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lilmafia513

lilmafia513

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rollanotherbowl said:
Well, just from 1-2 weeks in perlite I've started seeing the big time advantages of it over soil... the roots are MUCH healthier... I'm talking tons of thick, bright white roots compared to the thin, scraggly, discolored roots in soil.... the extra oxygen from the perlite + the hydro nutes does wonders for the root system. I actually took the plants I had in 5 gallon buckets and transplanted them into mini 2 liter hempy bucket bottles for a while.... making it easier to water/using less nutes/allowing the roots to hit the reservoir faster..... going to leave them like this for a while until the root systems and plants are bigger and then will probably put them back into the 5 gallon buckets eventually. I removed some of the plants I have as many have started showing preflowers... got rid of the males.... right now I have 11 plants in 2 liter hempys and 3 of them are confirmed females, and I think atleast most of the other 7 will probably be female as well... Also, I've been thinking about it, and I think clones would root really well in 2 liter bottles (or 32 oz cups like the guy up above a few posts) filled with perlite hempy style..... The cuttings would get tons of oxygen and if you kept it moist I think it'd work really well. I think I'm going to try it when the plants are bigger and ready to take some cuttings. Have any of you tried rooting clones in mini hempys like this?
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Yup, the only thing I watered it by spraying the top layer with a bottle sprayer everyday, for the first few days to keep it moist, by the cut tip. Pack it pretty tight when ya first put it in to give the same support as a RW cube.
It takes longer to root also, from the three i did.
In my opinion the RW works the best, if you plan to move them to hempy buckets. Makes it even less work for an easy grow.
 
Xare

Xare

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Usually I do outdoor organics, but after reading this thread through iam gonna try Hempy :weed:


Ive always wanted to try Hydro but the extra electricity seems like such a hassle. With all the extra pumps I would have to run a new line.

I have my 400 watt HPS some flouros and a Fan in the one plug I have. Its a Light Socket Conversion plug and on it there is a 660 watt max.

Usually I use this light to start my mothers and seedlings, stuff for my real garden and sometimes to flower a male for Pollen.


Ive never taken clones before, but iam gonna learn how this season with the mother plants I have. And the clones I get will go right into hempy buckets.

Ill give them a short veg time, long enough to make sure the roots are strong then iam gonna flip the clones to flower. About 25 of them all in 2 liter hempy's.

I have hard water so I got the Hard Water GH Micro and GH Bloom for running lucas formula.
 
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can anyone provide a feeding chart or schedule that they kept? Also, I am growing with a 600 watt HPS ballast and reflector. When I bought it, I did so because it said "switchable". Now i'm finding out they don't make 600 watt MH bulbs. I can buy a conversion, which I think I will do, but I wanted to know if anyone thinks I could get away without it...or could recommend a good one. I'm using 5 gal buckets. One other question...what kind of water should I use? Distilled? RO? Tap? I figure i'm growing hydroponically technically, so I better regulate every variable. I would like (for the ease of it) to be able to use my tap water, but I also am totally willing to do whatever is best for my harvest. I don't even really understand the diff between distilled and RO water.
 
maryjane2029

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what kind of nutes are you using? For GH nutes use http://www.gardenscure.com/420/hydroponic-grow-journals/126863-100-plant-perpetual-sog-hempy-grow-4.html#post1245905 and for other nutes, just look on their websites, i think the bottle ratios are about as easy as nutes come

I use tap, with a little ph down, i grow in hempy buckets tho, but I also grew in DWC and that worked fine (except for rez temps being too high OF COURSE)

You could just use the HPS bulb? I dont think there is a whole lot of benefit to using the MH, especially if you have to get an expensive conversion bulb, the hps will do you just fine

Peace/Love/Joy
 
lilmafia513

lilmafia513

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maryjane2029 said:
what kind of nutes are you using? For GH nutes use http://www.gardenscure.com/420/hydroponic-grow-journals/126863-100-plant-perpetual-sog-hempy-grow-4.html#post1245905 and for other nutes, just look on their websites, i think the bottle ratios are about as easy as nutes come

I use tap, with a little ph down, i grow in hempy buckets tho, but I also grew in DWC and that worked fine (except for rez temps being too high OF COURSE)

You could just use the HPS bulb? I dont think there is a whole lot of benefit to using the MH, especially if you have to get an expensive conversion bulb, the hps will do you just fine

Peace/Love/Joy
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IMO MH gives more trich. production, and gives a little something to the taste!
But the HPS will work fine for the whole grow, I actually vegg mine in HPS&CFL's, then flower with two 400 MH. just my thoughts.....:peace:
 
Xare

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I got my perlite today and setup a test 2 liter hempy with an extra seedling I had in dirt.

If you put a hole 2 inches up from the bottom of a 2 liter it makes a 3/4 cup rez with perlite taking up some of the volume.

That works out to about 21 Hempy 2 liters per gallon of nutes.
 
bicycle racer

bicycle racer

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at first i was displeased with my hempy grows but now in flower outdoor im happy so easy to flush and maintain ph. good growth and yield also i like soil but i think this may be the best alternative to either soil or a complicated hydro set-up. you get soil density and much area for proper aerobic and anaroebic bacterial growth but you have the drainage and aeration levels of hydro. plus you can use soil or hydro specific nutes without issues. i was concerned with root rot with the stagnant resevoir but once plants are big enough its not an issue they use it up too fast.
 
