~(Kief Junkie & Q.K.) 250w Organic Medi-Cab (Royal Hawaiian, W. Rhino, Bubblicious)~
It's that time again, the Medi-Cab is back up and running after taking a few weeks off since our last harvest (see our first grow by following the link in my sig line). We are once again doing an organic soil run, this time with 6 total girls from clone.
The soil recipe we used is as follows. It was combined and mixed well in a large Rubbermaid tub for a total of about 25 gallons of medium:
6 parts Sunshine Mix #4
2 parts chunky perlite
2 parts earthworm castings
Powdered dolomite lime @ 1 cups per cubic foot of the soil mix
Dry Ferts (per cubic foot of soil mix):
1/2 cup blood meal
1 cup bone meal
1/2 cup kelp meal
1/2 cup Jersey Greensand
All dry ferts were added to the soil mix and then the entire mix was stirred thoroughly. After stirring, the mix was whetted with a solution consisting of 1 tablespoon of Liquid Karma, 1/4 teaspoon Mycogrow Mycorrhizal fungi in one gallon of water.
For those who are new to our grow, we're using a 250w HPS in our flower room. We have a veg room in our cab as well (125w CFL), but we're STILL not using it because we didn't install the light traps between the rooms as we were supposed to do (a combo of timing and laziness). I actually want to do something different for the light trap (a dark room vent) between these two rooms, so it's going to require more work than I orignally had planned for. Hopefully we'll have that side up and running before our next run!
This run we're doing the below strains. This wasn't what we planned, but there were some issues getting the exact clones I ordered from my caregiver, so this is what we ended up with. I'm just as excited though, because we still have 2 of the Bubblicious, and we picked up not only White Rhino, but a strain I'd never heard of before and one I'm excited to run (originally we planned on White Widow and Bubblicious). If anyone knows more about the Royal Hawaiian, please feel free to chime in because we'd love to know more.
3 Royal Hawaiian
1 White Rhino
2 Bubblicious
We brought them home and immediately transplanted them into our soil mix. As they are already established clones, we put them into a ferted mix right away rather than putting them into a non-ferted mix. The soil mix was still damp, so we didn't water them until they had been under the 250 for a few hours, and even then we only watered them a small amount right over the root ball; we'll be watering them more thoroughly today. So they've been vegging in the flower room under the 250 on a 20-4 cycle since 6/13. We'll let them establish themselves for a few weeks and then we'll switch to 12/12 (we'll be switching for sure by July 1 regardless). All but the Bubblicious girls are fairly tall already, so we don't want them to get too tall before we switch to flower. Hopefully they'll bush out more instead of stretching.
One other note: this time we're using a 3 gallon, cloth Smart Pot for each plant. Last time we used 5 gallon Air Pots with great success, but 4 AP's of this size is the max we can fit in the flower room and we wanted to run 6 plants, not 4, so we went with the smaller SP's. They're also supposed to allow air pruning of the roots, similar to the AP's, so hopefully we'll have good success with these.
This time around I think we're going to try and let the plants grow as nature intended, which means little to no LST. We did lots of LST last time, but I want to see what these will do without it. We may have to do some depending on how tall these Royal Hawaiian's get, but we'll see.
We're hoping for a larger yield this time (per plant) than what we got last time, while still retaining the great quality, so wish us luck! If there's anything I left out, please let me know and I'll update it in a new post. Feel free to jump in and join us!
As you'll see in the pictures, only the Bubblicious are looking particularly healthy, the others are all a little ragtag. The biggest reason for this is because they were too big for their containers prior to our transplant; hopefully they'll spring back soon. On to the pics:
Barbie (Bubblicious), just transplanted (6 13 09)
Beth (Bubblicious), just transplanted (6 13 09)
Rhonda (Royal Hawaiian), just transplanted (6 13 09)
Rosy (Royal Hawaiian), just transplanted (6 13 09)
Ruby (Royal Hawaiian), just transplanted (6 13 09)
Wilma (White Rhino), just transplanted (6 13 09)
Group shot, just transplanted (6 13 09)
It's that time again, the Medi-Cab is back up and running after taking a few weeks off since our last harvest (see our first grow by following the link in my sig line). We are once again doing an organic soil run, this time with 6 total girls from clone.
