World Of Hempy

sky rocket

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Thanks man. .. I was expecting 14g per 2L so to get 22.4g is ...... AWESOME !!!!! ... I'm irish dancing I'm so friggin happy. :mrgreen:

so that was the first 5 dryed and cured. .. I have many more to come that have been in a proper SOG. ... The next lot actually look bigger but I can't tell for sure if the buds will weigh as much since they have been grown much closer together.

Moe what did you go straight to 12/12 or did you veg some from rooted clone?
 

Shaggn

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I have been known to go from RW cube to 2L. ... IMO its a waste of time using the solo cups. .. .. for a 2L its probably best to transplant direct and bloom once the roots hit the res. :peace:
I like to use the cups first to get a nice root system started, then when they are transplanted to the 2L they are almost ready to go into bloom (Approx 5 days). Plus the cup/s don't take as much room, if your veg area is small. Either way most of the root system ends up in the bottom anyways. Peace!
 

Moebius

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I like to use the cups first to get a nice root system started, then when they are transplanted to the 2L they are almost ready to go into bloom (Approx 5 days). Plus the cup/s don't take as much room, if your veg area is small. Either way most of the root system ends up in the bottom anyways. Peace!
I stand corrected .. tbh. I really do feel its a preference thing, I expect most peeps will try both methods.
 

Moebius

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Moe what did you go straight to 12/12 or did you veg some from rooted clone?
Always straight to 12/12.

I have been letting them grow on a bit in the Aero though. ... Never any nutes but by allowing the roots to grow longer you essentially get fully formed plants ready to bloom immediately.
 

HydroGp

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I went 12/12 two days ago. Because of the scrog being ready and i didnt wanna transplant and wait even longer. I know its not the perfect scenario but i get to try and see different results.
Pure Kush day 80. scrog.
Lemon Skunk day 51. topped 5 liter. Beautiful plant perfect canopy!
Critical Kush day 51. topped 5 liter. Strange looking seems stunted somehow.
Godberry day 20 2 liter.
Blueberry Headband day 20 2liter.
wwxBB day 20 2liter.
Ill post some pics later. Have a nice day
 

Shivaskunk

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Damn moe 4 ounces off of 5 just rooted straight to 12/12 girls. Well done and damn do you think you had a flawless run or is there room for improvement up to a zip a plant? Im guessing that my Skunk plants (i have more of them than any other strain) are only going to be about 40 to 50 grams each based off of t he one i cut down last weekend weighing in at 37 grams (tops) an about 7 grams off the bottom of plant...and i vegged for a solid 2 weeks. Your set up is probably better than mine but still 20+ grams off em makes me think maybe i should grab a pack of kens gdp at my local club


Hi Guy's.

Just a quick drop-in to say that everything with my grow is just doing great. Even that Royal Cheese went like hot-cakes. I'm just finishing off some 'home improvements' so it's difficult for me to get online. just thought I would update on this GDP.

Took a pic before this went out the door. Its 3 and 3/4OZ. I actually pulled just over 4OZ from the 5 x 2L but smoked the Q last week. .. .. so about 22.4g per 2L. .....I'm super stoked with it. :mrgreen:

 

Shaggn

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Always straight to 12/12. I have been letting them grow on a bit in the Aero though. ... Never any nutes but by allowing the roots to grow longer you essentially get fully formed plants ready to bloom immediately.
What I forgot to mention when talking about clones -> cups or straight to 2Ls is I don't have a cloner built yet. If I did, I would be doing the exact same thing as you Moe. Let the roots grow long and the transplant into 2L from there. :)
 

Moebius

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Damn moe 4 ounces off of 5 just rooted straight to 12/12 girls. Well done and damn do you think you had a flawless run or is there room for improvement up to a zip a plant? Im guessing that my Skunk plants (i have more of them than any other strain) are only going to be about 40 to 50 grams each based off of t he one i cut down last weekend weighing in at 37 grams (tops) an about 7 grams off the bottom of plant...and i vegged for a solid 2 weeks. Your set up is probably better than mine but still 20+ grams off em makes me think maybe i should grab a pack of kens gdp at my local club
It was'nt the 'perfect' run. I have found the nutrient 'sweetspot' with this GDP. I'm not sure if its my skill or the GDP genetics, I suspect its the later. Its very very dense bud so it weighs more than most.

