TexMex McDirt
Active member
Hey IC Mag folks - I am bothering you good people because I want your input on my idea. I have searched the forums for attic grows and haven't really found anything to help with my specific plan. I think it will work, but want some input, so here we go.
We recently moved into a new house and I really want to get a sustained grow back up. My problem is that stealth is an absolute must. I want to grow in a perpetual micro SOG style, but I really don't have anywhere in the house to set up an NGB multi chamber style cab or have multiple seperate cabs and remain stealth.
I have an idea to set up in an attic space. It is above the garage, laundry and master bedroom closet and has lots of good room. Since I know temps will be an issue I am hoping to grow in a couple of small cabs, like no bigger than 2 feet square cabs, 1 for flower (maybe like 150W CFL or so) and 1 for mums/clones (no more than 100W CFL, probably less). Probably build them with 3/4 inch plywood. I can pull in fresh conditioned air for each cab from in the house below.
So, what is your take on that idea? Do you think I can battle the attic temps, summer heat and winter cold, if I have a 6 inch insulated duct passive intake going to each cab, for pulling fresh air into the cabs from inside the house below? It would be easy, and stealth, to just cut a hole in the ceiling of the laundry room or closet and cover it with a vent cover to look like an air return to pull air up to my cabs. It's usually between 70-75f in the house. I would have a good fan in each cab, like the 120 CFM Delta I have now that I have to seriously undervolt so it doesn't sound like a tornado. The fans could probably be run at full speed in the attic and the noise, if any can be heard from inside the garage or the house, can be blamed easily on HVAC or something, the sort of stuff that should be in an attic, but that will be hidden away up there and no one would ever see the cabs.
So, give me some feedback on this. I have some Nirvana NL, Mandala #1 and Sam the Skunkman SkunkxHaze seeds just waiting for me to try this. (Thanks to Seed Boutique for getting these seeds to me so darn quickly, 1 week, was really surprised).
We recently moved into a new house and I really want to get a sustained grow back up. My problem is that stealth is an absolute must. I want to grow in a perpetual micro SOG style, but I really don't have anywhere in the house to set up an NGB multi chamber style cab or have multiple seperate cabs and remain stealth.
I have an idea to set up in an attic space. It is above the garage, laundry and master bedroom closet and has lots of good room. Since I know temps will be an issue I am hoping to grow in a couple of small cabs, like no bigger than 2 feet square cabs, 1 for flower (maybe like 150W CFL or so) and 1 for mums/clones (no more than 100W CFL, probably less). Probably build them with 3/4 inch plywood. I can pull in fresh conditioned air for each cab from in the house below.
So, what is your take on that idea? Do you think I can battle the attic temps, summer heat and winter cold, if I have a 6 inch insulated duct passive intake going to each cab, for pulling fresh air into the cabs from inside the house below? It would be easy, and stealth, to just cut a hole in the ceiling of the laundry room or closet and cover it with a vent cover to look like an air return to pull air up to my cabs. It's usually between 70-75f in the house. I would have a good fan in each cab, like the 120 CFM Delta I have now that I have to seriously undervolt so it doesn't sound like a tornado. The fans could probably be run at full speed in the attic and the noise, if any can be heard from inside the garage or the house, can be blamed easily on HVAC or something, the sort of stuff that should be in an attic, but that will be hidden away up there and no one would ever see the cabs.
So, give me some feedback on this. I have some Nirvana NL, Mandala #1 and Sam the Skunkman SkunkxHaze seeds just waiting for me to try this. (Thanks to Seed Boutique for getting these seeds to me so darn quickly, 1 week, was really surprised).
