[petemoss]

Hi fellow potheads, I'm back after many years and am growing in a cabinet now...actually two cabinets.
These are the cabinets I'm using. The shorter cab on the left is for mothers and clones. I found it in Craigslist as a solid pine TV / wardrobe cabinet. Lighting is CFL's mounted on the walls and ceiling. The lower compartments are used for storage. In the future, I could use the lower part for mothers and clones and convert the top compartment to a flowering cab. Everything would be contained in one cab. For now, I'll just use the top part for mothers and clones.






The flowering cab is a six-foot tall wardrobe cabinet, solid pine from an unfinished furniture store. 2'X3'X6' Originally, this was supposed to be a SCROG cab. But as I was building it, I began to read Dr. Budgreengenes' threads at the grasscity forum and then here at ICM. His innovative ideas and SOG method just turned my head around and made me realize that a perpetual SOG was exactly what I needed for a steady personal supply. Whether I can keep up with the intense and time consuming maintenance, watering and cloning remains to be seen!

The flowering wardrobe cab has a movable bottom shelf with room for a res underneath for future hydro setups. Right now I'm just using the bottom area to store my soil in kitty litter pails. The cab is lit with a 250 watt HPS/MH digital ballast -one of those purple Lumateks. Ventilation is provided by a 170 cfm centrigual fan that sucks air through a Can filter then a DIY bake-around cooltube and out the window. Intakes are darkroom louvers on the bottom.








Due to some personal issues, I had to close down for a few weeks and ditch my plants. I'll start up again in August hopefully. Just wanted to show everyone my interpretation of Doc's system using two cabs. This gives me room to play with the mothers and clones. The extra height in the flower cab will be useful until I learn to control the height of the plants. In the future, after I have the system dialed in, I could do everything in the shorter cab alone.

[hoosierdaddy]

Beauty furniture there, petemoss!
Lookin good.
You could run haze in the big boy and an indica SOG/moms/clones in the smaller.

[DIGITALHIPPY]

why did u put vents on the front two doors?? couldnt put thoes on bottom/sides?

[petemoss]

Thanks for stopping by hoosierdaddy! You're one of the premier cab builders here and I've admired your DIY skills.

Digital, I thought about putting the louvers on the back, but was afraid the cooler air would just go up the backside and out the top without much circulation throughout the cab. The cab is exhausted out the top back wall with a computer fan pushing warm air out the back. I know it looks ugly, but I can fix it somewhat with some paint. Does this look better?


Now no one will come into my home office/ golf club warehouse and say "what the heck is THAT?"

[petemoss]

I had to ditch my Blueberry seedlings and close shop for a few weeks. Bummer, but shit happens

Tried to start some old (like 5 years) Nirvana Pure Power Plant seeds but they were too dried out to germinate. Now I'm staring over with some fresh new seeds of Legends Ultimate Indica (LUI). I want to develop a couple of good mothers and get my DrBud SOG going. Though the seeds were small and light colored, I got 11 of 15 to germinate. The four seeds that didn't make it were due to my carelessness- let them dry out when the humidity was low Some Serious AK-47 seeds are waiting in the wings

GJ on the cab bro, I have a setup similar to yours. My veg cab is 2Hx2Wx3L ft. and my flowering cab is 5Hx2Wx3L ft. My veg cab has four 42w warm white cfls and my flowering cab has a 250w homemade cooltube.

Im almost complete my first run in this cab and will have detailed pics of my girls (dry weight, finishing height, clone structure).

GL on your journey!

[smoke1sun]

Beautiful. K+

[petemoss]

Hey eLiguL, we think alike! Yeah, I really like the extra working room with two cabs.
My flower area is five sq feet -perfect for a 250 HPS I figure. I'll be very interested in seeing your first run results so I know what to expect. Are you doing a perpetual or normal grow?

Originally Posted by petemoss

Hey eLiguL, we think alike! Yeah, I really like the extra working room with two cabs.
My flower area is five sq feet -perfect for a 250 HPS I figure. I'll be very interested in seeing your first run results so I know what to expect. Are you doing a perpetual or normal grow?

Im just doing a normal grow, im too lazy to do a perpetual...

I have ten in 700ml bottles, four in 2liter bottles and four in a 3gal grobag.

When your taking clones try to avoid having more than 1 main stem if you are not cutting a top. I find that the clones that grew in a V shape didnt yield/grow as much because they had 2 main stems.

[raygun]

Looking good Pete! Looks like you decided to not go wtih the bio buckets in the cab. I too have switched to a simi perpetual coco grow. I like that I can run multiple strains and have different types more readily available. It is a bit more work but also a bit more giving in variety. I'll run about 6 at a time with harvesting 2 every 2 or so weeks.

You should give coco a try. Benifits of hydro growth with abaility to hand water like soil for your flush with out needing to have a separate res and all the issue with trying to go perpetual hydro. You could set up a separate res if you were going to be away but who would go away durring the flush?