Grandpa's Second Try - Come Join Us!

Hiyas Sue! Yes, I am seriously considering it. Shoot, if I decide to, I may just put another photo in a hempy as described by y'all, and see what happens. It would be a great comparison to the soil, I am o. I have always been open to new ideas and methods. Whether with sight or without. And... Right now, we're looking for something that we can be consistently successful with. With you not only supporting but using this method, that speaks a lot for it. Thanks for chiming in! God bless! :namaste:
Sue and Tead got me into Hempy. So with Tead guiding you, yer set

The Osmo+ worked well, but like Sue , I'm using liquid nutes now and all my plants are Hempy. It's so easy and smaller pots work great. I use 1.5gal buckets and they are perfect but Tead PVC is about as easy as it gets

Try the Hempy...you'll be glad u did
 
Sue and Tead got me into Hempy. So with Tead guiding you, yer set

The Osmo+ worked well, but like Sue , I'm using liquid nutes now and all my plants are Hempy. It's so easy and smaller pots work great. I use 1.5gal buckets and they are perfect but Tead PVC is about as easy as it gets

Try the Hempy...you'll be glad u did
Thanks a lot for your opinion, CS. Like I said above. I think I'm going to run one hempy and one in Kind soil. this will give me a real life look at what would be best for us. We are also going to make use of the CL soil that Toasty sent with the Earth Juice pH Down Crystals for an auto to hopefully have a sooner Harvest, when we flip. We will have a small layer of the buildasoil at the bottom of the fabric pot. I'm very excited to see how all these different mediums work out. This would be a very fascinating run, I believe. Thank you again, and may God bless! :thumb:
 
No worries baby! Just drop me a line... I'll send it upstream.... hey, when you live at the bottom, everything is upstream.
I'd be quite honored.

Wow. I like that great attitude .
 
Thanks a lot for your opinion, CS. Like I said above. I think I'm going to run one hempy and one in Kind soil. this will give me a real life look at what would be best for us. We are also going to make use of the CL soil that Toasty sent with the Earth Juice pH Down Crystals for an auto to hopefully have a sooner Harvest, when we flip. We will have a small layer of the buildasoil at the bottom of the fabric pot. I'm very excited to see how all these different mediums work out. This would be a very fascinating run, I believe. Thank you again, and may God bless! :thumb:


Awesome... a comparison grow!


I usually like to deliver my sermon earlier in the conversation, but Tead really likes his sermon.... so he's gonna drag it out one more time just for fun.
I think Sue got this one originally.


The Right Rev. sees that you've not graced the halls of the Church of Hempy. For shame!
No worries, the Right Rev. carries a virtual pulpit and pews. Settle for a moment... and listen to to a short sermon from on high.

Like you, I was once a heathen wandering in the forests. I was even worse. I once stuck my toes into the evil waters of active hydro.
Lo, they were sad times. Heat from the depths of Hell itself caused me no end of torment. Winged creatures descended upon my potential bounty and devoured it greatly. The Gods of Rot painted my crops with a wicked and smelly concoction. There were many forms of prayers and offerings, but no goodness ever shined upon his worship of the pump.
I returned to my original soil based worship. Some joy was delivered and some harvests were bountiful, but there were always nagging issues with my soil worship. It often supported various winged and non-winged plagues. Offerings made (nutrients) often had a result that was not expected. Speed seemed always to be less that what I wanted.
One day, another grower passed on the Bible of Hempy to him. He read... carefully, not really sure if to believe the words or not. Many aspects of the Hempy religion attracted him. He decided to give it a try... tho shifting religions can be a dicey proposition, so he maintained his soil worship while answering to the Hempy Godz as well.
Tead was a skeptic. As a horrible pessimist at heart, he was sure the new religion would not work. He was sure the bowels of Hell would open to devour his bounty. He was certain that the evil God of Rot would return. He was absolutely positive that it was going to be much more work that he was willing to undertake.
He was wrong... dead wrong and on every point.
He has found that he can collect a much larger bounty much more often and with less effort than his soil based worship.
He now basks in the Holy Light of Growing known as Hempy Pots.

The Right Rev. will now step from the pulpit.
 
I never tire of hearing that sermon. :laughtwo:

Grandpa, I started in living organic soil that graduated to Doc Bud's HB kit soil, a more fevered version of living soil that's so easy even I haven't managed to do irreparable harm.

Then the Rev Tead enticed me to try a hempy. The transition was a little rough for me, but once I let my fears fall away and learned to use bottled nutrients it went easier. I honestly can't believe how easy hempy is. I use expensive nutrients and grow unbelievably beautiful and heavy-yielding plants in less than two gallons of perlite, watering every two days. With Osmo that's just water.

With soil there are so many ways to get in trouble. I love growing in soil, but the real thrillers in my garden are the hempy girls. All the flavor and yield of soil (more actually) and more ease than hydro. Hard to beat. Getting more than an ounce per plant has been a nice bonus too. I was having a difficult time getting yields in soil. Still am. Not so with the hempy girls. Big, beautiful, bountiful plants.

Not as big as Dabber's hempy monster though. :laughtwo:
 
Sorry for busting in here gramps but all this talk about hempy buckets has caught my attention. Is there a "go to" thread describing the setup and procedures to follow for a hempy newbie?
 
Awesome... a comparison grow!


I usually like to deliver my sermon earlier in the conversation, but Tead really likes his sermon.... so he's gonna drag it out one more time just for fun.
I think Sue got this one originally.


The Right Rev. sees that you've not graced the halls of the Church of Hempy. For shame!
No worries, the Right Rev. carries a virtual pulpit and pews. Settle for a moment... and listen to to a short sermon from on high.

