[SativaDreams]

So I've been waiting for state to legalize my medicine and now avail. I refuse to outright break the law yet I must uphold my own ethics in treating myself when my government fails me. I've given them over 5 years since my surgery to figure it out medical legalization-wise, but no avail.

Now this situation brought me to the next challenge: where to grow and how large of a grow?

1) I figure between ~4 ounces per harvest is fair as I don't currently suffer the awful pains I did post surgery. So a small time grow will do.

2) With limited closets I need somewhere to put nice formal clothes on hanger.. That won't do. And it is too unstealthy and impractical to tell everyone who ever enters my room that the closet is magically broken despite it looking fine. "just don't open it" that doesn't work.

3) I could do outdoors... meh it's actually as much work as indoors if you can't easily access outdoor areas with woods areas.. scratch that.

ANSWER: Stealth Dresser grow!!!!~`1` woooo!

Okay. Here is the start.
4-drawer dresser that stands at about 3 and 3/4 feet tall.

Picage below and more to come, as it is in process.


So here: I've taken out the drawers, set them aside. Taken off the back (thin low-density-fiber board around 1/4 inch thick which was held on by staples.. Unfortunately the staples were too far into the LDF board so it was pulled and some small holes were made.).. Much inspection was done after this picture was taken.



Next is the stripping of the interiors. There were 3 pullouts that I'm actually going to keep. You can see this picture does not have the ones that are present in the first... this will help me with not having to lower the light as much.. I can just slide in a flat board at the desired height out of the 3 different heights(only when theyre seedlings and young of course.. when getting bigger Ill just lower the light)




Here you can see the back of the drawers removed. The fronts will soon be glued onto the drawer to give the appearance of functional drawers. (the back will be used for opening and closing)

[SativaDreams]

Here hinges were added to re-attach the Low density fiber back of the dresser. I put 8-10 of these on here to ensure the back doesnt fall off. These will allow the back LDF board (which will spent its time against a wall somewhere) to be the only access to the inside of the dresser. It will hinge on one side and magnet latch on the other



This should work good in combination with magnet latches which ill put on shortly

[DresserDweller]

Looking good Sativa. Are you planning on flat white paint or mylar for reflectivity? What kind of lighting are you planning, cfl or hid? this is what I worked out inside my dresser. Good luck and just yell if you have a question. I'll be tagging this one. Check out pontiacs stelth dresser for some good ideas.

[SativaDreams]

Originally Posted by DresserDweller

Looking good Sativa. Are you planning on flat white paint or mylar for reflectivity? What kind of lighting are you planning, cfl or hid? this is what I worked out inside my dresser. Good luck and just yell if you have a question. I'll be tagging this one. Check out pontiacs stelth dresser for some good ideas.

Thanks for coming by DresserDweller, stay as long as youd like this may take a while

I'm going to be using mylar, no white paint. I'm still trying to figure out an easy adhesive to bond mylar instead of taping it up.. but we'll see.

I'm planning on HID. At first I wanted a 250 watter, but after seeing some of the 150 HPS grows on here, I'm going with a 150 HPS.

I still have to figure out ventilation though... that's the toughest part of my small space here!

Pontiacs stealth dresser was onethread I saw a year or two back long before I joined this forum and was an inspiration to me long before I came here.. it never really resonated into real life until a while back I helped my buddy.

I actually have pictures of a friends smalltime drawer I help him make some time before I put this one i'm doing now into work

Nothing unusual about my buddys room.




Uh oh, Something special there :P


He was doing a 3x 26 watt CFL setup inside his drawer with 1 plant that did okay.

My dresser will have room for 2 plants LST'd well and a 150 or even a 250 if I feel crazy about what's going on here

[SativaDreams]

Okay back to the dresser,

We can now put on the magnetic latches



these are relatively cheap ones.. Maybe I shouldve gone more expensive.. but if we need to upgrade it must be soon... before the grow starts.

the front drawers are removed and the small edges are sanded to ensure the glue will hold a tight bond with the front of the dresser, which is also sanded.

