CaptainCAVEMAN's Legal Perpetual Medicinal Cave Grow

Welcome! Ok so after checking out RIU for a bit I decided to move my journal over here. This first post will cover the gear I'm using. Feel free to comment.

Flower Cave

Size : 14' X 12.5' Sealed, no intakes or exhaust

Air Conditioner : 11,000btu in room ac. Will be upgrading to split ac this spring.




Lights : 2 1000watt air cooled bulbs on a 5.0 commercial light mover. 1 digital 1 magnetic ballast. Active Air 417cfm in line fan with speed controller turned down to about half. Ushio dual-arc and Hortiluz super hps bulbs.



Dehumidifier : 50 pint automated low temp bought at sears. Stereo stays on all classical 88.7 KCME commercial free.



Co2 : 4 burner gen-1e propane generator controlled by a sentinel.


Air Filtration : Can Fan 150 with a 417cfm in line fan on top carbon-scrubbung air in the cave.


Fans : 1 small oscillator, 2 tall oscillators, and one tower fan(works great for stirring Co2 on floor)





Veg Cave

Size : 11'x11' passive intake, active exhaust through light hoods.

Lights : 2 400watt air cooled hortilux super blue bulbs powered by 2 standard switchable magnetic ballasts. 1 Active Air 417cfm in-line fan with a sped controller turned down to about 1/3.



Air Filtration : Air is drawn through a Can Fan 50 carbon filter.



Humidity : Mid range walmart 48 hour humidifier with its own humidistat keeps the veg room right between 55% and 60%. Fill once a week.



Cloner : EZ clone 30 site. Runs 24/7 cleaned every 2 weeks.


Heater : 1500 oil filled radiant heater for night time.



One oscilating fan blows across the tops.




Dry Cave : This is just a corner of the veg room plasticed off with an 8" passive intake coming into the top of the 'room' and an 8" tube on the floor. When the plastic is closed normal house air (71f 20%rh) is drawn through the dry room before going on to the veg room.



Middle Cave : All intakes are filtered through theese 1085 micron filters. This Can Fan 75 and Ona help with any remaining smell. Probably wont need theese after we get the split ac.


So that's what I'm working with. Tomorrow I'll cover what I'm growing. Peace!

First, I forgot 1 piece for the gear section.

Water Source : Standard 3 part reverse osmosis filter, resevoir with float valve, 4 air stones and one pump for ultra oxygen saturation. Water is poured into 1 gallon jugs and nutrients mixed in them and ph upped to 6.3.



Ok. Now for the fun stuff!


Strain Review


We run our plants in pairs(usually) so we're usually only doing 2 at a time(harvesting, re-potting, cloning, ect.). We use 5 gallon Smart pots with 75% Sunshine Pro mix #4 and 25% Just Right X-tra(biology in a bag stuff). We are currently switching from Advanced Nutrients to Technaflora B.C. nutrients. Also use virtually all of A.N. add ons, Great White mychorrizae stuff, SuperThrive, Hygrozyme, ummm probably forgetting a few. Only been growing a couple years and just finished the 'buy everything I can that claims to help' phase and am nonw entering the 'how much of this stuff do I REALLY need?' phase.





Veg Cave



From right to left are Kiwiskunk, Cheese, Deep Sweet Grapefruit, Magic Bud, Great White Shark, and then clones of Kiwiskunk and Bubba Kush pre '98. Oh yea, almost forgot baby Royal Haze.


Here's a better look at the ladies.

Kiwiskunk from Kiwiseeds
about 5 weeks into veg. They'll be cloned and moved to flower this weekend.

Theese are 1 week into flower.


Cheese from dispensary bag. I should know better than to use bagseed. I mean, seeds from dispensary weed? WTF?

Theese are about 3 weeks into veg.
Here's a couple at week 6. notice the different phenotypes. The big one is AWESOME. I call that one crazy cheese.


Magic Bud From Paradise seeds.

Theese young ladies are about 1-2 weeks into veg.
Here she is at week 5 flower.




