World Of Hempy

rkymtnman

rkymtnman

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Humple said:
Finished my first hempy run a couple of weeks ago, and I'm sold. I did a 75/25 perlite/vermiculite mix, with about 1.5 gallons of medium in a 2 gallon bucket (after everything settled), using straight Megacrop, with no additives. Pulled 7.5 oz from one HSO Blue Dream plant that was half-dead when I flipped (wife's orders). No clue if that yield is above or below normal for hempy, but it's certainly much, much higher than soil. Color me impressed.
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you should try a tomato plant in a hempy. you'll be even more impressed.
 
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jonnynobody

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Humple said:
Finished my first hempy run a couple of weeks ago, and I'm sold. I did a 75/25 perlite/vermiculite mix, with about 1.5 gallons of medium in a 2 gallon bucket (after everything settled), using straight Megacrop, with no additives. Pulled 7.5 oz from one HSO Blue Dream plant that was half-dead when I flipped (wife's orders). No clue if that yield is above or below normal for hempy, but it's certainly much, much higher than soil. Color me impressed.
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That's a solid harvest for 1 plant man. I've heard good things about mega crop. I'm running maxi grow and bloom now, but I may switch to MC when my current supply of maxi bloom runs out. I've heard MC mixes into solution easier too. I have to put hot water and maxi grow in a blender to get it fully dissolved. MC is one part veg and bloom if I remember right. Even nicer!

Kudos to the wife for convincing you to keep the plant. Had a similar situation a couple years back. Wifey made me keep 3 shit looking plants going and I wound up with 10 or so ounces that I otherwise wouldn't have had. What would we do without the wives eh?
 
Buck5050

Buck5050

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jonnynobody said:
That's a solid harvest for 1 plant man. I've heard good things about mega crop. I'm running maxi grow and bloom now, but I may switch to MC when my current supply of maxi bloom runs out. I've heard MC mixes into solution easier too. I have to put hot water and maxi grow in a blender to get it fully dissolved. MC is one part veg and bloom if I remember right. Even nicer!

Kudos to the wife for convincing you to keep the plant. Had a similar situation a couple years back. Wifey made me keep 3 shit looking plants going and I wound up with 10 or so ounces that I otherwise wouldn't have had. What would we do without the wives eh?
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It mixes up pretty well. I do however have some minor residue sitting on the bottom of my nute bucket when it gets empty.
 
Thefarmer12

Thefarmer12

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jonnynobody said:
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Vermiculite caused me nothing but problems. I found no value in adding it, and will not use it again. I tried a cycle with coco and had issues with it I had never encountered before. Since going back to 100% perlite I have had trouble free growing. It's incredibly easy and I highly recommend it.
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Agreed. Vermiculite is unnecessary .
 
Humple

Humple

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jonnynobody said:
That's a solid harvest for 1 plant man. I've heard good things about mega crop. I'm running maxi grow and bloom now, but I may switch to MC when my current supply of maxi bloom runs out. I've heard MC mixes into solution easier too. I have to put hot water and maxi grow in a blender to get it fully dissolved. MC is one part veg and bloom if I remember right. Even nicer!

Kudos to the wife for convincing you to keep the plant. Had a similar situation a couple years back. Wifey made me keep 3 shit looking plants going and I wound up with 10 or so ounces that I otherwise wouldn't have had. What would we do without the wives eh?
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Yeah, I never would have tried hempy if not for MC. After the simplicity of ROLS (just add water, and maybe a top-dress at flip), there was no way in hell I was going to switch to a multi-part nute regimen. Don't know how peeps put up with the hassle of full hydro, with pumps and lines and chillers and all that shit.

Yeah, man, nothing like a wife to keep you on track! She's never realistic about the garden, always thinking we'll get higher yield than possible, or that plants are ready to harvest when they aren't, or that plants are healthy when they're clearly fighting to survive... But nonetheless, her optimism paid off! Maybe I should heed her more!
 
Stoned Cold Bulldog

Stoned Cold Bulldog

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jonnynobody said:
I gotta get in on this man. 600W HPS 4'x4'x7' tent with four 5 gallon hempy buckets. I have a lava rock reservoir with a coco/perlite mix above that. I personally hate the coco and will go back to 100% perlite for my next cycle. When I'm growing hydro I do want my medium to be completely inert. Coco has some odd physiological interactions with fertilizer that I don't get with perlite. Also, I find that perlite accelerates the wet / dry cycle frequency which accelerates growth rates that far surpass a coco / perlite mix. Some people seem to love the coco. As the saying goes, different strokes for different folks. Anyhow...
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just wanted to give newbs/rookies a reality not really understood by you. first hempy bucket realities and options. designed to be simple and productive etc hempy chose medium of perlite and vermiculite for a reason. = the shit works with no issues. fast forward to bright ideas using a hempy. in this case with coco and perlite. many have used coco and perlite but cococoir doesn't make the best match in a hempy bucket because coco doesn't marry well with it naturally in a hempy bucket.

since you mentioned issues concrning nute issues using it but also speak on inert qualities of perlite I would say coco growing like most have found is simple once dialed in. i can't tell you why doing it in a hempy causes issues for you because it shouldn't. may be it's the size perlite you are using or some other factor i don't realize.

with that said as soon as folks started using hempy's with all manner of medium combo's many found they complicated a KISS system. some found a alternate/option that worked for them while other floundered and either gave up or had sinse enough to go back to the standard medium hempy used.