Like you, I was once a heathen wandering in the forests. I was even worse. I once stuck my toes into the evil waters of active hydro.
Lo, they were sad times. Heat from the depths of Hell itself caused me no end of torment. Winged creatures descended upon my potential bounty and devoured it greatly. The Gods of Rot painted my crops with a wicked and smelly concoction. There were many forms of prayers and offerings, but no goodness ever shined upon his worship of the pump.
I returned to my original soil based worship. Some joy was delivered and some harvests were bountiful, but there were always nagging issues with my soil worship. It often supported various winged and non-winged plagues. Offerings made (nutrients) often had a result that was not expected. Speed seemed always to be less that what I wanted.
One day, another grower passed on the Bible of Hempy to him. He read... carefully, not really sure if to believe the words or not. Many aspects of the Hempy religion attracted him. He decided to give it a try... tho shifting religions can be a dicey proposition, so he maintained his soil worship while answering to the Hempy Godz as well.
Tead was a skeptic. As a horrible pessimist at heart, he was sure the new religion would not work. He was sure the bowels of Hell would open to devour his bounty. He was certain that the evil God of Rot would return. He was absolutely positive that it was going to be much more work that he was willing to undertake.
He was wrong... dead wrong and on every point.
He has found that he can collect a much larger bounty much more often and with less effort than his soil based worship.
He now basks in the Holy Light of Growing known as Hempy Pots.

The Right Rev. will now step from the pulpit.
Well now... I guess I'm going to have to try this out. I think the big cell will be Kelley. Her spirits are already down with all this thyroid removal and trying to get the hormones correct. I look forward to at least a few more weeks of this, and I just feel sorry tafor her, and pray an awful lot. I am trying to find a talking pH meter and a talking hygrometer. no luck yet. Obviously, I want Kelly's part to be as little as possible so that she can recover more quickly. Any tool or piece of equipment that can talk to me, will make that goal closer and closer. So... I keep looking.
 
I never tire of hearing that sermon. :laughtwo:

Grandpa, I started in living organic soil that graduated to Doc Bud's HB kit soil, a more fevered version of living soil that's so easy even I haven't managed to do irreparable harm.

Then the Rev Tead enticed me to try a hempy. The transition was a little rough for me, but once I let my fears fall away and learned to use bottled nutrients it went easier. I honestly can't believe how easy hempy is. I use expensive nutrients and grow unbelievably beautiful and heavy-yielding plants in less than two gallons of perlite, watering every two days. With Osmo that's just water.

With soil there are so many ways to get in trouble. I love growing in soil, but the real thrillers in my garden are the hempy girls. All the flavor and yield of soil (more actually) and more ease than hydro. Hard to beat. Getting more than an ounce per plant has been a nice bonus too. I was having a difficult time getting yields in soil. Still am. Not so with the hempy girls. Big, beautiful, bountiful plants.

Not as big as Dabber's hempy monster though. :laughtwo:

With all of this great stuff that you are telling me, and all the others... I will definitely have a hempy bucket in the tent when we start this grow, or shortly thereafter. I'm just waiting to receive the Kind soil, so that we can at least get the soil pots going. I really am excited to be getting going on this! Thanks a lot, Sue!
 
Sorry for busting in here gramps but all this talk about hempy buckets has caught my attention. Is there a "go to" thread describing the setup and procedures to follow for a hempy newbie?
CB..you are always welcome on any of my threads! You are not busting in if you're welcome. 😁
 
Not even sure I'd worry about a ph meter... unless you want it for your "dirty girls".
While a liquid diet would require a ph pen, the osmo+ fed girls can get along fine without it. I add 1/8tsp per gallon of my ph down, but I was doing just fine outdoors feeding them straight from the hose.
I generally use 10 milliliters per gallon of Cal Mag as well. Cal Mag adds Calcium and Magnesium to the mix which is not really taken up by the plant very well at the PH ranges the plant prefers to grow in. This is not usually an issue in soil grows, but can raise it's head in hydro grows. You see kinda random spots on leaves that kinda remind one of rust spots if you run into this issue. A Cal Mag substitute can be used.... milk and epsom salt, but you'll end up with smelly pots.
 
Not even sure I'd worry about a ph meter... unless you want it for your "dirty girls".
While a liquid diet would require a ph pen, the osmo+ fed girls can get along fine without it. I add 1/8tsp per gallon of my ph down, but I was doing just fine outdoors feeding them straight from the hose.
I generally use 10 milliliters per gallon of Cal Mag as well. Cal Mag adds Calcium and Magnesium to the mix which is not really taken up by the plant very well at the PH ranges the plant prefers to grow in. This is not usually an issue in soil grows, but can raise it's head in hydro grows. You see kinda random spots on leaves that kinda remind one of rust spots if you run into this issue. A Cal Mag substitute can be used.... milk and epsom salt, but you'll end up with smelly pots.
Don't forget that we have 2 soil grows going at the same time, so it will be needed. Thanks for letting me know about hempy not needing it. We still have our ph up and down kit thanks to PW. And, thanks to Toasty, we have pH down crystals from Earth Juice nutrients. We also have Cal Mag, thanks to Dom. Other than the talking tools, I think we'll be set.
 
And working with phone or tablet means the phone or tablet would need to talk to you. Just wanted to clarify. .
My phone already talked to me. That's how I am able to use it. That sounds interesting, even if it doesn't work, it's worth a shot. Thanks for taking the time, HS
 
Oh and I have some ph up that I never use because my ph is always too high. Happy to send it your way. Would rather send it to someone that might use it rather than have it rot away on my shelf.

Ya know.... has anyone every used PH up???
I guess you could need it if you overshot your target horribly with the PH down. Never really seen it used tho.
 
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