Gregor Eisenhorn
Well-Known Member
Hey hey hey everyone!
Nice to meet you, fairly new grower here. After a few weeks of reserching micro grows, I have decided to build my first, very own PC grow box.
Now I know that the yield (if there will be any for me) will be mediocre compared to proper indoor/outdoor growing, but the whole point of going through hours of preparing and building the case is:
-to boost my low self esteem by actually doing something right,
-to finally learn a bit about electronics. I must say that I am the biggest noob when it comes to electricity, the only things I know are the very basic eg. don't stick your tounge/fork etc. into a socket unless you want to become a walking christmas tree and make sure you don't spill water on any live cabels etc.
-I must admit that growing cannabis has become a huge hobby of mine, I'm practically hooked when it comes to reading on different methods such as ScrOG, LST, supercropping ect. + I love the fact that you can actually nuture something from start to finish, watch it grow and finally be impressed with the results,
- and let's face it, I'll be very bloody happy if I get to smoke some natural home grown herb at the end of the journey
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Now I have grown once, a year ago to be exact. Of course I wasn't/still aren't a horticultural genius so the yield was about 20g, but considering the whole grow was done behind a swimming pool with only 4h of direct sunlight every day (and no topping, FIM'ing, LST'ing ect.), I'm fairly happy with the results.
So to begin with, I bought one autoflower feminized Mystic Blue seed and I just popped it in between some wet paper towels for it to germinate. I'll move it to a small peat pot filled with soil and perlite (3:1) after the taproot gets about 5mm long. The soil I will be using has a pH range of 6,5-7,5 and when I've been mucking around and probing it from time to time, it usually reads 6,8 which is a good start.
PC grow case stats:
-42x45x18,6 (that's height x length x width)
-two PC 12V fans which I have somehow managed to attach to one ACDC 12V adapter (AND THEY WORK!). I soldered the cables together and taped them with electrical tape for better insurance. I'll post some pictures of the components soon,
-I'll buy a material that reflects sunlight off of car windows and just stick it too the inner walls of the PC, so I won't be losing any lumens,
-I'm using three 25W CFL's that give off 1520 lumens each, so that's 4560 in total. I understand that this is a good amount of lumens for such a micro grow. 6500k for veg and then I'll swap em' for three 2700k for flower.
Now the smell isn't really much of a problem, but I am thinking of making/buying a carbon filter just to be sure. Better to be safe than sorry. But then I would have to upgrade one of my fans as I have read, that such filters really decrease the efficiency of a fan.
Aaaaaaaaand that's about it, if you have any questions/doubts/criticism please do not hesitate to tell me. I may be doing some things wrong, and I'll be more than happy to adjust them.
I'll post some pictures of the whole building process in a jiffy.
Thanks guys, wish me luck.
Peace out.![Smile :) :)](/styles/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Nice to meet you, fairly new grower here. After a few weeks of reserching micro grows, I have decided to build my first, very own PC grow box.
Now I know that the yield (if there will be any for me) will be mediocre compared to proper indoor/outdoor growing, but the whole point of going through hours of preparing and building the case is:
-to boost my low self esteem by actually doing something right,
-to finally learn a bit about electronics. I must say that I am the biggest noob when it comes to electricity, the only things I know are the very basic eg. don't stick your tounge/fork etc. into a socket unless you want to become a walking christmas tree and make sure you don't spill water on any live cabels etc.
-I must admit that growing cannabis has become a huge hobby of mine, I'm practically hooked when it comes to reading on different methods such as ScrOG, LST, supercropping ect. + I love the fact that you can actually nuture something from start to finish, watch it grow and finally be impressed with the results,
- and let's face it, I'll be very bloody happy if I get to smoke some natural home grown herb at the end of the journey
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Now I have grown once, a year ago to be exact. Of course I wasn't/still aren't a horticultural genius so the yield was about 20g, but considering the whole grow was done behind a swimming pool with only 4h of direct sunlight every day (and no topping, FIM'ing, LST'ing ect.), I'm fairly happy with the results.
So to begin with, I bought one autoflower feminized Mystic Blue seed and I just popped it in between some wet paper towels for it to germinate. I'll move it to a small peat pot filled with soil and perlite (3:1) after the taproot gets about 5mm long. The soil I will be using has a pH range of 6,5-7,5 and when I've been mucking around and probing it from time to time, it usually reads 6,8 which is a good start.
PC grow case stats:
-42x45x18,6 (that's height x length x width)
-two PC 12V fans which I have somehow managed to attach to one ACDC 12V adapter (AND THEY WORK!). I soldered the cables together and taped them with electrical tape for better insurance. I'll post some pictures of the components soon,
-I'll buy a material that reflects sunlight off of car windows and just stick it too the inner walls of the PC, so I won't be losing any lumens,
-I'm using three 25W CFL's that give off 1520 lumens each, so that's 4560 in total. I understand that this is a good amount of lumens for such a micro grow. 6500k for veg and then I'll swap em' for three 2700k for flower.
Now the smell isn't really much of a problem, but I am thinking of making/buying a carbon filter just to be sure. Better to be safe than sorry. But then I would have to upgrade one of my fans as I have read, that such filters really decrease the efficiency of a fan.
Aaaaaaaaand that's about it, if you have any questions/doubts/criticism please do not hesitate to tell me. I may be doing some things wrong, and I'll be more than happy to adjust them.
I'll post some pictures of the whole building process in a jiffy.
Thanks guys, wish me luck.
Peace out.
![Smile :) :)](/styles/smilies/icon_smile.gif)