Cupboard Hydroponics Install

- clean your cupboard! Bacterial may damage your hydroponic plants, use a household kitchen cleaner.

- remove all the shelves.

- if it is a white cupboard such as the picture, there is no need for Black & White sheeting. Otherwise, if your cupboard is not white, line the inside with Black & White sheeting and affix with duct tape.

- use 'screw hooks' to fix into the roof of the cupboard. The light is not very heavy so will suspend from these no problem

- run wire/cable through the light shade and attach to the hooks. Ideally you should be using a 250W light and distance it at least 5 foot from the floor. If the light is too close to the plants it will stunt their growth.

- Make sure the floor is sheeted in case of fluid spills - put the hydroponics system (NFT or Flo-Gro) on the floor of the cupboard.

And that's it, installed! Very easy!

Attic or basement

With more room to play with, you'll need to decide if you want to use all the area of 'sheet' it off with black & white sheeting.

It is safe and easy to hang the sheeting from the roof of your basement or attic and affix with duct tape. Affix the sheeting where it meats the floor also and sheet the floor itself. Seal the area. It is safe to make a doorway from black & white sheeting also.

Seal all windows off. Preferred method is a curtain and then several layers of black & white sheeting behind.

Otherwise you can use a Growbox or if you have space or use a tent/greenhouse structure to build a grow room - and of course use black & white sheeting for the walls, doorway and roof.

Once you have your sealed structure, you may wish to cut holes for air intake and outake. If you do not do this your plants will become mouldy and start to 'sweat' where moisture will appear on their leaves. If you cannot afford air outake fans, then opening the door way for a few hours per day may be adequate (but of course the smell will escape!).

Use screw hooks in the roof or rafters to allow the lights to be hung from them.

Lights should be hung 5 feet away from the tops of the plants initially. Once the plants are big, they can take in more light and eventually you can be 3 feet away from the plant.

Hang the 250W light first, this will be for vegetation growth, the first stage.

Later you will change this for a 400W or 600W for flowering. A 400W or 600W light will cover 1-2 square meters.

Ensure the electrics extension leads etc. are positioned away from the hydroponics systems as much as possible - electricity and water do not mix!

Make sure you have a 2 feet perimeter round the outside so you can physically walk round the indoor garden.

Place all the hydroponics systems under the light. Use the table below to get the right amount of light per hydroponics system

You're all set, switch on and start your hydroponics setup!

Bedroom -

If using a bedroom, you will want to use the entire room, it will be unuseable due to smell, heat and light otherwise and should be dedicated as a grow room entirely.

If the walls are not white, sheet all the walls, ceiling and floor with black & white sheeting.

Seal all windows off. Preferred method is a curtain and then several layers of black & white sheeting behind.

Seal the inside of the door to the room and make sure it overlaps the edges of the door to stop light escaping. It's also useful to hang black & white sheeting at the entrance of the room to give a 2nd layer to stop light leakage thru the door.

Air intake is usually through the window - we advise you to open the window slightly at the top but ensure that the curtains are taped behind so there is no light leakage. We also advise you to put black and white sheeting over the curtain also for extra security. Taking an air intake from from the window is ideal using a 100MM fan.

Use screw hooks into the ceiling to allow the lights to be hung from them.

Lights should be hung 5 feet away from the tops of the plants initially. Once the plants are big, they can take in more light and eventually you can be 3 feet away from the plant.

Hang the 250W light first, this will be for vegetation growth, the first stage.

Later you will change this for a 400W or 600W for flowering. A 400W or 600W light will cover 1-2 square meters.

Ensure the electrics extension leads etc. are positioned away from the hydroponics systems as much as possible - electricity and water do not mix!

Make sure you have a 2 feet perimeter round the outside so you can physically walk round the indoor garden.

Place all the hydroponics systems under the light. Use the table below to get the right amount of light per hydroponics system

You're all set, switch on and start your hydroponics setup!

Next stage is to germinate your seeds or take cuttings from a mother plant