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[tsk]

¿Have you tried running your CF with a dust-sleeve on it, Tsk? That might help some with the 'whooshing' of the air movement.

hi scribble, ive not tried yet, first coz of temps and second, after four or five grows and a few more washes my CF cover looks like this

e²a: I love the 'modular' construction of your grow setup - it's quite similar to a system that I was toying with the idea of - using different cabinets and spaces and attaching them all together to take advantage of a single ventilation system.

cheers mate, i like things to link i think a 160 out take would be better for the 400 in this space. will have to drop down if i wanna keep a grow on in the summer, but now its just in the realms of alright. dunno how that will change with more plants in there...

Whats yo beef with HomeBoxes?

fucking HUGE, black, ominous, fragile, dust magnet, floppy sides you cant clean properly for fear of collapsing the whole fucking thing,, far far away from light proof, zips not waterproofed so start to rot, velcro not in the right places and some places there is no reason for it being etc etc.



sjust personal preference mate. i dont like em for stated reasons. if you got no beef with them then cool. but they aint for me. making pot covers out of my homebox felt like good usage

Anything I should know as I'm busy recommending them to a mate?!

tsk dont like em

okay, the extract thing:

[newbudda]

fantastic

[tsk]

thats the craic the now, but i was just thinking, i should lop off that whole pipe there and just pad the inner ducting leading in with cotton round the edges top kill the rush a little...

Nice job tsk mate

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Dont ya love it when a plan comes together!.

cheers the green man. ah sure wont mind if it works, but we many weeks away from harvest..
and i aint gettin on no airplane suckafoo...

Tardistastic!

Nicely sorted and in 'Scandinavian stealth' design as well.

I'll look forward to your Danish drobe diary adventures,loads more madness.

cheers doctor stealth plans are a bit beaten by the whoosh, but fuck it my whole house reeks of coffeeshops looks much better, and when the man comes to read the meter its easily shut down and inconspicuous...

hopefully, fingers crossed, ill be able to get more half meter buds:





bangi haze, a little bit early, but man i hated that homebox

time to normalise...

[DougalTheDingo]

I thought of this idea a few days ago, linking the two boxes together to combine one fan to ventilate both spaces. It's a bloody good idea methinks. I also think your temperature issues could be helped by having the lights on in the cooler night time. It's going to be a problem for me, too, as the room i'm to be doing a similar setup in gets REALLY hot (~100f) in summer - the sun shines through the large window almost all day. It's so bad i have considered an air conditioner for the last few years, with no grow on, so i'll be needing one - luckily there are places really good ac's can be got for £120-170 online.

Have you been in the DIY KIT forum recently? there's a really good sound baffle idea in there which i think would quiet down your grow significantly. Other than that, i like your growdrobe- love the whole growdrobe idea in fact but yours looks pretty nice

[THC4METOO]

Welcome to the wonderful world of drobery my friend, I'm sure you'll find it far more comfortable than camping .

My mum came for a visit and unexpectedly walked straight into the room where my drobe is and had no idea what was going on. If I'd had a tent in there at the time I don't think I'd of got away with saying I was testing my new camping toilet.

I love what you've done with the extra rooms btw, very 70's in its pod-like design. Maybe you could get some flock wallpaper in there instead of mylar and purple velvet curtains to complete the whole look.

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[withnail]

Lovely work chief.. most impressive

Did you go for the blue peter job but they said you were overqualified?

No thats a DIY prog I'd watch... building growdrobes with tsk

[Jim_jim]

Yeah a very nice stealth drobe, Wish I had the extra compartments in mine to stick the fans and stuff in.

Does the cotton wool not slow yor extraction down a lot??

[scoobs]

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No thats a DIY prog I'd watch... building growdrobes with tsk

Me too, I'll watch that! Definately BSB

Nice work there.... I think that I might have to have a rethink of my scoobydrobe after seeing yours.

Well done!

[DarkAngel3030]

I have been planning my layout ,, and thats exactly how I plan to do mine.You did a excellent fuckin job. Nice, very nice.

[tsk]

thanks for all the interest and comments

newbudda -

wassabi - yer plan sounds sound, and if i had a dark place or a brain dysfunction id do the same thing sorry if my drobe expands yer plans, but not that sorry

DougalTheDingo - thanks mate, the lights do go on at night and for the past week the (canopy level) temp has touched 30 briefly but average 28 with lights on, which is all right. thanks for the baffle suggestion, but im pretty happy with it right now.

THC4METOO - cheers bud, im sure glad to leave my tenting days behind and get a solid gaff for me concubines. funny, we had people staying for the weekend and they came into the room and were more impressed by my tool wall than any noise from my drobe. then the lass seen the big book called "HASHISH" on my table, and clocked me a look - "Are you growing weed" and i smiled
turns out her mum got busted with five outdoor plants last year didnt get sent down but lost "5 enormous plants, like trees..." all the more reason for staying indoors...

withnail - thanks mate, i was sadly under qualified for the blue peter presenter job, as my illegal drug diet consists solely of cannabis...

