Dude, you need to tear down the fire trap while you can or at least have the decency to ask the mods to bin this thread. I mean this in the nicest way possible; Don't be an idiot.
Don't do it! Don't grow cannabis in a damned card board box man. Use wood. Seriously.
If you can't use wood then for your own sake, use the sunlight and grow outdoors...
Look, it may very well be possible to accomplish this "cardboard box grow" but you have to ask yourself, is it really worth it?
What if one day while your at work or out at your girlfriends house and the heat from the lights causes the cardboard box to collapse? Flame retardant or not the whole thing's botched and it COULD still catch on fire. Lets say there was some water on your freshly watered babies and it gets into the top of one of the CFLs...Uh oh...
Plus, working with water, electricity and cardboard is generally an accident waiting to happen. Not to mention now you're going to spray it with some flame retardant chemical that will undoubtedly find its way either into your plant/s or into your skin...Not a good idea!
I don't advise using the flame retardant and I don't advise using the cardboard boxes. AT ALL...
Why can't you use wood? No tools?
Pertaining to the actual grow itsself, well a cardboard box is not a very plant-friendly environment.
Your humidity levels will be abnormal. You would need to seal off the box to retain humidity. But then that's going to cause another issue, more heat! Oh by the way, do you have any type of ventilation, circulation or even a fan? I see no mention of your basic environmental control factors so in my opinion you are WAY off my man...
Utilizing your light will also be a BIG problem. All the brown cardboard box is doing is eating up all 300 something watts of your CFL power. The surface of the box is pourus and non reflective. You need a 90-100% reflective surface to use CFLs for growing. Something like a FLAT white surface or MYLAR to contain your light is absolutely necessary! If you don't figure out a way to contain the light you will effectively lose up to 65-75% of your USABLE light. Then you're just wasting money...
Either way even if it doesn't catch on fire, you're way off track and the grow would be botched from the beggining. With that type of environment you'd be capable of doing 1 MAYBE 2 plants. You'd be lucky if you get an ounce of bud. You have to be able to capture all your environmental factors in the box and control them...This is best done with wood. Not paper...
Δ-9;2209650 said:http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S89811770
I did find this, but I don't know how I'd make a 6" circle for a fan.
You don't want a drill press, it will very likely be difficult to put the box under the press.
But if the dude has a press, he almost certainly has a hand drill as well. Seriously though, what man doesn't own at least a few tools? Buy a hand drill, twenty bucks. If you start buying a few basic tools as you need them, and take care of them - it will pay off big time in the long run.
-- You are a man, right? This isn't some secret grow in a buddy's parent's attic? Right?
6" drill....priceless. have u ever used power tools before? the only thing that could possibly be is a drill bit 6" in length, which doesn't describe your cutting diameter at all. FYI long ones are referred to as "jobber" drill bits. now at least you know 1 thing about tools.
secondly, 6" in diameter? a drill? chucked into a drill press? for cutting a piece of wood?
are you fucking shitting me...
FYI cutting out holes in wood would be the job for some type of reciprocating saw and you would drill through first to make a starter hole (try a 2" hole saw and a cordless drill.) that being said, go find someone who knows how to use big boy stuff.
p.s. cardboard flame repellent !!!! wow
Δ-9;2209650 said:http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S89811770
I did find this, but I don't know how I'd make a 6" circle for a fan.
Δ-9;2209821 said:I just remembered that I know someone with a drill press, and surely a 6" bit.
Is a 6" duct fan generally a little less than 6"?
Δ-9;2209925 said:It's from ikea, so it comes unassembled. I have a drill but no 6" bit, and I figued the press would be easier to use with an unassembled side of a box.