The Official Hempy Bucket Thread

[Scottish Research]

Sorry about that potency issue Capt. A. We always do our best and then we get let down; my last grow was like that; it tends to make one more skeptical.

Been reading this thread for years, it's a classic for sure!

Since I have the head space, I'm thinking about running these in units up to 8 per res. It will just be a continuous top irrigation, with the runoff filtered and then pumped out when needed; sounds like another one of my crazy ideas. As simple as possible is all I want!

Like, the lady I said was hot, and just texted me back in like 8 secs flat a need for something. Shit. She got that shit in drafts and just throws it out when she senses the appropriate victim. That was a harmless spill from the saddle. But, WTF? I should have known better. Funny as shit!

 

[dansbuds]

Since I have the head space, I'm thinking about running these in units up to 8 per res. It will just be a continuous top irrigation, with the runoff filtered and then pumped out when needed; sounds like another one of my crazy ideas. As simple as possible is all I want!

not sure what you consider a unit SR , but i run 4 3.5 gallons per light on a drip system . i have 8 in this tent on a 30 gallon rez being fed 3 minutes at lights on & 2 minutes right before lights off to refill the rez in the buckets so they have juice to feed on during lights off . i get about 10% runoff & thats sucked outa the trays every night with a buckethead shop vac .
can't get much simpler if ya ask me

 

[Capt.Ahab]

Looking good , Dansbuds.

Culled my plants the other night. Ended up with five females out of twelve. Females consist of Ultra Sonja, SFV X DMT and PCK. I saved one Diablo x DMT male to make a few seeds.

 

[dansbuds]

That SFV X DMT sounds like a killer cross Capt . should be some powerful smoke

 

[BubblinCrude]

0-5-10 refers to mL of grow-micro-bloom, not an NPK value. I've always thought that was confusing.

Thanks for clarifying. That had me in circles for a while.

 

[Hoot.N.Annie]

I have a LOT of reading to do.This is a long thread for sure.

How do you guys start seeds for hempys,after initial germination that is?Can the germinated seeds be placed in perlite and then transplanted to your container of choice,or is it better to raise the seedlings to transplanting size in rockwool cubes?

Thx.

Hoot.

 

[Hoot.N.Annie]

Ratz.Guess I can't edit as a noobie.

I will be growing perlite hempys.

 

[RetroGrow]

I have a LOT of reading to do.This is a long thread for sure.

How do you guys start seeds for hempys,after initial germination that is?Can the germinated seeds be placed in perlite and then transplanted to your container of choice,or is it better to raise the seedlings to transplanting size in rockwool cubes?

Thx.

Hoot.

I use Fox Farms Light Warrior for starts, in 16-20 ounce Solo cups, then transplant directly to coco. This gives me the best starts of anything I have tried. Has Mycorrhizae. Miracle Grow makes a similar product in their "Seed Starter Mix". Definitely recommend coco over perlite.

 

[Hoot.N.Annie]

Thanks retro,but commercial soils and potting mixes aren't available here.I was going to use Coco,but it is filthy.I ended up amending my veggie garden with it,because it had probably 10% shredded plastic bags by volume.Advertised as organic tho.Lol

The perlite is clean tho.Just need to determine the best way to get the seedlings going.

 

[Hoot.N.Annie]

Thanks retro,but commercial soils and potting mixes aren't available here.I was going to use Coco,but it is filthy.I ended up amending my veggie garden with it,because it had probably 10% shredded plastic bags by volume.Advertised as organic tho.Lol

The perlite is clean,no foreign materials in it that I observed.Just need to determine the best way to get the seedlings going.

 

[komboloi]

I tried hempy buckets for the first time this spring, and I came away unimpressed. 5 gallon buckets, 1000w HPS, GH Flora Series nutes, BCSC's White Lightning from seed. The yield and growth rates may be better than soil, but they weren't any better than other hydro grows I've done in rockwool and DWC with the same strain and lighting. In fact, the yield and growth rate was inferior to DWC; about the same as rw. Don't get me wrong, the yield and growth rate was good -- much better than soil. Just not any better than other hydro methods.

But here's the kicker for me: It's messy. No worse than soil, but almost as bad.

All that perlite and vermiculite is dusty to begin with. And no matter how tidy you try to be, it gets around during the grow. Not a lot, but little bits of it here or there, mostly in the drainage trays, but bits of it inevitably wander. Then you have the disposal issue.

I'm one who believe in the virtue of a nice clean grow space. And I hate bagging up and getting rid of a bunch of loose medium at the end. Those are two of the reasons (along with slow growth rates) that I moved away from soil and into hydro.

