An Idiot's Guide to Hempy

So I'm sure I'm just a bit stoned or would have probably seen it in the instructions, but is this a Hydro set up when measuring nutes ? oh and great set up.. Gotta try this.. perfect for my under the bench grow chamber

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SimplySmokin said:

So I'm sure I'm just a bit stoned or would have probably seen it in the instructions, but is this a Hydro set up when measuring nutes ? oh and great set up.. Gotta try this.. perfect for my under the bench grow chamber

Some of them + reps to ya if I have any left on account

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It's called passive hydroponics, because it is hand watered... and it is a really awesome set up indeed!!!

SimplySmokin said:

So I'm sure I'm just a bit stoned or would have probably seen it in the instructions, but is this a Hydro set up when measuring nutes ? oh and great set up.. Gotta try this.. perfect for my under the bench grow chamber

Some of them + reps to ya if I have any left on account

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I won't be able to convince many people of this, we are on different wave lengths, but hydro doesn't mean growing in water it means delivering the food by means of water. If you are feeding life in soil with teas and organics the life in the soil feeds the plants, hydro is feeding directly to plants by mixing mineral salts with water. So it really doesn't matter if you're in soil if you're feeding you plants with mineral salts, it's still hydro.

But yeah, you can get the same yields in hempy that you can get in aero and I think that's what you want to know.

good tread japan will the roots not work there way out of the drainage holes tho? if so is it not bad for em to be exposed to light.

this is the simplest hempy thread ive seen and am definatly gonna give it a grow cause im sick of soil n wana try sumfing new this yr.

They don't grow out. At least never for me. On a very good grow your roots will come out in a perfect formed shape of whatever you are growing in, mine comes out in a box.

thanks jfreak...

This should be a sticky

Japanfreak said:

They don't grow out. At least never for me. On a very good grow your roots will come out in a perfect formed shape of whatever you are growing in, mine comes out in a box.

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What a lot of people will do is buy some screen material from a hardware store and install it inside the bucket where you cut the hole. I've never had an issue with roots getting out either but this solves the problem of potential perlite spilling out as well.

I use a fiberglass screen and I use silicone to seal it. Works well for me.

TheBaron said:

What a lot of people will do is buy some screen material from a hardware store and install it inside the bucket where you cut the hole. I've never had an issue with roots getting out either but this solves the problem of potential perlite spilling out as well.

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Yeah I've seen people do that but with a small hole you don't really need it. I have a much bigger hole on mine but I have it covered with fish net.

Okay, I'm ready to give it a try.., I think the only variation will be that I'll use teh waste to water my soil plants.. I hate waste too..

Thx Japan

What do you think would happen if I took a plant from DWC, about 1.5 weeks into flowering, and stuck it into a hempy bucket? The roots are as long as a vegan activist's hair, so they'd inevitably end up being somewhat tangled down at the bottom. Unless I put a little bit of root in, spray some perlite, repeat. Hmm.

Ok guys. I am on my second hempy grow (well second grow ever) after the first one took a dump.

The first one was 2 months old and never got past looking like a sprout with tons of very small leaves on it. I had 2 times where my php is off which turned leaves brown and black.

Some questions:
1. I germinate in rockwool cubes and then put the whole cube in in the 100% perlite bucket when leaves show up. This the right way to go? I start out with a party cup hempy bucket with hopes that when large enough they will go in a gallon bucket.

2. What PH should I put my water to? been trying for about 6 while using distilled water. I found that keeping PH steady is pretty difficult, fluctuates big time :-/

3. What nutes? I am using the lucas formula but I am not sure if that's what killed my plants or not.

It's hard to guess the watering cycle at first when they are small and the tap roots have not yet reached the bottom. I water every day towards the end of the light cycle when they are small about 15ml of water right at the stem (through the rockwool cube).

