Rubbermaid Micro-grow

ThePhiloStoned

Member

• May 13, 2019

• #1

So, I really wanna do one of these Rubbermaid micro-grows, except I want to make a couple improvements...first thing's first, I would add a bottom Rubbermaid that would be a bigass (25-50 gallon) LOS no-till bed (later I might try to run a DWC through it) I would run a SOG through the bed first and then a ScrOG to compare the yields...I'm thinking maybe some COB LEDs mounted to the very top Rubbermaid (maybe some side-mounting too) as opposed to CFLs to help control the heat factor of such a small space.

Do you guys think this will work? Are there considerations I need to vigilant with? Are there any tutorials I absolutely must read thoroughly before undertaking a project like this? Etc. (Also specific products w/ links are very appreciated).

 

starke

Well-known member

• May 13, 2019

• #2

I built his three tub system by blue_adept and grew in it for over a year before buying my first tent. If building it now, I would use SIL LEDs instead of CFLs. His cooling and carbon filter solutions work very well.

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=100698

 

ThePhiloStoned

Member

• May 14, 2019

• #3

starke said:

I built his three tub system by blue_adept and grew in it for over a year before buying my first tent. If building it now, I would use SIL LEDs instead of CFLs. His cooling and carbon filter solutions work very well.

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=100698

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Appreciate ya, precisely the type of info I was seeking.

 

ThePhiloStoned

Member

• May 14, 2019

• #4

I guess, maybe, a better question would be, of the Rubbermaid grows on here, who did it best? And which LEDs (specifically) would you run instead of CFLs & HIDs?

One of these:
Red_Greenery's Handyman DIY Grow Tubs

Merry Gardener's Portable Rubbermaid Mini Grow - 100W UFO LED

Blue Adept's DIY SuperStealth tubs

Or one that I haven't discovered yet?

 

ThePhiloStoned

Member

• May 31, 2019

• #5

So the design I finally landed on is somewhere between Red_Greenery & Blue-Adept's Rubbermaid builds...I'll add a tub on the bottom that will serve as a 25+ gallon LOS-bed for SOGging, I'm going to build long darkroom louvers for the sides of the middle box, and want to add a couple T5HOs for supplemental lighting later in flowering, the main light will be an HLG-65, since the micro-grow is so short I think that light will suffice, if not the next one up isn't much more expensive.

 

TychoMonolyth

Boreal Curing

• May 31, 2019

• #6

I think you'd like this

Sub Irrigation Planter (SIP)
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J

Jammal

Member

• May 31, 2019

• #7

do it man, I'm game

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=362674

 

ThePhiloStoned

Member

• May 31, 2019

• #8

I used to use Earthboxes outdoors in the past, I'll definitely check those videos out, sub-irrigation always intrigues me.