Deep Sweet Grapefruit from Dinafem seeds
One month after cracking open. She's already showing pre flowers! We just started this strain.


Great White Shark From Greenhouse seeds

About 2 weeks into veg.
Here she is at week 4 flower.


Bubba Kush pre '98 from seed given to me by dispensary as 'the bomb'
BK clones on the top, Kiwiskunk clones on bottom.
Theese went to flower yesterday.
Here she is day 54 with beautiful color changing leaves.




Here's a couple of the flower room.




Well that's where I'm at right now. I'll keep updating when I have something cool to put in.

We just ordered some seeds from Nirvana seeds. We've got some 'Chrystal' and some 'Wonder Woman' coming along with some feebies. Peace!

Nice looking set up you have....plus rep.....................happy growing...

Thanks DSB65! Appreciate it man, as I can't really show anyone for real and hear that. plus rep

I know what you mean....having something nice then have to keep it a secret.....

DSB65 said:

I know what you mean....having something nice then have to keep it a secret.....

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Hell yea! Lot harder than learning how to grow really.lol Hard to go to work and pretend I know nothing about it.

What's up. I forgot to show the little femenised Royal Haze from Dinafem. They claim it is their 'signature sativa'...sounds cool. Will be my first plant labeled as a sativa.



Today I had to go pick up some new soiless mix and decided to try the new stuff.
No side by side, I'm just switching.


Here are the Kiwiskunk clones moved into pots today. There is one that has a leaf that grew in the darkness of the cloner...man that's crazy!
It's hard to see, think I need a better camera or more practice taking pictures.


Here is a picture of Magic Bud after hanging on it's way to the jar.




That's all for today. Peace RIU!

captain caveman....your my hero! plants look great man much rep on the cavemans cave!

looks nice cavey!!

Dick Moser said:

captain caveman....your my hero! plants look great man much rep on the cavemans cave!

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Thanks man! Nice avatar. plus rep++

jesus of Cannabis said:

looks nice cavey!!

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Thanks jesus! I'll be checking out both yours and dicks grows today. plus rep for jesus!

Here is White Berry from Paradise seeds after 4 days of hanging on its way to jar.



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Today when the lights came on I finished hooking up the drain I started last night. This is freaking cool! No more emptying the dehumidifier bucket everyday. Far more important than convenience is flushing. I have gotten this far with no flushing. Now we can flush every 30 days just like the good bible recommends! I'm really excited about the benefits of this now that it is possible.

Today Iinstalled the sticky zipper thing on the dry closet in the veg room. I had my doubts about theese things but now I think they're pretty cool! I think they'd work good to section off a room.



Here is tomorrows harvest. Bubba Kush pre '98 at day 58.

O so Caveman was computer illiterate till recently so you gotta make the pics big yourself if you want. This is Bubba Kush pre '98 t day 60. This is the most colorful strain I've grown yet(leaf wise I mean).

just wondering why you dont prune some of the fan leaves off those, some of the droopy sagging leaves?

Good question. This is the first time I've grown that strain and I guess I like to see how they grow sorta all natural to get a good idea the best way to trim and train it on the next 2. Thanks for stopping by! +rep

that is a great idea...i cant believe i have never done that. i have pruned since i have started and NEVER even stopped to think the genetics would play into that pretty heavily. i feel almost stupid thanks (cave)man. got to spread it around but +rep

Here are some pics of the Cave and what's coming up.
Carbon air scrubber, dehumidifier, Co2 generator and tower fan
Other side of the cave. Controller foreground, another carbon filter in the back


Here's the one called I call Crazy Cheese. I thought with how she grew this phenotype was a keeper but her buds have fox-tailed. They will be potent, but not fat and dense. Her sister didn't grow so wild but has more standard fatter denser buds.



Here are some mixed up shots of Great White Shark and Magic Bud




Here's a cured KiwiSkunk top. Thats all bud, not a cluster held together by a giant stem.



Thanks for stopping by!

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