Bluter's Happy Home For Hilarious Hempsters

[bluter]

Girls are booming !!

i'm moving them to the flower room tonight.

last day in veg town ..

everyone's at the top of the hoops except the one acapulco

i gotta start bugging folk about how i can take better pics.

cleaned up the flower room last night. there was pollen stuck in the racks i use from the last grow.

it clung to texture on top and managed to collect at the bottom of some of those square structures. right after this pic was taken i gave up on the toothbrush and took them outside for good soaking and powerwash

washed down the rest of the flower room, synced my timers back up and made sure the light was good. i'm moving the plants after dark i think tonight.

 

[bluter]

@Danishoes21 was asking why the knuckles get so developed.

about 6 hrs a day i blast the veg gals with a big fan. i turn the fan up as they get stronger and grow. it's not a secret weapon or anything. i also have a small 4in circ fan in there.

i'd like to add a 6in somewhere in the flower room. i've been relying on 2 4's in there.

 

[InTheShed]

A fine mist of water will invalidate decapitate deactivate pollen but power washing is much more fun!

Have a safe move to flower.

 

[NickHardy]

@Danishoes21 was asking why the knuckles get so developed.

about 6 hrs a day i blast the veg gals with a big fan. i turn the fan up as they get stronger and grow. it's not a secret weapon or anything. i also have a small 4in circ fan in there.

i'd like to add a 6in somewhere in the flower room. i've been relying on 2 4's in there.

Super photo plus learning.



A chill overnight can help with the purple I’ve found (then more experienced types said yep!)

Nick

 

[Jack420]

i'm moving them to the flower room tonight.

last day in veg town ..

everyone's at the top of the hoops except the one acapulco

i gotta start bugging folk about how i can take better pics.

cleaned up the flower room last night. there was pollen stuck in the racks i use from the last grow.

it clung to texture on top and managed to collect at the bottom of some of those square structures. right after this pic was taken i gave up on the toothbrush and took them outside for good soaking and powerwash

washed down the rest of the flower room, synced my timers back up and made sure the light was good. i'm moving the plants after dark i think tonight.

Soon to be booming I just switched my tent over ! Time to see the flowers

 

[bluter]

quick look in the flower room

Plants look healthy. Do they stay that way all through bloom?

the nute runs hot in my experience. especially the original one part nute. typically it runs fine in veg and gets a bit dicey in flower until you've worked with it for a bit. it's not hard to adapt.

This is Megacrop that you bought 4 or 5 years ago?

yes. you get piles for your money. we've used something under a third or less so far. feedings are fractions of a cent as far as cost of nutes. as a bonus the runoff is used in other gardening.

What kind of soil mixture do you use?

100% perlite.

You also add a cal-mag, do you use any other amendments or soil additives?

i run it with cal-mag at about 1/3 or seedling levels all through. i believe the cal-mag to be a weak component of the nute. a number of growers don't use it at all. it seems more is needed in hydro or under heavy led lighting.

i sometimes run a little bud explosion in flower. it's a super hot booster and i would not recommend running it full bore.

How is the overall smoke, do you notice any harshness or does it taste sweet and pure?

same as everyone else. i often get comments on how smooth my product smokes, but i attribute that more to the curing process than anything.


edit : it runs on a continuous feed schedule. no in between water, no flushing necessary at all.

Anyway nice plants, thumbs up.

cheers.

I'm currently nursing a clone back to health from a bad mix I was growing it in. New growth is looking straight though some of the older leaves still have that curl.

Just takes one wrong amendment to make the whole grow go sideways.

a lot of folk use the nute as a backup in case they encounter problems with a more involved system.

 

[Sparkey224]

Looking great over there Bluter

 

[bluter]

Looking great over there Bluter

they get a bit harder to work from here forward. normally i've fixed something by this time lol

 

[Roy Growin]

I've been using coco for years but thinking about a sip or hempy - really not sure which to try
I use sips in the garden, really easy and work great but my man says hempy will get astonishing results
Whadd'ya reckon @bluter?

