lol. See I look at your posts and I can tell that you just don't have a clue about what you're talking about and I seriously hope that people ignore you, but I don't think that is much of a worry.
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Kingsley Zissou
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thefalsediviner
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I run perpetual harvesting weekly. My veg cab is 300 watts of cfl running everything DWC. I go from cut to the flower room in 4 weeks. I run 9 2.5 gal hempies in a nine square foot area under 600 watts of metal halide. The smallest harvest per bucket over the last six months was 2.5 oz.
thefalsediviner
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Shit Fuck, now I gotta knock on wood and gut a chicken so my good juju doesn't run away.
great thread thanx!
You transplant from dwc to hempy and flower with a MH? Whatever.
Scottyboycx
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u can transplant from anything to hempy tbh! and MH for flowering....why not? i've used my 250 mh for flower before getting my 400w hps.....the 250 yields less (most likely cos of wattage) but still grows the buds.
thefalsediviner
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My mistake it is a 600hps, and yes I transplant from DWC to hempys. Just fill the hempy partway (I make a mound in the middle and try to get some of the root mass below the drain) set the net pot in, finish filling and water. By placing roots below the water line I'm able to water on schedule and do not need to water daily for any period of time. Only mediums I'm using are perlite and hydroton. I generally go all hydroton, but if I know I'll be away from the room for for than a day or two I use perlite and top with a couple of inches of hydroton. The perlite buckets can go a couple of days longer without watering if needed. The hydroton on top keeps the perlite from discoloring as I recycle all of my medium.
As far as flowering with MH vs HPS, I prefer the hps because the buds are tighter. I can't attest to increase yeild as my old MH was only 400watts, grow was a different location, and I was growing in soil. Honestly, I don't know why I typed metal halide and I've been on CFLs and HPS for quite some time.
As far as flowering with MH vs HPS, I prefer the hps because the buds are tighter. I can't attest to increase yeild as my old MH was only 400watts, grow was a different location, and I was growing in soil. Honestly, I don't know why I typed metal halide and I've been on CFLs and HPS for quite some time.
thefalsediviner
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Also, the reason I don't stick with the perlite topped with hydroton full time is that the 2.5 gal hempy's with hydroton only, rarely need to be staked. The perlite buckets result in staking every time. I have limited headroom in my flower area and staking plant just complicates things further. I'm experiencing that the Hydroton is a sturdier base for the plant but I for sure have to water every 2 days.
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CharacterZero
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but cleaning hydroton sucks.. perlite is simple and it works.
doesn't gh flora and floranova series automatically adjust ph? and if you water is hard, just get the hard water micro.
hempy has been using this setup since they 80's. im gonna go with his advice and keep it simple.
doesn't gh flora and floranova series automatically adjust ph? and if you water is hard, just get the hard water micro.
hempy has been using this setup since they 80's. im gonna go with his advice and keep it simple.
thefalsediviner
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I recycle the perlite too. Takes longer to drive to any store from here tan it does to clean either.
Other than transplanting from DWC, and not going with GH nutes per the label, I'm running stock hempy's.
I don't know if GH adjust ph or not. I don't adjust my ph. I just check it from time to time as I believe it is valuable information. I wouldn't buy a $100 meter, drop and vile testing is close enough. Certainly nothing to get to OCD about.
The transplanting from DWC was just a curious George moment that worked out great for me.
By all means start out with the original instructions. I wouldn't ever hesitate to push the reset button and go back to the original instruction if you ever start having chronic issues. I've done it and was glad I did.
I believe hempy is currently running some coco hempy's in the coco forum using canna nutes. I stick with hydroton and perlite either alone or in combo, both work well.
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The majority of the hydro nutes out there have buffers that keep your pH where you want it as long as your starting water isn't crap.
hempy threads always end up with dumb shit in them. lol.
i want to do a side by side by side... 100% Perlite x P&V x Coir on top of perlite.
Has anyone done this? what was your exp if so?
I would imagine it would go like this...
more watering, less watering, even less watering. probly not much diff in yield.
i want to do a side by side by side... 100% Perlite x P&V x Coir on top of perlite.
Has anyone done this? what was your exp if so?
I would imagine it would go like this...
more watering, less watering, even less watering. probly not much diff in yield.
CharacterZero
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if your water is crap, would the hard water micro help any? or should you just get an r/o filter.
my water here is fine, i think.. ive never checked ec/tds.. so i dont know.. only ph.. which is 7
They make nutes for hard water and if your water is truly hard I'd choose those.
R/O units in my opinion are a last resort kind of thing. Forums are filled with people having to put cal-mag into their water after they removed it with an r/o unit. Nutes are made to work with tap water, not r/o water.
If your water is close to 7pH I say just use the nutes according to directions and see what happens. The majority of people will have no problems.
R/O units in my opinion are a last resort kind of thing. Forums are filled with people having to put cal-mag into their water after they removed it with an r/o unit. Nutes are made to work with tap water, not r/o water.
If your water is close to 7pH I say just use the nutes according to directions and see what happens. The majority of people will have no problems.
Tap water would be my first choice.
R/O is reverse osmosis and it's a filter that some growers use when their tap water has way too much crap in it.
R/O is reverse osmosis and it's a filter that some growers use when their tap water has way too much crap in it.
