Bluter's Happy Home For Hilarious Hempsters

I haven’t watched football yet this year.

i like watching american ball. don't follow it too closely though. it normally dovetails in to the end of our season. but we didn't have one this year. i live in the most football mad place in canada. it's inescapable.
 
I may start next weekend, they postponed the Buckeyes start because of covid. Pissed me off to no end.


i know the feeling. everyone's cooped up and growly.

covid is serious shit though. just wait til it hits your family or friends. it's getting close now. like cancer. find someone you know who hasn't lost someone. gonna be impossible this time next year.
 
we were chatting about droop and DLI earlier in the thread


slackers ..




they were fed earlier today and it's lights out soon - well sort of. i give them an hour of super weak burple on the veg light at either end of 18/6. main light is only on 16. i'm running about 75%.


only the cbdream are still asking for all they can get





:cheesygrinsmiley:
 
Finally made it here. Looks like I've arrived at a good time. I'm looking forward to seeing this. Nice setup.


not much but it's home .. :cheesygrinsmiley:
 
Do they perk up at lights on?


yup. takes a little bit but they stand up.. here they are a few minutes ago




everything pretty much level. will start to droop about 3 - 4 hours from now.
 
I spent some time reading up on DLI and put together something that folks might find useful. Aggregated from some of the various sources previously listed.

Something I found interesting is that based on DLI, it seems to prove that for most casual growers, 500-600 ppfd hits the sweet spot at 16-22 hours for veg - pretty much maxes out the plant. For flowering, the 600-800 would appear to be optimal. Cool to see the math "proves" the common, recommended, best practices.

DLI calculations - light-time-optimizations-1.png
 
i am always one feed behind the increase in nutes it seems. the cbdream held me up a bit but could've ramped harder faster even with them. they've shown the ability to handle it.

this is how we were looking a couple days ago ..




healthy but the bottoms are getting cannibalized. part of the problem is they were asking for up pot and they weren't in need of a bump in nutes as much as they were in need of the bigger res.


check out the hotshot bagged in the background. i have an entire covid's worth of beer bottles in the place and an annoying squadron of fruit flies as a result. we can't take the bottles in as there is a carry only limit at the recycler. swear to god i'm tossing them in the alley. let the alley bandits have 'em.

i been hanging the hotshot a couple hours a day just so they don't go near the veg space. they don't really harm anything, i'm just finicky.

i waited a couple days more and up potted. i like to up pot a hempy when it is dry. very similar to soil, then water/feed the plant in. as a result a couple fed off themselves a bit deeper.

sorry for the blurry pics ... when i up pot hempy,i start by adding dry perlite in the bottom of the new pot. i want enough that the solo cup would sit at the lip of the new pot when placed in, or even slightly above. i like a plant big enough that it ties up the majority of the perlite in the hempy cup.




i invert the cup over the new pot and let the loose stuff fall in. then turn the plant over and plunk it in.





then just fill in around the sides with more perlite and water in. this up pot is going from hempy cup to 2L, i have 5L pots i can up pot to again if i want monsters. i let the perlite get even more locked up between the 2 and 5L.

all done






12 hrs in and they don't even show shock. the roots are above the new res, but they'll hook up quick. i'm feeding just under an extended veg strength.

gonna go two more feeds and start training. will probably lose a couple nodes, but i want them established before i start snipping and intervening. also thinking about uncle ben's technique maybe - just not familiar. will pull the yellow leaves at the next feed.
 
High Bluter. The hempy grow is looking great!
I'm a coco guy ...for now. Watching with increasing interest. Stay stoneder!
 
High Bluter. The hempy grow is looking great!
I'm a coco guy ...for now. Watching with increasing interest. Stay stoneder!


hiya fred. coco is super similar. results are usually very close as well. the biggest difference is hempy avoids multiple feedings per day in late veg and flower. it's also cheaper to run overall. there is very little reliance on hydro shop supplies.
 
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