The Official Hempy Bucket Thread

[Lyfespan]

easy clean bucket gravel and im guess considerably cheaper too
http://www.homedepot.com/p/MS-International-40-lb-Ash-Beach-Polished-Pebbles-Bag-LHDPEBQASH5POL40/203689121?MERCH=REC-_-PIPHorizontal1_rr-_-204417264-_-203689121-_-N

 

[Twisted pleasur]

Looking Good Useful!! what ppm you running on them bad boys?

 

[Pinball Wizard]

Anybody recycle/reclaim their Hempy mix?

 

[Capt.Ahab]

I'm not seeing any negative results due to the gravel.
The gravel I'm using consists of hard stone like granite, felsite and quartz. It isn't soft or reactive like limestone etc..


Lyfespan, I scraped it out of my driveway and washed it in a mild bleach solution then gave it a thorough hot water rinse. Cheap.

Doesn't gravel affect your pH?

 

[Capt.Ahab]

Anybody recycle/reclaim their Hempy mix?

Always had trouble getting all the fine root filaments out of the used perlite/vermiculite.
I give my used medium to a farmer down the road. It ends up spread with all the cow manure on his corn acreage.

 

[Useful Idiot]

Looking Good Useful!! what ppm you running on them bad boys?

Funny story......they are NOW getting 1000 ppm. BUT.....for 2 feedings they got around 3000 ppm. I used a tablespoon instead of a teaspoon of maxibloom per gallon plus some liquid Koolbloom and floralicious. I just adjusted the ph and fed without checking the ppm. LOL Fortunately White Lotus is a tough ol gal. Only burnt a few tips. I won't be doin that again.

 

[DoomsDay]

Re-use the crap out of your perlite. This past week was the first time I've had to buy new perlite in about a year, and that's only due to running low on the recycled stuff. I'm on at least my 4th run in the same perlite. No issues at all.

 

[Lyfespan]

recycle your perlite by tossing rounds into a large tote and water it with enzyme, lol

 

[Twisted pleasur]

wow nice I love reusing media. Ive done soil and now coco.. I will have to try theP and give it a go. Lyf you have two batches one in use and one on the soak with zym? How long you soak for? curious..

 

[Lyfespan]

wow nice I love reusing media. Ive done soil and now coco.. I will have to try theP and give it a go. Lyf you have two batches one in use and one on the soak with zym? How long you soak for? curious..

i havent had to zyme the media yet, i use it all during growing, keeps things nice and flowing. but i suspect that will change by the 3rd or 4th run in it.

i will say my hempy buckets love the EM-1 used on water only days, stuff is just great.
its crazy foliarly too during the later stages of flower
and i use it to drop the ph in my nute mixes too

 

[BinGrower]

I need to jump into this thread and subscribe. I've got 5 hempys on the go. I saw talk of reveg a few pages back. Does anyone cut back the root ball when they do this?

I'm going to reveg my Sour Kosher because I'm so proud of her.


Also I've just had a salt buildup issue. I put it down to watering only every four days and not allowing enough runoff. So besides changing that I've started using H&G Drip Clean, it seemed like a logical addition to hempy grows. Thoughts on this?

I also aerate my mix for a few hours with an airstone before I feed. I doubt the extra dissolved oxygen has much if any impact but it makes mixing and stablising things a lot easier. Is this a done thing?

 

[Trich_Tyson]

Just realized when posting in a different thread that today marks 30 days of first time hempy.. excuse the phone and sideways pics

Sour Bubble 9/26

Sour Bubble #2 (female - if the bud is good.. she's a keeper) 10/26

21"

LOVING IT. Going coco next time.

 

[Jellyfish]

I saw talk of reveg a few pages back. Does anyone cut back the root ball when they do this?

Yes, I read about the idea the other day on a thread about re-vegging.

I tried it a couple days ago, and it does seem to be having a positive effect- a big growth spurt with more five fingered leaves.

It usually doesn't hurt to trim the roots as long as you're in the vegetative stage. They love it.

 

[Pinball Wizard]

Hempy solved my problems.

 

[Jellyfish]

Looking good, PW!

