NANA Cab v0.1 - first run

[iriebowl]

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.


stay irie

iriebowl Reviewed by iriebowl on 05-01-2008. 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 Rating: 5

[iriebowl]

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

[justanotherbozo]

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

[Shovelhandle]

:thumbsup:

[keeko]

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

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

[iriebowl]

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



stay irie



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

[iriebowl]

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


stay irie

[justanotherbozo]

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

[iriebowl]

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


stay irie

[iriebowl]

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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