Custom Grow Box & Fabric Pot Micro Grow

SlowerLowerGrower Hey everyone! For this run I wanted to design my own custom box for people with very limited space like dorm rooms and studio apartments. Unlike other micro grow boxes it has a 4" inline fan with a 4x10 carbon filter instead of weak pc fans and those carbon filter sheets that do nothing to filter smell. The finished product sits at 30"h x 24"w x 18"d. I made my own pot by cutting up a couple 7gal fabric pots and sewing them together into a 19"w x12"d x4.5"h which comes to 4.5gal with very little vertical space taken up. I added a SCRoG to keep the plant low and take full advantage of the light. The intake port also acts as the breeze over the canopy. I'm using 3 6500k 40w CFLs for the first week, adding 4 2700k 42w CFLs in week 3, and then adding 4 150w 5500k CFLs once she starts flowering for a total of 890w. I've seen most pull .25g/watt with CFLs but I'm shooting for .15g/watt which will yield almost 5oz in 6.5cubic feet which I haven't seen done yet. Very excited 😁 UPDATE: I scrapped the White Train Auto because it had slow growth and started a THC Bomb fem. this is a strain I've had good experience with training. I also added a dual 120mm intake fan to the box along with the full light setup. She is a week from sprout today and handling all the lights like a champ.

SlowerLowerGrower Week 2 was rough for both the plant and myself. My best friend was in terrible car accident Tuesday and airlifted to a hospital 2 hours away so I spent the whole night in the waiting room and missed a watering so she dried out and I thought she was done for. But just like my boy, she hung in there and is showing healthy green growth daily. She will be ready for topping in a couple days. My friend is still in the ICU and has a long road ahead but he's still very lucky to be here.

SlowerLowerGrower She was topped at the 3rd this week and cleared of node 1. She is responding a little slower than what I'm used to but that's to be expected with the rough life she's had already. The new growth is green and growing daily so I'm not sweating it. I'll start getting the shape I want once I can hook those tips.

SlowerLowerGrower She's starting to make a comeback this week. Solid amount of growth. Finally excited about this box again. I was ready to call it quits but I'm glad I hung in there. I figure she is about a week behind with all the stress but I have time to let her catch up

SlowerLowerGrower Not a bad week. Had some good growth and got a little dry at one point but not terrible. Still dialing in everything on this box so some challenges are expected. She will be ready for another round of topping in a couple days.

SlowerLowerGrower Made a major comeback this week. Stoked on this grow. I'm scrapping the SCRoG idea and focusing on the 20 shoots I've got going. Clearing all growth in the middle. My ambitious goal is to try and pull 5g dry per shoot for 100g dry. I know it's dreaming big but I'm going to give it my best shot

SlowerLowerGrower Killing it this week. Making the switch tomorrow. I will keep spreading the tips through the stretch but I won't be keeping them low. I'm going to let them get some vertical growth so the future buds can take advantage of all available light.

SlowerLowerGrower Made the switch this week and let her gain some vertical growth. I let the shorter tips pull into the middle of the plant while spreading the longer ones out more allowing each to get as much light as possible. Once she is done stretching I'm going to clean up the larger fan leaves and really open her up

SlowerLowerGrower The stretch is finished on this lady. Temp couldn't be more in control. I can't wait to see how she stacks. I scrapped the SCRoG idea and went with the way I'm used to training. I still used the top pvc square as anchor points for my tie downs.

SlowerLowerGrower All my training is done 👍Now I just sit back and let her stack up. Still nothing but plain PHd water since seed

SlowerLowerGrower Pot and plant under 1ft. Other than the rough start, this grow is going exactly how I wanted it to.

SlowerLowerGrower One of the elbows on the fixture was loose and lowered a bulbs, getting a few tops a little crispy so I dropped the pot a half inch. Other than that we are trucking along. Probably another 4 weeks to go

SlowerLowerGrower Super happy with how she is turning out. Buds are super dense and get thicker towards the bottom

SlowerLowerGrower On the home stretch, I’m thinking 1-2 more weeks and she will be ready. I couldn’t be happier with the way she turned out especially since I found the im running half the power I initially thought 👍

SlowerLowerGrower Hoping for 2.5oz dry. She wreaks of lemon skunk. Just what I expected growing her for the 4th time. I’ll report more once she’s dry 👍