 

[Danishoes21]

Looking good b

 

[bluter]

I've been using coco for years but thinking about a sip or hempy - really not sure which to try
I use sips in the garden, really easy and work great but my man says hempy will get astonishing results
Whadd'ya reckon @bluter?

my own opinion is that sips runs a bit more stable. it's just from observations from the board. aside from that they are so close it's hard to tell them apart.

hempy is definitely easier to set up, and likely the cheapest way to indoor grow. also hempy punches way above it's weight as far as production. sips will as well, but hempy does it with a far smaller footprint. 1L in hempy = 1gal in regular soil results. my "large" buckets in hempy are the 5L ones in this grow. my normal ones are 2L.

Looking good b

 

[bluter]

gave the gals a first feed from flip

i noticed my problem gelato was whining about calmag yet again.

this is getting really old. i'm running the nute hella hot to keep them happy and i've been waiting for the other shoe to drop.

i've been adding an extra .5ml calmag per L which has shot my ec up by .20 over anything i wanted to see. to figure out where i sit i mixed the next feeding and took a reading. the nute on it's own is registering close to .40 ec above what the recommended ec is when mixed by volume (gram/L) following the feed chart.

when taking a read on the plants it becomes clear that feeding by ec may be under what is available to the nute. i'm pretty sure it's the calmag not being available to the plant, but present in the ec. i added some extra RO to the mix to drop my ec down a bit, and will check on them before feeding to see if the ask has continued.

i did not add any calmag to the next mix yet. i've noticed the nute is in much better shape at the flower room than what i was using in veg, and it is dissolving much easier, suggesting the calmag may be available to the plant.

considering all this i may drop back on the extra calmag and monitor going forward. it's probably advisable to feed on volume and not ec going forward, but i'm hot enough i may play with those numbers a bit.

once i get flower set, i'll probably drop back on the nute, and add in bud explosion, but i'll try keep within the ec i'm seeing at present, and try ride it as far as i can through flower.

 

[KeithLemon]

Hey bluter do you mind if I follow your thread

 

[NickHardy]

gave the gals a first feed from flip

i noticed my problem gelato was whining about calmag yet again.

this is getting really old. i'm running the nute hella hot to keep them happy and i've been waiting for the other shoe to drop.

i've been adding an extra .5ml calmag per L which has shot my ec up by .20 over anything i wanted to see. to figure out where i sit i mixed the next feeding and took a reading. the nute on it's own is registering close to .40 ec above what the recommended ec is when mixed by volume (gram/L) following the feed chart.

when taking a read on the plants it becomes clear that feeding by ec may be under what is available to the nute. i'm pretty sure it's the calmag not being available to the plant, but present in the ec. i added some extra RO to the mix to drop my ec down a bit, and will check on them before feeding to see if the ask has continued.

i did not add any calmag to the next mix yet. i've noticed the nute is in much better shape at the flower room than what i was using in veg, and it is dissolving much easier, suggesting the calmag may be available to the plant.

considering all this i may drop back on the extra calmag and monitor going forward. it's probably advisable to feed on volume and not ec going forward, but i'm hot enough i may play with those numbers a bit.

once i get flower set, i'll probably drop back on the nute, and add in bud explosion, but i'll try keep within the ec i'm seeing at present, and try ride it as far as i can through flower.

What are your EC and Ph numbers?

Play the Ph is my first thought.

They’ll take anything better at the optimal Ph.

I can put my favourite grow graph here you like?

Nick

 

[bluter]

Hey bluter do you mind if I follow your thread

hop right in don't be shy. you might be getting here just as stuff gets interesting lol

What are your EC and Ph numbers?

i'm at mid flower levels or above at 1.6+. i should be at 1.4 or so. a full nute mix by volume for wk 1 has put me at 1.8, but i've added some RO and i notice it is dropping as it dissolves in, i mixed an hour ago and it's already come down to a hair over 1.7. i'm gonna let it sit for 24 hrs and then check again

Play the Ph is my first thought.

They’ll take anything better at the optimal Ph.

they get fed at 5.8 always.

I can put my favourite grow graph here you like?

sure. why not ?

 

[KeithLemon]

hop right in don't be shy. you might be getting here just as stuff gets interesting lol






i'm at mid flower levels or above at 1.6+. i should be at 1.4 or so. a full nute mix by volume for wk 1 has put me at 1.8, but i've added some RO and i notice it is dropping as it dissolves in, i mixed an hour ago and it's already come down to a hair over 1.7. i'm gonna let it sit for 24 hrs and then check again






they get fed at 5.8 always.





sure. why not ?

