NANA Cab v0.1 - first run

So after a looooong time building my NANA cab I finally finished it on 4/20. Since then I have been doing minor adjustments and adding my girls in there little by little. Now I have a fully packed cab just waiting to flower.

With this being a new log but the same plants from my other log, Im not gonna go explaining about how I got here and what I did to my plants. Although I wont force you to read my other log, if you have any questions about it feel free to ask away.

Before I go any further, spark em up and enjoy the high :jointsmile:

Lets begin.............................the NANA Cab...........................journey............. ...................
The NANA was originated by New Ganja Boy and originally named "NGB". I have taken the basic layout and altered it in certain areas to better suit my needs. I call it a "NANA" cab so if someone asks whats a nana?? I just say "NANA your business" LOL.

Cab dimensions
overall - 48" wide - 47" tall - 24" deep
utility - 15" wide - 17" tall - 24" deep
veg/mom - 15" wide - 30" tall - 24" deep (2.5 square feet)
flower - 33" wide - 47" tall - 24" deep (5.5 square feet)

Lighting specs
veg/mom - 6 x 26watt CFL 1700lumen 6700k = 156watt 10200lumen
flower - 2 x 150watt HPS 15000lumen 2500k? = 300watt 30000lumen

watts/lumen to area
veg/mom - 4080lumen per foot - 62.4watt per foot
flower - 5454.54lumen per foot - 54.54watt per foot

Hmmmmmmmm seems like I need to add some extra light to my flower side. [note to self add secondary cfls to flowers]

Exhaust
3 speed stanley blower
4" ducting

Passive intake
veg/mom - 6 x 1" holes screened(not pictured)
flower - 10 x 1" holes screened

ok I had enough typing for now, Ill add all the tidbits later.


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pics
1 - cfls in veg/mom side
2 - utility with stanley blower and timers
3 - dual 150hps in bake-a-round cooltube
4 - veg/mom side with Obs(front), GVxL(back), 10 clones (HB,KM,Hgs,Obs)
5 - flower side (front L - R) KM2, KM3, HB (back) KM1, Hgs

i'm jealous, lol, i love your cab man.

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some great info here man, good job. i like the NANA.

ever think about replacing your 150's for 250's? little more lumens.

thanks justanotherbozo, Shovelhandle, keeko

keeko probably wont go up to 250hps but i will add more lumens with cfls or maybe see if I can get a 400 or 600 switchable from a friend.

more info......
heres some other info some may find useful. This is an all soil grow using pots starting from dixie cups and 16oz. soda bottles then to 1 gallon pots then finally to 3 gallons to finish off. Eventually I plan to flower in 1 gallons instead of 3, and do a perpetual grow.

My soil is from the homedepot and its usually whatevers available that suites my preferences. I add 1-1 parts of "foam rock" mix it up in my bin, and thats all. I dont add any bone/blood meal, lime, or anything extra. I forget what brand I bought but it was a "premium potting soil" in a brown bag. (Ill post the brand/pics later)

STRAINS
Lets get into the flavors now. Currently I have 5 strains growing but will bring it down to 2 after the second flowering. All were started from seed with all sorts of germination techniques. I did some in paper towels and some soaked in water, then planted in either rockwool or a peat pellet. I found that I had best results when I soaked them in distilled water til they split open and TAP root shows a lil. Then put it in a paper towel for a day or 2 til the root is stronger and longer, then plant into rockwool/soil.

Most seeds were bagseed except the HB which is Hashberry :jointsmile:. The others include a strain I grew that had a couple "nanners" that I used to make 6 seeds, named Hgs or Home grown seed. Next I tried some really old seeds I had from about 7-8 years ago, named Obs for Old bagseed. The last 2 was some great smoke and had a couple seeds. First is the GVxL which stands for Grapevine X Lavender, and finally the KM sisters. The KM stands for KALIMIST (yummy sativa) and I have 3 of them. KM1 is the oldest and got topped at the 7th node, KM2,3 are a week or 2 younger and didnt get topped. All girls are under LST to keep heights down.