Xare

Xare

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My test Hempy seedling seems to be doing fine so far.

I used a piece of burlap instead of screen to cover the hole, it also seems to be working ok.

I noticed when I put alot of water in it the perlite wanted to float. I think i need to make the hole a bit bigger so more water can rush out.

Gonna make up 20 or so of them soon and take clones.
 
bicycle racer

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for my drain hole i use a red hot hot butter knife to burn through my buckets i make two cuts to form an x shape water flows out fine but perlite and vermiculite are too big it works well.
 
lilmafia513

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good to know, a drill works faster for me though..lol!:hump:

but would probly help to heat my exacto blade to punch through the plastic cups the same way!:joint:
 
bc.trip

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jtreezy420 said:
PERLITE Q???

any tips on pre-rinsing the perlite before
i put my babies into their new 5gal HEMPY buckets?
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it's always good to preflush perlite. gets a lot of the dust out of it. tap water is fine, you can adjust the ph down but i don't think it's necessary(i use 7.0ph tap water for preflush and it doesn't hurt anything).
 
lilmafia513

lilmafia513

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always just mixed it, filled the cup, planted the clone, and watered. All the dust will run to the bottom and eventually be pushed out the hole.
 
Thundercat

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OK so I made it about 6 pages into the thread before I had ideas I wanted feed back on. I've thought about doing a hempy grow before, after I followed Dagamblers journal. Now reading this I'm seriously thinking about it. I have a couple thoughts. First I am currently growing in soil, but I have alot of perlite in it, and I also used Natmoons Air sponge idea on several of my plants. Using the air pump, and sponge in the bottom of the grow bags has made a noticable differerance in the plants that have it vs the ones that don't. The buds are much fuller, and there is alot more of them, the plants love all the extra O2 they are getting to the roots. This being said, what do you guys think of putting an air sponge in the bottom of the hempy bucket. When you watered, it would pump O2 into the nutes, and airate them, then when the water was gone, it would pump O2 right into the roots.

So I'm considering making my next grow hempy. I'd like to set up a perpetual ebb and flow, but I don't know if I'm gonna have the money this time around. So I'm thinking hempy! It can be set up very cheap, which I like, and seems to produce great results! What do you guys think of like 16 3 gallon buckets, each with 3 6-8 inch clones, all under a 1000wHPS? I figured 16 buckets would be about a 4.5 x 4.5ft area, which should fit under the 1000w pretty well. I'm gonna try to have the clones vegged to that size before I move, then put them right under the lights when I get there. Give them a week, maybe 2 to veg, then flower them bitchs out! Maybe even put sponges into half of them, and see what kinda of differance it makes. Any way, just brainstorming, let me know what you guys think. Peace TC
 
bicycle racer

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im sure added aeration would help and it certainly would not hurt but it in a way defeats the purpose of hempy grows. hempy is great because of its simplicity and ease of use. as an example mine are outdoor most hydro systems would encounter problems outdoors.
 
shnkrmn

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lilmafia513 said:
always just mixed it, filled the cup, planted the clone, and watered. All the dust will run to the bottom and eventually be pushed out the hole.
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LOL. I never rinse and always feel guilty about it. Doesn't have any effect as far as I can tell one way or the other. The dust is just perlite after all. . . .:shock:
 
shnkrmn

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Natmoon's a pretty genius guy, but I would hate to plug in my buckets. The whole setup's main strength is that it supplies super amounts of oxygen to your roots by its very nature, especially if you use good quality large size perlite. IMO I think you should try it straight first and see for yourself before you start wasting (a few) watts. Try it, you'll like it!

Thundercat said:
OK so I made it about 6 pages into the thread before I had ideas I wanted feed back on. I've thought about doing a hempy grow before, after I followed Dagamblers journal. Now reading this I'm seriously thinking about it. I have a couple thoughts. First I am currently growing in soil, but I have alot of perlite in it, and I also used Natmoons Air sponge idea on several of my plants. Using the air pump, and sponge in the bottom of the grow bags has made a noticable differerance in the plants that have it vs the ones that don't. The buds are much fuller, and there is alot more of them, the plants love all the extra O2 they are getting to the roots. This being said, what do you guys think of putting an air sponge in the bottom of the hempy bucket. When you watered, it would pump O2 into the nutes, and airate them, then when the water was gone, it would pump O2 right into the roots.

So I'm considering making my next grow hempy. I'd like to set up a perpetual ebb and flow, but I don't know if I'm gonna have the money this time around. So I'm thinking hempy! It can be set up very cheap, which I like, and seems to produce great results! What do you guys think of like 16 3 gallon buckets, each with 3 6-8 inch clones, all under a 1000wHPS? I figured 16 buckets would be about a 4.5 x 4.5ft area, which should fit under the 1000w pretty well. I'm gonna try to have the clones vegged to that size before I move, then put them right under the lights when I get there. Give them a week, maybe 2 to veg, then flower them bitchs out! Maybe even put sponges into half of them, and see what kinda of differance it makes. Any way, just brainstorming, let me know what you guys think. Peace TC
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