Well I already used Micro Botany Cabinet so when you consider what it's used for The Nad-O-Botany Cabinet is just about right. It's kinda like that little room at the fertility clinic, you know the one with the magazines. I needed a cabinet to bloom males in while at the same time females in bloom are just feet way.
I had a old cabinet 16X16X36 ( for you folks in England it's in English units and I know you folks over there don't understand English units)and it has switchable 1x1 LED panels (just runs 1 at a time), mylar lined, had been running @40W LED on passive ventilation but for this I need air tight and 50W also HEPA filtration.
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On top of the cabinet you see a clear tub with a book on top of it. It's edge has a strip of weather stripping except for a 1/4 inch spot. So the book on top makes an air tight seal on the tubs lower edge against the cabinet. Just behind the orange sticker is an aquarium air pump it has a terry cloth around it to lessen vibration noise. The air hose and power cord run under the tub lip were the 1/4 inch gap is. Look carefully and you'll note the air pump is sitting on a HEPA filter. The filter has a stripe of the weather stripping too, so the weight of the air pump holds the filter to the top of the cabinet and all the air the pump pulls must come out of the top of the cabinet ( there's a hole on top of the cabinet the filter is covering the hole) So the pump pulls air up, around the light , through the filter and out the hose. Just in case any pollen makes it pass the filters 0.3 micron stop the air hose routs outside.
Note how the cabinet is wrapped in contact paper this makes it air tight except the door and vent holes. The door and cabinet face have weather striping. Next the cabinet needed a pollen hood ventilation so I added a vacuum line and vinyl curtain. The white bilge hose is the vacuum line. Bilge line has much greater resistance to collapsing under vacuum. It this photo you see the vinyl curtain.View attachment 187739 Note the desiccator and tools are inside-just outside is a mister bottle to spray water on my hands and arms when I pull them back from inside the curtain. When I go to work I turn on the vacuum.View attachment 187740 It has a valve and quick disconnect the hose runs outside too. The air pulls through the filter then out the house. The pump is a airbed pump. When working with pollen I use a method that tries to get the job done as if I had no filters and hood, gentile, no air currents, misting, ect.
I now am finishing up a male Mauii, very small and stunted, but fresh pollen that is already making seed. I also have Canary plants, I have found two stray seeds this way but hey-that ain't bad!
I had a old cabinet 16X16X36 ( for you folks in England it's in English units and I know you folks over there don't understand English units)and it has switchable 1x1 LED panels (just runs 1 at a time), mylar lined, had been running @40W LED on passive ventilation but for this I need air tight and 50W also HEPA filtration.
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On top of the cabinet you see a clear tub with a book on top of it. It's edge has a strip of weather stripping except for a 1/4 inch spot. So the book on top makes an air tight seal on the tubs lower edge against the cabinet. Just behind the orange sticker is an aquarium air pump it has a terry cloth around it to lessen vibration noise. The air hose and power cord run under the tub lip were the 1/4 inch gap is. Look carefully and you'll note the air pump is sitting on a HEPA filter. The filter has a stripe of the weather stripping too, so the weight of the air pump holds the filter to the top of the cabinet and all the air the pump pulls must come out of the top of the cabinet ( there's a hole on top of the cabinet the filter is covering the hole) So the pump pulls air up, around the light , through the filter and out the hose. Just in case any pollen makes it pass the filters 0.3 micron stop the air hose routs outside.
Note how the cabinet is wrapped in contact paper this makes it air tight except the door and vent holes. The door and cabinet face have weather striping. Next the cabinet needed a pollen hood ventilation so I added a vacuum line and vinyl curtain. The white bilge hose is the vacuum line. Bilge line has much greater resistance to collapsing under vacuum. It this photo you see the vinyl curtain.View attachment 187739 Note the desiccator and tools are inside-just outside is a mister bottle to spray water on my hands and arms when I pull them back from inside the curtain. When I go to work I turn on the vacuum.View attachment 187740 It has a valve and quick disconnect the hose runs outside too. The air pulls through the filter then out the house. The pump is a airbed pump. When working with pollen I use a method that tries to get the job done as if I had no filters and hood, gentile, no air currents, misting, ect.
I now am finishing up a male Mauii, very small and stunted, but fresh pollen that is already making seed. I also have Canary plants, I have found two stray seeds this way but hey-that ain't bad!
