The Official Hempy Bucket Thread

[dubwise]

Happy Easter fellow hempy bucket growers!
That wonderful bunny hooked me (my kid) up with chocolate and all is well.

 

[redspaghetti]

happy easter DW,

chopped the ladies yesterday and heres some nug shot
i love hempy

and another hempy run

cheers,

 

[osecretgardeno]

tin, when we started growing (a lickle while ago) we were bent on vegging out for a year on a few plants. We had a ton of clones and we were moving in one plant each week and removing one plant each week....the longer the plants took to veg = the more buds you got....however, there seemed to be window of opprotunity which closes (for us at about 2 months) and what we yield does not equal the time invested in such a long veg time. Now this is just what we can come up with on our end. I believe that SG will agree with me on this...I bet 8 weeks would be plenty of veg time for ya. Incidentally, we have one more plant that is going to be flipped on 4-20, and she is the last of the original cuts taken some time ago. She is in a 15gal. rubbermaid tote and has been LST'd like crazy. She's huge and moving her out of veg and into bloom is going to be a pain in the hind parts. If she is anything like her sister that was flipped two months before, she should yield about a pound, and that's great!!!, but to me it's not worth the time we have spent on her. Hope this helps out a bit.

Keep it green tinman.

i agree with you dubwise, i wouldn't suggest vegging past 2 months or so ... at that point you start to see diminishing returns ... econ class anyone? basically you can keep adding resources and time, but you are not getting more bud at the same rate as you were before ... that point where your diminishing returns start is your optimal veg time and i will say that is probably around 8 weeks or so. Just MHO of course ...

keep up the testing and great work my friends, we will all find the ideal situation in time.

YO RED -- NICE CHOP !!

dub, happy easter to you too my friend!

peace,
sg

 

[redspaghetti]

the one that got chopped didnt get to veg that much, they also had some problems with nute issue too and they came out good, sometime less is more
thanks Osec happy easter buddy
cheers,
red.

 

[DevilsReject]

Happy Easter Everyone!!

redspaghetti can you tell me how many times a week you feed your plants and do you use molasses every other feeding?? Thanks

 

[tinman]

HAPPY EASTER ALL!! gettin the bloom room changed around and now have a catch basin for all my overflow with a pump to pump it all out directly into the main drain! no more emptying my catch buckets!
nice harvest,red!!
dub, i did the flush and didnt do much so i uped the nutes and they seem to be doin better, transplanted the worse of the three. we'll see what she looks like in the morning. clones all look good. should be putting the mamas to bloom by this saturday. i'll veg out the clones for 8-9 weeks then flower them and see what i get. anyone ever use bloombastic? if so was it worth it?....... tinman

 

[dubwise]

Red-great looking buds!
@tin-glad to hear things are looking up for your plants.

 

[Scottyboycx]

anyone tried running molasses through hempys ? I've just started a flush in one using molasses to see how it goes

 

[redspaghetti]

i use molasses from start to finish, well 2 weeks before the chopping i use floraclear and aqua but i've done flushing with molasses and aqua also.

cheeres

 

[dubwise]

I used a molasses tea for a short time...didn't want to burn them using my regular nutes + guano/molasses tea. I did not see a difference in the short time I tried with it, so I suppose I'm not of much help.

 

[redspaghetti]

sup dub!

the fact i like about molasses is that it lower my Ph, which i dont have to use any other additives to lower it i also found my plants love molasses but im sure they would survive with out it

cheers,

 

[tinman]

has anyone here ever used bloombastic? if so was it everything they say? its 90 bucks for what looks like a pint!!! yikes!!

 

[*mistress*]

....@100% perlite hempy bucket gardeners....

frequency of watering in 5 gal bucket?

amount of water applied @ each watering?

daily watering, or every other day?

1 gallon of water, per plant, or more, or less, per watering?

 

[redspaghetti]

hi mistress,

100 % perlite 5 gal bucket
6 plants = 3 - 5 gal water everytime depend on how thirsty they are
every other day watering, sometime every other / other day.

 

[dubwise]

@red-in regards to lowering the ph with the use of molasses. I've been able to lower my ph with Liquid Karma and it seems like there is more in LK then what's in molasses....but with the price of LK v/ molasses....it's worth doing a side by side and seeing which bud ends up better. I'll get that going straight away. Are you adding 1 tsp/gal?

@mistress-I water my flowering plants ~24oz. each day. The plants in veg get it every other day and at a rate of ~16oz. I do have to note that the plants in veg are under 500w less light and my temps in bloom are usually a few degrees higher and I've got much more wind in bloom too. When my perlite begins to turn a little bit green, I back off the amount or check the drain hole. At times the drain hole has clogged up causing the roots to not get the air they need.

 

[Giant]

Forgot to post this in here.. 4 plants in 5gal hempy buckets. All over 5ft tall (two were pushing 6').

 

[mrred]

anyone use maxibloom with hempy?

 

[CaptainTrips]

I have used maxi grow extensively with hempy buckets... works great, maxi series is the main stuff I have used since I started growing hydro, going to give floranova a try since I got a sample of it.

 

[Ty_Kaycha]

I'm about to run a couple of buckets with floranova myself. First time using it though.

 

[Seafrost]

I've run hempys for years with straight perlite and Flora Nova Nutes. I usually run my ph at about 5.8. Great success