CLONES
Hmmmmm lets just say I have to many right now. I took cuttings from every plant except the GVxL. Ten cuttings have rooted well and were transplanted into dixie cups and are vegging. I then have another 9 I cut the other week that are rooted but I dont have much space left so I need to cull some of the bad ones :(. Ill get into my cloning method in another post for the readers. Oh yeah I orginally had a bubble cloner that only rooted "ONE" cutting after over a month so I tossed it and the cuttings. The one that did root is a KM1 clone in my DWC bucket with a sister clone done in rockwool.


guess what.......................................Im tired of typing check back later



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pics 1,2 Hashberry
pic 3 the 9 clones (2 Obs, 2 KM2, 5 HB)

Heres my soil mix in pic 1. I mix half at a time since my bin isnt big enough for the whole load at once. The other pics are of KM1.

Picked up a new fan for the cab. Its a lasko tower fan, fits and works perfect in there. It has multi direction halves and oscillates with 3 speed settings. Got it at wallyworld for 20 bucks. Ill post pics of it later.

time to play some GTA IV


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i like your set-up man, i'll be watching your posts and i look forward to seeing what your results end up at.
eventually, i plan on building a cab of my own but, for now, i'm in the closet, lol. so to speak.
anyway, if you're interested, i plan on starting a thread today documenting my own little experiment. the thread will be called 'newbie hydro\cfl experiment' , if you stop by and take a look you'll see that everything is DIY, i live on a very tight budget.
anyway, thanks for sharing your notes, your efforts are inspiring to a newbie like me

heres some new pics. day 9 of flowering, so far KM1 is looking the best then HB. The rest are all about the same.


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heres some pics of day 11. I put 3 clones in there too so I would have more space in the veg side. The HB got a lil burned on one of its leaves so I raised my cooltube enough to not burn anything. So far Im really pleased with the growth on the girls, especially with all the trimming and LST I did in the last week. KM1 is really looking good, I trimmed all lower branches so I have 5 main tops(pic 5).

Im still feeding with veg nutes and will start using bloom nutes next week. The next watering will be a flush to rinse the roots off and prep them for the bloom nutrients. I use FoxFarms Grow BIG during veg and Tiger Bloom during flowering with molasses later on in flowering.

I was also thinking about hardening off some of my clones and do an outdoor grow. But thats just me thinking out loud. The last time I did and outdoor I ended up with a 6" runt that turned out male :(. So if I do actually try again outdoors again Im gonna prep the area first.



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Hey, m8....the plants look nice, can't wait to see them flowering....it's worth to try an outdoor grow, imo it's far less work than whit indoor plants....it's very simple; you just have to prep. the soil nicely, and choose a nice sunny spot....that's it, only thing left is to water the plant every week if you can, whit nutes....you should try it, to transplant 1-2 plants isn't that much work....keep it up....:thumbsup:

zeb,
Hmmmmm since your making it sound so very tempting, Im gonna go scout out a place today and maybe do a lil preping if I find a spot. Hopefully if I do go outdoors the weather will get a lil better and stay consistent.

on a side note
How do I keep my DWC bucket cool enough to prevent rootrot??? Its 74-78 degrees which is to warm I know. Would icepacks help out keeping it cooler or would some sort of insulation on the bucket be better?? Any help help is appreciated


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Heres day 14.
They got a flush the yesterday and will get the first bloom nute feeding tomorrow. They're finally start to plump up and look like buds now :thumbsup:.

Heres my future moms. Hashberry and Kalimist are the only strains I plan on keeping, unless the others are really good. I have 1 HB mom and 2 KM moms. The only bad part is the Hashberry tends to stretch alot more than the others. I wouldnt mind crossing my HB and KM if I can manage to get a male seed sprouted for them.

