My First Grow! DIY DWC & Grow Area, SNOW WHITE FEM FROM SEED!

Ah, good idea brother, I will get on that right now. Sadly, there is only one lady =/

I know it sucks. I started with 5 fem seeds, had 3 sprout, and 2 died =/

Learn as I go I guess. Although, the bagseed I am messing around with have been raised on the bubbleponics and they are looking to be some giants, hpefully I can get some females

Yay! So my roommate's dad is an electrician and our house desparately needs some electrical help. The outlets in my bathroom that the closet I grow in has only one working outlet. I have extension chord hell.

Well, I was not going to have him do anything for me, but now he has to because I am on the same circuit as the rest of what needs to be fixed. I thought a bit and roommate said his dad is cool, so I am just going to have him help me out. He is going to throw atleast one outlet (hopefully gfi) right outside of the closet so that will be much safer, stealthier and just overall better.


I'm pretty excited.



Now, on a different note, I have been thinking about how to black out the bottom area for flowering. The box blacks out completely, so the mother vegging all the time will not leak any light which is good. The closet gets mad dark, but since there is a passive intake at the bottom of the door (look back at my pictures from early on building if you dont remember) some light will be getting in. I was thinking that I could hang a blackout material from the shelf, with some weight on the bottom of it and have it hang down and black it all out. I would make it so that it rolls up and stores nicely right under the shelf.

I was looking at the standard black plastic roll taht I have, but I kind of want something with a bit more weight to it. I have a black comforter that leaks 0 light and I could drape that, but I think it will lock in heat and such.

Not sure what other ideas I could do at this point. I could always make a front piece that gets inserted for the dark cycle. The thing is that I won't always be here at switches, hence why we all get timers, so why am I planning this like I can move it as I go? That's stupid. haha


Anyone have any better ideas?

So this all took a giant turn for the shitter. The bulbs I got, one came broken, so that is getting replaced, but I am not replacing the one that dropped and shattered everywhere. I can't figure out a design for how to get these lights to hang horizontal, so that the side of the bulb faces the plants and be under a reflector. The reflector was turning and leaning because it was too heavy. this means that I should hold the reflector from all four sides I guess. Regardless, I can't come up with shit, I am incredibly overwhelmed and the shitty set up that I just threw together is hopefully good enough with no reflectors for a day or two

Hell yea bro,,another BubbleHead.! Welcome to the crew!

Any ideas for a light frame bro? it's stressing me out fucking incredibly hard

good grow man!!!!

Blue, thanks brother, appreciate you taking a look!

Thanks for the hearty welcome purp =P



So I have a question. I don't have reflectors set up as of now. My mother has 2 65W 6500k, 1 30W 2700k and 1 20W 3500k bulb hanging above it with no reflectors. Is that enough light for now until I get a solid reflector design going?

tmsculli said:

Any ideas for a light frame bro? it's stressing me out fucking incredibly hard

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Connect small pvc pipe together to make a stand or they sell frames for a homemade closet you can use that.All kinds of ways man.

tmsculli said:

Blue, thanks brother, appreciate you taking a look!

Thanks for the hearty welcome purp =P



So I have a question. I don't have reflectors set up as of now. My mother has 2 65W 6500k, 1 30W 2700k and 1 20W 3500k bulb hanging above it with no reflectors. Is that enough light for now until I get a solid reflector design going?

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That is ENOUGH but it is not PLENTY enough to finish the grow during Flowering.

If you are still haveing leaks try using a hot glue gun. I use it for all my on the fly leak repairs!!!!!

Yea, I want to make sure that it is adjustable. Sadly, the box is only like 20" wide max, looks like I am going to be building something up. I am just more worried about the adjustable aspect of it

I can't remember where I found it, but I found a picture where a guy made a reflector out of wood and then lined it with mylar, I think that may have the strength that I am looking for.


Plants are looking great, no pictures today, but soon!