I've used the standard hempy method in a two bucket trial to test it out. i did well with one bucket not so good because i hadn't quite dialed in how to add the clone properly . totally on me but the other worked as it should so i considered it a viable method from personal experience and not just others doing it. during the same period i also started my first coco coir use. brick medium old style i had to hydrate and rinse forever. Yet, it worked and i saw the most beautiful roots in person and that sold me on coco. i have coco coir waiting for a real run now after i run the biobizz because of circumstances.

using coco with stuff like promix and the rest can also be problematic and give you funky grow results. particularly using pro mix bx like i did because it holds water longer. pro mix and perlite never and issue though. so it's based on how these mediums work together or not based on their own unique qualities.

moral to the story is simple. if using a hempy and it's working as designed let it be and be thankful.
 
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jonnynobody

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Stoned Cold Bulldog said:
just wanted to give newbs/rookies a reality not really understood by you. first hempy bucket realities and options. designed to be simple and productive etc hempy chose medium of perlite and vermiculite for a reason. = the shit works with no issues. fast forward to bright ideas using a hempy. in this case with coco and perlite. many have used coco and perlite but cococoir doesn't make the best match in a hempy bucket because coco doesn't marry well with it naturally in a hempy bucket.

since you mentioned issues concrning nute issues using it but also speak on inert qualities of perlite I would say coco growing like most have found is simple once dialed in. i can't tell you why doing it in a hempy causes issues for you because it shouldn't. may be it's the size perlite you are using or some other factor i don't realize.

with that said as soon as folks started using hempy's with all manner of medium combo's many found they complicated a KISS system. some found a alternate/option that worked for them while other floundered and either gave up or had sinse enough to go back to the standard medium hempy used.

I've used the standard hempy method in a two bucket trial to test it out. i did well with one bucket not so good because i hadn't quite dialed in how to add the clone properly . totally on me but the other worked as it should so i considered it a viable method from personal experience and not just others doing it. during the same period i also started my first coco coir use. brick medium old style i had to hydrate and rinse forever. Yet, it worked and i saw the most beautiful roots in person and that sold me on coco. i have coco coir waiting for a real run now after i run the biobizz because of circumstances.

using coco with stuff like promix and the rest can also be problematic and give you funky grow results. particularly using pro mix bx like i did because it holds water longer. pro mix and perlite never and issue though. so it's based on how these mediums work together or not based on their own unique qualities.

moral to the story is simple. if using a hempy and it's working as designed let it be and be thankful.
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Thanks, but since ditching coco and using 100% perlite I have had no issues. I'm a huge fan of the hempy bucket. I don't like coco as a medium and will not use it again. If you're having good results with it then keep rocking it. No reason to fix what ain't broke.

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Cannademik

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I have a few questions.. I might make the switch.
If doing 100% perlite, I just feed as usual right? From the top? I saw a few pictures in here where people have a PVC pipe in there buckets? Is that pipe just going straight down to the roots, where the hole is drilled?
Can perlite be reused? Just wash and rinse and reuse? Does it matter if I do a 3 or 5 gallon hempy grow?
Usually when I water with coco and my plants are in a 3gal fabric pot I use about a quart of water.. Would this apply the same?
 
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jonnynobody

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Cannademik said:
I have a few questions.. I might make the switch.
If doing 100% perlite, I just feed as usual right? From the top? I saw a few pictures in here where people have a PVC pipe in there buckets? Is that pipe just going straight down to the roots, where the hole is drilled?
Can perlite be reused? Just wash and rinse and reuse? Does it matter if I do a 3 or 5 gallon hempy grow?
Usually when I water with coco and my plants are in a 3gal fabric pot I use about a quart of water.. Would this apply the same?
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I grow in 5 gallon hempy buckets and each container takes 1 gallon of water each water cycle. I feed 1.8 EC or about 900 PPM on the 500 scale. I do not reuse my perlite. Some people do. You can read on google how to reuse. I prefer new medium material every grow cycle. You do not need a piece of pvc in the bucket. Water from the top as usual. The pvc you've seen is to water straight down to the roots so your top medium stays dry to inhibit fungus gnats from laying eggs. I add 35% H202 at 3ml per gallon to my reservoirs for sterility. It also kills fungus gnat eggs, so I do not use pvc in my buckets.

Chunky #4 chunky perlite is what you want. Do not buy the fine stuff. I drilled holes in a 32 gallon plastic trash can. Pour in perlite and sit the can over my basement drain. Grab the garden hose and rinse. I just let it sit there overnight and use the next day or whenever.
 
Buck5050

Buck5050

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Cannademik said:
I have a few questions.. I might make the switch.
If doing 100% perlite, I just feed as usual right? From the top? I saw a few pictures in here where people have a PVC pipe in there buckets? Is that pipe just going straight down to the roots, where the hole is drilled?
Can perlite be reused? Just wash and rinse and reuse? Does it matter if I do a 3 or 5 gallon hempy grow?
Usually when I water with coco and my plants are in a 3gal fabric pot I use about a quart of water.. Would this apply the same?
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I have been re-using my perlite for 3 maybe 4 grows. I haven't bought a new bag in forever it seems. I use a mix of the chunky perlite with the finer stuff you get from the big box store.
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The goal was to get the chunkier stuff down in the bottom so the smaller stuff didn't clog up the drain hole. Now since I reuse it so much it's all mixed together. I do however start to see the perlite degrade after awhile and you end up getting more dust settling in the bottom of the containers at the end of the grow. Everything else for me is as johnnynoboy said. I also seen that ol' boy using the pvc tubes and I bet it worked pretty good. I don't see no need for it personally.
 
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