World Of Hempy

MrEDuck

MrEDuck

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I bury all of my seedlings to just under the cotes as well. My plants need to learn to stay short from birth because we don't have much space.
Anyone here ever used growstones? I have several friends raving about them and they look like they'd work really well for a hempy.
 
Nizza

Nizza

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before using them wash out thoroughly because when the stones rub together they make a dust that forms a paste. to prevent the rubbing around i would do coco + growstone mix (mostly growstone, just coco as a cushion)
they have big+small ones
i'd use the bigs on the bottom and mix of everything up top , and experiment first run
someone mentioned they have silicates in it but i'm unsure if they're available to the plant or not
 
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mighty g

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Hi all,I'm in my fourth week of flowering and I switched nutes last week and overdosed my babies.Older growth got dark green,stems were weak,wispy buds, etc. I flushed them yesterday and I'm not sure how to proceed.Wait to put nutes in or not?please help I'm a nervous wreck.
 
Rusty Shakelford

Rusty Shakelford

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mighty g said:
Hi all,I'm in my fourth week of flowering and I switched nutes last week and overdosed my babies.Older growth got dark green,stems were weak,wispy buds, etc. I flushed them yesterday and I'm not sure how to proceed.Wait to put nutes in or not?please help I'm a nervous wreck.
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Go back to Nutes, but keep it on the light side and work your way back up (without overdoing it).. But since they are in flower, they are still gonna need something to eat..

Hope it all works out for you!
 
MrEDuck

MrEDuck

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I'm thinking of going with straight growstones. I'll add some coco if it's needed but I'm pretty confident in the growstones alone.
mighty g said:
Hi all,I'm in my fourth week of flowering and I switched nutes last week and overdosed my babies.Older growth got dark green,stems were weak,wispy buds, etc. I flushed them yesterday and I'm not sure how to proceed.Wait to put nutes in or not?please help I'm a nervous wreck.
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You want to feed after flushing because you're taking all the plant's food away with the flush.
 
Highocaine

Highocaine

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Growstones aren't reusable, are they? I've been looking into Sure to Grow Hail and Storm as possible future mediums.
 
WattSaver

WattSaver

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jella10 uses growstones, and he thought they would recycle fairly easy.
I was planning on getting a bag to use in the rez on coco buckets
 
MrEDuck

MrEDuck

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The people who I know who're using them are all reusing them. That'd be fucking expensive to run otherwise.
 
lamopa

lamopa

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Highocaine said:
Growstones aren't reusable, are they? I've been looking into Sure to Grow Hail and Storm as possible future mediums.
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I know they're more re-usable than perlite. Just make sure they're good and rinsed and you soak them in PH-right water overnight.
 
jela10

jela10

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WattSaver said:
jella10 uses growstones, and he thought they would recycle fairly easy.
I was planning on getting a bag to use in the rez on coco buckets
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I use Grodan Mini-Cubes, a rockwool product...I think growstones are expanded clay or something else. The ones I saw in the hydo store looked like porous crunchy rocks (light green lava like rocks) My problems understanding mediums like this are that are not penetrable by the roots themselves....they may hold the right mixture of air/water but the roots must grow around them. When the bucket runs low there's a lot of air there between them to prune the roots adversely. I've even studied the "Hail" product and they brag that the grower can now water more often do to it non-wicking properties (that's not my goal at all). Some of these may be great for drip-to-waste or bubble buckets and DWC where the roots are constantly wet, but my buckets tend to work by "wicking" in the "up" direction and allowing root penetration too so they never see huge air pockets. Even hydroton clay balls in hempy is hard for me to wrap my mind around ..although it used right here on WOH with success. Really you could throw anything in a hempy bucket and get results..just have to figure out the quirks of each medium.
Are these the growstones you refer too?
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WattSaver

WattSaver

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jela10 said:
I've even studied the "Hail" product and they brag that the grower can now water more often do to it non-wicking properties (that's not my goal at all). Some of these may be great for drip-to-waste or bubble buckets and DWC where the roots are constantly wet, but my buckets tend to work by "wicking" in the "up" direction and allowing root penetration too so they never see huge air pockets.
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Couldn't have said this better...... even if I was in a creative mood.

"You can't rep jella10 ever again"
 
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