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MechEngineer4Weed
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automated grow chamber
#19231960 - 12/05/13 04:07 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Just started mlplanning on making a stealth grow chamber. It's gunna take care of everything for me,just gotta add water periodically. Just wondering if anybody has some advice or if you wanna take any information on building ur own go right ahead. I'm hoping to use my skills as a mechanical engineering student to do this.
Here is my plans so far.
I have an old foldout bed couch which I'm gunna take out the bed and replace with the grow chamber. I'm gunna make 4 chambers. One for the fruiting, on for electroics, one for the humidifier(making my own made for my needs), and one for the ventilation system. The growing chamber will give me about 2.5 square feet of growing space. Going to use fluorescent grow lights.from wallmart. The humidifier will have a main tank, water level valve, inline water filter, and a resivor tank.
I know this is not going to be cheap and I have a budget of 250 dollars. But I think it will be well worth it in stealth and the output due to great conditions. If you have any questions, comments or ideas, please let me know. Thanks
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sharpshroomer98
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This sounds suuuuuuuupppaaah over complicated with a lot of risks of contams and slip ups. Just IMO, and because I can't even begin to picture what you're talking about lol
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MechEngineer4Weed said: Just started mlplanning on making a stealth grow chamber. It's gunna take care of everything for me,just gotta add water periodically.
By add water I hope you mean mist the cakes....
And by "It's gunna take care of everything for me" I hope you mean constant passive FAE....
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MechEngineer4Weed said: I have an old foldout bed couch which I'm gunna take out the bed and replace with the grow chamber. I'm gunna make 4 chambers. One for the fruiting, on for electroics, one for the humidifier(making my own made for my needs), and one for the ventilation system. The growing chamber will give me about 2.5 square feet of growing space. Going to use fluorescent grow lights.from wallmart. The humidifier will have a main tank, water level valve, inline water filter, and a resivor tank.
I know this is not going to be cheap and I have a budget of 250 dollars. But I think it will be well worth it in stealth and the output due to great conditions. If you have any questions, comments or ideas, please let me know. Thanks
Bro, watch and read this tek.
www.mushroomvideos.com
Unless you plan on doing bulk in a greenhouse setup the humidifier is just not needed.
Stealthy grows are never going to produce what they should....
My advice is simple....and will cost well under $100.....
Get a plastic bin....just one.....drill the proper holes in it as per the tek.......then fill it with 4-5" of moist perlite.....place it in a room with no fans, raised so that air can pass up under it and up thru the holes in the bottom.
You will have to mist and fan the cakes manually at least twice a day.....there is no way around this unless doing bulk.
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Edited by PussyFart (12/05/13 04:18 PM)
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mastercultivator
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It has been done before. Not as complicated as you suggest. Turning the inside of a usable couch into a fruiting chamber.
It can be done. I recommend just using tubs and covering them or only drilling one or two sides of the tub for ventilation with polyfil or polyfelt.
It is much easier to use a monotub. If you are going for stealth a flowerpot or something outdoors can work well too and is almost no extra work at all. Might take a bit to figure out how to dial it in but they work well also.
I'll see if there is a link but use the search function.
If you are going through the trouble to hook up a cool mist humidifier to pvc you can have many wonderfully dialed in mono tubs.
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It'd be kewl if it works for ya.
I like simple. A shotgun fc, mono-tub or a dub-tub work great.
Please post pics so we can see how you have ot set up.
Oh, and welcome to the Shroomery!
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Welcome to the Shroomery. I agree with everyone else that a wll established tek is the way to go for a beginner..
With that said, if you are dead set on a stealth grow under a couch you may want to check out this cool mist monotub
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/6967150/fpart/1/vc/1/nt/5
You could run one big tub or a few smaller tubs with FAE piped in via a single coolmist humidifier. You could get this done for way under 250 and you shouldn't need to mist it.
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Re: automated grow chamber [Re: Irfan]
#19233013 - 12/05/13 05:47 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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im trying to set up something similar but was using cakes ... bad idea i believe the humidity just wont stay i believe youll have good luck doing it as the whole tube grow im not keeping humidity good luck
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I agree with the "super overcomplicated" mentioned above.
I've worked with some great mechanical/electrical engineers in the past; and especially in cultivation, their over zealousness rarely panned out...
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Re: automated grow chamber [Re: mycomattie]
#19233193 - 12/05/13 06:30 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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no grow machine beats skill.
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elasticaltiger
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https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/19058333#19058333
Monotub that uses a double nozzle fish tank pump for passive fresh air. Still opened her up once a day to fan it out completely. I did mist between flushes.
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PussyFart
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Using a pump is not passive.
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elasticaltiger
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Re: automated grow chamber [Re: PussyFart]
#19233891 - 12/05/13 08:56 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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lol active then. The human element is mostly removed regardless.
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PussyFart
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Monotubs are set and forget without a pump.....you are wasting electricity....when you figure a little polyfill adjusted a certain way will do the work of 5 of those pumps....
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Re: automated grow chamber [Re: PussyFart]
#19234063 - 12/05/13 09:32 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Notahacker420 said: Monotubs are set and forget without a pump.....you are wasting electricity....when you figure a little polyfill adjusted a certain way will do the work of 5 of those pumps....
It was mostly a 'can it work?' project. I had never really seen anything like it on the fora so I thought it would be fun to try. The pump was already running my incubator and I had a nozzle left over so I decided to try it out.
For the purposes of the chamber inside a sofa I think the idea is applicable. The guy wants to get creative and I think someone with an engineering degree is completely entitled to get creative.
Who cares if his idea is complicated or uses electricity?
Cigarette butts and bras aren't the most ideal substrates for mushroom growing but people do it because they are interested to see if they can. I for one think the ambition to create a hidden sofa grow is laudable.
If he justs wants to grow a fuck ton of mushrooms caring only about the end result then I'm sure we'll find out pretty quick here when he decides to use an SGFC
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PussyFart
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I was just sayin....calm down buddy....if it worked it worked....
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MechEngineer4Weed
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Re: automated grow chamber [Re: PussyFart]
#19245773 - 12/08/13 04:03 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Thanks for the replies. I understand this seem really complicated, but I like to make things professional. I also like making my own setsup cause I know how they work and how to fix them. Im also not new at this. I have a few grows under my belt. I'm hoping to have a few pics up soon
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