Need Ideas For 4 FootX4footX2Foot Veg Box
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BloodShotI'z
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Go to home depot and have them pre-cut your wood to the dimensions you want. If you want solid walls get 3 pieces of plywood. If you want one you can breakdown easier....just get 6 pieces you can use as a frame. Get some Panda Plastic and staple to the studs making walls.
Each would require a bit of a different setup. Buts its doable....and cheap.
Each would require a bit of a different setup. Buts its doable....and cheap.
BloodShotI'z
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Tips? Not really....I know you'll need the proper tools. At the very least hammer/nails.
Have home depot make all your cuts. Will your light hang or stand? If its gonna hang you'll need to reinforce it so it doesnt fall.
I'd use plywood and look around for some already built examples.
Have home depot make all your cuts. Will your light hang or stand? If its gonna hang you'll need to reinforce it so it doesnt fall.
I'd use plywood and look around for some already built examples.
VictorVIcious
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Welcome to the forum. You will need to build a frame to attach the plywood and everything else to. For the size of box you talking about you could use 1x3 furring strps. Your cut list would be 4-4' long 1x3's, 4-46 1/2" long 1x3's and 4-22 1/2" long 1x3's. Build your two 4' by 4' frames and then attach them with the 22 1/2 boards.
I would recommend anyone doing these types of projects use a drill and srcews not a hammer and nails. Drill pilot holes first so you don't split the wood or use heavier lumber. Here's a couple of pics of a flood and drain table I built if your interested. VV
I would recommend anyone doing these types of projects use a drill and srcews not a hammer and nails. Drill pilot holes first so you don't split the wood or use heavier lumber. Here's a couple of pics of a flood and drain table I built if your interested. VV
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FaCultGen
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i'm sure your way is far better than mine but i don't have a shop like that, i'm just gonna bolt some "L" braces to hold them together, the only tool i have is a dremmel, (which by the way... i think every person in the world should, especially the home cultivator should have). so i will be using the dremmel to cut holes for bolts, i'm going to use the L joints, but if that doesn't work right i'm just going to add some metal right angle siding. hope for the best for me.
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HoLE
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your L brackets should work just fine as long as your not movin it here and there,,as said earlier just figure your size and get it cut where you buy it,,kinda slap it together right there in the store,,without the brackets,,to make sure it's all the right sizes you need,,,and if you can't break down and buy a sqarehead screwdriver and some woul screws,,,make sur ya use some flat washers with them bolts
Keep on Growin
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FaCultGen
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thats a good point about thoes washers, kinda forgot that part... thanks for reminding me.
I already got the wood and got it cut, just finished the first coats of paint, black on the outside flat white on the inside.
i'm very excited...
thanks for your help guys, i'll post a pick when it's complete...if i can figure out how.
-cult
I already got the wood and got it cut, just finished the first coats of paint, black on the outside flat white on the inside.
i'm very excited...
thanks for your help guys, i'll post a pick when it's complete...if i can figure out how.
-cult
LURP
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Perhaps you might consider gathering you mental forces together in some coherent fashion so you can figure out how to make your own box ,If you are unable to accomplish that, it might be time to lay of smoking pot .
This is a task that should be with in any modern person who has seen a box.
This is a task that should be with in any modern person who has seen a box.
MajoR_TokE
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VV i can see that your not a carpenter, but nice work my stoner friend. What kind of material is that? ...The stuff in the bed??Welcome to the forum. You will need to build a frame to attach the plywood and everything else to. For the size of box you talking about you could use 1x3 furring strps. Your cut list would be 4-4' long 1x3's, 4-46 1/2" long 1x3's and 4-22 1/2" long 1x3's. Build your two 4' by 4' frames and then attach them with the 22 1/2 boards.
I would recommend anyone doing these types of projects use a drill and srcews not a hammer and nails. Drill pilot holes first so you don't split the wood or use heavier lumber. Here's a couple of pics of a flood and drain table I built if your interested. VV
pandabear
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this is how I like to do it buy this:
purchase one of these:
then only install the top and bottom shelve if you want one big chamber or put 1 shelve in the middle to create 2 chambers one for veging and one for flowering. use panda plastic to wrap around the shelving and use velcro tape strips to seal it so its light tight, also use duct tape to tape the plastic to seal the top and bottom of the shelve unit, if you are doing the 2 chamber method you must also separate the chambers from each other with the light tite plastic sheeting.
purchase one of these:
then only install the top and bottom shelve if you want one big chamber or put 1 shelve in the middle to create 2 chambers one for veging and one for flowering. use panda plastic to wrap around the shelving and use velcro tape strips to seal it so its light tight, also use duct tape to tape the plastic to seal the top and bottom of the shelve unit, if you are doing the 2 chamber method you must also separate the chambers from each other with the light tite plastic sheeting.
VictorVIcious
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If I were growing in a closet I would use those shelving units. Its pond liner, Major. When I started reading ALB's journals someone mentioned it. I bought it at Home Depot. Sold by the linear foot, 15' long. If I remember correctly it was about $60.00 for the 15' by 4' piece which is enough for three of my carpretender tables. lol VV
MajoR_TokE
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Ok cool, thanks VV. Did you glue and staple? Or just staple to the along the top borded?
VictorVIcious
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just stapled around the top. I used a 4' by 5' piece for the 32" by 4' table. The outside board in a 2x10 to give me the depth I wanted after adding the plywood, pond liner and drain mat. I can flood to 6" if needed, coco or rockwool. flood once a day. 185 gallon/ hour pump will fill it up in 20 minutes drians about the same amount of time. I noticed a difference in the plants the first week I switched from drip, and ended up just under 1oz/plant using 600watt equivalent light. VV