Hempy Bucket - Greenhouse Lemon Skunk

bmgx

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http://www.herbiesheadshop.com/green-house-lemon-skunk-feminised-seeds-1511

Arrived in the mail, germinating now thank god they weren't damaged by radiation checks from customs.

This is my first hempy bucket grow, I've done a two grows in organic soil with controlled lighting with only charcoal and compost for nutes, but I've decided to give this hempy bucket a try with this new seed batch. I've got it set up and when the sprouts are a bit bigger, I'll transplant them to the hempy bucket. I'll be growing under a 65watt cfl daylight at the moment (Capacity is 3 65 watts, but I'll move my way up as the plant progresses), but one thing I need to learn is the nutes I have to use. I'm not joking I have only used compost and home made charcoal for nutes before (If you can even call them that). Would anyone be willing to give me some help on what nutes I should use from someone that has used the hempy bucket method.

Brand names in australia (bunnings would be nice :D), would make it very simple. I'm no horticulturalist, but detailed ratios of plant nutrient I should get will suffice and I'll get into my own research. Thanks in advance guys :).

I'll get some pictures up as the plant progresses. But please throw me your advice no matter how small will really be helpful as this is my first hydro(?) grow, thanks guys :).
 
It would be great if a hempy pro could chime in here. Especially on feeding/nutes. There's so many half assed explained things on the net a definitive answer would be once and for all wonderful.

I'll give some examples of "half assed explained things" ala hempy.....

"You just feed your plants half strength nutes and that's it!!!!"

^ Ok, half strength, that means around 500-600ppm. So If I'm feeding my plants that regimen every other day I'm going to be frying plants as they're going to be getting approx 2,400ppm worth of nutes per week. 2,400ppm in an ebb n flow rez and you wouldn't have any plants left as they'd fry into dust.

Its always - "You feed half strength nutes every feeding." or "You feed, then water then feed." or "You feed full strength, then water, water then feed again."

Which is it? What have people found that works best with this method? For instance, if you'd normally be ebb n flowing your plants every day with a new rez at 900ppm, does this mean that for every other day 'hempy' feeding you'd be feeding at 300ppm in full flower to equal 900ppm a week?

Any thoughts appreciated.

bongsmilie
 

bmgx

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It is weird, it's supposedly a very popular method, but I just can't find any detailed enough break-downs on what I should feed and when :(. Still hoping a hempy vet will be able to provide more info :D
 
It is weird, it's supposedly a very popular method, but I just can't find any detailed enough break-downs on what I should feed and when :(. Still hoping a hempy vet will be able to provide more info :D
Yea I'm still waiting as well. There's this "Earl" guy floating around the net that's a hempy master but he never gives the exact answer to my questions above nor does any searches on google or scroogle answer those questions above afaict. We really need a hempy bucket wiki.

Ive always been an ebb n flow guy. Switched to hempy and by some dumb luck had one successful run. Now on second hempy run in week 6 and things are dismal as all hell. Just hoping everything stays alive till the end at this point. Flushed and did everything close to what I'd do in ebb n flo to fix what I believed was lockout and it's just gone to hell. I personally think I'm root bound though this time. I might give it one more try but if this happens again it's back to ebb n f for me. Because all the "I don't even check PH or EC in hempy I just dump it all in and in 8 weeks donkey dicks for days" posts really aren't helpful. Dump how much in when? What nutes are you successfully running in hempy? Feed/water? Feed, water, water? Feed light 300ppm 3 times a week????? Which? Cause on this second run things went down hill so quick it was as if I was running DWC and the power went out for 3 days.

Canna? AN? HG? What are you guys running in hempy???

From what I've personally seen IMO Hempy and AN's connoisseur AnB do not work well together! But that's just my exp.

Still waiting for the magic answers. :?
 
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