Grow cabinet / 600 watt HID / Ice

What’s up RIU members? I’m a long time follower, second time poster. Just wanted to share my indoor cabinet grow. I just started up an LED tent grow thread as well. Please feel free to give me any feedback or ask questions.

So what I have here is an Earth Cab Pro. This is a prefabricated grow box made by Cabinet Grow. It’s 4ft wide 2 ft deep and over 6 ft tall. There are normally 2 chambers but I have the removable shelf removed so that it has some more headroom. I’ll pop the specs below.

Here’s what I’m running now:

Size – 4’x2’x6.5’

Ventilation – 600 cfm blower + 20lb carbon filter

Medium – Fox Farm Ocean Forest in 3 Gallon Smart Pots

Lighting – 600 Watt HID w/ reflector (MH for veg / HPS for bloom)

Nutrients – Botanicare CNS17 lineup + Sweet, Hydroplex, Calmag and Liquid Karma

Water – Straight from the hose

Strains: Ice

Like my other LED thread, I started recording this thread at about week 1 of bloom so I apologize for the lack of veg pictures. I started with clones and vegged for about 3 weeks. So here we go.

Week 1ish

Light Schedule – 12/12 (running MH)

Temps – 80-82

Nutrients – CNS17 Bloom, Liquid Karma, Sweet (I alternate plain water and nutes)

PH – 6.4 or so

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Here we go. Week 1ish of bloom. I’ll keep the MH running for another week to get them a bit bushier and to keep the node spacing tight. Temps are consistent and everything is working as advertised. Stay tuned...

Week 2ish

Light Schedule – 12/12 (running HPS)

Temps – 80-82

Nutrients – CNS17 Bloom, Liquid Karma, Sweet (I alternate plain water and nutes)

PH – 6.4 or so

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These girls are looking great. I’ve switched to the HPS and bumped up the nutes a bit. They are really starting to fill out. I’ve trimmed many large fan leaves and will continue to do so throughout the entire grow. Some people do it and some don't. I like to trim large fan leaves. Gotta keep that light penetrating through the branches to get the most out of the plants. Week 3 is coming up.

Week 3ish

Light Schedule – 12/12 (running HPS)

Temps – 80-82

Nutrients – CNS17 Bloom, Liquid Karma, Sweet, Hydroplex (I alternate plain water and nutes)

PH – 6.4 or so

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Flowers are forming and everything is looking happy. Still trimming fan leaves strategically to make sure the lower portions of the plants are getting their fair share of light. I think we’re on the right track. The last picture I used my handy Method 7 shades to get some true color. Who says you can't grow nice crops in a cabinet?

Week 4ish

Light Schedule – 12/12 (running HPS)

Temps – 82-85

Nutrients – CNS17 Bloom, Sweet, Hydroplex, Cal Mag (I alternate plain water and nutes)

PH – 6.4 or so

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No much to report except flowers are really starting to fill out. I need to trim more fan leaves. Things are getting a little dark in the lower areas of the canopy. It's been pretty damn hot here lately but It seems to be staying relatively cool inside my cab.

Week 5ish
Light Schedule – 12/12 (running HPS)
Temps – 82-85
Nutrients – CNS17 Bloom, Sweet, Hydroplex, Cal Mag (I alternate plain water and nutes)
PH – 6.4 or so

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Truckin along here. The girls are starting to fill out. Had a little hiccup in the form of a two day power outage. Don't think it's going to affect anything though. Outside temps have cooled so that's been nice. I keep increasing my nute mix little by little. No nutrient burn or ill effects yet. Don't want it too hot though. On to week 6.

Looking real good man is the Ice by female seeds or another company?

Was given some clones many moons ago.

Nice healthy plants..............Good job!

Good shit your setup is similar to mine i am still trying to get the hang of SOG
THEY LOOK GREAT

Week 8ish
Light Schedule – 12/12 (running HPS)
Temps – 79-80
Nutrients – Plain Phd water
PH – 6.4 or so
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Thanks for the compliments guys and sorry I haven't been able to update in a while. The Poku household has been a little crazy lately, in a good way. Despite all the madness I've been making sure to care for my babies and everything is going great. It's cooled down and my temps and humidity are just about perfect. I might give one more blast of nutrients this week before I start flushing. The flowers are really starting to swell up!

You have a lot of plants in a small tent, but them bud's are not complaining.

No complaints at all, ha.

I'm harvesting in the next few days so stay tuned for some updates. Everything is looking great. Dense and frosty.

Harvested this morning and I'm very happy with the results.