First grow closet on an armoire closet with CFL

[armoire grow]

The CO2 bucket cost $28, I thought about making a DYI co2 generator but I don't want to go thru the inconvenience of shaking a bottle here and there's to create co2. I run my exhaust fan for about 19 hrs. fully during lights on and here and there during lights off. I'm not concerned about co2 being exhausted since I believe that I have more than enough inside my small space and the bucket supposedly last 4-6 month in a 4x4 tent ( my flowering chamber it way smaller than this)

 

[armoire grow]

In the pursuit of achieving a idea environment for vegetative growth. decided to embark on trying a cool mist humidifier, hopefully it helps with humidity and keeping the veg chamber cooler. Fingers crossed!

fun fact; I'm averaging 33g every 30 days-ish, for 12 hours at max I'm running 700w-ish. After calculating the cost it average around $47 extra on the light bill. Overall I believe that my cost per g its @ $1.40-ish. grow your own save a bunch $$$

 

[rick3066]

im with ya on that budget stuff man..im ssdi..ant it sux. and yeah much more rewarding smokin yours!!! hey were those flowering clones?

 

[armoire grow]

I not sure about flowering clones. They are clones in there, but taken from the ladies during vegetation stage.
I tried to keep a perpetual grow going on.

 

[armoire grow]

Yes!, yeah!, woooo whoooo! Since adding the cool mist humidifier, it been hitting the best ideal environment that it can get on the vegetative microgarden.
The ladies are loving it.

 

[comedian]

This entire post was such an inspiration! I guess I'll be out armoire shopping today, lol!

 

[armoire grow]

Thanks. It's makes it worth it sharing my work when other are encourage to Built their own grow set up.

a few advice that I can give.
-make sure that where ever you setup your cabinet, it's a has a good outside room temperatures around the 72ish.
- on my next build I will be using a metal cabinet. I believe that because of the wood the cold temperatures aren't penetration to inside the garden ( this is just a theory at the time. You tell me what you think)
-air flow, its crucial for a adequate air exchange and Flow inside the cabinet. (I have active intake set up)
- have white walls, in my experience metallic reflective walls create radiant heat in a small space really quickly.

 

[armoire grow]

say hello to week 7 ladies... ok this monster keeps up rolling. I keep experimenting with new recipes. not sure if top dressing with bat guano @w5 was a good idea. noticing some purple on the leaf, oh well.

bud shot..

and here we are keeping it rolling.

 

[Light Addict]

Late to party but subbed, loving your little setup. Really well thought out space and great work all round. Ill catch up tomoz

 

[SBG]

The Cabinet that inspired me into this whole thing is lookin pretty good and perpetual. Great work those are some nice lookin buds. +reps

 

[armoire grow]

Thanks SBG. likewise I learned from you a better way to clone, after seeing you used half 2 liter bottle as a mini dome. now what do is take a seed started pellet, soak in a Cal mag solution, then I bury the pellet inside the soil, put my cut on the pellet and cover with the mini dome. This is c working as a charm.

 

[22naru]

Thanks SBG. likewise I learned from you a better way to clone, after seeing you used half 2 liter bottle as a mini dome. now what do is take a seed started pellet, soak in a Cal mag solution, then I bury the pellet inside the soil, put my cut on the pellet and cover with the mini dome. This is c working as a charm.

i like your ideea. thx for sharing

 

[armoire grow]

i like your ideea. thx for sharing

sure anytime. The more knowledge we share, the better than we can grow our plants. you will find lots of useful information here, like I did.

 

[SBG]

Hey Armoire whats up in the Cabinet world around here?

 

[armoire grow]

Keeping busy, my last cut was on 10/6 and now on 11/8 I just cut down the 7th run, so consistency is the key word. Keeps looking better on every run, Will give a harvest report by Saturday.

 

[armoire grow]

Alright well, here is the 7th run bud report 49.2g out of two ladies in a 1gal on root organic soil, fertilizer with earth juice line, additional mendocino avalanche and recharge. can't complain I keep hitting my mark and the 8th run is looking to be heading in the same direction.
before

after

 

[SBG]

nothin like a steady flow of the good stuff. Well Done. +reps for you my friend

 

[armoire grow]

so this is what's new in the Armoire. started messing around with a new strain "pot of gold" so it was informed. wow this baby is hungry and stretching like no tomorrow. anyway I like the look of it, but i doubt that armoir will carry on with this strain grows too much and fast so it interfere with the perpetual scheduling do to height restrictions can't veg it for long without compromising ceiling height. afgani is the strain to keep for now.

full view

they stretch so quickly that they got light burn also they are more nitrogen hungrier than the afgani strain.

the 3 on the left are afgani (w1/w5) and the 2 on the right are the pot of gold in w4, I think that the stretching is done (fingers crossed, because they can't fit in the armoire.

 

[armoire grow]

been working with the armoire and made a few changes, removed the CFL from the veg chambers and replaced with T5 now i can have a few inches of head room, install 2 more LED's on the flowering chamber and relocated the Big LED to the center of the cab. also added some foam patting to the inside of the exhaust vent to help reduce the noise sound and wow it worked out good, manage to cut down on the noise.
veg chamber before and after

foam patting inside the exhaust vent.

flower chamber new LED's

 

[SBG]

Always nice to be able to improve our Cabinets and grow better stuff.