"Cinco De High-O" cabinet grow

i had notification this time. looks good, except the part with no watering lol. they will bounce back i think, i wouldnt even touched the damaged parts, but thats just me. lst looks very nice

Mr. Cheetah said:

i had notification this time. looks good, except the part with no watering lol. they will bounce back i think, i wouldnt even touched the damaged parts, but thats just me. lst looks very nice

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Thanks!! I can't believe I forgot to water, shit happens I reckon. Figured I might as well chop off all the undergrowth and focus the energy on the big colas up top.

Chopped the hell out of the mainlined plants last night. Its incredible how efficiently they adapt! Id say this will be my last major defoliation. Decided to train them to fill this space instead of the big cabinet, as they'll be flowering in here for a few weeks at least. I need to go get some more wire so I can spread them out, it looks like a mad scientist arranged them at the moment.

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why chopped the leaves maaan

Been a while since I updated, ive been crazy busy with work and side jobs. The big plants came under attack from thrips, and I caught them a little late. I believe they'll survive, but I'm sure quality and quantity with suffer. I expected some setbacks being my first grow, and I'm definitely learning a ton. The small stocky plant is making some fat nugs, and the taller plant is making skinnier buds. Indica/sativa differences coming through I guess?



The mainlined plants are doing great! They are growing like crazy. I went ahead and got a qb288 r spec to swap out with the b spec, theyll be ready to flip to flower soon. Need to get the cabinet sealed up for light and a filter built.

Here is the shorter plants bud

Almost forgot, found an actual Jamaican plant in my closet, look at that flag grown onto the stalk

The big girls are still alive, albeit barely. Ive been spraying them with water daily trying to remove what I can. Got some lacewings and nematodes on the way, but they're more for the mainlined plants. If they get here soon enough ill put a few in the big cabinet, but ive accepted that I screwed the pooch on my first grow. They've got about 3 weeks left until the 10 week mark, just trying to limp them along.



The mainlined plants are looking great! Ive still got about 30 ladybugs out of the 150, and ive gotten them all put into the small cabinet. I installed the 288 r spec lastnight, gonna transition them over the next few days into 12/12.



I ordered the Coots Mix Kit from Kis Organics. I had a cart on Amazon using mostly "Down To Earth" products, and was easily over $100 for the ammendments and minerals I needed. Through Kis, it was $30 for enough to do 10.5 cu ft of living soil. Also got an air pump and some bags so I can brew teas. My plan is to convert both cabinets to living soil beds. Ive got some expanded steel mesh left over from a job. Im gonna weld up a bed out of that, and line it with landscaping fabric. It doesn't seem like I should be watering to runoff in a living soil, so I just plan on putting a layer of lava rock in the bottom of my bed, and putting the soil on top. Im gonna have to drop about $100 on hinges, but building a steel framed bed will allow me to mount it on 500lb hinges, and slide the entire grow bed in and out of the cabinet.

I'm gonna stop this week and get some mushroom compost, and a couple cu ft of ewc's so I can start cooking the soil when my coots mix arrives.

Picked up a quarter yard of local compost today. Less than $8. Now that's a sore dick deal, you just can't beat it. Planning on using 3 cu ft of this, 1 cu ft of worm castings, 3 cu ft of peat, and 3 cubic ft of lava rock for my live soil mix. Gonna throw some red wigglers and nightcrawlers in while it cooks. Nematodes and Lacewings will be here tomorrow.



The big plants seem to have stabilized. Ive been spraying them daily with water to try to keep the bugs at a minimum. Lacewings and nematodes are on the way, hopefully they help the ladies finish up.

Clackamas Coots is cookin!! 3 cu ft of lava rock, 3 cu ft of peat moss, 3 cu ft of compost, 1 cu ft of worm castings, 10 cups of malted barley, and the ammendment/mineral mix from KisOrganics. Used an old futon frame and some wire cloth as my soil cooker. Ill make a cover for it tomorrow. Need to mix a little more and add some water, ran out of daylight today. When I ordered my lacewings and nematodes, I also ordered beneficial insect attractant seeds to use as a cover crop in the living soil.