Thank you

 

[bluter]

Thank you

no worries. i'm boring, and a bit of an asshole, but the grow method is pretty trick if you wanna pick it up.

i never run into anything like it. it blew me away when i got told about it. i was in the middle of setting up an active hydro system and dropped it for hempy.

right now i don't think i can ever see myself growing any other style beside hempy or sips. i wouldn't mind running sips, i built an outdoor hydro garden at my folks place a couple years ago that is essentially sips.

 

[Wastei]

gave the gals a first feed from flip

i noticed my problem gelato was whining about calmag yet again.

this is getting really old. i'm running the nute hella hot to keep them happy and i've been waiting for the other shoe to drop.

i've been adding an extra .5ml calmag per L which has shot my ec up by .20 over anything i wanted to see. to figure out where i sit i mixed the next feeding and took a reading. the nute on it's own is registering close to .40 ec above what the recommended ec is when mixed by volume (gram/L) following the feed chart.

when taking a read on the plants it becomes clear that feeding by ec may be under what is available to the nute. i'm pretty sure it's the calmag not being available to the plant, but present in the ec. i added some extra RO to the mix to drop my ec down a bit, and will check on them before feeding to see if the ask has continued.

i did not add any calmag to the next mix yet. i've noticed the nute is in much better shape at the flower room than what i was using in veg, and it is dissolving much easier, suggesting the calmag may be available to the plant.

considering all this i may drop back on the extra calmag and monitor going forward. it's probably advisable to feed on volume and not ec going forward, but i'm hot enough i may play with those numbers a bit.

once i get flower set, i'll probably drop back on the nute, and add in bud explosion, but i'll try keep within the ec i'm seeing at present, and try ride it as far as i can through flower.

The pH in the medium is probably on the lower side. Do you have to add pH down or up to the reservoir? Reservoir pH drift is a good indicator on whats going on in the medium when growing in inert media. If you have to keep adjusting up or down in the reservoir the same drift happens in the pots/medium. Cheers!

 

[NickHardy]

hop right in don't be shy. you might be getting here just as stuff gets interesting lol






i'm at mid flower levels or above at 1.6+. i should be at 1.4 or so. a full nute mix by volume for wk 1 has put me at 1.8, but i've added some RO and i notice it is dropping as it dissolves in, i mixed an hour ago and it's already come down to a hair over 1.7. i'm gonna let it sit for 24 hrs and then check again






they get fed at 5.8 always.





sure. why not ?

I love 5.8 myself. Always use that (I’m in Coco)

This is my favourite graph (specifically this black and white one!)

5.8 is right in the sweet spot - but you’re worried about Cal Mag which is as important as the most important thing for me - why not try a bump to 6.5 for a couple of feeds - they’re more receptive to the Cal and the Mag there

My 2c’s

I ran mine down as low as 4.2 once (mistake - hadn’t told & Co I hadn’t fixed the Ph and she hit the button to water )

We actually had some deficiencies that it cured (we came slowly back up to 5.8 over 3 days so all those good little things lower down the graph got boosted)

Then I bought a Bluelab Ph pen and although expensive compared to the normal SA River type pen its well worth it for peace of mind.

Hope that’s of use to someone!

But yeah A you can impact what the plant is uptaking by “Playing the Ph Pipes”

Nick

 

[bluter]

The pH in the medium is probably on the lower side. Do you have to add pH down or up to the reservoir? Reservoir pH drift is a good indicator on whats going on in the medium when growing in inert media. If you have to keep adjusting up or down in the reservoir the same drift happens in the pots/medium. Cheers!

i always ph to hydro rules in this media. it's a ph down and drift up. pretty normal for any hydro. i don't need to adjust, they've eaten it by the time i get there. the pots today were like feathers.

i can feed on a 3-2-1 schedule. it's not like any other media. you can actually feed on set days, so long as you keep up with the plant. it's good for new growers that way.

you can't drown a hempy, so on bottle nutes you feed anyway to keep ph in control. with my nute it really doesn't matter, i could dry cycle them, but keep to the schedule regardless.

i've explained this a few times in the thread but here goes

seedling to mid veg - every 3rd day
mid veg to early flower- every 2nd day
mid flower to chop - every day

i ph to 5.8 every feed, but the most folk don't bother at all with the nute i run.