Jim_jim - thank you sir, the cotton wool may have been slowing down extraction, but its mostly gone now. i tore out the pipe and put most of the cotton behind the drobe. not silent, but temps have been reasonable (though so has the weather)

scoobs - cheers m'lady, if my closet hacking can provide but a glimmer of inspiration, then that aint 'alf bad in my books. if i ever get the build-a-grow-show syndicated, ill let you know

DarkAngel3030 - thank you very much indeed.

CLAR1TY - @ your "kullen" experience. 10 oz from that space? alright! thanks for your concerns, but humidity aint much of a worry for me, my rooms not dissimilar to a nuns beaver, if you follow me the clear plastic thing to join them i never considered using, and all the edges were sealed with gaffa tape inside and out where applicable. i already got a plastic bottom under them, even gave it velcro fastenings not unlike the homebox. appreciate the consideration though bro. now go get an avvie and remeber to notify people if you intend changing it...


the drobes been running, as mentioned above, at around 28. the difficulty was getting the temp in the veg cab up whilst keeping the flower drobe down. i replaced the fly screen intake filter with some of that hoover dust filter material, the almost spongy stuff and this slowed the air flow down a little, enough to raise the temps by about 2 degrees, so average temp in there is 22.C during the day and the bloom drobe is 24 in the dark.

the veg cab lights switch off as the flower room lights up at 9pm. this keeps the drobe cooler during the busy part of the evening when im active in the room. once i leave and the night wares on the ambient temp drops, the veg room hovering around 19.C-ish until 3am when it pops back on and warms the plants through the coldest part of the evening. the bloom room usually sits at its highest temps round these times, but aslong as the ambient temp is bellow 25 theres no problems. the rooms just starting to heat up at 9am when the flower room goes to bed and decent temps are maintained.

the current occupants dont seem to mind the stay, shall post a pic or two in the diary soon. need batterys or a lense or some film or something. need to find a pen, write a list...



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[DreadVik]

Looks over good

I was tempted by something like this but I didn't want to lose space as I currently have a BudBoxXL and a second room about 1.5m x 0.7m. Your linking idea seems nice though as it wouldn't look unusual to have two drobes of your size side by side in a double bedroom especially with my passion for clothes and I think this would allow me to equal the output of my BudBoxXL which as you say does look a tad large and bait in a room but smaller than the XL and i had capacity issues . My smaller space thinking about it is about as stealth as you can get bar one hose i trail out to bring in fresher air during the warm months (if i had my way this would go up the chimney stack but that means two big scary holes to be bored)

Your sound dampening is very interesting and deffo something I'm gonna look at for silencing my extraction systems as RVK in a room is ok and not too noisy compared to my desktop PC but in a tent it's taking the piss and I can't even manage to sleep in that room unless I've overdone the papaya

[Blayz'd]

I like that. Nice one tsk, good work mate. Impressive.

[jammiejoe]

Inspirational

[tsk]

cheers y'all

DreadVik - thanks mate, i feel a smidgen smug with myself for the linking them together intake thing, but not that much. i think a 150 for extract and the 125L for intake would be perfect for this set up all year long, able to handle the heat of a 400 hundred and the summer with no problems. right now it gets a tad too hot on the hotter days if im not about to open windows and turn on fans in the room. ive got an emergency 250w ballast sitting in reserve in case of serious heatwave.

sound issue - i could have put more work into dampening the air noise, but i got lazy... its far from silent, but i reckon it could come damn close with some tweaking and its still much quieter than the tent, which i could hear in the other room. the drobe i cant. (my little extra cab with the bathroom extractor is another matter...) g'luck with whatever you choose

Blayz'd - cheers bigears, glad you like 'er

jammiejoe - thank you!


shes been on 12/12 since the last monday in april (38 days) and currently looks a little some thing like this:



ive been aiming for some kind of perpetual harvest and am testing out what the best methods would be to maximise the space. i thought originally that 20cm pots would be the way to go, working them into a SOG, but dont think building a sog up in stages is really the best way to do it...

but this is diary chat...

[SaintSinner]

Love the drobe design (and the results ) I'm just about to pick up a Kullen for the same reason camping is just not so much with the stealth ;-)

Downside (?) is I'm going to have to figure out a way to use the existing equipment I have in the small space... (600W cool tube light with an AF100 (325M3/hr) fan + carbon filter working as air cooling and to remove any stink.) It's a winter only project, so perhaps I'll get away with 600W in such a small space without toasting the girls.