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

[steelrat]

I'm so impressed with your cab ljuf. Repslap for you

It looks perfect, very well constructed.

My first cab was chipboard and it absorbed lots of moisture so i had very low humidity always.

3 feet high and 2 feet dquare :

The second one i made from conti board, the white kitchen board, still 2ft square but 4ft high, i stuck brackets in it so i could raise/lower the plant shelf :

This time round i decided to go for a tent, 3ft square and 5ft 8 high!

One of my dreams is to have a room, a whole room for growing yes please !

Regarding roots and res temps, i've had autos survive 30C res temps and i've read in botanical books that many plant's roots can survive temps that high indefinitely, so your only problem is the pythium. I don't know what products you have near you but i use Rot Stop in the UK, its organic and grows good enzymes so i also use it as a root encourager.


Excellent cab man,

steely.

 

[ljufmennid]

I'm so impressed with your cab ljuf. Repslap for you

steely.

Thanks super much and those picture you posted are AMAZING !

I would love to make a "coffee table" book with lots of picture of home build grow boxes and cabinets !!!

would be amazing to flip through and specially when you have "evolve" pictures like yours

but I understand with the tent, I sold my 1,2x1,2 tent this summer because we were moving into such a small house and sometimes I miss it but the joy off the build was also great, yesterday I put up a aquarium on top of the cabinet and that really killed the vibration, now just to fix the air outlet, LED fans and the sound from the box 1 meter away will be 15-25 db

Nice to hear about the dwc temp, I have manage to maintain it under 24c the last week but dont see much different on the plant, it suppose to explode in growth in the coming next two weeks if Dutch passion videos is anything to go on but I will be putting down a new bean 1 jan anyway

 

[Feenix]

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

It might be a good idea to hang another floor off 4 corner eyelets and again, bungees.Resting on foam carpet pad between them under about 1/4 compression should stop lateral movement. Losing an inch of floorspace in both directions is not that bad.

I've pictured a double walled cab like yours and wondered if using the channels in the walls as ducts with intake holes at the inside top and draw fans at the inside bottom with large grained activated charcoal filled net bags in between them, subtly but constantly scrubbing and recirculating the cabs air. would have an overall reduction of odor?
I was considering the results of tying the main inline and intake fans to air quality (Temp and co2 parameters) to dump and change as needed, while the twelve volt draw fans do some of the work in a closed, cooled, humidified, and co2 supplemented system.

 

[ljufmennid]

It might be a good idea to hang another floor off 4 corner eyelets and again, bungees.Resting on foam carpet pad between them under about 1/4 compression should stop lateral movement. Losing an inch of floorspace in both directions is not that bad.

I've pictured a double walled cab like yours and wondered if using the channels in the walls as ducts with intake holes at the inside top and draw fans at the inside bottom with large grained activated charcoal filled net bags in between them, subtly but constantly scrubbing and recirculating the cabs air. would have an overall reduction of odor?
I was considering the results of tying the main inline and intake fans to air quality (Temp and co2 parameters) to dump and change as needed, while the twelve volt draw fans do some of the work in a closed, cooled, humidified, and co2 supplemented system.

Yeah I like your idea with the hanging dwc tote, need to figure something out in the next 10 days before I drop the next seed in a rockwool cube because soon I will have two totes in there, right now I got 2x thick foam insulation pads and sandwich between them is 4 layers of sound insulation foam and that seams to have done the trick, but I need to find more of those foam pads before I add the next tote

 

[Feenix]

Yeah I like your idea with the hanging dwc tote, need to figure something out in the next 10 days before I drop the next seed in a rockwool cube because soon I will have two totes in there, right now I got 2x thick foam insulation pads and sandwich between them is 4 layers of sound insulation foam and that seams to have done the trick, but I need to find more of those foam pads before I add the next tote

Vibration that shakes the house. That would get the neighbors buzzin.

An upholstery supply house could probably fix you up.
The beauty of your double wall is you can do most anything and it won't show outside.

Sit down and burn one. you will figure it out.
:Sharing One:
Think simply heavy eye bolts, 4 ropes down to a drilled corner swing of plywood big enough to set the tote on as high as you want it. x 2
The only thing permanent is the bolts. it shouldn't interfere with lights and won't twist.

some short or looped bungee should be in there somewhere.

 

[ljufmennid]

Vibration that shakes the house. That would get the neighbors buzzin.

An upholstery supply house could probably fix you up.
The beauty of your double wall is you can do most anything and it won't show outside.

