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allreadyused
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A stealth alternative to a Martha
#7542663 - 10/21/07 12:53 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Well not so much stealth as camouflaged... I have a friend who rents a duplex. It's a house that's divided in two; not an upstairs and downstairs rental but side by side. There's bedrooms upstairs, living room and kitchen downstairs, and a basement that has a wall separating the two units. He has a roommate and the 2 bedrooms are kind of small. Well, too small for bedroom furniture and a Martha anyway. So he's forced to keep the grow limited to a rubbermaid bin. The landlord stops over once and a while to change the furnace filter and other basic maintenance. So putting a Martha in the basement is out of the question since the landlord would see it when he stops in. Well he came up with a solution. He was at a flea market and saw somebody selling a plastic luggage rack that mounts on the roof of a car. If you've done any driving on the interstate you should have seen these before. The thing is 22" high, 50" long, and 32" wide. It's made out of some kind of plastic that's pretty sturdy and it opens up kind of like a coffin. The lid isn't clear but the plastic is translucent white and lets in a good bit of lite. I got inside of it to check this out for myself. Anyway he calls me up and asks me to come over and check the thing out and help him turn it into a fruiting chamber. He's going to put in his basement and since it looks like a luggage rack the landlord won't give it a second look when he comes over to change the filter in the furnace. A Martha on the other hand that you can see through and has tubing attached to it connected to a vaporizer would draw somebody's attention even if they didn't know what they were looking at. So we went to Lowes and picked up some 3/4" tubing and fittings and Walmart for a vaporizer. We attached the tubing to the bottom half of the luggage rack so the lid could still open freely. He used a hole saw drill bit to cut a hole in the plastic and some silicone to seal up the hole. We cut a 6 more holes close to the bottom (3 on each side) with the hole saw and covered them in Tyvek for the CO2 to escape. He fired up the vaporizer and put in his hygrometer to see it the cool mist would keep the RH around 90. We came back to it after an hour and it was at a perfect 92%, so no ultrasonic would be needed. We moved the thing into position in the basement and put some empty cardboard boxes on top of it to make it look like it's just sitting there out of the way waiting to be used. I had the idea to put the cool mist in another cardboard box and run the tubing through it into the chamber to hide the vaporizer. As an added benefit to using this container it has a latch on it that you can put a lock on. It's camouflaged perfectly. When his roommate got home we asked him to go in the basement and see if he noticed anything out of the ordinary. The dude goes downstairs looks around, sees the luggage rack and says "Are you moving out?" We told him it's the new fruiting chamber and he didn't believe us, he thought we were playing a joke. We had to open it up and point out the pipe fitting coming in from outside before he would believe us. He was impressed. I wanted to take some pictures to post along with this thread but he wouldn't let me. Security reasons, understandable. But I found this doing a quick google search. http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_02872672000P?vName=Automotive&cName=Automotive+Accessories&sName=Car+Top+%26+Hitch+Carriers This isn't the exact container he used but I put the link in to give you an idea what I'm talking about. Also his is bigger than the one in the link and didn't pay $184.99 for it. $40 from the guy at the flea market for the rack, $30 for the cool mist, and another $35 from Lowes for tubing, pipe fittings, silicone, and a hole saw bit for the drill. The only thing he has to do now is buy more trays for casing and get a lot more birdseed colonized than he has now. He is after all going from a rubbermaid bin to something 4 times as big for a fruiting chamber.
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nw_shroomy
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Registered: 01/02/06
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Re: A stealth alternative to a Martha [Re: allreadyused]
#7542814 - 10/21/07 01:30 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Thats a great idea.Id put a lock on it. I was wondering why cant your friend put a lock on a bedroom and just keep it locked when the landlord comes over?Id just be too paranoid knowing that theres that slight chance of the landlord discovering the grow in the basement.Id make sure I was home when he came to change the filters.hehe
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Edited by nw_shroomy (10/21/07 01:30 PM)
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Legoulash
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Registered: 09/07/02
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Re: A stealth alternative to a Martha [Re: nw_shroomy]
#7542867 - 10/21/07 01:41 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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old fridges work great too and theyre free.
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monstermitch
Growing in Bags Doesn't Work



Registered: 02/10/06
Posts: 3,911
Loc: Arizona Bay
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Re: A stealth alternative to a Martha [Re: Legoulash]
#7542900 - 10/21/07 01:48 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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