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The mainlined plants are growing like crazy. Staryed flipping them into flower last Saturday, shortened daylight by an hour and a half each day until it was down to 12/12.
I got nematodes and lacewings in both cabinets. Put the envelopes with lacewing eggs in 2 days ago, noticed the first larvae crawling onto branches today. They say they have a hell of an appetite as larvae, i hope its true. The big girls in flower really need the help, more of a preventative measure in the small cabinet. Still have ladybugs in the small cabinet. Im gonna order another 150 when I make the living beds in the cabinets. I think with the cover crop and the canopy from the plants, the lights won't effect them as badly, theyll have somewhere natural to go.





Im gonna mix up the nematode powder I have left and mix it into my coots soil, as well as putting a hundred or so worms in there.

The big girls are hanging in there. Ive been spraying the leaves top and bottom daily with water, seems to have stopped the damage from getting worse, but I know the thrips are still multiplying. I put quite a few lacewing eggs in the packets. Hopefully by tomorrow evening I'll have a hundred or so on each plant munching away. Need to get the glue traps out of there.

Here is the breakdown of the total cost for 10.5 cubic feet of coots soil, not including tax. $143 or $13.61 per cubic foot.

3 cu ft peat moss $12
3 cu ft lava rocks $30
3 cu ft compost $8 (qtr yard) @ local nursery
1 cu ft EWC's $26
10.5 cu ft Coots soil kit $67 ($30 for kit, $37 shipping) from Kis Organics

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Looking hella fit

Thanks!! They're growing like crazy since I switched them to flower. Got another driver coming, gonna put the b spec and rspec in there to get me about 35 watts per sq ft. Only about 20 right now.

Turns out I have spider mites in the big cabinet along with thrips. Starting to notice some webbing on a couple buds. Got out my cutters and chopped them down. Got the shop vac out and vacuumed the hell out of all the buds. Left the whole plant together, hung them upside down the dry. Tough lesson, but I expected there would be plenty to learn. Im still gonna smoke the hell out of it

I noticed a couple similar spots on the mainlined plants. Pulled them all out, gave them a good soaking in pyrethrin top and bottom, cleaned the hell out of the cabinet, and soaked it in pyrethrins as well. In 3 days ill pull them out and spray them again, hopefully that will take care of these spawns of Satan. I wouldnt even be mad if they just wanted to get high Gonna clean the big cabinet, and soak it with some chemical as well before I start my next grow. Got a few weeks before my coots soil is ready anyways. Might call my buddy at the peat control place I used to work at and get a hold of some shit that will make any bug wish they never even came onto my property

Trimmed a small bud to take a sample



Mainlined plants are growing strong! Im gonna clean the big cabinet thoroughly, spray some pyrethrins, and put them in there. Gonna rearrange the qb120's, and add the qb 288 r spec into there. Should be able to turn the drivers down and get some reds in there.

And the learning continues Wet trimmes the buds the other night, and about 80% of the taller plants buds had web rot or fungus, it was white and went all the way to the stem. The taller plants buds were much fluffier, so I'm guessing they had an easy way in. Oh well, live and learn. Still got a couple nugs off it. Shorter plant had fat and much denser nugs, a lot less leaf in the flowers. Working on drying them now. Ive got a wedryer on the way, but for now I rigged up a couple fabric pots with vents and a slight breeze. Left is from taller plant, right is from the shorter plant.



Got the big cabinet cleaned and treated with pyrethrins. I treated these plants wednesday with pyrethrin, Friday with spinosad, and Saturday with pyrethrins again before moving them into the big cabinet. Treated the cabinet twice, 3 days apart as well before moving the girls in there. Been working on getting a nice even canopy. Got my fan horizontal blowing under the canopy, and moved another fan in blowing down air from above.