Drin King
Well-Known Member
Hey RIU, been reading and researching for awhile and deciding to post here looking for some advice/ideas.
I have a shitty Hammond Organ that has been floating around the house for a few years that has been used as a drinks coaster and jammed on occasionally that now just sits in my room gathering dust. It no longer worked for whatever reason (probably the litres of beer it drank) so I decided to convert it to a grow cab....should be very unique and interesting.
My carpentry and DIY skills are not the problem, its my total lack of growing knowledge that is. My next major and urgent purchase is the lighting system I will use, Im leaning heavily towards LED and even moreso a DIY LED panel, although I can't say "money is no object" and am able to afford whatever lighting system would be the optimal for this setup as it is only 310mm(W) x 1050mm(L) x 650mm(H), or 12' x 41' x 26' for imperial users.
So far I have set up the majority of the cab using the guides found here.
-I have made 2 passive intakes with a diy light trap in the cab that work well after testing using the hole where the foot pedal originally was for the organ. The larger foot pedal on its own to the right.
- Gutted the inside of it and relined it with plywood I get from work for free.
- Then sealed all the joins to stop light/air leaks and lined the wall with diamond Mylar
-Installed the power board, DIY ghetto inline exhaust fan and ducting system and set timers
Please excuse the low quality pictures, its night time and my bedroom lighting is shitty and I only have my phone for a camera.
So I am have ordered and received my seeds from Herbies, I ordered a Feminised Custard Cream and a Feminised Strawberry cough seed and received free 2 x Kerala/Skunk and 1 x feminised Northern Lights/Skunk. I have chosen to use the NL x Skunk and one of the Kerala for this grow as I realise I will be quite shit first time round and want to use the proper seedsnext round once my cab and skills are more dialled in.
I will be growing in a coco/perlite medium hempy bucket style 2 plant scrog using CANNA coco nutrients.
I have place 2 of the seeds in Jiffy pellets i soaked in a little cherry tomato punnet upside for a humidity dome last night so hopefully the show face tomorrow and this Organ grow can begin, it will be known affectionately as "The Oragism".
So finally I really need your guys advice on my lighting situation and need to decide within the next couple days, it boils down to DIY LED vs LED vs HPS and Im leaning heavily towards LED as all the benefits are perfect for me and the DIY route is the choice I want. I will be ordering top bin cree LEDs and have pondered COB LEDs but have flooded my brain with so many threads and what not I can't decide, if someone could just more or less tell me you need 40w of 3w crees, 27 of 2700k, 9 5000k and 4 royal blue or something to that effect Id just put my order in right away. Please help me for this step and I'll update as often as I can.
Thanks for reading, enjoy.
I have a shitty Hammond Organ that has been floating around the house for a few years that has been used as a drinks coaster and jammed on occasionally that now just sits in my room gathering dust. It no longer worked for whatever reason (probably the litres of beer it drank) so I decided to convert it to a grow cab....should be very unique and interesting.
My carpentry and DIY skills are not the problem, its my total lack of growing knowledge that is. My next major and urgent purchase is the lighting system I will use, Im leaning heavily towards LED and even moreso a DIY LED panel, although I can't say "money is no object" and am able to afford whatever lighting system would be the optimal for this setup as it is only 310mm(W) x 1050mm(L) x 650mm(H), or 12' x 41' x 26' for imperial users.
So far I have set up the majority of the cab using the guides found here.
-I have made 2 passive intakes with a diy light trap in the cab that work well after testing using the hole where the foot pedal originally was for the organ. The larger foot pedal on its own to the right.
- Gutted the inside of it and relined it with plywood I get from work for free.
- Then sealed all the joins to stop light/air leaks and lined the wall with diamond Mylar
-Installed the power board, DIY ghetto inline exhaust fan and ducting system and set timers
Please excuse the low quality pictures, its night time and my bedroom lighting is shitty and I only have my phone for a camera.
So I am have ordered and received my seeds from Herbies, I ordered a Feminised Custard Cream and a Feminised Strawberry cough seed and received free 2 x Kerala/Skunk and 1 x feminised Northern Lights/Skunk. I have chosen to use the NL x Skunk and one of the Kerala for this grow as I realise I will be quite shit first time round and want to use the proper seedsnext round once my cab and skills are more dialled in.
I will be growing in a coco/perlite medium hempy bucket style 2 plant scrog using CANNA coco nutrients.
I have place 2 of the seeds in Jiffy pellets i soaked in a little cherry tomato punnet upside for a humidity dome last night so hopefully the show face tomorrow and this Organ grow can begin, it will be known affectionately as "The Oragism".
So finally I really need your guys advice on my lighting situation and need to decide within the next couple days, it boils down to DIY LED vs LED vs HPS and Im leaning heavily towards LED as all the benefits are perfect for me and the DIY route is the choice I want. I will be ordering top bin cree LEDs and have pondered COB LEDs but have flooded my brain with so many threads and what not I can't decide, if someone could just more or less tell me you need 40w of 3w crees, 27 of 2700k, 9 5000k and 4 royal blue or something to that effect Id just put my order in right away. Please help me for this step and I'll update as often as I can.
Thanks for reading, enjoy.