The soil recipe we used is as follows. It was combined and mixed well in a large Rubbermaid tub for a total of about 25 gallons of medium:
6 parts Sunshine Mix #4
2 parts chunky perlite
2 parts earthworm castings
Powdered dolomite lime @ 1 cups per cubic foot of the soil mix
Dry Ferts (per cubic foot of soil mix):
1/2 cup blood meal
1 cup bone meal
1/2 cup kelp meal
1/2 cup Jersey Greensand
All dry ferts were added to the soil mix and then the entire mix was stirred thoroughly. After stirring, the mix was whetted with a solution consisting of 1 tablespoon of Liquid Karma, 1/4 teaspoon Mycogrow Mycorrhizal fungi in one gallon of water.
For those who are new to our grow, we're using a 250w HPS in our flower room. We have a veg room in our cab as well (125w CFL), but we're STILL not using it because we didn't install the light traps between the rooms as we were supposed to do (a combo of timing and laziness). I actually want to do something different for the light trap (a dark room vent) between these two rooms, so it's going to require more work than I orignally had planned for. Hopefully we'll have that side up and running before our next run!
This run we're doing the below strains. This wasn't what we planned, but there were some issues getting the exact clones I ordered from my caregiver, so this is what we ended up with. I'm just as excited though, because we still have 2 of the Bubblicious, and we picked up not only White Rhino, but a strain I'd never heard of before and one I'm excited to run (originally we planned on White Widow and Bubblicious). If anyone knows more about the Royal Hawaiian, please feel free to chime in because we'd love to know more.
3 Royal Hawaiian
1 White Rhino
2 Bubblicious
We brought them home and immediately transplanted them into our soil mix. As they are already established clones, we put them into a ferted mix right away rather than putting them into a non-ferted mix. The soil mix was still damp, so we didn't water them until they had been under the 250 for a few hours, and even then we only watered them a small amount right over the root ball; we'll be watering them more thoroughly today. So they've been vegging in the flower room under the 250 on a 20-4 cycle since 6/13. We'll let them establish themselves for a few weeks and then we'll switch to 12/12 (we'll be switching for sure by July 1 regardless). All but the Bubblicious girls are fairly tall already, so we don't want them to get too tall before we switch to flower. Hopefully they'll bush out more instead of stretching.
One other note: this time we're using a 3 gallon, cloth Smart Pot for each plant. Last time we used 5 gallon Air Pots with great success, but 4 AP's of this size is the max we can fit in the flower room and we wanted to run 6 plants, not 4, so we went with the smaller SP's. They're also supposed to allow air pruning of the roots, similar to the AP's, so hopefully we'll have good success with these.
This time around I think we're going to try and let the plants grow as nature intended, which means little to no LST. We did lots of LST last time, but I want to see what these will do without it. We may have to do some depending on how tall these Royal Hawaiian's get, but we'll see.
We're hoping for a larger yield this time (per plant) than what we got last time, while still retaining the great quality, so wish us luck! If there's anything I left out, please let me know and I'll update it in a new post. Feel free to jump in and join us!
As you'll see in the pictures, only the Bubblicious are looking particularly healthy, the others are all a little ragtag. The biggest reason for this is because they were too big for their containers prior to our transplant; hopefully they'll spring back soon. On to the pics:
Barbie (Bubblicious), just transplanted (6 13 09)
Beth (Bubblicious), just transplanted (6 13 09)
Rhonda (Royal Hawaiian), just transplanted (6 13 09)
Rosy (Royal Hawaiian), just transplanted (6 13 09)
Ruby (Royal Hawaiian), just transplanted (6 13 09)
Wilma (White Rhino), just transplanted (6 13 09)
Group shot, just transplanted (6 13 09)
Everything looks awesome so far 
