Indoor Hypnosis - Space Bucket Build (Veg cylinder)

[Hypnosis]

Hey all!

New here, and I dropped an intro over in the newbie section yesterday. I'm about to start my first grow in a space bucket for veg purposes. I wanted to share my build of the bucket, and also the grow itself. Since the build is kinda a part of the grow, thought this was the place for pics and whatnot.

Materials in US currency and measurements:

(2) 50 gal trash cans $11 a piece ($22)
(4) 120mm PC fans ($15)
(1) 240mm PC fan ($12)
(1) SYGAVLED 300W LED Grow Light ($70)
(1) 16.4ft strip 5050 LED light strip (for seedlings)
(2) 2 gal smartpots ($5)
(1) 2A AC adapter for PC fans ($8)
(10 pack) mylar emergency blankets, only used 1 ($8)
(1) Surge protector with built in timer ($25)
(1) Roll black duct tape ($3.50)
(1) roll foil tape ($12)
(1) can 3M spray adhesive ($12)
(2) 2L bottles (originally filled with tasty soda)
- and a smattering of Schedule 40 1/2" PVC pipe and fittings (elbows, valves, etc). ($30)
(1) 10' roll of plastic tubing, 3/8" ID ($7)
(2) 1/2" thread to 90 degree 3/8" OD barb fittings ($6)
- Carbon prefilters, had some left over from an old purifier I had years ago, cut to fit (to keep the creepy crawlies out).
- 16 gauge speaker wire (to run as extensions for the PC fan wires)
(1) can black matte PlastiDip (stealth)
(1) old cardboard box (to bend into shape for the air intakes at the bottom) (complimentary from Amazon)
(1) 1.5 cu. ft. bag of Roots Organics Coco


Pics to follow shortly once I figure out how to make them NOT BE SIDEWAYS.

What will I be growing you ask?
1 Blueberry Auto
1 Northern Lights Auto
Both from ILGM.com
GH Flora line, New Earth Organics Smart Tea, and Mammoth P.

-Hyp

@Slater @MiNi @epenguin @Eekman @MissUniverse @iampepe

 

[iampepe]

Pictures: place your volume buttons down when taking pictures with ur phone. If u have a pc you can preview them and turn them to make them correct. Unfortunately you cant orientate pics on afn once uploaded.

Peace

 

[epenguin]

I also have sideways problems. So, I load them into a third party program called Irfanview, (www.irfanview.com) then I save them, then post them.

Hey presto, they are the right way up !

 

[Hypnosis]

Took screenshots of the pics. Lower resolution, but help the page not take forever to load too.

The below pic shows the bottom 5 inches of a second bucket that's been removed. I put weather stripping around the outside to help raise the drainage tray, and also to help seal out light from the bottom. I've cut a channel in the full bucket bottom to allow the runoff to go somewhere, instead of sitting inside and creating mold. Note: it's way easier to cut all this plastic stuff with a hot razor blade.

Then I lined the tray with foil tape before drilling the holes with a hot 1/2" drill bit.

I then took the top 14" or so of the second bucket to use as a cooling chamber (air gap). You'll notice that I didn't put any reflective material in this space, because I didn't want additional light to reflect upward or inward. The darker the better here.

The 2 liter bottles act perfectly as female joints with 1/2" schedule 40 piping. Purple PVC primer and PVC cement works great. The pipe assembly was a little challenging, but I'm no plumber.

Cooling fans at base of can.

LED installed in main lid.

Watering tubes

Bucket after everything has been plastidipped.

Let me know if anyone has any questions!

-Hyp

 

[trailanimal]

welcome aboard Hypnosis! Fantastic idea, well executed, can't wait to see it in action! Never seen anything like this, totally repable

 

[trailanimal]

what strain you gonna throw in the hole? something small?

 

[trailanimal]

I flip pics on pc with photo editing app

 

[MissUniverse]

Are your pics always sideways the same way? Like are they always needing to be rotated 90 degrees to a side? If say its always left or always right, there's some simple things you can so in linux and windows to fix it. Gimp is a great free photo editor if you don't know about it. For linux you could write a simple bash script for it. I almost would code it but I don't have time. I think the community should do a code off. Community votes on who has the best cannabis related program. I'm sure some people have their own software they'd love to enter to a competition.

 

[Eekman]

Nice Hyp-

Lots of thought in that. Great work, very descriptive process.

Thanks for doing this.

 

[MiNi]

...Welcome bruv..to the best Canna Site around!! Everyone here's just Chillin..Smokin..Growin N Sharing ....
...basically just having a Blast - so welcome to the party bro. ...dude just hook your phone up to the laptop and the app (photo) pretty much does everything for you - u can rotate/crop/enhance..... ....and really cool all the detailed information you gave in the description..really cool ..like grow journals not only help you but help us too.. so Cheers!! ...Anyways.. really interesting set-up you got there.. don't mind if I sub up 4 the Ride!!