Digging the Garden Gnome… Always good to have one around…
Wicked skills and knowledge you have… Glad you are sharing.
Peace
DaFozz
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While I wait for parts from china, I got the channel bottoms messured up and cut for all 6 cabinets.
Next I started on the feeding syestem, but so far it’s just straightening PVC irrigation hoze with my heatgun.
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Why the corrugated flooring? Straightening that pipe is so tedious… I’ve never thought of using a heat gun
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The corrugated floor is to make a small air space, between the bottom and the pot’s. An extra layer of insulation, in case of too much heat rising up from the cabinets below.
It will also provide space for roots, the SOG canopy and pots should provide plenty of shade for root growth.
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Finished the feeding system for the right side today, still need to connect the pump and acctually test if the pump I ordered will be enough for all 3 levels or if I will need a sepret pump for the top tier.
My DIY drippers
Holes poked with a soldering iron.
Plant pattern will be something like this
All 3 tiers
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Maybe the best part of my design - What could go wrong LOL
Well better safe then sorry right, clamping up the hoze connections.
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Pump getting installed
Pump getting turned on, this is an interresting moment. Will it have pressure enough, to feed the last sting on the top layer?
Bottom layer
Both the bottom and midt section have a ball valve installed, so I can adjust how much water going to thouse strings.
Dialing them both a little down, evend out the pressure and all 3 tiers are getting about equaly amount of water.
It won’t matter the first row’s get more then the last rows, as long the last rows of plants get enough water and id say this is plenty!
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I am temporary connecting the right side LED’s to the drivers, as the clones are getting ready to flower and I can’t keep waiting on the relays.
This only means the flipflop box is delayed a bit, but I can get on with the grow and see if there are anything I need to change before I finishe the left side.
Mainly worried about light leaks, from the air intake.
First light hooked up
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3rd light is ready
Here is what I used:
9x C Alu profiles 20402 mm (I predrilled the 5 mm holes)
4x 50 cm threaded M5 rod
2x 100 cm threaded M5 rod
A shit load of M5 nuts
a spanner tool
Thermal tape 20 mm wide
9 LED Strips 5x 4000K and 4x 3000K
Started by marking up the center of the two long rods, mounted the center profile and worked out to each side.
It takes a bit of time, spinning the nut’s and mounting the center one first is the fastest way with least “screwing around”
And it’s tedious, let’s just be honest about that!
A little Tip!
Working both nut’s at the same time, will speed things up. 
Same design as the last one, but adjusted the width on this one.
So it’s not quite as wide as the other two, and I’ll see if that makes any difference or not.
Done - Ready to hang and connect tomorrow, the cables are all wired and connected.
With simple click connectors, so I can take it apart easy once the relays and last bits and peaces arrive.
Then it’s on to connect a exhaust fan, but first I got to give that a clean up and install the Ozone bulp.
Getting closer and closer
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What’s the deal with adding the pollen to the hash, I’ve never heard of that
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Flavor mainly but some male flowers also produce resin and terpens, so I guess thats is the reason.
I got a recipy from an old morrocan hash farmer, who told me about how they used to make the good stuff.
And how “now days”, there wasn’t time to do it the old ways. (This was like 20 years ago)
For many years there have been alot of pressure on morroco, to fight the hash production in the mountains.
I only once had the chance to make the hash he told me about, and have to say it was very very nice and smooth.
For me hash is more about flavor, then how high it makes you. If it’s made from good material, it will get you plenty of stoned even tho it’s not as strong as a less “poluted” type of hash.
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That’s a really nice light build there, super pro!
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Temp. wiring up the power to everything, ventilation and feeding pump
Everything is running on the right side, but not looking nice yet.
Reading some tempretures, setting the ventilation point
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I tell ya, this is a long way from hanging a light in a closet, like we used to…
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damn dude this is a tidy setup. must have you over to do mine haha
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Thanks guys!
@ThatSpudGuy not sure you would, not that my hour rate is high.
But I smoke alot and don’t work that fast, id just smoke all your weed and sit there telling you what to do. 
@WMoon518 I have never been a closet grower, this is my first real attempt with LED growing.
When I stopped growing 10 years ago, LED’s where not really anything but a joke.
Things have changed and after doing alot of reading and looking at pictures, I started with the LED Veg cabinet and just wanted to flower under HPS.
But I guess I got bitten by the LED bug, as I figured I could might as well test the china LED’s for flower.
And yeah it’s all posted above^^
Anyway short update, the temps in the cabinets seems to be holding. Might still need to tweak the ventilation a bit, but from the test so far it seems to do okay.
Tomorrow I plan to program the timers, for the light and feeding and start making the front of the closet.
There is a great deal of light leaks from the cabinet doors, that the front panels should help eliminate.
So much I can’t tell if any light, is coming thru the light traps.
Hoping I’ll find time for it all tomorrow, so I can move the plants tomorrow evening.
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man i wouldnt care as long as i had a neat as hell room like that i wouldn’t care haha
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Made the front panels for the right side closet, fixing a bit of the light leaks from the doors.
It’s not 100% perfect, as there is still a bit of light leaking around the doors.
Took a while to get them all fitted, and as you can see there is a little light coming out around the doors.
The light traps on the other hand, looks like they are working perfect.
As for the sound of the ventilation, it’s not scilent in any way. But I never expected it to be soundless, I am moving a fair amount of air. There is no humming, hissing or sounds of air moving thru to narrow spaces.
As of fixing the last light leaks, I will cheat and just hang curtins. At least for now, the misses just changed the drapes in the living room, so I’ll give the old ones a try and see if they will do. Also I expect it to help a bit on dampening the sounds from the watering and ventilation.
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