Hempy buckets?

[AndreNicky]

I plan to do hempy buckets in my coming up grow but i can't seem to find any shops that carry vermiculite. Is the vermiculite really needed? or can i just go straight perlite? Maybe use growcubes in place or vermiculite? Also how do people transplant in hempy buckets, is it even possible without ripping off alot of the roots?

 

[Bush Grower]

Alright... vermiculite can be found at home depot, lowes, hydroponic stores, or online. You just have to look a little bit.

Just anticipate how big you want your plants and how big you need the pot so there is no need to tranplant into a bigger size.

 

[Lava Surfer]

U can go with straight perlite, just water a bit more often and it's all right if u can't find the vermiculite.

Im also shure you could use "water crystals" or what they are called on english, thouse little "gel" thingys you can mix into your soil. They do the same as vermiculite, it just holds more water and it's proberly also more ekspencive. Will work just the same!

 

[AndreNicky]

Alright... vermiculite can be found at home depot, lowes, hydroponic stores, or online. You just have to look a little bit.

No one at any of my hardware stores seems to know what it is , also is it just me or is everyone who works at HD a complete moron?

 

[rule35sub1]

Just use straight perlite.

 

[Doctor Who]

I would just use 100% perlite. Make sure you don't buy the Miracle Grow kind with "plant food" in it or you will mess up your plants with too many nutes.

Also, to everybody who says perlite and/or vermiculite is available at all Home Dipshits or Blowes... you are wrong. I have gone to several of them including other hardware and garden centers and they don't carry any and IF they do it's the doped up MG perlite. Early in the planting season sometimes you can buy small bags (I think 8 quarts) of very small (almost powder) perlite at Wal-Mart.

Good luck with your Hempy Buckets! PM a link to your grow thread when/if you start one.

 

[StayHigh149]

From my experience:

Home depot only sells perlite with ferts in it.

Schulz perlite is good but only at WalMart during certain times of yr.

Local garden supply has HUGE bags of perlite for $25.

Straight perlite is fine, water a little more frequent.

Keep transplanting minimal, if at all.

The "water crystals" mentioned by Lava Surfer is called "Soil Moist". Also found at local garden supply. They also work well to make a smell masker with.

*****Remember, don't breath in the dust from either perlite or vermiculite. Not good for ur health****

FMS Grapefruit in Hempy Buckets, in my sig (current grow)....plz drop by!

 

[Guest]

In the past acquiring vermiculite has proved a challenge, some people are too paranoid to order anything online gardening wise but there are several websites who offer vermiculite for sale that will ship it too your address of choice with no questions asked. Local pet shops also frequently, but not always have vermiculite available as well. Just an idea to help those who seem to be finding it difficult to obtain the necassary materials for the hempy buckets. It is also possible to grow in straight perlite, with excellent success but a 3 to 1 mixture of the two mediums works just fine as well. The great thing about the hempy buckets is the flexibility of the buckets in its ability to flourish under numerous different mediums from turface to coco and a few things in between.

I would recommend following hempys basic instructions until you feel comfortable with the method and then experimenting with other mediums as your comfort level with the system increases. Its possible to have success in a wide range of mediums though, so have fun and enjoy this highly effective method of cultivation.


Take your time to thank Hempy when you get the chance, what he brings to the community is an invaluable source of information from one of the best growers to ever grace the forums. I am very grateful for his contributions to the community, and you should be too imho.

 

[bounty29]

I got my straight perlite/vermiculite at both local nurseries and WalMart.

I'm running hempy buckets, no vermiculite for me though. Everything above the top of the drain hole is 100% fine coco, and below the top of the drain hole is perlite.

 

[AndreNicky]

Thx for all the replys guys! As far as watering more frequently go I'm guessing I would water everyday instead of every 2 days?

 

[AzGrOw-N-sMoKe]

i run 5 gal buckets with strait perlite....an have to water every other day....peace az

 

[Bush Grower]

Also, to everybody who says perlite and/or vermiculite is available at all Home Dipshits or Blowes... you are wrong. I have gone to several of them including other hardware and garden centers and they don't carry any and IF they do it's the doped up MG perlite. Early in the planting season sometimes you can buy small bags (I think 8 quarts) of very small (almost powder) perlite at Wal-Mart.

Ehh... whatever. It depends on the store, but it has to be the correct time of the year, and even then they may not have it. The local hardware stores here have it just about year round because we have a long growing season.

Duece

 

[Doctor Who]

Ehh... whatever. It depends on the store, but it has to be the correct time of the year, and even then they may not have it. The local hardware stores here have it just about year round because we have a long growing season.

Duece

You are one of the lucky ones.

 

[StayHigh149]

Thx for all the replys guys! As far as watering more frequently go I'm guessing I would water everyday instead of every 2 days?

AN,
the plants (& ur grow medium) will tell u when to water them. Ruffly every 2 days, give or take a day or 2....ha ha.

i water my clones/seedlings every day for the 1st week or so & then every 2 (or so) days.

There's no exact science, it's just a super easy, laid back way to grow. It also produces some topnotch results.

