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Hydro bucket (hempy with extra reservoir)
- Thread starter dudin
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a small air pump is not necessary with that shallow of water.. plus I always try and save electricity whenever possible. Just having a fan blow across it while its already on blowing the plants is plenty good enough. Plus one more thing to NOT have to spend money on that will eventually need to be replaced.
grassott's dad
Member
This is nothing like a hempy bucket. This is like sticking regular plant pots in an external rez. No resemblance to a Hempy bucket at all imo. Sorry.
Also I think your plants look over watered. Are they sat in water 24/7?
Ok. The hempy really is a holy cow it seems. You dont think it looks/works like hempy at all ok. Noted. And thank you for pointing out the obvious also thanks for the great input.
Yes they are sitting in water 24/7. The water is just 3-5cm deep.
Just bought a tiny airpump 50L/h. Hope it works.
Sharing is beautiful. To be on the safe side I stole your idea. Inserted one air tube at the bottom to each bucket.
The airpump is just a 3w 50L/h, so 25L each. Hope it speeds growth a bit.
Now I can agree with the critics. Its not a hempy.
junior_grower
Active member
good to see you trying different things.
I have strange growing conditions so the added heat is not a problem. At night it can drop to 15c and daytime its 25-28 c depending on the weather. The extra heat is just a +.
That's a nice simple setup you got going. You could change them to a ppk style by just raising the pots a little and adding a wick, either microfiber or a media wick in a tailpiece like D9 does. The benefit would be it would lower the perched water table, allowing your plants to use more of the rooting space in the pots.
zeke99
Active member
I love the creativity, but urge all passive hydro growers to try this:
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?p=5232882#post5232882
The results will be like nothing they have seen before.
ghostly
Member
Have you noticed if the added air in the root zone helped? I added airstones to my top drip and that 'dead zone' of water at the bottom of the 5g buckets turned into a vigous rootball!
Couldn't find the rootball picture... But
even if it's just a small bit of water, I say add air!
Good luck
Couldn't find the rootball picture... But
even if it's just a small bit of water, I say add air!
Good luck
@zeke do you mean ppk or vert. Both are interesting. But I need to keep it "fail proof" and must be able to leave it 4-5days. When I can tend my garden every day I will go vert.
@ghostly Well they exploded. Hard to tell if it was the stretch that kicked in or if it was the added air, probably a combination. This is a cheap simple setup and now with extra air it works ok. If I did a traditional hempy I still would put some air straight to the roots.
@ghostly Well they exploded. Hard to tell if it was the stretch that kicked in or if it was the added air, probably a combination. This is a cheap simple setup and now with extra air it works ok. If I did a traditional hempy I still would put some air straight to the roots.
