The cab
That was a whole adventure by itself, but pretty happy with it. It’s (almost) done! For now… 
My main constraints were being stealth: no odor or visual hint there’s something going on. So a tent is not an option. It had to be cheap too, I’m low income. DIY is the way when you don’t have much money.
So I got to build a 2x4 cab. That’s the only place where you can really cut down the costs anyway.
I ended up with kind of a basement panda filmed box if you will. Cheapest building wood for the skeleton (too lazy to steal it), wraped tight and without leaks with panda film.
Biggest challenge was the venting. No way to have funky extensions on the sides or the top for stealth sake!
So I went with intakes underneath it, flowing through the bottom, with a kind of lung room to avoid light leaks. Here’s a drawing of it. Starting from the bottom, every line is another layer on top:
There’s panda film glued underneath the layer 2 plank and all around the base, to seal everything but the intake holes. Something like that:
Once assembled it’s pretty tight and sealed.
Then I disguised that in a kind of DIY bedroom cabinet with a few planks from the trash. Works great so far. 
Exhaust is a 205cfm modern inline duct fan. It vents into a chimney that was just waiting for it in the corner.
Light was the most troublesome to get. Big vendors are ripping EU customers. Got a “deal” on a Viparspectra P1000 (still 0,9 €/watts…) but it was broken. Still leaking light when off, a feature to protect the lamp according to viparspectra… I had them send me another one still, we’ll see.
I wanted to add another light to this one, but meanwhile the prices went crazy up. So I went chinese, and found 240W at 0,6 €/watts. With UV/IR, supposed to be samsung LM301H, and at least a good meanwell driver. Could probably just use this one in the end… At least I have some flexibility now.
Works pretty well so far.
For the medium, I’m using soil. I’m mixing my own using coco bricks, worm shit and perlite. Takes a bit less room to stock it in my small place.
I have minerals and dry nutes, I’d like to go water only with the dry ones, but it’ll be a learning curve if ever possible, we’ll see.
Next I’ll need to introduce the staple
See you around OG!
May the Universe bless you and your garden. 
