Grow Room Ljufmennid cabinet grow // LED - CFL - DWC //

[Feenix]

I actually went kind of with your eye-hook because the latches were being a pain in the arse

I will update tonight or tomorrow depending on how lazy I feel tonight

Simple usually works.

If that pump still vibrates, can't you just hang it?

 

[pop22]

Finally my plant is home in its micro cabinet

Its about 95% done and what is left is to short out the vibration, get new fans for my LED light and figure out the best place to keep the air pump and yeah it has to be inside the cabinet

Anyone here figured out the best way to get rid of the vibration from the airstones/airpump ?

But here it is finally ! :dance:

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I manage to get it 99,99% light proved and sucking in air so I can see the filter over the bottom intake getting sucked in
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The cabinet is a bit of a mess as I am shorting out some details like placement for the air pump, thinking about making a tiny wooden table for it so it can sit right about the water line but right about the intake vent also to get the coldest air, I also been wondering about wrapping my DWC tote in either mylar or silver tape because black is maybe not the best color when it comes to heat problems but I will short all of this in the coming week and also make it tighty and nice, I was just totally sick of working on this in the afternoon and wanted a break, what I want to do is wrap the fan box in white mylar, fix nails for the cables but now I just needed to see were I would lead all of them first and then work on holders for them

also if anyone can notice then my "water meter" tube is actually black non-see through plastic, I bought a clear one I am going to install into the other tote that I will be mixing a new res. into tomorrow with the cannazym that I needed to buy and finally spend the extra penny, dont think I could use rain water without it and dont think I would get the results I want either

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the plant has been in the living room for 24-28 hours instead of the terrible kitchen cabinet and looked MUCH better after that, hope she keeps improving inside the new cabinet as the air exchange is superb !!! ... right now the PPM is around 400 and water 19-20 c°, lets see what the thermostat says tomorrow after spending the night in the box, I am trying to keep it closed at all times so I can get the best reading

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I watched the Dutch passion time laps of the Polar light over and over again, amazing videos and the amount of professionalism and positive reviews was the reason I chose the company, right now mine has just broke the 2 week mark and looking pretty good, very little room between notes/branches but I have no idea what to expect from an AUTO anyway so I am hoping to get some tips and answers from the people of this forum to tell me if that is good or bad, but I am sure she is going to look very different next Sunday after getting a better mix of nut. better light and TRILLION times better air exchange

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that is just an 12,5 cm wide plastic air vent with egg crate sound absorbing foam on the inside and works amazing, to bad I fucked up the measurment and also chanced the design half way though so I am missing the last 90° bend that is suppose to come there but as I am sick of spending more money on this it is going to stay like this until spring, the LED light is though getting some new fans because I would have to look high and low to find as LOUD fucking 80mm fans that came with it but for 100 bucks and the inside of the lights are well made and sports good reviews I am happy, this is basically just a 300w (180w) Mars hydro light that now I am worried is just a 90 W light .... :slaps: ... not sure if I want to even measure it, better just to live in denial until I buy a really good LED in the future, I plan on building a little box outside the cabinet to house the fan to safe space inside the cabinet instead of trying to fit all in such a small space

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So next Sunday its going to be much cleaner inside and I have fixed the small issues that I am basically just to lazy to fix, I still have half my Christmas shopping left including painting a picture for my GF in secret, I promised her last xmas but ended up buying something instead because I am a prick

But please people ... come and comment, tell me what you think and any ideas or advice are really well taken even though sometimes I dont listen until I fucked up royal :smoke:

Thanks for reading and pass the dutchie on the left hand side
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That is an AWESOME cab! And that Mars hydro light? Well I have the same light, you see what I have growing........... Don't sweat it, they are good lights! Borrowed a friends Killawatt, and actual power draw in mine was 187 watts for one and 182 for the other. Mu 180 watt UFO draws 101watts. All work great, no complaints! Save your money for other things you may need. Oh, and my 300 watt lights have run 16/8 since May without a blink.

 

[ljufmennid]

Simple usually works.

If that pump still vibrates, can't you just hang it?