On that run I missed a couple of 'light' days due to me installing the new reflector and plugging everything in wrong. On this run Ive missed a day or two for similar reasons. After several runs in this grow-room I'm still not fully 'set-up' because I'm redecorating my home and everything is 'topsy turvy' which makes it a little tricky caring for so many Hempys in a tight space. .. That said, I do suspect the next batches will yield more and I see no reason why a 2L GDP could not come in at 1OZ even in a SOG.

My setup is far from ideal. I do my best with ventilation but I don't have direct air from outside. ... I'm limited on headspace so plants cant grow too high, also I have fixed reflectors that only stay in one place.

One last point before I pack my computer away for a few days; In an aero cloner a 'good' cutting can grow to a significant size on just water. I'm finding that if I hold off transplanting the clones for an extra week, they can almost double in height and produce roots of 2.5 - 3ft long. I don't do this as practice but if I have no space in the bloom room they have to wait in the cloner.

peace y'all :peace:

edit;
On reflection I can't see myself beating this 5 plant run with over 100. If I can maintain that average I would be ecstatic but it'll be very tough and I doubt it.
 

WattSaver

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Well it doesn't matter how many grows you have under your belt a person can still end up with the most basic noob problem. I've got a severe over watering prob in the veg box. They look so sad and they are not drying out. I keep the box open with an aux circ fan blowing into the box whenever light conditions allow, but there are still 9 hrs a day where it's closed up. I noticed that my exhaust fan in the box isn't moving air like it used to. I'll try and find a replacement this weekend, this one's been running constantly for almost 3 yrs now.
 

Dr.J20

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Hey Hempyneers,
been a while!
So here's what's happened in the last little bit: 3/5 turned out to be males :( possible that some pH or nute def. stress plus some inhospitable temperatures are to blame, or they were just dudes. either way, got PK1 and NorthernBerry going strong. They're super thirsty in the pics because they had just been watered and are starting to really drink quickly now that we're in full swing flowering. Tubes have been changed out so we're in a 3:1 "red" to "blue" light ratio. Cal-Mag has been added to the line-up to combat cal. deficiency (thanks for pointing it out Watt!, you were totally right and if my ass weren't so broke i woulda bought the cal-mag earlier!)
Other than that, we're chuggin along!
Be easy :joint: :peace: :leaf: :peace: :joint:
Dr.J
:leaf:

Pics:
IMG_1587 (1).jpg<<PK1...NB>>IMG_1586 (1).jpgTop of PK1>>IMG_1588 (1).jpgTop of NB>>IMG_1589 (1).jpg
 

Indoor Sun King

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I can confirm that bottle "D" and the soil capped bucket "F" are male...which skews my comparison of soil capping vs non

WattSaver....do you think it would be worth while to soil cap my non-capped hempy's this late in the game?
 

Dr.J20

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Hi, I have transferred four one month old critical kush from dwc to 13 litre hempy buckets, prob 10 litre each 2-1 perl/verm mix, hole is pencil size 2inch from bottom, feeding with rainwater and dm gold a/b at 6.2ph. The reason I changed is that I'm terrified of root rot and I lost some last time in dwc. My question is how to avoid root rot in hempy besides overwatering. I have a feeling the heavy verm mix wont help things, and can I add DM Zone to the nute mix, will that help? any other ideas/comments appreciated. Thanks
not sure if anyone has gotten back to you but if you're really paranoid about rootrot, watering with a light h2o2 solution tends to protect against it. Now, I'm no expert on rootrot, so you'd need to find the right ratios, and this is generally a fix recommended when rootrot has already been identified, not sure about it's use as a preventative measure. Other than not-overwatering, though, rootrot shouldn't be an issue in inert media that drains well and is properly aerated.
be easy,
Dr.J
 