LOL, i wish i had that kind of genetics to play with! mine are just bagseed, maybe when my 'economic stimulus' check comes i can order some quality seeds, lol, then i can thank George for my medicine, lol.
anyway, thanks for sharing man.

bozo,
peace, love, dope

justanotherbozo: I was lucky enough to get these seeds from friends or family. The kalimist was some bagseed, but the hashberry was still in the breeder pack:thumbsup:. Its cool too cause I was already gonna order some hashberry when my friend hooked me up with some.

heres some nicer pics from day 15



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very nice, i love lookin' at pitures of nekid gurls! LOL i hope to have some pics of my own to share with you in a couple of weeks, maybe 3.
oh, and btw, you might want to put some electrical tape over that wire nut. wire nuts are great for securing wire together but the wires are still exposed to the open air, so if your open air is humid, that humidity will collect on every surface in the room, including your exposed wire inside that wire nut.

anyway, thanks for sharing your progress man!

bozo,
peace, love, dope

Good point. I usually do wrap them in electrical tape, infact the other one is done the proper way LOL. Good eye


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Just finished watering the ladies and found out that my HGS is a hermie. No shocker though as the mom hemied and thats how I got the seeds. I ended up just putting her outside for now and will deal with her later. I only found 2-3 nanners growing but that was enough for me, I dont wanna chance pollinating all my other girls. I actually find that to be good news though since I have a space issue arising and now that I only have 4 in flower they should all get more light which in turn means bigger bud(usually). The 4 are really starting to size up and produce trichomes. Smell is still green but will start stinking now that the trichs are here. Time to build me a carbon scrubber.

My DWC is starting to grow better finally, but still not up to par with my soil grows. I may end up hacking them into cuttings when I need them. I also hooked a friend up with 2 clones so I have a lil more space in veg too. I helped this friend build a micro box a mere foot wide and deep by about a foot half tall. Surprisingly it actually produced some bonsai buds, only to end up with pH issues and biting the dust. This time he will succeed though, I guarantee it :thumbsup:.

No pics this time but wait til sunday for the 3 week update



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heres day 20 pics
maybe now that I got some budding plants I can get a comment or two, or at least a thumbs up :thumbsup:

check out those sugary fan/shade/feeder leaves

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heres my HGS girl I put outside. She started with white hairs in the cab and now they have a bit of pink in them. I havent spotted any more nanners but I got alot of bugs outside and they seem to love MJ plants more than the rest.

how does she look??


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Here are two thumbsup for ya...:thumbsup::thumbsup:
That plant look real nice, and the others too...:jointsmile:
I think as soon as people start to notice how gr8 this log is, you will get more comments for sure....
Good luck, keep it up...

Wow that outdoor plant is big and beautiful...i though you want to plant out a small clone....i hope she gonna reveg..

thanks zeb I knew you would chime in, and thanks for the push to go outdoors this time. I was planning on using clones outside like you said, but I majorly needed room and she had a couple "footballs" growing. So I picked off the footballs and transplanted outside, and here she is a few day later. I have a couple seeds left in case revegging fails, and maybe one more clone I think. Hopefully those seeds carry the "pink hair" trait and its not lost with this girl.



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really man, this thread isn't getting near the attention it deserves. your plants look great and i love your cab, keep it up man, your an inspiration to us all!

bozo,
peace, love, dope

thanks jab(Just Another Bozo)
yeah I was hoping that since Im flowering now I would get a couple more comments here and there, but nope. I guess only the cool people come here to comment or something LOL. But I have noticed alot of threads have been struggling for comments or at least not getting any worth while criticsm, so its time I be a lil more active and spread the knowledge.



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Good day to you dude. I for one am VERY impressed with your setup/maintenance/care/understanding.. the list is endless. And the results of all of your good deeds/labor is HEALTHY plants.

All of the plants look GORGEOUS keep up the good growing.:thumbsup:

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thanks jab(Just Another Bozo)
yeah I was hoping that since Im flowering now I would get a couple more comments here and there, but nope. I guess only the cool people come here to comment or something LOL. But I have noticed alot of threads have been struggling for comments or at least not getting any worth while criticsm, so its time I be a lil more active and spread the knowledge.



