Ok. A week ago tonight seeds were ordered from the great U.K. 10 Hindu Kush beans from Gypsy Nirvana. Over the past week we have been building this grow cab pictured below in the attachments. This will be our first grow and is also our first cab setup. This cabinet has been in the back of my mind for years now and it was built according to plans.

Lights ::

Agro Max 400 HPS will be used all through veg and flower. Magnetic remote ballast on 120v. Cheesdick reflector due to space limitations but i'm not too worried considering such high light output. Pretty much 100 watts / square foot.

Exhaust ::

4" Inline Can Fan pulling air through a Can Fan carbon filter at 142 CFM. 8' dryer duct hose used with 4" clamps all around. 4" hole cut out in wall behind cab with flange attached. Air tight, smell free exhaust pumping straight into the a/c intake zone and redirected right back into our own humble abode.

Medium ::

This grow will be an all organic, soild based affair. We are lucky enough to have a local indoor grow superstore within 20 minutes drive of the house able to supply us with a full line of Fox Farm soil and nutrients. We will be using the Ocean Forest soil.

Nutes ::

During veg we will be using Fox Farm grow big as the main feeding source. After we move into flowering season it will be switched to Fox Farm Big Bloom, with maybe a one time dose of something special like the Tiger Bloom.


I think that pretty much explains what we have going on here so check back soon for an image update. Tomorrow is day 8 so we are hoping very much that the beans will have arrived by then.

I appreciate the interest and good luck in all your growing


- Bears


P.S. Comments and questions are welcomed.

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No beans again today . I realize i more than likely jumped the gun on this but I went ahead and ordered some more seeds from another supplier just so I don't end up waiting a week and never seeing this first order. And if they do still come, then I will have 5 feminized Arjans Haze #3 beans to start while the Hindu Kush is going through its flowering phase.

We are really anxious to get started on this little project seeing as how the cabinet is all ready set go to house the little beauties =)

- Bears

Alright its about time for the mailman to start making his rounds. Im heading over to the other address to check on the possible arrival of the Hindu Kush beans....wish me luck.

- Bears

Well it is about damn time. The day I finally give up and stop waiting for the beans, they show up. I took a few pictures of the beans and their packaging, they are below.

I also included a few updated pics of the cab, i believe it is all ready to go now. We ran some temp checks and found it was getting too hot so i installed another inline fan to pull another 86cfm into the cabinet of much colder air.

All sealed up, painted up, and ready to roll. I will be tossing all 10 of these seeds into peat pods tonight to get them started for the big show. Although only 4 max will be flowered, i want to try and ensure my chances of getting at least 4 females...which probably will not happen, but oh well. There is always cloning, and the next harvest.


We are super fuckin excited about this as it is our first grow and all. There will no doubt be plenty of pictures to go around. Wish us luck! As always, questions and comments are welcomed.

- Bears

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Alright we decided to wait until we had something worthy of presenting before posting again so here is a picture update. These are the 7 hindu kush seedlings at exactly 5 days...to the hour. 10 seeds were germinated, 2 aborted, 1 didn't pop the first time, and 7 are potted up and receiving 24 hours a day of 400watt hps light.

I also included a nice picture of a new piece i bought for my gf. That's some bad ass glass . Actually this was supposed to be her turn to post but studying for finals can really cut out on your gardening time. Oh well, it's almost summertime.

Enjoy the update and happy growing


- Bears

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Time for another update and I gotta be honest. Things are not looking too good for quite a few of our plants.

Temps are way too high due to the 400w hps bulb in there, but a pyrex bake a round tube is on the way. Once it arrives we will be making a cool tube out of it and retubing the ventilation system to include pulling hot air right off the bulb. This should definitely help with the temps and stale air issues.









The first set of 3 fingered leaves on this one seem to be some funky 4 fingered leaves this can't be good.



Poor little guy is lookin rough. Droopy, crunchy, and currently experiencing a halt in growth

Yep, same thing here. More crunch. I accidently spilled some of the watering water on the leaf and the light dried it out. (More sad faces here)

This here is a bag seed plant that was started maybe 4 days ago. The guy i got the herb from claimed it to be "Afghan" but you know how that goes


This is the Hindu Kush seed that didn't want to germinate the first time but has since come around.



And here we have a tasty J rolled up in a cellulose paper


So for now things are not looking too good but i know they will come around. For now we will just keep it simple, let em dry out before the next watering, and do everything we can to keep the temps down and pull in some fresh air for the little ladies.

- Bears

This morning I woke up and decided it was just way to hot in the cabinet. These little babies are stressed enough by my mistakes, the least I can do is eliminate the heat issue...and i did

It took me a few hours to re-route all of the ventilation, move the location of the fan, yadda yadda...but after all that the temps are so much lower. I know these little ladies appreciate it much.

The new addition is a 6" cool tube. Since all my previous ducting and fan is 4", i had to throw in some adapters to get everything worked out nicely. at first i was worried that changing the size of the duct back and forth would create a lot of drag and slow down the air but that is definitely not the case. Before the cool tube my hand was comfortable about 4-6" under the bulb...now i can safely touch the glass that is maybe an inch from the bulb







So temps are down to just under 80, once its flowering time I know the night time temps will be much lower...woo hoo!!

- Bears

They are really dark green, I dont remember what It means but yah.

Keep us updated sir


and dont trash the one thats a 'freak', it may turn out to be your biggest strongest female. Usually the runts turn into females from my experience.

Yeah they are going through a rough time right now, but i see them making an excellent recovery in the next 3 days. Hopefully after that we will see some new growth and progress.




The updates will definitely keep coming, thanks for checking out our grow!!

And as for the "Freak", any plant is welcome to stay as long as i've got room, and i don't know for a fact its a male. =)

- Bears

Very cool, im finishing up my hindu kush grow right now, i will be watching this grow

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Everything i have posted here is false Pre 98 Bubba Kush Grow 400w HPS