21 days in:

 

[CaptainTrips]

In the past acquiring vermiculite has proved a challenge, some people are too paranoid to order anything online gardening wise but there are several websites who offer vermiculite for sale that will ship it too your address of choice with no questions asked. Local pet shops also frequently, but not always have vermiculite available as well. Just an idea to help those who seem to be finding it difficult to obtain the necassary materials for the hempy buckets. It is also possible to grow in straight perlite, with excellent success but a 3 to 1 mixture of the two mediums works just fine as well. The great thing about the hempy buckets is the flexibility of the buckets in its ability to flourish under numerous different mediums from turface to coco and a few things in between.

I would recommend following hempys basic instructions until you feel comfortable with the method and then experimenting with other mediums as your comfort level with the system increases. Its possible to have success in a wide range of mediums though, so have fun and enjoy this highly effective method of cultivation.


Take your time to thank Hempy when you get the chance, what he brings to the community is an invaluable source of information from one of the best growers to ever grace the forums. I am very grateful for his contributions to the community, and you should be too imho.

I agree, but his thread over at *****... you will be hard pressed to find more drama/bullshit anywhere, lol. And his claims of 'inventing" this method are dubious at best. He just named it... When I started my latest grow, I had put my seeds(once they were plants) into a method almost the same. The only difference is I was using pebble like rocks, and I hadn't put in holes in the bottom of the bucket. The medium wasn't too great as not much wicking action, but it worked.

 

[Movintarget]

Ace Hardware carries vermiculite, almost $ 4.00 for a small bag, I use Turface in place of vermiculite, works just as good if not better.......

 

[CaptainTrips]

Its no big deal if you don't have verm... And like other stores, im sure your ace has it, but they all won't. My walmart carries it sometimes... HD seems to have it in the big bag year around.

 

[Dalaihempy]

I agree, but his thread over at *****... you will be hard pressed to find more drama/bullshit anywhere, lol. And his claims of 'inventing" this method are dubious at best. He just named it... When I started my latest grow, I had put my seeds(once they were plants) into a method almost the same. The only difference is I was using pebble like rocks, and I hadn't put in holes in the bottom of the bucket. The medium wasn't too great as not much wicking action, but it worked.

CaptainTrips a few facts for you first off i did not name it the hempy bucket others named it that in 2002 at cw.

Next fact the only reason there were dramas at that site in my posts was because of a few people that felt there spin on things was wright i was wrong well there spin caused peoples plants to suffer and in some to fail and then tried to blame me for it well its not my folt if these smart asses new best.

A lot of the dramas started when a member basically ran with the method drilled a lot more holes send it was his method becouse of a diffrent medium wich he changed any way lol.

When i first posted my method the method i have my self used from the mid 80s growers from CW sed it would not work it would cause root rot and so on now were talking some of the best cannabis growers here from all over the world and once i posted pics of my plants being grown in the buckets the larfing stoped.

The method came from an idea i had from the first hydro kit i got which was an aquaponic tomato kit.

It was 2ft long 1ft wide and ruffly 6 inches tall with a drail hole on the bottom say 1/2 centimeter from the bottom.

I saw how good plants grew in it so i started to experiment with different tubs and buckets different shapes sizes and different size internal rez hights by drilling the drain hole at different hights and came up with what people call the hempy bucket over time.

The reason i know there was no other method like it was because people laft at me when i told them about the method people in the hydro industries.

The first person i told was the person who i first got my aquponic kit from who first started a hydroponic company in 1969 and he sed it would not work then for years when i would bring it up when in other hydro stores i would get basically laft out of the stores so if it was around i would of been told not laft at as i was.

My problem with some people is they seam to think my formula is wrong yet theres is better and some of these growers at best have done okay few if any have come close to my yields at worse these smart asses have caused people grows to fail and i get the blame people pm me and say hempy my plants are sic i followed your method after i ask what they did it was not even close to what i have posted those that did follow my basic formula are very happy and still use it.

Any way theres the reasons why i now don't give a flying fuck any more and why i don't go out of my way now days for to many i will still help any one if im asked but no more will i post any more of my growing tips i have my self over basically 30 years worked out this community has a lot of good people but it also has a large croup of ass holes i would not waste my time with.


The Hempy bucket as there called is not perlite/vermic they can be perlite/vermic or 100%perlite or can be clay rocks or coco / perlite so on.

Write now im experimenting on organic hempy buckets im trying 2 different organic types both useing coco-peat/ perlite as the medium using a locally made organic nutrient and im also going to try biocanna.



By the way CaptainTrips perlite dont wick a lot of people have sed it but the only mediums i have sen wick are coco and rw.

 

[CaptainTrips]

I don't want to get in a argument fight... I will just say this tho. Just because someone is in the hydro business doesn't mean they know anything, or are even experts. They just know what they do, and anything different must be wrong.


Also, I don't know how you can say perlite doesn't wick. It obviously does. You put a little water in a cup/bucket of perlite, all the perlite will become damp after not long. No its not like rockwool, but that is not what I would call wicking. It becomes completly soaked if you set rock wool in a small amount of water.

 

[bounty29]

Also, I don't know how you can say perlite doesn't wick. It obviously does. You put a little water in a cup/bucket of perlite, all the perlite will become damp after not long. No its not like rockwool, but that is not what I would call wicking. It becomes completly soaked if you set rock wool in a small amount of water.

Lol how would you define wicking if that's not it? Perlite wicks, but pretty poorly. Although I bet the rocks in the bottom of your bucket wicked even less lol. Put a cup of dry coco in an inch of standing water, that water will be gone in no time. That's wicking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillary_action