I remember when I first started growing, I was looking into the PC CFL stealth grows.
How’d you disperse the heat? When I ran a 400w HPS a 24 x24 x 5’ I was cookin haha.
Nice! I bet one will pop up now that you mentioned it.
Maybe even have an additional air purifier in your living area for any wet dank plant smells escaping. I picked up one up on sale not too long ago, it was small version. Works well when I use it, but I probably needed the large.
Yeah, the early OG forums had alot of stealth grow designs. Everything from wardrobes and dressers, to computer towers.
Smell has always been the big issue with stealth. One of the main reasons I liked the white widow I was growing at the time. It didnt have a real pungent smell, at least mine didnt. And mine wasn’t gonna win any awards for flavor, but it was def pretty potent.
Whem it is up and running, versus hidden from the landlord, I have a 4’ tall scrubber with an 8" fan in the tent, an 6" carbon on the tents output, which I blow into a box with a 2’wide and ,3’ tall carbon filter for a final scrub 
There is no bud smell, but deep into flower the moisture in the area is much greater than it is outside, so that moistness is like a beacon of difference that can make someone walking by question where all that moisture, which does smell like a rainforest, is coming from. Sort of like walking by a bathroom where someone just took a shower… its hard to not notice the humidity gradient and smell of moisture 
Believe me, I have tried. I do have extra filters, ozone generators, air purifiers, and masking agents which just make everything stink, but nothing has been able to help with the moist exhaust… I need an exhaust that exits through my roof
The lamp was places about a foot above the plants and all we used were the old radio shack axial fans back then… this was started way back before hoods had huge airholes so we had to cut holes for the air to flow through. I would just attach a piece of aluminum duct tubing to the hole in the hood, using duct tape, and attach an axial fan on the other side of the ducting, mounted the fans at the corner of the door so they blew out of the enclosed closet… I used velcro to make a removable panda-film cover for each section, so that the door could be open while one of the chambers was in flower and not give a light leak. I started growing like this back in 1992, using diamond light systems 400 watt lighting and eventually uograded to 430watt, 600watt, then eventually 630 watt lights as each new system was made available to the fledgling indoor market. 32x32 just happens to be the standard size of a closet, here in SF. I always grew short and slow growing plant, so never had height issues
I’m trying to remember but I think it was @JAWS that recently posted a picture of hanging moisture absorbing bag things that he found very useful in removing excess moisture in the grow area. It’s something that’s not listed in what you’ve tried. 
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I’m going to try and find a picture of what I’m talking about if it wasn’t Jaws.
Nice! Do you remember the first varieties you grew back then? or was it bagseed?
Here is a post of some shots of my closet and what was my first plants. 2010 was the year it all started for me. I was fortunate to have the bathroom next to and the piping hole to the basement allowed me to pull cooler air in. My ballast
was huge haha.
I starter bingeing RIU. This dude TheLoadedDragon on their and others blew my mind with his outdoor ladies. @Tracker 's monster outdoor garden reminds me of him. He was in CA in early prop days. when everything went down his older thread pictures were lost. It was like 10 4x4x3 beds with the super soil recipe or his own twist on it. I hope he is doing well and still growing monsters.
In the post is the buds I was smoking at that time. I was very fortunate to have had access to the many classics thanks to Junebug. I miss Junebug. I haven’t seen him since high school. I hope he is doing better than the last time I heard about someone having a Junebug sighting. I had a blogspot where I documented a bunch of varieties that I was smoking on. I really wish I could find it.
I never corrected the J 1 label. Its XJ something I vaguely remember. a Jack variety that came thru once. Also you can see I chopped very early as a eager lad to smoke haha.
Total bagseed. Until I got the Herojuana in 1994, all I had access to locally was bagseed and, since I was growing, I was too paranoid to order seeds from overseas.
oh yeah, I failed to mention that at that time I lived in the outer sunset of San Francisco near the Ocean–in the marine layer, and it was cold most of the time, so the heat from the lamps was welcome in my spot and I could easily blast any excess out the window which was high above our enclosed backyard. Nobody was crazy enough to grow stinky weed, it drew too much attention, so low smelling strains were preferrable.
“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."
That’s how I started, with Stinkbud’s “harvest a pound every 3 weeks” thread and the DIY aero/nft systems based on his designs.
man… i remember that thread. i made his cloner. it’s a shame i don’t have it anymore. i thought about that aeroponics set up as well but never really went through with it
The aero/nft systems made out of fence posts were awesome. Learned a lot while doing it. If I had dedicated indoor space available, I’d definitely get one going again.
yeah. i started buying the PVC pipes but got sidelined and it never worked out.
@herojuana.tom Could you make a hydroponic veggie growing area? Because you could get that going hard and making lots of moisture, then proudly show it to the landlord when the neighbor gets pissy and he shows up, then maybe he’ll leave you alone?
I haven’t been but Mark Twain’s house is in my state.
@JAWS Thanks brotha, Hope you’re having a great weekend. 
Here is what I was I was talking about @herojuana.tom. These may be the ticket.
Nice! I vaguely remember his thread. Went back on there and refreshed my memory. That thread has some incredible full write ups on different sized systems. Love seeing the vertical grows too back then. It wasn’t many in there but those who were had walls of a buds haha.
Originally, I was going to make aero cloner but let the idea go and just clone in soil. (continue to attempt to clone 
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Good morning OGs 
I like smoke and lightnin’
Heavy metal thunder
D54F @HolyAngel
D54F Looks pretty close to being done. @hoss8455
D54F
3x, two #2, one #1
Day 18F @boatbum325
After a couple runs with them so far, I’d like #2 the most. May let #1 go on her farewell flower tour.
Also moved one MH x DE # 1 and six more LCH clones into flower. Trying to train them this time. More # 2s behind them in two weeks after up potting them and veg more.
Yeah, I remember that, too, but mostly because it was also on the cover of High Times years and years ago. They basically just re-printed the thread in the magazine haha…
You know another Clemens quote, which I try to live by, is “never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after.”
Given his own admonition, I think you’re safe having not been there yet! 
That pretty sweet haha. Hopefully he ok’d it.
Wise words 
I can’t remember whose thread it was on there, but there was someone who would post awesome vertical grows in stealth cabinets. They were so well organized and very productive for the footprint they covered.
