Hempybucket/bucquet test

[hempybucquet]

This ENTIRE TEST is COMPLETELY fraudulent.
When you feed the Hydroponic bucket correctly then you'll have run a test. THIS is what's called - again - fraud.

Not reading the thread + not smoking enough homegrown = agro posting.

Number one, it is a two plant experiment, not a true yield test. As another posted pointed out you would need a bigger sample size before drawing broad conclusions.

Second...

In this test, the addition of soil really made a difference in plant size and health. Sir_stickybuds is seeing the opposite, so I am wondering if the nutes are to blame. Not a hydro mix, so perhaps they need the micro herd in the soil to become available to the plant. I have 1/2 a bottle of GH floronova someplace, I will have to dig it out and try the experiment again. If the no soil pot outperforms, we would know its the nutes NOT the pot construction.

I put a soil hybrid potted clone into the flower chamber today at 2inches. We will see how it does against its 100% soil sisters.

 

[Sir_Stickybuds]

i will say the the bucquet has never been far behind, may even be catching up now, but i am myself wondering what the factors are behind the whole process, i'm sure the soil/hempy holds moisture longer than the pure hempy so as time increases between waterings the bucquet will benefit longer. this is a fun test and some people take experiments too far.... its what it is, an experiment to find out what this beautiful plant can take. as long as we all get a nice finished product, we all benefit

 

[hempybucquet]

an experiment to find out what this beautiful plant can take.

This plant can take some CRAZY punishment.. My outdoor hempy's got attacked by some animal. I suspect it was after the fish emulsion smell. They were all tipped over and the soil/perlite was piled up on the plant. Stems broken badly, 90% of the plants buried under soil for at least 3 days, they have all pulled through. I was sure they were dust. They just dropped a few leaves, built a new root system and are back on track as we wait for the big HID in the sky to go 12/12.

 

[bigd21]

Well i will throw my 2cents in, I am running a cfl box 12/12 from seed, I have been growing using hempy buckets for about a year with great success...after reading this thread and others I decided to try using some seedling soil in my bucket ala bucquet, I am running about 20 plants at a time and I can say the ones with the soil are growing faster and bigger across the board, and I am using HYDRO nutes in all of them.....

 

[Cannabis]

Not reading the thread + not smoking enough homegrown = agro posting.
Number one, it is a two plant experiment, not a true yield test. As another posted pointed out you would need a bigger sample size before drawing broad conclusions.
Second...

The measurements are bullshit till a TRUE evenly fed test is seen; with or without confirmation, the test isn't straight.

[Later Edit:
since Big21 gave adamant verification the hybrid works better I toned it down in interest of not slamming your work. No need for to shout Fire in all caps if there's immediate verification. I'm not here to slam if it's there.]

 

[Thundurkel]

Bullshit measurements huh??? they went in at the same time at the same height..... Go bitch elsewhere as none of care! Don't you think Hempy the original would've called him on that???? Like I said dude unless you run the test yourself and have facts and photos don't come in here all pissy.... Coming at people that want to give their time to run tests so others can learn from it is Keep doing you Hempybucquet!

 

[hempybucquet]

..after reading this thread and others I decided to try using some seedling soil in my bucket ala bucquet, I am running about 20 plants at a time and I can say the ones with the soil are growing faster and bigger across the board, and I am using HYDRO nutes in all of them.....

Sweet! The more people who try this & report back, the more accurate the conclusions will be...

Thanks BigD, for the info. Are you top watering or using another method to feed/water your plants?

 

[bigd21]

Sweet! The more people who try this & report back, the more accurate the conclusions will be...

Thanks BigD, for the info. Are you top watering or using another method to feed/water your plants?

I top water



growing like weeds...I will pull 2 out to show you a side by side the ones with the soil have been bigger from the start, the ones without have slowly caught up but still remain smaller and these are all 12/12 from seed... I plan to start another batch of seeds in a couple of weeks I will run another experiment like yours and document the results I will do 5 with soil and 5 without...all the seeds come from the same batch (westside is the strain)

 

[MrFista]

Can you share your soil layer mix please bigd21.

Props to you guys, great experiment.

 

[Orga_Nerd]

This plant can take some CRAZY punishment.. My outdoor hempy's got attacked by some animal. I suspect it was after the fish emulsion smell. They were all tipped over and the soil/perlite was piled up on the plant. Stems broken badly, 90% of the plants buried under soil for at least 3 days, they have all pulled through. I was sure they were dust. They just dropped a few leaves, built a new root system and are back on track as we wait for the big HID in the sky to go 12/12.

Sry about those plants man, I just couldn't help myself!!

 

[Sir_Stickybuds]

draggin this back up to the top, but for an organic type hempy, has anyone just considered doing a soil mix with a ton of perlite? like the same mix 1-5 or whatever but 1 part soil/5 parts perlite? then trying the same reservior style?

 

[hempybucquet]

An update from the lab.

An update from the lab.

Of the two cuttings I put straight into soil, one is rooted and growing and the other is yellow and evil looking but has yet to rot out or dry up. Both went into 12/12 recently, so they should begin to stretch soon.

The regularly rooted clone has filled out the pot and in mid stretch as it enters week 3 of 12/12. Just starting to show sex.

 

[bigd21]

draggin this back up to the top, but for an organic type hempy, has anyone just considered doing a soil mix with a ton of perlite? like the same mix 1-5 or whatever but 1 part soil/5 parts perlite? then trying the same reservior style?

I am doing that as we speak, the bottom 1/4 of my container is all perlite, the rest is a 3 to mixture of perlite and some seedling soil, so far so good, I have one that I am using hydro nutes (dynagrow bloom) and the other the dr bud mix.......

 

[hempybucquet]

The flowering plants are not doing so hot. No signs of deficiency, (yellow leaf is from getting damadged.) they are just slower compared to their 100% soil sisters.



My outdoor hempy plants are rocking, will have to take a shot when I get back to the guerrilla location in the next week or so.

 

[Sir_Stickybuds]

interesting, i am still not flowering anything so i can not share, and by the time i can they will probably need bigger containers

 

[hempybucquet]

Been awhile since an update, been busy!

Here are the three clones I put into micro bucquets. The two dwarfs both went into 12/12 after a day or two of transplanting. The bigger one had a week of veg.

It seems that the first two just used the soil and never explored down into the rez layer. The third is growing as expected and pretty much matches its 100% soil sisters. So I would say if trying this idea in a micro grow, make sure that you veg your clones for 1-2 weeks before inducing flower.

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[hempybucquet]

Some shots of the outdoor pots I have growing. Lost the first batch to deer, so these only vegged for a few weeks before flowering started.

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[BigBlack81]

So basically on the third clone, the one that's growing well, if we were to redo this we'd need to make sure that the cloned roots are long enough to get down to the rez or close when we transplant them? I'm thinking, especially with the height of the bottles that you'd need a very long stem and roots just to get going but if you did you'd utilize both the soil and the rez.

 

[hempybucquet]

So basically on the third clone, the one that's growing well, if we were to redo this we'd need to make sure that the cloned roots are long enough to get down to the rez or close when we transplant them?

Not so much for transplanting....I just let that big one veg longer so that it grew its own root system down into the rez layer before flowering. It seems root exploration stops once flowering begins?

 

[bounty29]

Root growth definitely doesn't stop once flowering begins, I've transplanted a week or two into flower and I still end up with a thorough root mass. You're positive that roots didn't enter the perlite layer? That seems rather odd.