Build it and THEY will grow!! Stealth Grow Box Design

That's my problem there are no roots touching the water when I put them in the bubble bucket, there's a decent root coming out of the rockwool but there's 4" of hydroton for it to break through. Can I fill the bucket so half my 6" pot is under water? Because nothings touching the water I do spray the rockwool 3 times a day so it doesn't dry out. My buckets are 99.9% light proof, light might only be getting through the top of the pots, I'll cover with mylar as you suggested.

Everything I'm doing looks good? I just got my RO system, so it will be pure water used.

 

Thanks for all the support guys, if I can only get some green in the cabinet it'll all be good.

kkrezono, not sure which plant your talking about, there are 3 different onces here. 2 of them were planted at the same time but one of them didn't grow for 2 weeks, thats the last transplanted one. Both of them were under 24hrs of light for 21 days, well actually the 2nd was under for 28 days, I just ripped it out today. All 3 are now dead. A month of 24hrs of light for nothing!

I bought the light at a local growshop, I prefer that way over the net. I paid $119 for the light, $19 for the socket and $30 for the reflector. Now I want a HPS in there, hopefully flowering is coming soon.

Well I think I have nature figured out this time, these ones are gonna grow.

Here's some more pics of dead plants.



This was the big one.



Here's the newest sprout, got fried as well.



Here's the cause of the 2 deaths, the muffler at the top back, the foam expanded more then I thought it would and blocked the hole closed, temperature got up to 93 degrees for quite a while. The muffler only brought the noise level down by about 10%, not very effective. Maybe if I lined it with better material it would do better.



And here's my latest addition, this picture is from earlier today, I have another seed that I will be putting in rockwool later tonight, the spout is quite small still but I think will be too big by morning. Least I've got the germination process under control.

This one is going to go in the bubble bucket tonight, I'm gonna put it lower in the basket as suggested, I did have them right at the top. I'm also going to keep a humidity dome over them for a week or so, in the past I removed it when leaves first showed. It will also be in RO water, it reads .002 ppm on my TDS meter, down from 350-428 tap water. One thing I find strange with the RO water is it has a very high 9.8ph level, I expected it to be 7.0 It takes much less PH down though then tap water did. For 1 liter of tap water I need about 5 drops of PH down, with 1 liter of RO water I only need .7 drop, 1 drop is too much, I have to add a bit more water to bring it up. Kinda weird I thought. I shouldn't need any cal-mag, the lucas formula is all a person needs, less is better. Ocitown I'm not sure if you ever read this thread from lucas himself, if not I think you'll find it very interesting.

http://www.cannabis-world.org/cw/showthread.php?t=892

Well, back to growing...

 

How does that work? I can't imagine the hot air being pushed out the intake holes at the bottom, hot air rises. Right now my vortex sucks the air from inside the box through the filter and out the box bringing fresh air in the bottom. If I did it the other way the filter wouldn't be used.

 

Thanks for the kind words ChilliWilly. I don't think the low humidity is a lack of airflow, I have low humidity in my apartment, its electrical heat and now its getting to the point that I shock my cat. I decided not to worry about humidity right now. I was going to put a fogger in there, not now.

I did wonder if bigger inlet holes would give more airflow, possibly helping in the heating issue, but then I think if there too big I lose negative pressure which probably wouldn't help. Not sure what a propagator is, I just spray the rockwool twice a day now, it doesn't seem to dry out too quick now that I filled my buckets a bit more.

Ocitown I thought you were looking at something wrong, couldn't imagine it working any other way. I appreciate the thought of you helping though, if you see anything that you think I can improve be sure to let me know, don't worry you're not on probation with me.

I just picked up a webcam to constantly take pictures of them and for security. So yeah one day soon I'll have a nice time lapse video for all to see, that should keep you guys checking in.

Here's some pics of my new babies, they are doing very well. Both started the germination process at the same time (Nov 15) but one spouted much quicker, as in showed above the rockwool, Nov 18 vs Nov 22. You can see the difference in size.



I lifted the above plant for the first time today to see if there were roots yet, there was none!

 

I'm not really sure what I'm going to do yet, I'm thinking of adding a net and going with scrog. But then I also think maybe I should just let them grow as they want for the first time, I'm new to everything and this time I actually want to make it to harvest. Using a method is more to go wrong I suppose.

 

Thanks ocitown, appreciate the compliment.

I'm definitely done with soil, can't stand the stuff now, read above. I was also worried about bring soil into my apartment.

I can't see how hydro can be worse, if anything better because you can actually get proper readings on how your feeding them, I'm using the Lucas formula so its very straight forward. More work but I'm up to it. These are my first plants in the bubble bucket from the beginning, the others died because of the physical abuse I put them through. These ones are looking very happy, today I lifted the one pot again and there were 2 nice big roots (3-4") that found there way out.