I like pc cases for mothers, but be careful gutting it cause most warp pretty easy without the infrastructure, and then they don't close up very stealthily.. Take advantage of the fact that the front is probably double layered metal/plastic.. Light proof the outer plastic, then the metal can shed intake air inside from below since there is typically an opening at the front/bottom..
Good luck flowering in there though if you don't flip before clones are 2-3" anyway.. If you can grow a seedling in a pc case then you're pretty talented..
My most successful stealth grows were in a pile of boxes and rubbermaids.. It looked like a typical pile of student storage, was completely silent because it was actually really well engineered, and was muffled by a bunch of clothes/blankets etc that appeared to be strewn about like any slob does..
The flower chamber was a cardboard box: 5 cubic feet, 18"x18"x28"high.. Inside it was structured with 1x1's for stability and fan fastening.. Only used a few pc fans @9V for that area with a short trip out the 3rd story window..
Ontop of that was a rubbermaid/air cooled hood.. The bottom was cut out and glassed.. I was doing to double glass it with a vacuum between like a Dewar flask, but wasn't even needed for the bathroom fan (160 cfm and 4.5 sonnes iirc) to keep things cool enough with my 400W Hortilux, and the interior wasn't light leaked because I obviously built a sheet metal enclosure.. The area above the hood inside the rubbermaid was vented with another 9V pc fan..
That bathroom fan was alot of work to silence though, I gutted it and dampened every single connection/seam with silicone, and then attached 30lbs to the motor chassis to ultra-dampen any wobble (siliconed again).. Airflow noise wasn't an issue when it was closed up and buried in laundry..
Ballasts went in another box with a pc fan @9V..
I had the whole shebang relayed through a smoke detector that would trigger a fuse-blow if it went off, (but it never did
I fermented in the same area because it made sense.. I didn't think the CO2 blast would be signifigant, but figured the odor mask might help incase a fan died.. I actually used a coffee maker as another odor mask.. There was no odor leak, but without fans it would be bad..
Ambient temps were roughly 70-75°F, and the chamber was about 80-85..
4 FIM'ed NL#5 yeilded 124g and 132g of stem snapping dry bud..
I miss that kit, but I couldn't bring it home.. I'm not saying it was convenient, or easy to work on the plants, but thats kind of the price you pay when you get greedy on a stealth grow..
I successfully grew 6 0.0000005 m plants in a matchbox only using an led i stole from my remote control and got my pet mouse to blow on them to circuate the air. I yielded about 0.00000000001g's but it was greattttttttttt!!!!!!!
