very nice bud, i was wondering about that hempy stuff....the theads too long and i said fuck it. now it seemed to me like it was a 5 gallon bucket with a lil bit of water in the bottom with no airstone or something like that.....somebody set me straight, i'm lazy!
Hempy can be done with any size bucket. I went with 2 liters so I could squeeze them together under my light for a SOG.
And I remembered Al B once said his pots were 1.7 liters. After I cut the top off of my 2 liters to make Hempy's they at least 1.7 liters.
So I thought if it works for ebb and flow it should work for Hempy.
I consider vermiculite to be a "must have" for the substrate mix. 25% verm to 75% perlite.
The root zone above the rez stays perfectly wet with the verm, allowing the roots to propagate the entire bottle. I did one without verm as a test and the roots would mass up just above the rez water line.
Each individual hempy has its own 2 inch rez. For my small buckets I water one day and skip the next. Alternating with feeding nutes.
By the 2nd day the rez is mostly empty and the plants are drinking from the water trapped in the root zone by the Vermiculite.
It kinda makes a misty fog that is nutrient rich in the zone above the rez. The pores in between the perlite grains keep 100% humidity. So the roots like to grow happy there.
And just a few tap roots go down into that rez for heavy drinking.