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i think too, your doin' such a good job, all anyone can do is pat you on the back, you don't need help often, so people are just kickin' back with a bowl and watching the show, LOL

I finally got all the needed parts to build me a scrubber. At first I had it 2 feet long but that turned out to big so I made another at a foot long. Parts cost me under $50, would've been less but my homedepot doesnt carry much ventilation stuff. They didnt have any 4" starter collars or end caps so I had to "macguyver" a 3" PVC endcap and a 4" dryerduct to make things work. All thats left to do is get some activated carbon and fill it up. Really easy to build just takes some time to get it all together and fitting properly. I was gonna make a small tutorial to build one, but I dont get enough traffic here so maybe I will maybe I wont depends if anyone needs help with building one. more pics later

Glad the sites back up and running :jointsmile:



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pic 1 parts need for a scrubber (not pictured pantyhose and carbon)
pic 2 my DIY scrubber minus the pantyhose on the outside and carbon on the inside.

yeah, i'm glad the site is back too and i know what you mean about traffic. believe me, people are lookin', lol

anyway, awesome job on the scrubber, much cleaner lookin' than the one i made, similar in principle though.
i don't know if you've considered this but i'm sure it would work for you, if you try it, Lowes (i'm sure HomeDepot too) has some velcro sinch straps that work beautifully to hold the carbon sheet in place.
if you need more info, let me know man
and yeah, if you can't see it on the box, it's a sheet of activated carbon measuring 16.5 inchs by 48 inchs, you just cut it to size (i get 2 wraps from it) and it costs approx.$10.00, find it near the Hepa filters, humidifiers and de-humidifiers etc...


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justanotherbozo: next time im at the depot Ill check out that carbon wrap. Im pretty sure I saw it there a couple days ago when I picked up my scrubber parts. I might use that stuff together with the activated carbon to get more smell removal. How big is your scrubber?

Heres the future mums and spare clones. The last pic is of my GVxL and Obs that are totally overgrown the cab and will be transplanted outdoors when the weather clears up.



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here we are at day 25 :jointsmile:

pics 1-4 are of kalimist. Getting nice and sugary with a coffee smell.
pic 5 Hashberry........................nuff said'



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Heres a couple shots of the girls in their tanning both. Buds are about 1-3 inches from cooltube without any burning, a couple leaves got burned before but they were in direct contact with the cooltube.


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Originally Posted by iriebowl

justanotherbozo: next time im at the depot Ill check out that carbon wrap. Im pretty sure I saw it there a couple days ago when I picked up my scrubber parts. I might use that stuff together with the activated carbon to get more smell removal. How big is your scrubber?

Heres the future mums and spare clones. The last pic is of my GVxL and Obs that are totally overgrown the cab and will be transplanted outdoors when the weather clears up.



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mornin' man, my scrubber is approx. 15 inchs and nowhere near as neat as yours is. mine also has a 8" inline, 500cfm duct fan to suck air from the grow and push it through my home-made scrubber, i'll be posting pics probably this week.

btw, everything looks great man, you are gonna have one sweet harvest!

Hmmm my scrubber is only a foot long so I hope that will do enough odor control for my girls. Theyre starting to smell and stink up the place alot nowadays.

Heres a couple shots of my girl outside.


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dammmmm R U a great grower or what.

dammm I would love to have that plant.
but I do have around 18-20 lil bush's out back.:D
I hope they all turn female.

well heres to some great luck to all of us growers out there.

thanks hydro
I dont know if I would say great but I have enough experience to keep them alive lol. Without this site and the help I get from everyone here I wouldnt be where im at now.

18-20 damn man Id rather have that LOL, the more the merrier is what I always say(except when the "piggies" are around:wtf:). I hope you get all girls too, seeing 18-20 flowering girls under the sun will be a sight for stoney eyes :stoned:.



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Really beautiful little kalimists. Sugar coated already! I'd like to grow out some of that, man.

irie,
Sho

thanks shov, Im really glad they have good trichome growth since they havent put on much girth yet. Only halfway through flower, so now is the fattening up time...............................hopefully.

heres a few from today


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lookin great irie!

keep up the good work