Big Bang Micro Box

[iskaboy]

Hi guys, here I am with my new selfmade MicroBox,
I am going to document this first grow as better as
possible and here we go with the specs of the Box
and other related things:

Box: 31.5"H x 28"L x 13"W
Air: Pc vent 90CFM with a 12v-9v-7v-5v-3v adapter
Light: CFL 125W 6400k Veg + CFL 125W 2700k Flo
Soil: I am going to try the Compo Sana universal soil
Strain: 1 Big Bang "Green House Seed Co."
Fert: GH Tripack
Tecnique: FIM,Topping, Scrog in this order..
Pot: 3 kind of square pots and I think gonna buy the fourth: 0.4l,4.5l,6.5l (11l?)
Temp: max 84.2°F/min 69.8°F
Humidity: max 75%/min 30%

Here are some photos of the Box:

Yesterday I put a BigBang seed in a cup of water, I think I'm going to put it tomorrow morning in a paper towel and then under a humidity dome until it sprout, I have to put in a dark dry place right?​

 

[iskaboy]

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Questions and critiques well constructed are welcome..​

 

[Merry Gardener]

Looks very nice and stealthy! What do you plan to do about the smell?

 

[iskaboy]

Looks very nice and stealthy! What do you plan to do about the smell?

For the moment nothing, but when it will be flower time I will just built a homemade carbon filter with some activated carbon or using some ONA gel or last but not least important a ionizer, I am just wondering where I can buy a cheap one for my MicroBox for about a 20 bucks or least..

Update
27/04 12:00 am I put a seed in water cup for about 36 hours
28/04 12:00 pm A little shiny white beautiful tap root has shown so I put the seed in a paper towel in a zip bag..
01/05 08:00 am A long tap root has shown so I transplanted into soil and gave a little amount of 6.5 PHed water, put the little 0.4l pot into the zip bag again and all thrown into the fuctional MicroBox

This shit is tremendously addictive, I started not being able to sleep! ​

 

[iskaboy]

Update 02-05-2013 Day 0

Update 02-05-2013 Day 0

02/05/2013 08:00 pm Oh God, finally, I was afraid that my baby
won't sprout because of what I have heard oh the Green House Seeds Co.
but hopefully the miracle of life started like this:

 

[iskaboy]

Update

Update

03-05-2013 Day 1

04-05-2013 Day 2

I am having a problem with the temperature and humidity,
the temperature remains stable at around 86°F and is not a
much of a problem since adding a fan and
by circulating air I brought it down to 82.4°F, but with
the humidity problem can't seem to find solutions and
I also tried to put wet pieces around a bit but
seemed a bit dangerous and I left them
to give space to my genius!

Is it okay for the moment as
temporary solution until the time of transplant
or not yet? Humidity has stagnated at around 30%
then that bag around the plant acts as a humidity dome
but I do not think my baby breathe well, any ideas?

05-05-2013 Day 3

 

[iskaboy]

So here I am with another daily update and as
you can see she is doing fine for now,
she is building the second pair of leaves:

06-05-2013 Day 4

 

[5th]

Looks great so far. Very nice cab by the way.

 

[Merry Gardener]

The plant looks OK to me!

But I think it would be better to remove the plastic cover over the pot. 30% humidity is pretty low, but still OK. I also get that during winter every year, and the plants can survive.

If you want to raise the humidity a bit, I suggest you put a big pot of water between the left fan and the plant. That way the light warmth will speed up the evaporation of water, and the ventilator will blow the wet air over the plant. Should work nicely...

 

[iskaboy]

Looks great so far. Very nice cab by the way.

Thank you 5th but I am still far away from making this cab looking clean, I have to put all the electricity stuff outside coz I really don't like it there but it will be bad for stealthiness, as Shakespear said: Inside or outside? That is the question!

The plant looks OK to me!

But I think it would be better to remove the plastic cover over the pot. 30% humidity is pretty low, but still OK. I also get that during winter every year, and the plants can survive.

If you want to raise the humidity a bit, I suggest you put a big pot of water between the left fan and the plant. That way the light warmth will speed up the evaporation of water, and the ventilator will blow the wet air over the plant. Should work nicely...

