I'll have what's behind door#1 please!

[MJ Maven]

Welcome to my garden ICMag I figured it was time I introduce myself over here

Some of you may already know me from another site ... but for those of you that are interested ... here's a garden tour to get you up to date on what I do and how I do it

The Stats:

Veg side ---> 400 watt MH for mothers, clones, and SWC's

Flower Side ---> 1600 combined watts (1 KW hortilux + 600 watt digi HPS) for perpetual DWC

Here's a couple bud shots to wet your appetite

Both pics are of my SkunkWidow x AK47 (SWAK)

Garden pics coming momentarily ... gotta roll a joint before I upload the rest :lol:

Maven

 

[Teeg420]

holy shit thats a huge bitch!

 

[MJ Maven]

Day 1 - Moved existing wall 2' 5.5" away from its original location. If you look closely, you can see that in two locations, in the new framing, I used 4"x4" posts ... more on those later. After double stuffing with sound insulation (notice the bulge ) ... I gave everything a wrap in clear poly.

Looking back towards the construction access door. After putting up the false wall, I had to get all building materials through that 2' space :lol: Made for some interesting and awkward moments

Looking in from the construction door:

Every single square inch of interior space is then covered with Fire Rated 3/4 inch drywall ... and then taped off.

Add the B&W poly, and a lot of foil tape, and it is starting to look like a grow room

 

[MJ Maven]

Day 2 - Raised the floor to make space for air-in ventilation. Used 2"x4" (turned on its side) as support for my 1/2 inch sub floor. Then ran furnace wall ducts along the floor ... both going to flower room.

Sub floor going in over ventilation pathways:

Sub floor and ventilation pathways complete:

FR drywall added:

Inputs for flower room ventilation:

 

[MJ Maven]

Day 3 - Built a bulkhead around my ventilation access points and sealed up the construction access door. Added a 165 cfm inline fan to each ventilation pathway ... giving me 330 cfm forced intake for the flower room.

Clustered utility space with intake fans and custom built intake vents:

Installed the exhaust port too. The aluminum flextube is my dryer exhaust.

Sealed up the utility space with panelling, and covered the vents with furnace intake and duct covers ... this is the only really obvious sign that something is going on back there I have had a furnace repair man and meter readers (also had external meters installed) within 2' of the utility wall and no one has ever even glanced at it funny

 

[guineapig]

Welcome to the forums.....

Happy you joined:

(new welcome dance....)

kind regards from guineapig

 

[MJ Maven]

Day 4 - Cut new access door and hung lights, ventilation and separate the flower and veg chamber. Flower room gets 10' x 2' ... veg side gets 5' x 2'.

Modified a 10" 510 cfm fan to suit my needs:

Used a 8" to 6" reducer and than shaped some sheet metal to make the reduction from 10" to 8". I know ... I wrote that backwards ... cut me some slack ... I'm baked from that joint

You can build your own turbine engine too

Attached new fan to a 6" y connection... and used each end of the y to draw warm air from around the lights:

 

[MJ Maven]

Day 5 - Installed carbon filter (Can 66) and main exhaust fan (465 cfm).

In an attempt to reduce noise ... everything that generates a lot of vibration is suspended by bungees. Flower side ventilation dumping it's air into the veg room:

Carbon filter and fan is suspended by bungee too. In the top right of the pic you can see the flower room vent coming into the veg room:

The carbon filter then clears both rooms of the hot air.

The access point as of day 5:

 

[MJ Maven]

Day 90-ish LOL ... yeah ... I stalled out for a while

Time to build the stealthy bookshelf door!

Notice the extinguisher that no grow room should be without! I took this ...

... and built this!

Remove the casing pieces, disengage the lock ...

... and you get a secret bookshelf door! It's no batcave back there ... but it is where I do my best work

 

[medi-useA]

A most Impressive Home renovation MJ Maven!

I noticed that you had 2 sets of ducting in the last pics...are they both intakes or an intake/outtake combo?... {damn professional look to the construction man...I love to construct and/or tinker but I only have the skills of a monkey...I can bash things, screw things, glue things and hack things all very very badly...and they LOOK LIKE IT!...but your work in construction so far is looking impeccable.}

Correct me if I'm wrong, but those 4"x4" posts you mentioned earlier,
are they accessways to the plants?...Your area is limited for access...what method are you growing with in that area?...

OH BUGGRIT!...I just had my morning medi-cone and got gibbering...You've shown the bud shot at the beginning...are walking us through the construction phase...you've obviously got a plan for your posts to roll out....ignore my prevoius ??? and I'll sit back and follow this.....

muA

 

[MJ Maven]

I eventually stained the bookshelf ... and it has been smooth sailing ever since

Those 4" x 4" posts I mentioned earlier ... those are important ... I needed them to support the weight of the bookshelf door when it is open. I was worried that a 2" x 4" would not be strong enough to hold the weight of the bookshelf and books.

A couple family shots ...

Assorted strains. SWAK, NL x Blueberry, Purple Kush

Veg side in full swing ... I root clones for two weeks, veg for four weeks, and flower for eight. I run everything two weeks apart ... so I get two plants to harvest every 14 days.

Flower side

 

[MJ Maven]

Teeg420 ---> Thank you for coming by Big is beautiful

guinea pig ---> Thank you for the kind welcome ... and the welcome dance

medi-useA ---> In that ventilation pic ... both are air-in pathways to which I attached 165 cfm fans I have 330 cfm forced air going in ... and 465 going out ... the rest is passive intake to ensure a negative pressure environment (and no leaking odors). At this point, I only have door#1 ... but will be building door#2 soon. For now, door#1 gives me access directly to the flower side ... and through a partition, the veg side. Door#2 will be a direct access to the veg side And ... gibber away my friend ... we all do it from time to time

Maven

 

[Megas]

Always jealous of people who can do this but I have no skills in this dept.

 

[Capn]

amazing spot you got there. loving the diy inline fan and pretty much everything else about this grow lol.

 

[Deaner]

Love the stealthiness! Great grow brother.

How much investment would you say is here?

 

[JackTheGrower]

That deserves an Award.. Can we get a "Crafty F'kr" leaf.

Damn fine job.. I would be proud to own one!

 

[ourcee]

awesome!

seriously some ingenious lookin design elements you put in.

 

[madassimi]

very nice!!! super stealth!!!

 

[MJ Maven]

Megas ---> It took many mistakes, many banged thumbs, and many more lessons learned for me to get these "skills" ... anyone can do it once they have the experience

Capn ---> Thank you for the kind words I love DIY projects

Deaner ---> Thanks I am a little embarrassed to say ... but it cost a lot. The entire space ... from framing, to lighting, and hinges ... everything ... was about $4400 Canadian

JackTheGrower ---> Thank you sir I like that title "Crafty F'kr"

Maven

 

[MJ Maven]

I don't type fast enough when I'm baked!

I don't type fast enough when I'm baked!

ourcee ---> Thank you for your flattering words I have had years to think about this growroom... and to come up with clever, and always expensive, ideas. I finally bought my own property last year and this was the first reno

madassimi ---> Thank you Stealth was the priority.

Maven