hello micro growers, rusty shacklefords the name and micro growins my new game!

this is an old fish-tank-cabinet that i have decided to use to scale down my grow

ive been tinkering with it for a while now and i am starting to make some headway i !:headpain:

basically there are three chambers in the cabinet, one veg, one flower and one for housing the fan and filter

heres a shot

the right hand side is gonna be for my mother plant(s) max of two in there i's thinking its mighty small
i am gonna get a 125 blue enviro for in there
heres a pic to show the scale im workin with, its about 2foot tall and a foot by a foot wide

love the name, rusty shackleford, its off king of the hill isnt it, dale uses it as his alter ego whenever he gets in trouble

EP

ok, now the left hand side, its the flower room, this one with a red 125w envirolite, in the below shot ive got my homemade wee pots in there,just milk cartons with the tops cut off
gonna put clones in here and let them root these out(shouldn't take too long!) and straight into flower i a micro sog type idea
i can get 8 of those cartons in there, see?

f and a brother

dales a saint in our house a godamn saint!

nice mother cab man

its sweet what you can do with old shit lyin around

unfortunately ive gone thru at least two cabs already before gettin here

i is a diy disaster

so back to the cab
in the centre section ive got a 4inch fan its gonna suck the stink hopefully outta the flower room and fire it into the 4inch c/f
im gonna cover this front section wit some ply or summit and leave the back of it bare to let the stink out

oh and i guess i better tell what strains going in this mammoth!
its fem white widow from greenhouse

never used them before, heard mixed reps but 25 knicker for ten fem beans is good enough to have a go with in my book

grew magus motavation before- great starin

serious kali mist few times

and dutch passion white widow, all great smokes but quite pricey beans

the white widow from dp was a real learning curve i lost 9 outta ten beans for £85 ouchh!

this grows gonna be another learning curve i used to have a home box wit a 250hps, had to size down tho

jealousas fuck of these dudes wit 1000w+ grows tho!

cheers fatmanbob
its been a long time coming i'll tell you!
gotta wait till next week to get me lights tho!i'll be tearing me hair out, spose i coul d hook up the fan though

have to say bob you got some hefty grows under your belt

that ak is whopper!

you not paranoid as hell when you were drying that shit!?

sweet enviro gro two wit your friend

after all you can have as much weight as you like butt quality still beats quantity

i think?!

anyone watchin ideal 2nite?

funny shit im gonna regret sayin this but cartoonhead would be a cool avatar wouldn't he? cmon!

evening all

did a little more work to the cab today--- installed my fan- che che chec check it out!
i'm quite proud

Hey Rusty ya box is looking good man, have you finished it yet? wanna see it running, Im planning on building a box similar too this miny sog myself. As i have to down size, a second time I dont wanna lose the 600hps tho its killin me.

please dont think of me as rude!

i scrapped that ol shite heap a few months back and have been fixing up the gaff. torturing me not growing at the mo, but i have got a new sweet setup

its basically two huge tupperware boxes out of ikea, with that 150w envirolite in it and the 100mm fan,

i'm still going for an hdsog once i crack some beans

still have my fem greenhouse white widow so that'll be cool

anyhow i'll get posting some pics

here it is its based on a box set up by 'lifeless' who manages about 4 oz dry with 4 x 42w cfls
i'll have to paint the inside of it yet mind you, but whattya think?

oopsi! thats a bit sideways innit?!

this should be a bit clearer

i should be able to fit around25-30 clones in here, and yes yes that sounds crowded but i think that 100mm fan will be more than enough ventilation for them

as ive said before this will be a sog, i will have another box like this set up with a blue enviro for me clones and mother

plants should have around 50-65 cm of growth before hitting the light and this is from the top of the pots

i'm gonna use 500ml drinks bottles for the clones- bring on the root system argument! Regardless i'm going to try it!

right i'm all ready to go bar the medium

read the ot1 compost trials, thanks to him for that! gonna go to homebase and get some john innes #1 to start

still have some plagron nutes from a previous effort

now all i needs a lift!

Mad little cab you got yourself there. Hope it does all work ok.

I use just one of those, but it's not see thro, as my veg cab with 5 fluoro strip lights, and a pc fan. Works a treat for me.

Good luck

hey rusty

i cant wait to c that in action what strain u gonna get in there?

thanks for the postive vibes dudes

its greenhouse fem white widow! m mm mmm!

soaked my seeds over night, took the lid off the box

went back out to set up the propogator, lid fell, envirolite shattered, totally fucked

Rusty, did you ever get this going? am i right in thinking you were going to do a high density SOG?

I'm about ready to do one myself, but bugger enviros.

I just got hold of 4x30w spiral cfls for my 40x30x100cm cab, 2050lm each. These I got from a local shop but there are places on the net to get them. I have a few other assorted bulbs to add if this isnt enough. Many points of light is said to be better than one, and enviros strike me as not being very good anyway. I have a very small seperate veg cab with 2x25w 6500k daylight spirals for mine..

Dunno whether there's knowledge on this but i've been looking at the standard U tube CFLs and it occurs to me that there is no way of positioning them without 2 of the 3 tubes pointing upwards. Yeah they'll reflect but it ain't ideal. Spirals look better to me, even though they're harder to find.

HD SOG is the way forward for us personal supply growers. I'm starting with CFLs - cheaper for a noob like me.. but i am wanting to experiment once it is rolling to try and minimise power use, which is why I chose the method in the first place.

Hope you got something going mate, would be a shame to not have any after your work. My own project has had fits and starts since inception. It has taken me 4 cab designs to get something I think will work. Hope you didn't give up. If you didn't, don't and good on ya.

If you did, SHAME ON YOU get it sorted

well been a long time been a long time been a lonely lonely loney loney time!
glad to hear you are starting an hd sog captain stoner- the cfls are probably a good way of getting an even spread of light
im just shit at wiring or i would have tried them out like drbudgreengenes-if you don't know who i mean google him he's the hdsog master!!
youve given me the passion to get back to my cab
im sure i could spare 20 bob to get somethin happen- new bulbs probably!
a friend has offered me some strawberry haze and mazar cuts so that looks positive
i'll be back when ive got some it to show
choi amigos!