The Official Hempy Bucket Thread

[St3ve]

anything can yield very well, or very poorly.. the different growing styles aren't just based on yield.

A soil grower can pull as much weight as any hydro, just need to veg longer. Most of the differences in growing styles are just in how long you have to veg for.

I personally would not use soil if going into hempy. Just start a seed in a little rockwool cube so it all stays clean. I've done it plenty of times and its easy..

 

[dansbuds]

Or you could run coco hempys & start seedling & eventually clones right in coco . I'm here in NY also & started with clones from buddys grows . so they are around if you know the right people . just start off with the seeds & keep a decent mom or 2 of the best femals ya wind up with & start taking clones yourself . it seems hard when first starting out , but it get easier the more ya learn . just keep reading here at ICmag ,,, theres a ton of great info here .
good luck Girl

 

[mattkilla420]

i was doing a little research on the hempy style grow. I saw some growers growing in relatively small pots but getting decent or over achieved yields. I was wondering how would setting up some 5 gal buckets hempy style and then setting up the lights vertically would work?

Has that ever been done before?

I know folks that use the hempy style system they usually do it in small buckets, usually 3 gals the most. But would yield double with 5 gal especially when having the lights hanging vertically?

I have 2 600w ballast but was thinking about upgrading to a 1000w.

Opinions and feedback are gladly appreciated.

From what I've read hempys, vertical grow,large containers and k. I. S. S is the most common way to get large yields. in theory its sounds great, i am even considering goin vert as soon as I can. I am also in my second grow ever and my icmag advisors have pretty much said same thing as above, and limit the variables. Don't try and take on too much at once. get the temps and humidity dialed in. I'm definitely not giving advice bc im in same boat as you. I'm just backing these guys up bc i have been told same thing about taking on too much, too fast. Good luck in your grow. I'll be keeping an eye out

P. S. I would use rockwool or rapid rooters if ur doing hydro/hempy. Less chance of damaging the roots in xplant versus soil or peat pellets. I had 90percent success with rapid rooters taking clones

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[nerd4life]

thanks so much for the advices above, guys.

One Love

 

[St3ve]

thanks so much for the advices above, guys.

One Love

No need to thank us... just positive rep us

 

[Maj.Cottonmouth]

Ok thanks for the advice retro. is there any grower on here that does hempy style vertically?

It is a couple years old but one of redspaghetti's first threads was vert hempys.

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=164571

 

[bagada]

Critical Mass grown vert hempy...right half of the room defoliated....left half left untouched. i think to get the most of vert I will VSCROG and defoliate on my next grow.

 

[bagada]

 

[nerd4life]

^^^ Sick setup bagada. I got some critical mass seeds and the mass on those babes are heavyyyy.

 

[Yuno.Who]

@yuno- is your medium new or recycled? I've used MB a bunch and never had that happen. But did have some issues like you're describing with improperly recycled medium.

Sorry man, I just saw this. But yes actually it is a recycled medium. I used this coco from the last run, gave it a good rinse and recharge. Everything was great until about week 5 of flowering when i started seeing this def. And Im running many different strains, some sativa and mostly hybrids and all seem to be doing the same thing right around the same time.

I did find out I had a thrip infestation but since have taken care of that and still cant seem to kick this. The plants are finishing nice and not really slowing down growth, couple more to go until i can refill the room with green plants again and see what happens.

 

[serelepe22]

Hello guys!

Im having some problems with my hempy!

Its 100% perlite, i have one HPS 150W on top of them

Ferts are FloraNova Bloom, Liquid and Dry Koolbloom

pH is raising, I fertilize it with pH 5.6 and EC 1.5 and the runoff show pH 6.1 and EC 1.2

 

[bobman]

why r u using liquid and dry koolbloom? that could be the problem right there no need for that right now unless i am missing something. never used floranova. i use maxibloom now and used lucas with micro and bloom. the only time i had a problem was when i tried to ph my stuff down below 5.8 but my bucket ended up with a ph in the 4's. are you having to adjust up or down? i grow in all perlite hempies as well. since your runoff is higher i am assuming your medium is sitting at a higher ph which is weird. but you are in an ok range at 6.1 runoff but your bucket may be a little higher once everything settles down in there. how are you mixing your nutes? are you letting them sit and adjust at all before you are adjusting?

 

[serelepe22]

why r u using liquid and dry koolbloom? that could be the problem right there no need for that right now unless i am missing something. never used floranova. i use maxibloom now and used lucas with micro and bloom. the only time i had a problem was when i tried to ph my stuff down below 5.8 but my bucket ended up with a ph in the 4's. are you having to adjust up or down? i grow in all perlite hempies as well. since your runoff is higher i am assuming your medium is sitting at a higher ph which is weird. how are you mixing your nutes? are you letting them sit and adjust at all before you are adjusting?

For Now im only using FloraNova Bloom....
These plants are autos, they are in the begining of flowering, so in some days i will start using liquid koolbloom
Dry koolbloom only near the end

This is what happened.... My plants started looking freaky so i lower the EC... nothing happened
Then i tryed to raise pH and nothing happened, the plants stiill look freaky
So now im trying to lower the pH and it seems it doesnt wants to be lowered

 

[bobman]

ps the first thing i did when i started hempy was learn my water and how my nutes effect it as well as i could. i dont trust a meters life span and have not used one since mine broke about a month after. what i did was take readings of my plain water from the tap then mix a batch then take reading for up to 48hrs to see what effects took place then i would adjust and do the same thing. now i just mix and go and dont even adjust it but i learned a lot by doing that.

 

[bobman]

never used floranova but i heard it can be a bitch to mix because of its thickness. i mean they dont look bad but something is going on to me they look a little hungry. i am afraid with all the tinkering you are doing one day everything is going to get out of wack and you dont want that this close to flowering that but the nice thing about perlite is you can just flush and go. whats your starting water like?

 

[bobman]

i am not sure but isn't floranova bloom just like the lucas formula?

 

[serelepe22]

my water is EC < 0.1 and pH 6.5.... its considered a good water!

i mix my floranova Bloom really well, than i let it bubble for 1 day at least then i fertilize!

 

[bobman]

i would bet that the floranova has some buffers in it. that is why is is creeping up. sometimes you have to let those buffers work before adjusting. mix up a batch and let it sit for a day taking periodic readings,

 

[bobman]

ok sorry posting at the same time. that is good water. mine is like 7.5 and very hard. easy with the exclamation points i understand no reason to shout. i dont know man how many grows do you have under your belt with hempy. it so hard without being there to understand all the factors but it sounds like you are doing everything right. what size is that container? rootbound?

 

[bobman]

ok, my best guess with info. when a plant flowers its needs and wants change and can get a little picky. right now i am doing a little trial i am flowering plants in a 2 liter, 1 gallon and 2 gallon pots. the 2 gallon are perfect, the one gallon are a little less perfect and the 2 liter are a little stressed. my guess is that if you pot up a little bigger you will see them flurish again. just my 2 cents.