Stealth DWC home made cabinet

[Dr.X]

Hello fellow farmers!!

I want to share my Grow op I did last year in Vansterdam haha
This include the process of making the cabinet and the complete grow from seed to harvest.
I have lots of pictures so I selected some of them and I'm gonna start uploading them. Feel free to ask anything.

First the cabinet:
The size of the cabinet is 4 ft tall x 2ft with x 1ft deep.
The vegetative/clone chamber was 2ft tall with 100w@6500k CFL
Flowering chamber 2ft tall with 200w@2700K CFL plus 50w@6500K CFL
Buckets were 5lts, 2 buckets in the vegging chamber and 3 buckets in the flowering chamber

The cabinet include Fan, carbon filter, air pump, timers and wiring. (a pain in the ass to put all this in such a small place)

Well, here is the process of building it

And After a job well done, some nice GDP from BC

This will continue later...

Saludos

 

[Dr.X]

Genetics:
1-BC God Bud (fem seeds) (BC BUD DEPOT)
2-Black Pearl (regular seeds) (High Grade Seeds)
3-Bag seed from a Purple Killer Bud (at least that was the name the guy who sold me the pot said)

All the vegging cycle and clones were on 24hrs of light

July 15

July 18

July 24

July 26

July 28

August 01 (taking the first cuttings)
I had to put the clones in the other chamber, as you can tell I don't have a lot of space to play with haha

August 04
After 3 days since I took the clones y placed the mother plants in the flowering room and the clones went to the vegging room.

And some random pics..

Verry nice looking manifold from China, made the job much easier when I had to change the water from the buckets.

The very first sticker on the cabinet "SMOKE MORE BITCH LESS" very nice indeed

And some good smoke as always :D Damn I miss BC

 

[BlueBlood]

Nice constructions skills :D

...and holy crap. Flowering with 6 sites per ft2 with ~18" overhead must have been a lot of fun!

 

[Dr.X]

Nice constructions skills :D

...and holy crap. Flowering with 6 sites per ft2 with ~18" overhead must have been a lot of fun!

Thanks!
Yeah it definitively was a lot of fun and work! I had to be there for the plants everyday.. they grow so fast in DWC and drink a lot of water so at first ppm and Ph was a little difficult to keep steady.

 

[Dr.X]

Lets continue...

August 9
Next bucket into the flowering room

August 12
My small jungle , preparing for cleaning the bucket

August 14
I had to use the bucket in the middle as a back up reservoir cause the plants were too big, drinking a lot of water and I was planing on going to Miami for a few days..

August 15
Ok, time for some LST and pull the males out. I tried to take out the most of the male roots I could without damaging the root mass of the females.
I decided to change the water more frequently to prevent any problem with the dead roots that were still on the bucket

August 17

August 18

August 22
Little room to play with eh?

August 29
After several LST work the plants finally are stopping to stretch

September 02
..yeah this is only one bucket
I forgot to mention, in this bucket I ended with 3 plants, 2 PKK different phenotype (one more sativa dominant and the other one more indica) and 1 BC god bud

September 05

 

[Dr.X]

September 11

September 17

September 20

September 22

September 23

September 25

September 26
Getting the clones ready for the next bucket going into flowering.
These are BCGB (less productive pheno but faster flowering) As this was going to be the last run of this growbox cause I was going back to my country in a few month.

September 29

September 30
I started flushing with only ph water the bucket with both PKK and BCGB (faster flowering pheno)
In this pictures you can see both BCGB phenotype, the one on the left es the faster one and on the right the slower but more productive and tastiest one.

 

[mastergreen]

Looks pretty clean man, keep it up farmer :)

 

[Dr.X]

October 2

October 5

October 7
Time to harvest the first bucket

October 8
New bucket with the BCGB clones

October 15

October 16
On the left is Black Pearl, BCGB on the right

Oh man, I don't have nothing to smoke now :( .. And the pics made me drool

 

[TrichromeFan]

Very nice micro grow, Dr. X!

Get that thing going again.

-TF

 

[Dr.X]

Very nice micro grow, Dr. X!

Get that thing going again.

-TF

Thank you TrichomeFan! When I build my new project I'll put it in the forum, but for now I'm far from doing anything.. But I'm staying with the micro grows cause is the only way I can hide it haha

Here are more pictures

October 26

November 1

November 7

This one wasn't suposed to be harvested but I had to get rid of the cabinet cause I was going to Whistler and then back to my country
Still I got 24g (almost 1oz) of dry herb with wich I made some good BHO (3grams) :D

And the Black Pearl cola

Well guys, that's the end of the grow and the and of my first Hydro grow. Ohhh Missing the good times back in BC :)

When I start a new one, I'll let you know..

 

[TrichromeFan]

So you used to live in BC, what country are you in now?

-TF

 

[Dr.X]

I went to BC for 9 month, to improve my English..and also my growing skills ahha Being there I was smoking so much that I decided to grow my own to save some money ahha
Now I'm in Chile, my home country

Cheers

 

[TrichromeFan]

Hopefully you saved some seeds!

-TF

 

[Dr.X]

Sure I did! I didn't want to have any problem in customs so I mailed the seeds to A friend in Chile. I still have like 12 BCGB, 10 Black Pearl and the ones that Im most anxious to plant, The 10 Grand Daddy Purp seeds :D
I'm still looking for more genetics (It's a hobby hahaha) I bought som Dr. Grinspoon (Barneys Farm), Diesel ryder (mostly to share with friends). And I'm looking forward to buy some of the nice genetics I have seen in this forum.

And I'm planning on making a few crosses, GDPxBCGB (Indica) and Dr. Grinspoon x Blach Pearl (Staiva) to have my own strains and see what comes out of them haha

Dr.X

 

[EssBeeZee]

Slick compact set up!

 

[Elanor]

sweet setup and lovely results. think i'll be consulting this thread a few times!

 

[Papa]

hey Dr. X, 'just ran across this thread for the first time. spectacular job!

very, very nice.

 

[Dr.X]

Thank you Papa! I miss growing my plants so damn much..I'm getting depressed :( Hopefully next year I'll be showing my next cabinet that I have already designed but, as I'm living with my parents, I haven't had the chance to build..

Thanks again for your comment, it gives me encouragement for my next project :D

 

[outwest]

Do it!

outwest