 

[yankeetransplnt]

My shallow water culture system starts with almost this 'Hempy' system.....my containers will have 3" of lava rock at the bottoms with my holes right at the containers bottom edge....these sit right in a res made of a 2 x 4 frame lined with plastic....the res is flooded with an inch of mix and circulated/oxygenated with pumps.....he res is covered with a sheet of foiled foam board and containers sit in cut outs in that board.....
I started the res thing after using what was essentially your 'hempy' system....then as the garden expanded and number of plants, I wanted a way to avoid individually watering each plant....a healthy res solved that issue.....for those with a plant or two, I can attest to the simplicity and functionality of the Hempy system....A little addition to the hempy is to use the lava rock for 3 inches in the bottom of the container....it offers some nice airy, loose pockets for healthy roots....with your holes 2 inches up the side of the bucket, the lava rock creates a nice res within the bucket.....little more 'breathing' room for the roots.....This is how my hydroponic growing started in the early 80ies....very cool thread...regard, YT

 

[yankeetransplnt]

Have a few threads with my shallow water culture sys (SWC).
Basically a modified hempy system...I use the 3:1 perlite:verm mix but with 3" of lava rock in the bottoms of the containers...then my holes are on the bottom edgesnas with a standard 'sleeve' container....the plants then sit in a res which is a 2x4 frame lined with 6 mil plastic flooded to 1" of water/nute mix...the res has a foiled foam board cover and has a cutout for eaxh container...pumps aggitate/oxygenate the mix...u can also all air stones if u wish....roots rifle out the container holes into the res as they would in a DWC sys....hempy works for a plant or two but even with a cpl plants you can assure health water mix with the res....basically a hempy system with a res to do my watering....regards, YT

 

[DoomsDay]

looks good yankee!

now i have a few questions. i keep hearing people talk about switching from hand watering to some sort of reservoir system once hitting a point they feel hand watering to be too time consuming / laboring. ive ran a full hydro system in the past with the res and all that nonsense and it was a headache and a half to keep the thing at proper ppm, pH, etc etc etc.
I too hit a point where i got sick of water canning each individual plant, so using some 1/4 tubing and some t connectors, made little halos that sat inside of each pot and had a feed line coming from it. all of these feed lines connected to a drip line manifold (the ones that split a 1/2 sprinkler line into 8 drip lines) and connected that to the top of a sump pump. when i need to water, mix a 15 gal batch of juice, drop in sump pump, click on, and bam. watered. no need to maintain a res.

am i missing something that is beneficial by maintaining a constant res or ....? just seems like you guys give up the labor of hand watering to take on the headache of keeping this reservoir at proper pH, ppm, temp, etc etc. i get that some of you have the time to be in your garden numerous times a day to check on these things, but for those of us that cannot.... oy!

 

[Trich_Tyson]

looks good yankee!

now i have a few questions. i keep hearing people talk about switching from hand watering to some sort of reservoir system once hitting a point they feel hand watering to be too time consuming / laboring. ive ran a full hydro system in the past with the res and all that nonsense and it was a headache and a half to keep the thing at proper ppm, pH, etc etc etc.
I too hit a point where i got sick of water canning each individual plant, so using some 1/4 tubing and some t connectors, made little halos that sat inside of each pot and had a feed line coming from it. all of these feed lines connected to a drip line manifold (the ones that split a 1/2 sprinkler line into 8 drip lines) and connected that to the top of a sump pump. when i need to water, mix a 15 gal batch of juice, drop in sump pump, click on, and bam. watered. no need to maintain a res.

am i missing something that is beneficial by maintaining a constant res or ....? just seems like you guys give up the labor of hand watering to take on the headache of keeping this reservoir at proper pH, ppm, temp, etc etc. i get that some of you have the time to be in your garden numerous times a day to check on these things, but for those of us that cannot.... oy!

I'm with you.. doing all that other stuff to maintain a rez defeats the KISS benefit of the hempy bucket.. Basically it is no longer a hempy bucket..

KISS.. I'd like to get some drip lines for my buckets in the next round or so.. hand watering sucks.. and I can't do it everyday.

 

[DoomsDay]

Agree totally. The second the res and all of the piping and nonsense comes into play, not to mention a flood table where large volumes of water are exposed to an open environment... sounds like more headache than simplicity.

That said, the implimentation of those drip lines attached to a single manifold that's attached to a pump has allowed to vacation by just premix in a batch, hooking up a timer, and away I go.