World Of Hempy

Txchilies

Txchilies

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jela10 said:
Did your hydro have coco coir?....it's a great medium in hempy buckets (especially for new growers) and will most likely change your mind about ever using perlite unless the extra cost is a factor.....we have seen the gravel medium brought up by someone trying to "wick" moisture into it with cloth but they were not having much luck and water doesn't travel upward in gravel via wicking itself.. Maybe if they still hang here they can chime in. Gravel would be better in constant recirculating top-down trickle-feed hydro method (bubble-ponics). It might make a nice medium for the reservoir of a hempy...but you would have to get a feel for when its time to water...bucket would be heavy, even when dry.
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Jela, have been meaning to ask you, with your coco do you mix in any chunks or perlite or is it straight coir?
 
jela10

jela10

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amsterdam2015 said:
praying for enough to get me and my girlfriend through to the next harvest.

I know there is no way to tell, etc, and it is foolish to guesstimate, but please, can anyone let me know if they have any idea if the plants above will hit combined 4oz?

im growing under 600w HPS, its nearly 1ms, 4 plants, pretty much fills the tent, lots of colas, lights are close, temps etc all in range apart from cold at night.

will I get 4oz??

costs a stupid amount each week to smoke where I live.
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Nice frost! Kinda looks like buckets of perlite...can't tell the size...and 1ms might mean 1meter square for grow space (3'x3')??? 600W should kick bootie. 1 oz per plant is undershooting IMO if these are buckets larger than the 2L bottles that our SOG champions use here. At 38 days (middle of week 6) , it's a little late for bud volume bumps with bud-builders but you should be at the max of your nute levels seen thorough the whole grow....and tapering down week 7..to the flush week 8. You still have some bud swelling to do in the final weeks where it really happens the most so set your floor at 2oz per and be surprised with anything larger. Now that your with us on WOH, we can help you bump that number up even larger. I love monster colas.
 
jela10

jela10

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Txchilies said:

Jela, have been meaning to ask you, with your coco do you mix in any chunks or perlite or is it straight coir?
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No perlite in my coco...I used to use perlite in the res though with straight coir up top for over a year with great success, but after my honking 4.5oz/per yields with mapito in the 2g buckets (rockwool cubes and couch foam), I'm now running rockwool grow chunks mixed with coco coir, with straight rockwool mini cubes in the res. Looks like another winning recipe based on my current grow @ 3weeks flower. I'll be in the 4oz/per region again, I'm positive.
Grodan "Grow Chunks" on the left, mini-cubes on the right.
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texastiger707

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jela10 said:
No perlite in my coco...I used to use perlite in the res though with straight coir up top for over a year with great success, but after my honking 4.5oz/per yields with mapito in the 2g buckets (rockwool cubes and couch foam), I'm now running rockwool grow chunks mixed with coco coir, with straight rockwool mini cubes in the res. Looks like another winning recipe based on my current grow @ 3weeks flower. I'll be in the 4oz/per region again, I'm positive.
Grodan "Grow Chunks" on the left, mini-cubes on the right.
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wow thats so cool. I new so I have to ask. Do you buy the rockwool cubes cut them up or do you buy them as mini cubes?
 
Moebius

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texastiger707 said:
wow thats so cool. I new so I have to ask. Do you buy the rockwool cubes cut them up or do you buy them as mini cubes?
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Grodan 1cm mini cubes are available at some stores.

Chopping up RW cubes also works great and is basically what the mapito I buy is...... + about 20% Coir chunks.
 
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Feroce

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I've been growing with straight coco over hydroton for a couple of years now...got a little tired of dealing with the sludge from the hydroton and switched to coarse growstones for the resevoir. Seems to be working quite well so far. The growstones are also avaiable in a fine size, about like pea gravel. I'm considering buying a bag and doing a test run of a 50/50 by volume chow mix with coco, just because.

Would make life easier recycling the chow mix, just bust it up and rake out most of the roots, rinse with boiling water and it's ready to use again...

