Stealth Grow Opinions/Advice

Brutus11

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WHADDUP GUYS! :weed: Long time smoker, but first time grow. I would like to have some of you opinions on my set up. This is by no way my original idea. Saw this on forum and decided to add a few of my own touches to it. I took two rubbermaid box and bonded them together then cut a hole. Dimensions of two together is 15"Wx18"Lx32"H. Lined the inside with foil. Passive intake with 2 80mm exhaust with light traps. As have a 120mm fan im going to rig up in there for air flow to strengthen stems. Weather stripped both lids. Zero noise and zero light from box. 4 27W Daylight CFL 1,750 Lumens each for veg and 26W soft with 1,600 lumens each for flowering. Constructed reflector out a piece of aluminum air duct. First question is this enough light for 2 plants? Second is exhaust enough? The AC in my house is broke so the temp in my room stays around 80 degrees F. Is there any way to keep the temp down inside box? I would greatly appreciate your opinions/advice on anything else you see (good or bad). Alright thanks guys!

P.S.- Im on somewhat of a budget so only spent about $60 to make this. Hell of a deal to me. :hump:
 

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skulls.veritas

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Looks good man, but a few things:
first *they* say that foil has the potential to create heat spots. Personally I don't care about that as much as the fact as foil, while reflective can easily crinkle/not lay flat and then disperse the light in random directions. I've seen people use foil or just wrapping everything in foil or reflectix tape and having good results, so it just looks like as long as you keep good circulation inside the case as well as pulling hot air outta that sucker.

Also, as far as lights are concerned, they say generally you want to at least exceed 5000 lumens, or 10,000 lumens if your an HPS nut lol. BUT its also kind of an accepted practice that you should have at least 100 w's for one plant and 50 w's extra for each additional plant. I've never grown with cfl's, but i haven't really seen anything definitive showing that 20 or 30 w's will make a huge difference, but the accepted mentality is more wattage is better.

As far as temps go, some people will recommend keeping frozen bottles near the intake. With anything though, you really need to be mindful of humidity, both from the thawing bottles and the high heat.
 
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