Anyway, second batch will be about 10-14 of them as I experiment with different watering techniques and such for each cup. Hopefully I will figure this out. Using 100 watt 6.5k CFL right now and a bunch of 40 watt 5k's. During germination / tiny sprouts I try to keep it around 82F then dial it back to about 75-78F. I have found the heat evaporates a lot of my water :-/

EDIT: Another question, I mix up a gallon of nutes at a time but let it sit for a while since I obviously don't use that much when they are small. Basically my question is, how bad is it to mix then let your nutes sit for a while (like up to 2-3 weeks)? Will old solution left sitting harm the plants?

For your way to grow with the two cups for sprouts, the other cup is just to catch run off / act as a small rez? Should I empty the outer cup once their water in there or how how should i let the water get in there?

Sorry for being such a newb. Also, the rockwool works great for sprouting and opening up but then it just stops growing when i put it in hempy and makes water and the whole process a pain in the ass.

whats up guys wanted some advice on hempy bucket never done one but very interested just have a few questions forgive me if i passed some of the already asked ? that i may have passed didnt read the entire thread any advice is greatly appreciated thank you in advance. i have a perpetual sog op and had 5 strains og kush, purple kush, white widow, og skunk and haze. the haze is already gone. the only strains that are sog worthy is the WW and og skunk now i already had mothers of all these strains and when i decided to do away with them all in the op i decided to flower the moms (no sense in letting great plants go to waste) the first pic is of my purple kush day one of flower the next is her currently 2.5 weeks in flower now first ? is would a 5 gal hempy bucket filled with 100% perlite be a sturdy enough medium for a plant of this size? i plan to make one for my og kush mom she is still in a one gallon 6x6x7 pot and roots are to big for the pot now. just not sure if when she gets as big as the purp she will be sturdy enough and another ? is will it be a big enough pot for her roots pretty sure it would just would like some input
again thanks a bunch guys.

I am a DWC grower, but I am considering using this for my mothers. How long could you leave a plant in there without having to change the water?

drgreentm said:

whats up guys wanted some advice on hempy bucket never done one but very interested just have a few questions forgive me if i passed some of the already asked ? that i may have passed didnt read the entire thread any advice is greatly appreciated thank you in advance. i have a perpetual sog op and had 5 strains og kush, purple kush, white widow, og skunk and haze. the haze is already gone. the only strains that are sog worthy is the WW and og skunk now i already had mothers of all these strains and when i decided to do away with them all in the op i decided to flower the moms (no sense in letting great plants go to waste) the first pic is of my purple kush day one of flower the next is her currently 2.5 weeks in flower now first ? is would a 5 gal hempy bucket filled with 100% perlite be a sturdy enough medium for a plant of this size? i plan to make one for my og kush mom she is still in a one gallon 6x6x7 pot and roots are to big for the pot now. just not sure if when she gets as big as the purp she will be sturdy enough and another ? is will it be a big enough pot for her roots pretty sure it would just would like some input
again thanks a bunch guys.

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Yes I believe so, but I personally would not transplant during flowering. Also I like the 3perlite to 1 vermiculite mix.

Devero420 you don't change the water. You just water like you would water a soil plant but with a lower pH. Water until it starts draining out the side. Its eazyPeazy!

Zcomfort said:

Yes I believe so, but I personally would not transplant during flowering. Also I like the 3perlite to 1 vermiculite mix.

Devero420 you don't change the water. You just water like you would water a soil plant but with a lower pH. Water until it starts draining out the side. Its eazyPeazy!

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cool man thanks the one in flower will be finishing in the dwc bucket for sure but the other one that will be in there next i want to do the hempy i want to transplant her today and she will still be in veg for a while longer. i got the idea and its pretty cool no water change the water pretty much changes itself when watered basically just exchanges itself right.

wow, great info. Thanks a lot JF. this is exactly what I was looking for. now off to get some perlite

Here are some pics of my girls in their hempy pots. They are in 100% perlite...it doesn't get any easier!!

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Queenie my photo girl