[J-Blunt]

starting to look goood man

[SativaDreams]

It's starting to take shape. Now we can start to let imagination take form on how the interior will be

Here we see the hinges completed (latched onto both the interior of the dresser and to the back piece which will swing open upon a slight tug from the magnetic latches. This will be the only entrance to the drawer )


These hinges were a pain in the
It wasnt the part about screwing them into the basewall of the dresser, but the part of making sure theyre all straight with eachother, and also getting them screwed into the LDF board was so difficult (the screws wouldnt go in at first/ have to keep putting the screw back on the screwdriver/ blah!)

Next we can see the front of the dresser. Each drawer edge was sanded down, along with the front of the dresser to ensure glue gets a good hold. We can see the inside and the back wall with hinges when it is closed. These front panels will be glued into place never to be removed again! (hopefully not by accident and someone tugging too hard thinking they open. -.-)


Here is a shot of the second layer of glue that went on the inside wall of the dresser-drawer-fronts.
I'll be adding more layers once that dries (and thinking of more ways to ensure those drawers stay in place since wood glue may not be the best thing to solely rely on.)



And here is where we can let our imagination take hold and the ideas flow!
I picture a 150 HPS in the top there with mylar-ed walls and some plants!

What do you see?


Thanks for stopping in!

[Hydro-Soil]

Looking Great! Cabs are awesome

I was noticing you're going with a 150w HPS and wanted to ask if you'd purchased it yet? The reason being is I'm looking for more DIY guys to pimp the remote ballast lamps I like so much. Trying to get as many people to use them so we can increase demand for them and hopefully get them into more local stores.

Do a search for PL-L (The 55w lamps I use) and you'll see a few grows. You'll definitely spend less on cooling efforts as they don't put out the infra-red heat like HPS does. I use a cheap 50cfm bathroom fart fan to cool a 220w setup of 4 lamps.

I'm looking forward to seeing whatever you end up choosing.

[DonkeyPunch]

Nice cab!!

[SativaDreams]

Originally Posted by DonkeyPunch

Nice cab!!

Thanks DonkeyPunch! It's still in the making so check back to see it after some more working on it!

Originally Posted by Hydro-Soil

Looking Great! Cabs are awesome

I was noticing you're going with a 150w HPS and wanted to ask if you'd purchased it yet? The reason being is I'm looking for more DIY guys to pimp the remote ballast lamps I like so much. Trying to get as many people to use them so we can increase demand for them and hopefully get them into more local stores.

Do a search for PL-L (The 55w lamps I use) and you'll see a few grows. You'll definitely spend less on cooling efforts as they don't put out the infra-red heat like HPS does. I use a cheap 50cfm bathroom fart fan to cool a 220w setup of 4 lamps.

Hey Hydro, it's good to have an experienced person throwing their bit at me!
I have not picked out/bought my lamp and lighting yet, the 150 is just an idea of what i've wanted to do as it is readily available to me and prewired

I'm going to start reading a little more into these CFL PL-L's but I'm a dud when it comes to electric wiring with A/C.. Also this is my weak point for fans.. I'm trying to find an inexpensive smalltime fan that is prewired (50-100 cfm and ideally under 100 bucks) to three prong outlet.. Maybe they make these CFL pl-l's prewired? A couple of my friends have had a couple grows with the twirley CFLs and had decent-good results (usually the 23 or 26 watters) so I'm not hesitant to get a CFL setup if It will be cheaper and beneficial to my setup. Another reason I was leaning toward the 150 HPS is ease of raising and lowering.. If I have a couple different CFLs it would be more difficult I think.. (I don't have a drill to mount them into a piece of wood or anything like that.. for this whole dresser I've used auto-hole-drilling-screws that are a pain in my wahoo)

Do you have a good beginners page on the bit?