My current coco/hempy garden...
 

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WattSaver

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Feroce said:
I've been growing with straight coco over hydroton for a couple of years now...got a little tired of dealing with the sludge from the hydroton and switched to coarse growstones for the resevoir. Seems to be working quite well so far. The growstones are also avaiable in a fine size, about like pea gravel. I'm considering buying a bag and doing a test run of a 50/50 by volume chow mix with coco, just because.

Would make life easier recycling the chow mix, just bust it up and rake out most of the roots, rinse with boiling water and it's ready to use again...

My current coco/hempy garden...
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Nice grow Feroce!!!! not a true hempy but conceptually the same mechanics. I REALLY like seeing the lanky sativa in the back of the tent.

Edit: Upfront the plant with handles on the pot, is that a smart pot or a plastic pot?
 
WattSaver

WattSaver

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texastiger707 said:
I have never used coco coir. I do have some though, I got a brick of it but never have used it.
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If you have some coir and can't get any perlite. Use the aquarium rocks or any really clean gravel in the rez (fill to just above the hole) and use coir from there on up. It's not the best rez medium but will work in a pinch. Be sure to have some cal/mag before you start with the coco.
 
jela10

jela10

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Dr.J20 said:
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
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On the subject of root rot...
I’ve been meaning to respond to this, just had no time to elaborate with my job eating at my bandwidth. Hempy buckets are very forgiving WRT root rot. Peeps claim it just doesn’t happen with the proper hole distance from the bottom of the vessel with our watering frequency. Plants drink at a rate that keeps the reservoir replenished with fresh water/air at feeding time. With some run-off during feeds it stays amply flushed with fresh water too. Recently in my experimentation with different mediums, my run-off isn’t adequate for my comfort with dedicated mixing containers. Still my plants keep reaching for the sky, upwards and outwards. I do use beneficial microbes as a layer of prevention for root rot. When I setup a bucket, the first thing I toss in is a pinch of “Piranha” from Advanced nutrients. “Beneficial’s” colonize like bread yeast, and any new microbes or pathogens in the res get destroyed to protect the colony. They also invigorate root production and have this "symbiotic" relationship with them. As well, there are other enzymes like Cannazyme and Hygrozyme that will take deciduous matter, like broken roots and dropped leaves and dissolve them into usable food just for the root system, instead of allowing them to rot into something more pervasive. Both are used my hempy regimen as I might be more susceptible with larger buckets. No problems so far…fingers crossed.
 
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Feroce

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WattSaver said:
Nice grow Feroce!!!! not a true hempy but conceptually the same mechanics. I REALLY like seeing the lanky sativa in the back of the tent.

Edit: Upfront the plant with handles on the pot, is that a smart pot or a plastic pot?
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That's Sannie's Sugar Punch, that is. Going to be in my garden for a long, long time. Those clones were flipped as soon as I saw new growth, and they are three weeks into flower now. This is the SSH pheno, I've also had a The One pheno that smelled like caramel. I just harvested one SP clone last night, and the odor is driving me mad...

The pots are some el-cheapo plastic wastepaper baskets I got at a local discount store, they are about the right size for clones and at a buck each I bought 20...gotta be careful drilling the hole in the side, as they are pretty flimsy. Handled gently they'll last me a few cycles, so good value for the money.
 
Shaggn

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CL1/T n /V are trimmed and hanging. For those that may not be subb'd to my journal. I have done some updates. If in doubt, try Hempy growing for a change, you won't regret it!!!


 
Nizza

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hey buddies; just curious as to if people reclaim their used coco and how? I know hydroton can be reused but i wasn't sure about coco cause of the dead roots not being able to be cleaned out all the way, maybe some sort of way to mix with soil and cook and re use?
 
whocares100

whocares100

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Not doing so well today guys, He is unconcious and probally will not make it thru the night, I could not make the oil to save him...
 
jela10

jela10

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Sorry to hear who-kie....thoughts and prayers to you and yours...stay strong and keep carrying the light we see you shine.
 
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