Sit down and burn one. you will figure it out.
:Sharing One:

Going to be waiting until after new year when a friend of mine mails me some smokes, got some nice pineapple kush last time, other vise its just wait until end of Feb. when my plant should be ready, other vise I am worried she suffers from Nitrogen deficiency :/

Learning to use a LED light and now I had them off because I was checking out the fans in them and my plant is looking pale and stem is very red

going to update journal tomorrow and put up some picture and ask for opinions ... biggest problem is that I cant afford to buy any mono nutrition like nitrogen and already worried that she has been claimed by root rot but I need to wait 2 more weeks until I know, fuck I dont know if I should plant the auto blueberry and then it turns out the plant is fine and I run out of cabinet space...

this is the moments I miss my tent and grow room where I could play mad scientist instead of a bloody brain surgeon

EDIT:

Might also be that my DWC water was 4-5 cm above the net pot and the rockwool cube is already very low in the net pot, now the water is sitting 1 cm above the net pot instead

trying out some stuff Seymor Buds has been talking about and I wanted to test

 

[ljufmennid]

Update nr. 5 - day 20 from sprouting - Polarlight#3

Avarage temp. 22c to 28c
avarage tote temp. 14c to 27c
PPM is at 680 but I plan on lowering it when the rain water I got warms up a bit (4c at the moment)

day 20 from sprouting

Yesterday I turned off my LED and removed for some minutes to check out the fans inside and I already bit worried because the leaves of the plant are not looking very perky but no I noticed the plant is very pale, even though its a sativa type it still looks paler then it should so now I am worried that I have some kind of deficiency most likely nitrogen :/

as I have no money to fix that I am wondering what I should do, I have tap water with a high level of nitrogen and then I also have a compost outside that I could use to make some tea but I would rather get suggestions from advance growers first before I do something I will regret







maybe I am just being paranoid but she showed sex in the week so it could just be some growing pains but this is my first autoflower so I have really no idea what to except, Its also been a question if she has been claimed by root rot, the water though smells fine but she got no roots hanging from the basket, only 2-3 small ones going out and in again but at least those are pearl white and the two that had brown mess on them I snipped away last week ... but please I would love some help !

in other fun news I got an aquarium on the top of my cabinet and it totally kills the vibration so after I get news fans for the Marshydro Led light then it should be very quiet grow cabinet



I am picking up a second bag of substrate for the aquarium to fill up and then fishes come next week or week after ... its a 14 gallon or 54 liters

 

[pop22]

Just a thought, and not a pleasant one, it may still be pythium. It can get inside the plant and kill it from the inside. Really hope I'm wrong though. Of your plant is looking like it has Nitrogen deficiency, either your PH is way off causing lockout, or your roots haven't fully recovered.

Pythium might not show up even at high temps, but odds are it will. Get and keep the temps in the 16.6 to 22.2C range. Going over 22C is risking a pythium bloom everytime. I panic if mine hits 70F! ( 21.1C )Use a bigger ice bottle if you have room. I use a 2 liter in my res, or even a 2 liter and a 20 oz ( .6 liter ). I'd rather it be just a little cold than too warm. I've seen no slowing of growth even at 62F ( 16.6 C )

 

[ljufmennid]

Just a thought, and not a pleasant one, it may still be pythium. It can get inside the plant and kill it from the inside. Really hope I'm wrong though. Of your plant is looking like it has Nitrogen deficiency, either your PH is way off causing lockout, or your roots haven't fully recovered.

Pythium might not show up even at high temps, but odds are it will. Get and keep the temps in the 16.6 to 22.2C range. Going over 22C is risking a pythium bloom everytime. I panic if mine hits 70F! ( 21.1C )Use a bigger ice bottle if you have room. I use a 2 liter in my res, or even a 2 liter and a 20 oz ( .6 liter ). I'd rather it be just a little cold than too warm. I've seen no slowing of growth even at 62F ( 16.6 C )

yeah then we are thinking the same, because I am starting to think its the damn python or root rot that got into her steam, I will see in the next two weeks because after the 3 week this strain is suppose to take off if the Dutch passion videos are anything to judge from, but if she does not take off in the next 2 weeks I will be putting a new bean in a rock cube and sterilizing this cabinet

:/

Its my own fault for starting out the grow in a terrible place like the airless kitchen cabinet

 

[steelrat]

If you don't have anytihng with nitrogen then just drink water until your pee is clear then use your pee, pee is full of N.


Enjoy your wee !


steely