Its actually not the pump but the dwc tote it self that is shaking the house

we are going to get an aquarium in the week and going to find some rubber soles for the feets of the cabinet, hope that lowers the sound

That is an AWESOME cab! And that Mars hydro light? Well I have the same light, you see what I have growing........... Don't sweat it, they are good lights! Borrowed a friends Killawatt, and actual power draw in mine was 187 watts for one and 182 for the other. Mu 180 watt UFO draws 101watts. All work great, no complaints! Save your money for other things you may need. Oh, and my 300 watt lights have run 16/8 since May without a blink.

Thanks Pop22 but I feel like I am still not done with the cab, going to be doing some mods over the next months, also I noticed now that the heat is rising more then I excepted but I actually thought of that before so right now there is one air intake hole 100mm wide but I actually made the channel for one on each side but only drilled the one on the left, so tomorrow I am bring out the drill out again and drilling the second hole and hope that helps cool the cab down to around 25 degree like I was hoping

Really glad to get all the kind words and specially about the LED

 

[Grey Bear]

I have got to commend you on a fine looking cabinet, inside and out.
If that is your first one, you did a great job.
I can assure you, you will be tweaking this one until you just can't grow in it anymore, because the cabinet in your mind will insist on being built!
Just have fun tweaking the cabinet and equipment and don't mess with your plant too much, you will both be much happier!

 

[ljufmennid]

Update nr. 4 - day 16 from sprouting - Polarlight#3

Just a fast update:

I have drilled the second air hole so now I got two 100mm passive intakes also moved the cables around and fixed a soft styrofoam insulation pad under the tote and no more sounds on the first floor, ordered some silent 80mm fans to exchance for the extremely load ones the LED light has add the moment

also after little over two weeks of neglect with the res. because of extreme temperature in the water I got some brown algae growing there so I got a new clean tote, new airlines and boiled the airstones with that a res. chance and finally adding the cannazym that I think is a most if you are using rainwater or have heat problems

Nutrition: Canna Aqua A+B, rhizotonic and cannazym - 24ml / 28ml / 28ml for 11 liters of water measuring at 16 ppm (using http://growguide.info/)
PPM: 580
res.temp: 17 c




lets see how this has been holding up when I update again on Sunday

have a nice week you all

 

[gone1]

Brown algea are bad! Your res. must be light proof!

 

[GMan]

Dude, amazing build there. That cabinet is fantastic. Fingers crossed your girl does it justice

 

[pop22]

That's likely root rot ( pyhtium) not good at all. Wash your roots if your trying to save your plants, or you'll just spread it to the new res. your can wash your root under cold tap water, won't hurt them a bit, I've done it. If any part of the roots are dead, cut those off, new ones will grow back.

 

[ljufmennid]

Dude, amazing build there. That cabinet is fantastic. Fingers crossed your girl does it justice

thanks man, yeah I hope so to though I am worried that this polarlight will not do it justice just because the way it was treated in the beginning, but now I am still having problems with the temperature, 29c res water and 31c inside

That's likely root rot ( pyhtium) not good at all. Wash your roots if your trying to save your plants, or you'll just spread it to the new res. your can wash your root under cold tap water, won't hurt them a bit, I've done it. If any part of the roots are dead, cut those off, new ones will grow back.

I did wash them before I chanced the res. also snipped of the only tiny root sticking out that looked bad but after 24 hours in the new res. it looks much better

Brown algea are bad! Your res. must be light proof!

It should be 99% light proof but the problem was heat in the first grow place and the fact its rainwater I got from a tote that is next to my house and probably already had algae spors in it, there was a bit of dirt/silt that came with my first res. fill and took the algae like a week to eat that a way

while I am like "thats neat and lethal" so now I have chanced the res after I got some good enzymes and boiled the airstones, got new air hoses and new tote while the other one got sterilized and but aside for later use

 

[ljufmennid]

I started a threat today to get people to start talking about lava rocks

Come on people ... lets talk about my lava rock !

https://www.autoflower.org/f61/i-got-lava-rock-39024.html