My first grow – 250 w stealth cabinet – Looking good so far

I ask anyone with any comments or anything they wish to post is more than welcome and encouraged.
What fun this has been so far- Got my brother helping me build this box and its all done besides a few minor details but please chime in if you see anything out of place. As I mentioned this is my first grow so lets see how it goes.


I have three plants going and its basically all I can fit in our small area but the cabinet is set up so I can have split rooms.
Plant 1 is some great free seed I got with my purchase and they just said it’s a Sativa and Indica blend. That is the large one you see in the picture and its only 2 weeks old, leaves are huge and its looking nice. The small one that is about 1 week old is called Ganeshas Dream and its a 100% Indica weed and its one seed type that I purchased to grow. The third one that just sprouted and isn’t really in the picture yet is an Auto flower called lowlife Auto Blueberry that I just wanted to test out. I want to grow these outdoors when the weather warms here soon.


Left side of cabinet
250w lamps MH / HPS
4” exhaust fan with scrubber
inlet fan
small fan for plants
right side of the cabinet
48w t5 grow light ( I need to upgrade this part to more watts)
Small oscillating fan

I am using the right side for the first week or so of the plants life then over to the left side to veg then flower.
The right side will also be used to harvest and dry as it should be nice and dark and warm with fresh air.
I don’t need a huge amount of smoke I am hoping for a few ounces every 3 months I will be more than covered.

Using all fox farm soils and nutrients for now and keeping things simple.

Wish me luck but so far this is a blast.
Please chime in and let me know what you think so far. I will keep this updated.

I wanted to do a quick update.

Been feeding them Foxfarm "Big Grow" nutes of every other watering and at 2 teaspoons per gallon. IS that a good amount? I water every other day or 3rd day.

can anyone chime in here on what else I could feed them or do to help them grow more? the stem on both are nice and thick.


The little one is Ganeshas Dream and its some kick ass Indica.
the large plant that is just rockin is suppose to be a nice hybrid. lets just hope these don't turn into males.
The large one is just over 3 weeks and the little one is 2 weeks so there is quite a difference in the two different types.

so i was thinking on my cabinet of getting a second 250w to keep one always for veg and one always for flower. or should I get CFLs to keep the heat down? i had issues with my 400w and to much heat for my little cab so i just don't know.

Its been a while since I updated my grow.

I set up my right side with this set up but I havent used the 125 w red bulb yet but the 250 w blue rocks.
Before i had crappy low watt t5. so now I can have the right side be all veg and get my left side to be just a flower side with my 250w.


check out the process so far. Both plants are just rocking. I started a new plant and its a fem auto called Lowlife Automatic Blueberry



The plant on the right side is my killer [FONT=&quot]Ganeshas Dream[/FONT]
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and some cool shots of my set up

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These pics are hard to tell as the red 150w bulb is very bright but these Feliz brand bulbs are very nice and stay pretty cool for temps.


you can sorta see the light in the back hanging there. I will go get another bat wing hanger like the 250 watt blue one so both reflect down on the plants. I dont think this new red light is that efficient until I do that.

but wow, I went in today and from just one day with the added red light and my little auto is rocking and I don't know if it was the added light but it sure does look good

here is my little Auto. Fem Auto Lowlife Blueberry exactly 2 weeks old today from sprout.
I just moved her to a larger pot and her final resting pot. Its only a 2.5 gallon so I hope its enough. The root system was awesome when I took her out of the 1 gallon pot.

so I now have my two larger plants both in the first week of flowering under 12/12 and they are amazing for my first grow. my camera sucks for close up shots but I will try again later but one plant really looks like a female with little white hairs forming out of some of the sacs.

my major concern now is this one plant being to tall at the end of the flowering. I will attempt to tie her down a little to stop the massive upward growth and maybe she will grow out for a while.
There are two plants in there, the one on the left is the large one at just over 4 weeks old and there is another one on the right called Ganeshas Dream at just over 3 weeks.

Here is my shitty attempt at a clone. don't laugh as it was a last minute cut before the two large ones went to12/12. The cool thing is it has lived for almost 3 days so far. I haven't checked to see if its rooting yet but i have no idea what i am doing.
That is next on my list is to learn cloning the proper way but lets see how she does in the next few days. I did apply root gel at least.

