LifeOnMars
Member
Hi,
I've been growing in soil up until now but I'm keen to try a hempy grow, using the classic perlite/vermiculite blend with clay pebbles in the res.
I plan to flower in 10l buckets, but my veg tent is small, so I need to start them in smaller pots. I'd like to start them in mini hempys a) to get the benefit of that growth boost early on and b) to avoid shocking them before flower by moving them from one medium to another.
However, if I start the plants in these small hempys then there will already be roots dangling out the bottom into the clay balls, when I transplant into a deeper pot I'm worried about crushing those roots and stunting the plant. I also don't want to have to wait for the roots to work there way down to the new reservoir, I just want to throw them into flower ASAP once they're in the new pots.
The 10l buckets are fairly wide and only 8inches tall, so I'm thinking I could cut some 2l bottles down to 8 inches and use these as my starter hempy pots for the newly rooted clones. I'll wait to put them up until they are well rooted enough into the perlite/vermiculite to pull the root ball out cleanly with the extra 'feeder roots' hanging out the bottom, and then I can transplant this whole mass into the 10l bucket which will be the same height just wider, so the feeder roots will instantly have access to the new reservoir but just with extra room to grow out sideways.
Any hempy pros out there? What do you think of this plan?
I've been growing in soil up until now but I'm keen to try a hempy grow, using the classic perlite/vermiculite blend with clay pebbles in the res.
I plan to flower in 10l buckets, but my veg tent is small, so I need to start them in smaller pots. I'd like to start them in mini hempys a) to get the benefit of that growth boost early on and b) to avoid shocking them before flower by moving them from one medium to another.
However, if I start the plants in these small hempys then there will already be roots dangling out the bottom into the clay balls, when I transplant into a deeper pot I'm worried about crushing those roots and stunting the plant. I also don't want to have to wait for the roots to work there way down to the new reservoir, I just want to throw them into flower ASAP once they're in the new pots.
The 10l buckets are fairly wide and only 8inches tall, so I'm thinking I could cut some 2l bottles down to 8 inches and use these as my starter hempy pots for the newly rooted clones. I'll wait to put them up until they are well rooted enough into the perlite/vermiculite to pull the root ball out cleanly with the extra 'feeder roots' hanging out the bottom, and then I can transplant this whole mass into the 10l bucket which will be the same height just wider, so the feeder roots will instantly have access to the new reservoir but just with extra room to grow out sideways.
Any hempy pros out there? What do you think of this plan?
