Main-Lining the Hempy Sea

November 12, Day 58 of 12/12

Hey there gerogyboy, the girls look really nice. Another wk...wk and 1/2 to go I'm guessing. Tell me please is that Mr. It lookin' girl a papaya?

Also which medium did you like more, the coco or the perlite?

I just changed to coco this run, and lets just say it isn't working out.

thanks for stopping by watt. Haha yeah that big bushy thing that is way behind the others in flowering is the papaya I have in coco. It's a beast in comparison to everything else, the main stem is as thick as my thumb and the rest are somewhere between my pinkie and ring finger. The PPP will be ready very soon, I will probably start to flush them on the next watering. The bag seeds will go a little bit longer, and the Papaya are way behind.

I personally think that the coco has really outperformed the perlite/verm mix. With the PPP, the plant in the coco has much larger and more abundant foliage, and the nugs look to be a bit fatter than the other two PPP. With the Papaya, the plant in coco has outgrown everything else, including the other papaya. My other coco plant was a bag seed that turned out to be a male, but again it was larger, greener, and perkier than the other plants from the same mids. The last thing to note about the difference between the plants in the coco and the plants in the perlite/verm mix is that as I got late in flowering most my plants started showing necrosis on large leaves, turning yellow, and dropping leaves. I know that this is mostly natural at this point in the grow, but the 2 coco plants have had less yellowing, no necrosis, and have retained most of their large fan leaves. When comparing the results of the coco and the perlite/verm mix in this grow I know I have to take into account that each plant is a different phenotype and the difference in them could be purely genetic, but I find it unlikely that by chance the best pheno of each strain ended up in the coco. Next grow I am going to start one PPP and take four clones. 2 will be put under cfls and I will be comparing a perlite/verm hempy to a coco hempy, and the other 2 will grow under the 250 in 5 gallon smart pots, comparing coco perlite mix and dyna gro to supersoil. I love side by sides and science experiments so the next one should be a good time.

WattSaver said:

I just changed to coco this run, and lets just say it isn't working out.

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What kind of problems have you been having with the coco? Do you have perlite in the rez?

Very interesting fuking thread liked

georgyboy said:

What kind of problems have you been having with the coco? Do you have perlite in the rez?

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Yea, I filled with chunky perlite to above the hole.

The coco you use, is it the loose bagged material or brick?

I bought brick coco coir and expanded it in straight tap water. I forgot to ph like is suggested so I just flooded it extra heavy the first few feedings. It seems to be made entirely of short thin strands of coconut husk fibers. There isn't much dust and absolutely no big chuncks of anything. I noticed that the coco hempys hold much more water than the perlite,verm mix yet dry out at the same rate. To make sure I get the coco completely saturated, I plug the hole in my hempy and I add water until it floods to the top. I keep the hole plugged and watch as the water is absorbed back into the coco. I repeat this without unplugging the hole on the hempy until the flood water does not recede into the pot, signifying that the pot is completely saturated. Then I unplug the hole and let all that excess drain out. It seems wasteful but this way I know there aren't any dry pockets in the coco and I imagine it may help reduce salt build-up also.

Loving this grow, just come here from world of Hempy and I'm subbed.

How long did they veg before you put them into flower?

georgyboy said:

I bought brick coco coir and expanded it in straight tap water. I forgot to ph like is suggested so I just flooded it extra heavy the first few feedings. It seems to be made entirely of short thin strands of coconut husk fibers. There isn't much dust and absolutely no big chuncks of anything. I noticed that the coco hempys hold much more water than the perlite,verm mix yet dry out at the same rate. To make sure I get the coco completely saturated, I plug the hole in my hempy and I add water until it floods to the top. I keep the hole plugged and watch as the water is absorbed back into the coco. I repeat this without unplugging the hole on the hempy until the flood water does not recede into the pot, signifying that the pot is completely saturated. Then I unplug the hole and let all that excess drain out. It seems wasteful but this way I know there aren't any dry pockets in the coco and I imagine it may help reduce salt build-up also.

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Ive got a couple of CoCo bricks left over from when I mixed my own soils. .. Its cool the way it breaks up and expands with water. I'm use them in a Hempy, everyone who trys, seems to love the CoCo Hempy.

Nice work Georgyboy, very inspirational.

Travis9226 said:

Loving this grow, just come here from world of Hempy and I'm subbed.

How long did they veg before you put them into flower?

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I planted my seeds on august 12th in jiffy pellets. I had my first sprouts by the 15th. I flipped the lights on September 16th. So about 35 days I guess.

Moebius said:

Ive got a couple of CoCo bricks left over from when I mixed my own soils. .. Its cool the way it breaks up and expands with water. I'm use them in a Hempy, everyone who trys, seems to love the CoCo Hempy.

Nice work Georgyboy, very inspirational.

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Thanks man, If I can get a working camera around here I will post some final pics. A few plants are already hanging up to dry, the rest are on their final days. Well except for the Papaya, they will have a couple of extra weeks for sure. I find this interesting because on their website Nirvana refers to this strain as a fast finishing greasy narcotic indica.

But yes the coco seems to completely out perform the perlite medium, I am doing a side by side comparison from clones on my next grow. I already have the mother sprouted and growing in a couple of stacked styrofoam coolers with pc fans and cfls. It is another feminized PPP from nirvana, This plant really impressed me on this grow and I am excited to see what it can do in a larger container with longer veg. I will be doing this hempy side by side in 10qt containers under cfls, and I will be doing a coco and dyna gro vs supersoil in 5 gallon smart pots under my 250 hps.

Smoke report / yield report?