Dr.J20

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I can confirm that bottle "D" and the soil capped bucket "F" are male...which skews my comparison of soil capping vs non

WattSaver....do you think it would be worth while to soil cap my non-capped hempy's this late in the game?
i'm interested in this answer too, watt...what say ye?
be easy
:bigjoint:
 

Dr.J20

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Ok, for all you people out there using tap water. If your community supplier uses chloramines for disinfecting the water a quick and easy way to disapate that type of chlorine, fill a 5 gallon bucket add 1, 500 mg tablet of vitamine C and let it sit for 24 hours. The majic to this is the ascorbic acid in the tablet will help break down the ammonia/chlorine bond and allow chlorine to disapate more easyly, you can add air to this which will further speed up the off gassing of the chlorine. By the way this does add to the amount of free ammonia in the water so inturn it is a bennifit, you get a little nitrogen.

other quick fix is 5mL of liquid humic acid, bubbled for 2 hours! but vit. c also works! (humic gives the slightest P boost, instead of the slightest N boost)
be easy!
 

Dr.J20

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I put multiple smaller holes spaced evenly around my 2Ls, rather than just one large hole. Not sure if it makes a difference but my general thought was to draw fresh air into the whole root zone and not just to one side. I will have to try a couple with just the single hole to find out. Unless ofcourse someone has already run an experiment. Peace!!
I could see this going either way: it's been a while since I studied fluid dynamics but I'm pretty sure what draws the air through is the water moving down and through the medium, then out the hole...if you water across the top of the medium evenly, and the medium drains properly, it should draw air down through all the little crevices equally, as the water drains. whether the water drains from multiple locations or not, I'm just not sure whether that actually more evenly distributes the air, or just distributes the rate of flow more evenly (thereby reducing the force with which the air is pulled, via the diffusion through many holes, rather than all seeking to exit through the one hole)....not sure, just musing, and i'm sure it works well both ways....the air table idea nizz had i'd love to see, sounds pretty sweet even if it dries the medium a little quicker.

on this same line of thinking, has anyone tried hempy with an airpot? i mean, it would probably be a shame to drill an extra hole in one of those deals, and i'm sure you'd need to use the superchunky perlite, but if the multiple drain holes diffuses the air more evenly and gets a better air intake in the medium, think of what an airpot would provide!
be easy,
 

Nizza

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ive decided im using 3l bottles with my center hole idea. the medium in the 3l will be a mix of rockwool and growstone/perlite mix. but this will be potted into from dixie hempy's with a denser , less airy medium than rockwool. this will make air go around the center instead of the air creating a channel through the middle of the bottle.
 

WattSaver

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I can confirm that bottle "D" and the soil capped bucket "F" are male...which skews my comparison of soil capping vs non

WattSaver....do you think it would be worth while to soil cap my non-capped hempy's this late in the game?
Bummer on the males, but that's the roll of the dice.

I don't see where it would do any harm to put a 1/2" of soil on top of the perlite, and I can't say that it would make a huge improvement, it's something I've never done before. It will stop the light and keep the perlite from floating while watering and that's not a bad thing.
 

Indoor Sun King

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Bummer on the males, but that's the roll of the dice.

I don't see where it would do any harm to put a 1/2" of soil on top of the perlite, and I can't say that it would make a huge improvement, it's something I've never done before. It will stop the light and keep the perlite from floating while watering and that's not a bad thing.
Thanks WattSaver.....I think I'll give it a whirl and cap the bucket...cheers
 

Txchilies

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I can confirm that bottle "D" and the soil capped bucket "F" are male...which skews my comparison of soil capping vs non

WattSaver....do you think it would be worth while to soil cap my non-capped hempy's this late in the game?
2 out of 6 is not bad, what strain are they?
 
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