Hey Merry, thanks for the suggestion, I menaged to get out of the 30% and now get it around 45/50% in the day and about 70/75% in the night,tomorrow I will post a picture of the new idea I got after trying a lot of different setups,thanks again my friend..

 

[5th]

I am still far away from making this cab looking clean

Things are usually never done with a cab. Just when you think its perfect...you'll get an idea. lol...we should start making these things out of LEGO's.

 

[1337micro]

looking very good Iska! Like everyone's saying, very clean thus far. Wishing you the best of luck with your girl. I'll be watching =)

Also humidity at 30% is not too bad. My grow runs around 34ish most of the time and my plants don't seem to care. (I also question the accuracy of my hygrometer lol).

 

[iskaboy]

looking very good Iska! Like everyone's saying, very clean thus far. Wishing you the best of luck with your girl. I'll be watching =)

Also humidity at 30% is not too bad. My grow runs around 34ish most of the time and my plants don't seem to care. (I also question the accuracy of my hygrometer lol).

Thanks my friend for appreciating the cab, as I told I menaged to raise my humidity till 45/50% these days so for the moment I'm ok with that, my baby is doing good till now but I think she is a little slow,in a few hours I'm gonna update with a new picture and we will see..

 

[iskaboy]

07-05-2013 Day 5

 

[iskaboy]

08-05-2013 Day 6

I have also transplanted in a little bigger "pot",
also added perlite with the Composana
and here is a picture of the new bed

 

[iskaboy]

09-05-2013 Day 7

I noticed a leaf curling, have anyone
tried the Big Bang and noticed something similar?​

 

[iskaboy]

10-05-2013 Day 8

Added other 2 fans, 1 for intake and 1 for outake
due to high temperatures and transplanted into
the 1.7 gallon pot (6.5l).. I don't know why but this
b!t*h is really hard to handle and this compactness
is pissing me because I have seen others growing
this plant and at this point they are getting a 5/6 inches
plant and not 2 inches like mine!! Is it ok?

11-05-2013 Day 9

 

[Merry Gardener]

Hi!

Hope you don't mind, but I'm interested in your grow setup and I might keep commenting... But I'm no pro grower, I just like to grow my plants, for hobby and for fruits. I have to do it in mini spaces, but I've been relatively successful so far... So please take all my comments just as suggestions!

To my eye, your plant looks OK. As for slow growth, I have two ideas. First, on all your pictures the soil looks quite wet. Be careful not to overwater, it's very easy to do with a small plant, especially if it is in a big container. And I think overwatering will slow the growth.

Second, you said you just transplanted into 6.5 L pots. Was it already necessary? Did you see a lot of roots when you removed the old pot? If not, the young plant might still be growing the root system, and did not yet shoot upwards.

And of course, the transplanting is a shock for the plant, so I would expect it to stay mostly dormant for the next 3 days or so. You don't even need to water it during that time, unless your soil gets really dry...

After that, I would expect the plant to start growing like crazy! Or, as they used to say, growing like hemp!

Bye,

Merry

 

[iskaboy]

Hi!

Hope you don't mind, but I'm interested in your grow setup and I might keep commenting... But I'm no pro grower, I just like to grow my plants, for hobby and for fruits. I have to do it in mini spaces, but I've been relatively successful so far... So please take all my comments just as suggestions!

To my eye, your plant looks OK. As for slow growth, I have two ideas. First, on all your pictures the soil looks quite wet. Be careful not to overwater, it's very easy to do with a small plant, especially if it is in a big container. And I think overwatering will slow the growth.

Second, you said you just transplanted into 6.5 L pots. Was it already necessary? Did you see a lot of roots when you removed the old pot? If not, the young plant might still be growing the root system, and did not yet shoot upwards.

And of course, the transplanting is a shock for the plant, so I would expect it to stay mostly dormant for the next 3 days or so. You don't even need to water it during that time, unless your soil gets really dry...

After that, I would expect the plant to start growing like crazy! Or, as they used to say, growing like hemp!

Bye,

Merry

Hey Merry, you are welcome every time you want, I am watering every 2/3 days and just when I feel the pot being light enough, I did the transplant because 3 roots went outside the drain hole in the old container, but today she's showing a better leaves in my opinion:

12-05-2013 Day 10

 

[iskaboy]

13-05-2013 Day 11

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