Josh's hempy adventure

[Josh]

I’ve always wanted to do this,every time I look at a mop bucket I’ve thought yeah that would be cool!.
I saw this style somewhere else an think it can be really good.first off I’d never feed calmag as it messes with ph in the medium.better to spray.also while they are small I’d only add enough water to jus past where I think the roots are so you haven’t got stagnant water at the bottom.pretty hard to guess as they grow a lot quicker than you think.the vermiculite will keep everything moist down there for a day as you say it’s daily feeding.i can’t remember exactly how it was done but that’s how I’d approach it till roots get to the bottom.they look green enough so your doing alright and you’ve flipped at the right time aswell to keep them small but ideally you want to know the roots are very near bottom first.id cut a viewing window at the hole level an put a bit of Perspex in the buckets so you can see wot the roots are up to an cover it with something g so light can’t get in an block it with algae.they look big enough that there’s roots down low an now you’ve flipped 2 weeks of veg before flower starts should see them down there easily so good luck mate il be watching this one

Hey man! Thanks for tagging along and thank you for the insight also

A couple things I've learned since starting the hempy grow, hopefully they'll help someone out who's thinking of trying

1. You know for sure once the roots hit the bottom- growth was pretty slow for a week after transplant but they really took off after that. A viewing window would be nice but unnecessary in my opinion.

2. Only hand watering a little bit until established is a great idea like erburt mentioned.
I don't think stagnant water is an issue, but the waste of unnecessary water and nutrients is.

3. Once established, you MUST water every other day. If straight perlite, multiple times a day. Really glad I mixed in the vermiculite
I'm sure container size plays a role in watering times though

4. Keep it simple! That's the whole reason for using hempy buckets
Since I've started this project I've switched to only using ionic grow at half strength and ph'ing from 6.0-6.2
That's it
Also, feed every time. No plain water
The plants look very happy so far

Another plus, no bugs!! Nowhere for the bastards to live

Until next time



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[Keeno]

I'm late to the party but not followed this method in detail so I'll pull up a chair.

[Josh]

Day 3 flower

Hey everyone!

Not really too much to report, been training quite a bit and I'll continue to do so throughout the stretch. I wanna see how short I can keep them this go around
Still under the hortilux mh, hoping that will help decrease stretch also

Started feeding half strength ionic bloom, which is 2.5 ml/L
Puts my ph right at 6.1

And sry for the shitty pictures, wasn't able to use my gf's phone

Until next time



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[ERBURT]

Look good mate should see another ft of growth I’d say at least

[Josh]

Look good mate should see another ft of growth I’d say at least

Oh for sure, ran these same strains last time and they grew about 18 inches after flip. I'm literally trying to grow soda can nugs
We'll see how that goes I guess
Thanks for stopping in man

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[Josh]

I'm late to the party but not followed this method in detail so I'll pull up a chair.

Good to have you here keeno, thanks for tagging along

So far not a bad method, just water to waste hydroponics pretty much

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[ERBURT]

Look good mate should see another ft of growth I’d say at least

Oh for sure, ran these same strains last time and they grew about 18 inches after flip. I'm literally trying to grow soda can nugs
We'll see how that goes I guess
Thanks for stopping in man

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Should be doable as there’s only a few branches if you want fat colas stick to topping for 8 branches/4th node I always had massive buds with 8 branches biggest I got was litre bottle sized ones from an auto topped.bloody massive an a ft long.only thing with it is as there so fat you risk mould as a lot of moisture inside close to the branch where they sweat.cant be helped tho.

[Josh]

Look good mate should see another ft of growth I’d say at least

Oh for sure, ran these same strains last time and they grew about 18 inches after flip. I'm literally trying to grow soda can nugs
We'll see how that goes I guess
Thanks for stopping in man

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Should be doable as there’s only a few branches if you want fat colas stick to topping for 8 branches/4th node I always had massive buds with 8 branches biggest I got was litre bottle sized ones from an auto topped.bloody massive an a ft long.only thing with it is as there so fat you risk mould as a lot of moisture inside close to the branch where they sweat.cant be helped tho.

Ah, good call. Might be better for me to stick to smaller buds then. Humidity is always an issue where I live

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[Josh]

Day 2 flower

It's actually been over a week since switching to 12/12 but I'm counting from pistils appearing this time

Decided to give them all a really good flush and then feed with half strength ionic bloom

Seems that the mh is doing a really good job of keeping the stretch down, we'll see in the next couple weeks though

Thanks for stopping in

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[Nanook]

Looking good lad and very low. Interesting as I never knew about mh.