Indoor MI5 and Short Stuff Short Mix LED CFL mini cabinet

[Smidgette]

This little cabinet is my first indoor grow environment. I am on my 5th grow in it. I have had so much fun with the results .


MI5 on the left and Short Stuff Short Mix on the right.
90w LED
6 23w CFL- will be upgraded to 6 42w CFLs
started on Fox Farm Soil trio - switched to beet juice

 

[Muddy]

Looks like a nice little setup you've got going. A little hard to tell under the LEDs but am I seeing some yellowing on your leaves? How's your pH?

 

[AutoHeath]

howmuch was your led?

 

[Smidgette]

I am still finding the right beet juice concentration. The ph is ok - just experimenting with the beet juice.

 

[Smidgette]

I got one of the cheap LEDs off Ebay. With the supplemental CFLs, it does just fine for short plants.

 

[AutoHeath]

nice man, ive heard they wnt work if cheap ones but ya show us different lol

 

[Rello]

Hi Smidgette, just stoppin in...

Nice little setup you got!
How much dry bud do you usualy get out of it? Just curious...

 

[Smidgette]

I was getting 9- 30g dried per plant depending on strain. The cabinet can hold 3 plants with Lowryder genetics (short). I got 32g off of a auto White Dwarf in this setup. It was the only plant in there at the time and I did low stress training on it.

The 90w LED and the CFLs don't give me any problems with heat. The Ebay LEDs are 1w diodes. The better quality LEDS have 2-3w diodes. I still think it is a great way to start indoor if you can't do a big setup.

The little one did have some yellowing. I am still experimenting on dosage with the beet juice and yeast. One feeding, I added too much yeast and my solution started fermenting and threw the ph way off. I will be documenting a whole grow from seed to harvest on nothing but beet juice and yeast. I will use Fox Farm soil as my "control" comparision.