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Blynx's 1 sqft CFL cab & other CFL micro cabs
- Thread starter blynx
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Here's the single C99 BX1 at the end of the 2nd week of flowering
C99 BX1
Day 14 Flower
The top still has some room to get closer to the lights. If they aren't close enough after the stretch ends this week then I will raise the container up closer to the lights.
C99 BX1
Day 14 Flower
The top still has some room to get closer to the lights. If they aren't close enough after the stretch ends this week then I will raise the container up closer to the lights.
I use scotch (cellophane) tape.
I should clarify that I'm not taping the stem tightly and it's not done as a permanent fix (the plant handles that). As you can see in the pic below, the tape started coming undone.
The tape forms a 'tube' that creates a micro-environment, inside which the plant will heal itself. Kinda like a self-graft.
After I snapped the above stem, it was literally hanging on by a fiber or two from the outside of the stem. The main part of the stem was completely broken through.
I opened the tape up (and removed it after the pic) and you can see how the plant completely grew the stem back together.
Here's the results from the last round of the 1 sqft CFL cab.
1 sqft CFL Cab
Wet weights
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Dry weights
and here's some progression compilations of the different plants
Chesaw flowering progression
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Grape Krush F2 flowering progression
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Katsu Bubba Kush x Sour Diesel iBL flowering progression
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Sour Creek flowering progression
1 sqft CFL Cab
Wet weights
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Dry weights
and here's some progression compilations of the different plants
Chesaw flowering progression
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Grape Krush F2 flowering progression
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Katsu Bubba Kush x Sour Diesel iBL flowering progression
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Sour Creek flowering progression
hazydreams
Active member
nice job man. thats a hell of a yield in that space!
Hi Blynx, read through it all and I'm super impressed with your documenting skills. It's a big help, thank you for taking the time and being so careful and methodical.
I'm curious about a couple of things
Do you veg and flower with warm white 2700k bulbs (the seem to be in the pictures) or veg with cool white 6500k bulbs first?
Do you always flower for 70 days now with any strain grown under cfl or is it just that you have been growing strains that are ready in 70 days?
How hot does it get in the box / what do you consider the best temperature?
I notice the yield is pretty similar regardless of the number of plants, I wonder what you would get with one plant and a very large pot where it could really stretch it's roots.
Cheers and thanks again for posting all that.
I'm curious about a couple of things
Do you veg and flower with warm white 2700k bulbs (the seem to be in the pictures) or veg with cool white 6500k bulbs first?
Do you always flower for 70 days now with any strain grown under cfl or is it just that you have been growing strains that are ready in 70 days?
How hot does it get in the box / what do you consider the best temperature?
I notice the yield is pretty similar regardless of the number of plants, I wonder what you would get with one plant and a very large pot where it could really stretch it's roots.
Cheers and thanks again for posting all that.
Thanks.
All my clones are vegged under cool white cfls from the moment they are taken until they go into flower. Once they are in flower, I switch to the soft white bulbs.
When running plants under CFLs in the 1 sqft cab, I decided to go with 70 day runs for consistency purposes.
The cab stays pretty cool, I would guess 70s during lights on and cooler at night (cab is in a cool basement). It's got a powerful blower in it so there is plenty of air movement. Keeping temps low is one of the most important things when growing in microcabs.
I don't think one plant would necessarily do better. I think it would take a lot more vegging and training to get the same yield I do with multiple plants. IMO, it's easier, and faster, to get the area filled with multiple plants than it is do it with a single plant.
You can only yield so much in a given area, in a given time.
If you are yielding X from 4 runs with veg/training. Are you better or worse off than getting X from 5 runs with NO veg/training.
IMO, they are the same and it's up to you to figure out which works best for your situation.
hazydreams
Active member
Blynx,
With this extended testing of the 1 square foot. i would LOVE to see you add co2 and compare your overall yield from an enriched environment to a passive environment. a sentinel with a bottle is the dream set up. I'm working on just that for my cab so i can do some testing on gains using it in the micro enviroment. its probably more then a few months off, with the exception of superpedro i know of no one using it in a micro environment....
With this extended testing of the 1 square foot. i would LOVE to see you add co2 and compare your overall yield from an enriched environment to a passive environment. a sentinel with a bottle is the dream set up. I'm working on just that for my cab so i can do some testing on gains using it in the micro enviroment. its probably more then a few months off, with the exception of superpedro i know of no one using it in a micro environment....
wow they all r looking great as alwase.
Good work mate. I use the tape trick too 