In my view, hempy buckets are just another form of soilless mix. A hybrid somewhere between growing in soil and doing real hydro. I'll stick with the real thing for hydro grows from here on out. It's nice not to have tubes and pumps and a separate reservoir, but if I want to hand-water buckets, rockwool is much cleaner and easier to dispose of.

The good news is that I learned something, and those orange Homer buckets with the drainage holes in the side haven't gone to waste. I've got the next crop growing in 6" rw cubes that sit on top of 8" rw cubes inside my former hempy buckets. The growth rate is at least as good (and based on my experience so will be the yield), and I have zero mess and just some dried up cubes to look forward to disposing of.

Just my $.02. And as the US Postal Service says, "To each his zone."

 

[dansbuds]

I have a LOT of reading to do.This is a long thread for sure.

How do you guys start seeds for hempys,after initial germination that is?Can the germinated seeds be placed in perlite and then transplanted to your container of choice,or is it better to raise the seedlings to transplanting size in rockwool cubes?

this pic was taken by hempy himself which shows how he starts his seeds . me personally i start them in 9 oz cups of coco .



heres some of my seedlings

 

[RetroGrow]

I tried hempy buckets for the first time this spring, and I came away unimpressed. 5 gallon buckets, 1000w HPS, GH Flora Series nutes, BCSC's White Lightning from seed. The yield and growth rates may be better than soil, but they weren't any better than other hydro grows I've done in rockwool and DWC with the same strain and lighting. In fact, the yield and growth rate was inferior to DWC; about the same as rw. Don't get me wrong, the yield and growth rate was good -- much better than soil. Just not any better than other hydro methods.

But here's the kicker for me: It's messy. No worse than soil, but almost as bad.

All that perlite and vermiculite is dusty to begin with. And no matter how tidy you try to be, it gets around during the grow. Not a lot, but little bits of it here or there, mostly in the drainage trays, but bits of it inevitably wander. Then you have the disposal issue.

I'm one who believe in the virtue of a nice clean grow space. And I hate bagging up and getting rid of a bunch of loose medium at the end. Those are two of the reasons (along with slow growth rates) that I moved away from soil and into hydro.

In my view, hempy buckets are just another form of soilless mix. A hybrid somewhere between growing in soil and doing real hydro. I'll stick with the real thing for hydro grows from here on out. It's nice not to have tubes and pumps and a separate reservoir, but if I want to hand-water buckets, rockwool is much cleaner and easier to dispose of.

The good news is that I learned something, and those orange Homer buckets with the drainage holes in the side haven't gone to waste. I've got the next crop growing in 6" rw cubes that sit on top of 8" rw cubes inside my former hempy buckets. The growth rate is at least as good (and based on my experience so will be the yield), and I have zero mess and just some dried up cubes to look forward to disposing of.

Just my $.02. And as the US Postal Service says, "To each his zone."

Coco works much better than perlite/vermiculite. Coco is a hydro medium, and results are stellar. Perlite/vermiculite is the OLD method, no longer used by Hempy or most of us. With coco, you need only a 2 or 3 gallon bucket to produce trees.
Coco Hempy Style:
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=147954

 

[komboloi]

Coco works much better than perlite/vermiculite. Coco is a hydro medium, and results are stellar. Perlite/vermiculite is the OLD method, no longer used by Hempy or most of us. With coco, you need only a 2 or 3 gallon bucket to produce trees.
Coco Hempy Style:
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=147954

Coco is still just another messy soilless soil substitute that has to be dealt with at the end. I'm off soil and substitutes with soil-like characteristics. I'm glad it works for you and so many though. What fun would it be if we all grew the same way?

 

[glockdoc]

some hempy action

 

[Willy0405]

Hi guys I'm doing 5 plants in 5 gal hempys with perlite/verm mix under 2400w and was wondering what my chances of getting rootbound are.

There seems to be alot of roots and I plan on flipping to flower in about a week.

 

[hush]

Unless you have vegged them for several months before flowering, you'll be fine. I did 5gal hempy buckets under a 1k, after vegging for 6 weeks, and at harvest I looked at the roots... I could have vegged them longer if I needed to. In fact, because of that experience, I now use 2gal buckets.

 

[Willy0405]

It's been 2 and a half months or so.... I was considering transplanting if it would make a big impact on yield. However I am doing a scrog so this would be a messy process and preferably avoided

 

[hush]

Damn. Two and a half months is a long time. I want to say that you will still be fine, but it's hard to know for sure. It's a guess no matter how you look at it. I would say that, if it were me, I would probably cross my fingers and stick with the buckets. I would throw into flowering immediately though. Forget waiting another week.

 

[dansbuds]

flip'em NOW !!! the roots are still gonna grow another 2 to 3 weeks & if they ain't rootbound by now they will be after the stretch is over ! your probably gonna have to feed more than once a day as it is .