Now for some other Herbs
here is my fresh dill to make my homemade pickles to eat when I have the munchies

yea its day one of the new baby girl. I have a plan to mess with colloidal silver to see if its possible to get pollen so more to come on that later.
and the other auto here is day 17

both plants on the left side are just booming and both are female and looking to bud very soon. its been 1 week on the flowering cycle and they look beautiful and smell awesome.
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Yea all is looking great

both large plants are budding massively and I am quickly running out of room in my small cabinet. I am having to tie them down. Next time I will flower earlier and tie down from the start.




Nice buds for a first time grow

My little Lowlife auto blueberry is smelling so sweet with its little buds.



OK, cool part now is we finally had time to vent this outside. Now the room is so much better and quieter. No more humidity and hot air pounding the room.



Last pick is I have my full spectrum lights running again under my autos and veg room now that we fixed the ventilation properly



I hope this helps perk up that little auto plant
Large blue is a 250 watt and smaller red is a 125


awesome lights.

Things are looking awesome- quick update

My Auto has massive buds


my two larger are just budding massively. Not bad for my first grow so far. The Lowlife blueberry auto is exactly 40 days old in this picture and the Ganeshas Dream is 55 days and only 4 weeks into flower.

its rockin Ganeshas Dream has some incredible buds- Its 10 weeks old so i am starting to give it water only and some molasses only for the next two weeks.

ALso the Lowlife auto blueberry that is about to be harvested.

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Nice buds
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cool setup, looks good man, how much did you yeild?

very nice setup and good looking plants as well. what kind of fan and scrubber is that you have? Looking at getting some for myself but not quite sure. My room will be a tent about the same size as yours? Also, what FF products you use? The trio pack and FFOF and sledgehammer or do you not flush in between?

On the Lowlife auto blueberry total weight after it was dried was at 30 grams. awesome smoke but not a huge yield - here is a pic of the auto blueberry all died. but this only took 65 days from seed to harvest so pretty nice.



On the Ganesha's Dream however we got just over 3 ounces at 95 grams dried.
both not bad for first grows.

Here is some of the Ganesha's Dream - massive crystals- Will be nice for hash.
This went 4 weeks veg and 9 weeks flower



Amazing stuff.

I dried it too much. next time will be much better.
If you see my other project I have pollinated a small part of this plant so in some areas i am now finding nice fem seeds.

Hey guys i have the same seeds. ganeshas dream and the free twenty. i got the 4 of the freebies goin now, tried to germ 10 and 4 popped which i thought was a bit low outta 10 but hey theyre free.

i'm saving the ganeshas dream till things settle a little as me growing is very risky. had to trash 3 grows so far due to a jelous ex, jelous brother and the police calling after a tip off i was growing shroomz lol. in that order too. different place now though so lets hope they dont fing me here with my new lady, and my new little ladies too lol.

just had a few quetions for ya Tucsonlongbuds, what was the yield and smoke like from the mystery free seeds and most importantly how long did it take to flower.

i know some one already asked and i'm sorry to be a pain but i could only see your results for the ganeshas dream and your auto flower posted.

very well done on the coloidal silver too mate. very impressed with your boldness to experiment.

thanx in advance and keep up the great work mate

Hello Manic

yes so you have ordered the exact same seeds as me, not sure if we have the same free ones but most likely we do.
I planted the "free seed" ( as they didnt give us a name for it) at the same time as the Ganeshas Dream and the free seed looked like it was a female but all of a sudden it was covered in pollen looking sacs so assuming it was a male and not wanting to disrupt the Ganesha's I destroyed it.
I still have many of those free seeds left but like you I had poor sprout rate so the one that did grow didn't make it to far.

I have been busy with my silver project and other plants to try another "free seed" and I dont think I will for a while since my project worked and I hope to have lots of great female seeds.

so good luck when you do grow that Ganesha Dream as its awesome smoke and I got a large yeild out of it.

I am now growing Delirium - Diamond line fem seeds and a free seed called Kannabia - Big Bang fem seed.

one thing I do recommend and especially if you are growing stealth and need to keep it low profile is to get some of those lowlife auto seeds. kick ass smoke and easy to grow.


keep in touch

hey again. sorry to hear about that mate. crap when ya get a male after all ya hard work aint it. just go to keep on truckin a guess n take it on the chin.

in my oppinion persistance and patience are the way to perfection.
after all excellence cannot be taught only engineered by ourselves after much repitition of the same task. 1st you learn then you do then you perfect your method.

cant wait to perfect my methods cuz it will be alot of fun learnin and doing along the way lol. for a newb though you did excellent on your first grow. hope mine goes that well.

cant wait to get some more genetics now n start experimenting like you. a chance to play god on a smaller scale so to speak lol.