Hempy bucket grow

jguy21

Active Member
So Ive only grown once and it was a soil grow, and now I'm trying my luck at it again. I was going to do a hydroponic grow but I found out about hempy bucket and it seems foolproof. The last one was a get my feet wet kind of thing and I ended up with about a quarter per plant with 2 plants using a 150 watt hps. I only vegged them to about 8 inches then put em in flowering bcuz space was limited.

This time I've still got the 150 watt hps but ive added a 105 watt cfl and I've got a tent now with more height. Any advice would be really helpful. I'm trying to get and ounce per plant and I'm planning on three plants if that's possible with my setup hence the advice. Anyway here's my setup:

growlab 60 (2x2x6)
105 watt cfl (vegetative)
150 watt hps w/ 105 watt cfl (flowering)
(3) 2.5 gallon hempy buckets (1/4 vermiculite and 3/4 perlite)
general hydroponic nutes for vegging and flowering

I'm planning on buying a 250 watt cooltube and a 4"Inline/fan carbon filter for the smell. I'm vegging with the 105 watt cfl right now but I'm hoping to get the cool tube and fan/filter by the time it comes to flower but for the next couple weeks the cfl should be fine

I'm going to veg till there about 18 inches and hopefully end up around 3 feet. I figure that would be fine with my space considering I've got 60 inches to work with, my buckets take up 12" and my lights with chain would take up 12 inches max so 3 feet should work just fine. I might even scrog but I haven't made up my mind. If I don't scrog I'll definitely top em.

And lastly the strains I've got are 1 barneys farm red dragon and 2 Dutch passion perplex. The perplex is a mainly indica and the red dragon is a indica/mostly sativa.

I don't smoke a whole lot so I figure 3 ounces would last me like 4 or 5 months and I wouldn't have to grow back to back.

I've already germed them, put them in rockwool, and I've got them in the buckets. They just broke the surface yesterday and are about an inch now.

I do have one question though, should I have buried the rockwool cubes deeper down or what? Bcuz I just buried them where the top of the cubes are at the same level as the top of the perlite/vermiculite mix.

There it is in a long ass nutshell ,any feedback would be awesome.

I'll post pics soon...
 
dont waste your money on a 250 watt hps get a 400 watt hps or higher.. it just isn't worth the time..
Trust me, when I started I was using a single 150 watt hps in DWC, then upgraded to 2 x 150 watt HPS, and then upgraded again to 2 x 400 watt HPS and now I am using 2 x 600 watt lights and I will probably stay using 600 watt hps lights indefinately from now on.. I should have saved all of my money and just bought a 600 watter to start with.
the heat difference from a 400 isn't that different from a 150 hps.

look at my grows and you can clearly see the difference.. type marijuananation into the search bar.

400 watt hps Fridge grow, and a few others. a link to my current grow is in my signature below.

Peace and Happy Growing
 
Ohh I forgot to mention that the tent is inside a closet. It's kind of a stealth ish grow. With both lights on the temps stay around 78 so I'm just worried that anything higher than a 250 would be too much heat. Plus I feel like that would be too much light in such a small space. A 250 would put out 28k lumens and a 400 would put out 45k. It's only 4 sq feet so wouldn't that be too much light?
 
Haha true

but isn't the sun 10k per sq ft. I don't want burn the little guys, at least not yet! I wanna burn em about 2 months or so down the road!
 
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