undecided

[estpaul]

yeah i get what your saying, but i think female names are better encourages them to find the inner female (gunna go and put names on both sides so they know who they are but i dont enjoy chopping a plant i could have been smoking

[Jammyd0dger]

Nice and stealthy , think I might have to have a look for a cabinet like that for my vegging room.

Good luck with your grow

[estpaul]

cheers buddy, took a bit of elbow grease to get it the way i wanted it, and to get it so it would still be rigid. By the way, purple stems mean the temps are too low, right?

[_ynwa_]

nice setup bud , i have that exact cabinet in my house , might have to sweet talk the mrs j/k she would kill me.

gl with grow , ill be watching

[estpaul]

nice setup bud , i have that exact cabinet in my house , might have to sweet talk the mrs j/k she would kill me.

gl with grow , ill be watching

Do you? whered you get it? i found it in a second hand shop, well my mum did, and i payed her to let me have it she went mad when i got out the handsaw and was making a mess of it everywhere the problem with these cabs are that they arent very rigid after the shelves have been taken out and they need brackets to reinforce them.

Anyway, cheers for dropping by

EP

[swiift]

gr8 job man, nice idea to use cab other way than with tv ;]
i must consider doing the same.. just perfect and very (!!!) stealthy

[Quagmire]

Looks like a nice 'drobe mate.

My only question would be, are you just planning on growing dwarfs? All the plants I've grown so far tend to be over 6ft tall.

[andyr]

Very nice m8.

You should sell 'em. There's money in there cabs

I'd buy one !

[estpaul]

Swift:

gr8 job man, nice idea to use cab other way than with tv ;]
i must consider doing the same.. just perfect and very (!!!) stealthy

I thought so too, cheers, today i went out and got a few fans to blow air in to the chamber from the vents, i got em for free because a friend of mine is a huge computer guy who knows everything there is to know, you ask what is RAM? and goes on for hours and hours at a time. so yeah since he builds computers for fun hes got spare fans here and there

Air vents in old tv's man, looks inconspicous, better than silver ducting on display i think light baffle hasnt been placed yet, but i will stick a bit of cooker hood material, have already ordered it.

Have duct'd em to the wall, since there will be the cooker hood material but i dont want to screw em down yet.


Group photo, that one is growin tall quick( keely that is ), going to fix this problem by potting her them in deep when re-potting is happening.




Quagmire:

Looks like a nice 'drobe mate.

My only question would be, are you just planning on growing dwarfs? All the plants I've grown so far tend to be over 6ft tall.

Seems to be your growing sats, indicas only( the strain ive chosen: hindu kush) grow to about 90 cm at most. i have to agree i dont have 90 cm, but i have around 75 cm, and have plans to train the plants to be even shorter. hopefully this works out, i will follow blabs diary to help me
and the fact that this will be a two plant garden, has enough yeild to satisfy my needs for 2 months .


andyr:

Very nice m8.

You should sell 'em. There's money in there cabs disguise.gif

I'd buy one !

Yeah? how much would you pay for this, all kitted out with a 250W hps, 4" Ruck fan and coupled carbon filter?

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[drumski]

nicely done mate

i'd pay like £180-250 for something similar, then again the proof is in the product at the end of the effort...if you prove it can work, then you may find you have a customer base

[estpaul]

nicely done mate

i'd pay like £180-250 for something similar, then again the proof is in the product at the end of the effort...if you prove it can work, then you may find you have a customer base

Hey, I could be onto something here