FelipeBlu’s Outdoor Hempy Photos & Autos 2020

¡Muchas gracias Señor S!

I like how BeBo1 is practically reaching out for the cage - you can see the “arms” separating from the middle 15-20 stems - gives her kind of a hulking persona - like she’s gonna shake the cage to test it!
 
Thanks syenite - just paying back-forward.

Oh, and I’ve been nominated, but there’s some other great growers/members up there too, so maybe I’ll be able to remain in the undergrowth..
 
Today, I noted that the trichs on Ka1 were mostly cloudy. This follows a week of decreasing water use - the bucket is still heavy from 3 days ago.

The poor baby got badly burned a couple weeks ago, when I mistakenly gave her the wrong solution. At that point, she just stopped fattening up. These Kryptonites have a more sativa bud anyway - it doesn’t really bulk up like an Indica - so I’m not sure how much effect the burn had, but there it is.

Ka1, born May 17 (60 days), started flowering on Day 25 (6/11)
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Above, when I mentioned giving Ka1 the wrong solution - it was actually the solution she was getting every fertigation, but it was too strong for her condition at the time, which was sunburnt, wind-burned, and dry as a bone.

I should have diluted a cup of the solution by about 20% and poured that over her roots, waited about 30 minutes, and then given her the rest at regular dose. Just got careless - something you can never do with Autos.
 
I turn my back for a couple of minutes and you have beasts growing in your backyard! The BeBo I grew was an excellent producer so you will be in couchlock meds for quite some time. Beauties!
HashGirl said:
We're looking ahead in maybe a decade or so
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Wow, even China only did 5-year ones!
FelipeBlu said:
Just got careless - something you can never do with Autos.
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I've been playing fast and loose with my three-DDAs-one-pot, but I'm sure the ProMix is more forgiving than hydro would be.
 
Very nice to have you drop by the garden, Shed! Thanks for the kind words. :thanks:

The hempy method certainly allows for making immediate changes to the feed/reservoir - one just has to be paying attention, and realize/notice that there’s an issue..
before the next day.
 
¡Hola Felipe and gang.

Congratulations, Felipe on the MOTM nomination. You've been a wonderful support to me during my grow and I really appreciate it. You have my vote. :love:
 
What BT said (minus the actual "Bro" part)!
 
And since you’re here, and I just harvested Ka1, I can show you what the roots do in perlite hempy

Here, you can see that there is quite a bit of unoccupied perlite above a slope angling down from the trunk to the sidewall. The narrower the container - the flatter the slope. The “original hempy” was supposedly 2L soda bottles. In that case, the slope would be flat indeed.
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You can also see here that the roots stop about 1/2” away from the plastic wall. I’m not sure why - maybe too much heat cooks off the moisture, so the root stops at air.

Here, you can see that there’s really no roots going into the perlite below the hole. That part of the pot volume must be excluded from root volume.
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Here, you can see that, contrary to popular belief, there doesn’t have to be a “tap root”. Instead, when the roots hit air on the sides, or water on the bottom, they stopped, and then numerous lateral roots shoot out.
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I hope that this information helps you with container selection, should you decide to try hempy again.
 
FelipeBlu said:
I can show you what the roots do in perlite hempy
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Very very cool post, love the explanation and pics.

BTW Felipe, not directly related, but one of your early tips to me was spot-on. My old mix was bad in a number of ways, but it also retained too much water! The new mix is much lighter - a coco/peat/perlite hybrid of sorts - and I think I'm going to see a difference in terms of the speed of development, and of course the wet-dry cycles. I look forward to the autopsy at the end of my grow. I believe lighter mixes/media encourage the kind of root development you're showing here. Instead of thicker, more "muscular" roots, you get a mass of lighter, finer roots instead.
 
You are right! More air = a more fibrous root network! Perlite hempy, unless you are very careful, usually cannot tolerate as extreme a dry side of the wet-dry cycle as a soil mix that has fine particles (which also encourages this kind of root development). It’s all the air in the perlite that’s providing the opportunity.
 
Just a nutrient note - I‘ve been gradually increasing the EC - now at 1.8 (905 ppm) with the following (all per gallon, in order):

1.8 ml Calimagic
0.75g Epsom salt (I’ve noted an apparent increased need for Mg, but not Ca)
6g MegaCrop v1
3 ml ProteKt (0-0-3)
1.5 ml 7.5% battery acid

This provides:

164 ppm N
37 P
212 K
132 Ca
58 Mg
74 S
1.84 Fe
68 Si

I’m starting to see shorter internodes, with the “weaving stems” that signal to me that straight veg is soon coming to an end, and the plants are preparing to transition to flowering. Soon, I’m going to start cutting back on the N and the silica, and start introducing more P. The planned mix will be:

2 ml Calimagic
0.75g Epsom salt
4g MegaCrop v1
1g Greenway 4-18-38 (a tomato dry fertilizer)
1 ml ProteKt (0-0-3)
1 ml 7.5% battery acid

This will provide:

122 N
45 P
217 K
100 Ca
49 Mg
80 S
2.8 Fe
23 Si
 
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