So, lying in bed I just got an image of the reflectors I am going to make. I am going to take a 2x4 and cut it to the width of my reflectors. I am going to buy 6 of the insulated and wired sockets from Lowes too. I am going to drill holes in the wood spaced out evenly for the socket portions to go into. Then measure out the locations of the holes and cut them through on the reflector. SCrew the reflector to the 2x4 and put the sockets all in the holes from the front. Link the wiring up in the back and output it to one standard power cable. Then I'm going to bend out the reflector to be almost more flat. The new lights are longer and will stick out beyond the reflector.


I'll try and get this done in the next few days, hopefully it will work out!

I saw a dude put these in a Surge Protector, side by side:

Thanks Roseman, I have hundreds of all of those random electronic dealies and connectors all over and have tried a bunch of combinations.


Luckily, I dont need them! I finished my first wellmade reflector that is great for the new larger lights. I am uploading pics now, but it really turned out nicely. Once these pics get up I'll do a quick DIY kind of rundown for it, and then catch you guys up on my ladies!

Alrighty, Day 25


A bunch of my above posts have been questions and concerns about my new lighting set up, and trying to get a good reflector that works with it. Well, In trying to make one I found that if I was trying to hang the lights with the sides facing down, that I would have to counter the weight to make the reflector balance well as it hangs.

After a few designs here is what I came up with:


I started off just with the standard reflector that you guys have seen in all of my old pictures. Then I cut a 2x4 to the proper length that is the length of the Reflector. Then I took my hole saw and cut 3 holes in the wood and through the sheet metal. I took some nails and nailed them together well.



Then I went ahead and took the "outdoor sockets" that they sell at home depot for 3.88. The ones with the light bulb screw in and then the two wires already attached to it. I got more of those and I bought an 89c extension cable with a decent gauge.

I put those sockets through the holes and it fit like a glove.



Then I took the wiring from the back and spun them all together in some wirenuts







Then I took 2 of my 65W 6500k cfls, and one of my 2700k cfls and set them up.

When I hung the reflector, I still had some terrible leaning and it was not working at all. Then I decided to use the slack from the chain to attach farther forward on the reflector. This created a triangle shape of the chain and gave some upward pull to the sagging front of the reflector.

Now all the lights fit great and the angle on the reflector is really good.



Here is how it is looking from a little farther back.



So far so good, I really like how it looks adn how strong it is.


Next trick is to make a slightly different one for the other tank, I'll do another run through of that when it goes down.








As for my lady, she is doing quite well. There has been a lot more root growth and expansion that makes me very happy. Also, my topping must have worked because I now have 2 small shutes starting to come up and out from the top of my baby. The color is really good now. I was worried that it was a bit too dark for a while, possibly an N toxicity, but I think everything is good now. She is nice and happy I think.









Soooo, what do you guys think?!

Dang guys, no one has anything to say? I thought the reflector was kinda cool =/

I DO I DO I DO I DO!!!! LOL Very Nice Setup you got going on,so i notice this is in the bathroom closet right, well this is the right side of the entry is there not another like 1.5 x.15 " side on the left? Is that going to be used for anything? Very Nice Job and Welcome to the BUbble Heads. I Joined i hope if I'm allowed to or not. We aint no Dirt Bags.... I hate the bloody mess it leaves... Congrats and Im subscribed..

Lucky, thanks for the kind words brother!

Yea, if you take a look at some of the earlier pages you will see what is going. Actually, on the very first page I have pictures of the area. The area that you just saw in the recent pictures is my MOther Box which was built to fit snuggly into the little side nook of roughly 20"x18"x4'. In the rest of the closet to the right, so the area right in front of the door when you open it is where I am growing 3 bag seed just for fun/learning. That is what is going on as of now. Ultimately, I plan on running SOG. I am going to have one more small bubbleponics set up for my early clones. That way I will have my mother vegging in her box, the young clones in one tub vegging out, and then the bigger clones are going to be grown and flowered in that main area.


Just rolled out of bed so I am not sure how coherent that thought process was. If you take a look at some pictures from before you will see how I ahve the whole thing layed out.