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[Tead]

Yowsa!

 

[Chris Scorpio]

Hempys are rocking it

And new girl with the autos

 

[TorturedSoul]

I've seen folks try to mix the concepts using soil in a mix but treating it like a hydro hempy... never successfully.

Do you have any thoughts as to why that was? Too much moisture in the root zone, causing a lack of O₂ availability to the roots? That's my only real fear if I do that thing. However, I've seen those planters that you're supposed to water by pouring it into the piece that is generally just a drainage tray - and plants in those tend to be fine (I have a basil in one now). IDK if you're familiar with them, and I'm sure I'm describing them badly. One part of the "drip catcher" (that isn't, lol) is curved like a spout, sort of, to aid in filling. There's a raised-- err... lowered section on the bottom of the main pot that's in the shape of a + that actually protrudes down into the lower piece, and it has lots of slots cut into the bottom so that the bottom portion of the soil actually rests IN the water one pours into the reservoir. Unlike traditional bottom-watering methods, where the gardener places the pot into a larger container of water for a few minutes, this is a permanent attachment - so the bottom of the soil mixture is basically in water unless/until it either uses it all or the water evaporates.

I gave it to Mom when it got warm enough for her to place it outside, or I'd post a picture. When I first saw the thing, it reminded me of the hempy setup. I'll try to remember to take a picture of it next Sunday if I'm not over there sooner. If I hadn't given it to Mom, I'd probably fill it with perlite and stick a cannabis plant into it, LOL.

The night before last, I took a good cutting from each of two plants. They're sitting in cups of what I use for planting mix - just Fox Farms Happy Frog and 25% perlite. I didn't cut portions off the leaves or even strip any that weren't on the part of the stem that gets planted. No gentle warmth from below, NO humidity-trapping dome/cover, and instead of rigging up a mild light, I set them on top of a milk crate about two or two and a half feet below a 350-watt hybrid LED panel that'll bleach tops at less than 12", lol. Oh, and there's a fairly strong oscillating fan giving the a whacking breeze I think two seconds out of every five . I figure they'll be fine, but may take a little longer to root. I didn't even think about rooting them in 100% perlite. But after I notice new growth (or at least increasing height), IF it looks like I can easily wash most of the soil mix off of the roots, I'll stick them into hempy setups. Otherwise... I have more plants coming, I think.

I also took a couple of cuttings from what I believe to be Sensi Seeds' Jack Herer, but which might be Serious Seeds' Kali Mist. I forgot to keep track of which was which :roll_icon . These are significantly smaller than I usually cut (shorter than my little finger), abused, and without much in the way of leaves - just a tiny little "top." IDK if they'll be successful or not.

Snow?!?! Oh no.... The world stops at the mere sight of snow.

<FURIOUSLY ROLLING EYES> But you don't have any skinny, badly paved - or unpaved - winding mountain roads. I'm not even sure if you have any hills, lol. Isn't the entire city at an altitude of around ten feet below sea level to ten feet above, or thereabouts?

Actually, I've seen that attitude before, and much farther north. I worked in a restaurant almost 30 years ago in western North Carolina, and I remember the boss walking in one evening and saying, "Shut the place down and get ready to leave, we won't see another customer for the rest of the night because I saw a couple of snow flurries when I walked across the parking lot." I laughed, because I thought he was attempting to make a (lame) joke - and then kept working. A few minutes later, he walked back into the kitchen and got a little irate because I didn't have the grills shut off :rolleyes3 .

That kind of stuff is just... foreign to me. I was taught how to drive in Winter in two vehicles - a 1966 Dodge Charger with a 426 cubic inch hemi (the "old old" solid lifter one, not the "street" hemi that they started putting in cars shortly afterwards) and a dump truck that was so old it had multiple gearshift levers. Used to loooooooove being the first vehicle to hit the back roads after a heavy snow.

Accumulations significant enough to form a small snowman are very rare... tho quite pretty in the swamplands.

I bet it would be. Everything looks cleaner, and a good coat of snow kind of knocks the hard edges off the scenery.

Visit in the weekends before Mardi Gras. You can catch parades with much smaller crowds.

I'm not really a parade kind of guy, to be honest. They have people there, lol. A crowd, to me, is one too many to fit comfortably on a couch. I'll watch them on television if they're on the channel that I get. I don't really see very well any more - and I can get as close as I want to the television.

The weather should be above 50f but below 75f.

That's cool. I could really dig some 50 degree weather right now. 70 is even fine if there's a bit of a breeze and the relative humidity is reasonably low.

Krewe Du Vieux, Muses, Barkus.

I'm afraid I don't speaka da lingo, but the words look good. I remember the Muses from my Greek mythology studies way back when. Goddesses of Science, Literature, and... Arts, weren't they? I figured any civilization that deified science and literature must not be too bad .

Plus, plane tickets and hotel rooms are cheaper.

I don't do plane trips - if I want to get molested, I can pay a local girl to do it much more cheaply than the Department of Homeland inSecurity will, and she won't make me stand in line for hours around a bunch of other people, then make me sit in a box full of bad, recycled, low pressure air for hours with... a bunch of other people. And she'd probably be willing to let me smoke a cigarette at some point. So... Yeah, I'll skip that part, thanks.

I have a working thumb and a functional sense of direction (as long as I'm not trying to use it inside a building), so I'd end up coming via the roads.

And... hotel, me? LMFAO. I have a tent. I can smoke cigarettes in that, too. Just point me to the nearest patch of dry woods and I'll be fine.

Wait... This isn't the tourism thread. Sorry, Sue!

 

[SweetSue]

SuperSue...did u soak the seed in water or anything prior to poping it in the perlit, I assume ya placed it in about half an inch or so

???????

I followed Keith's advice and soaked it for 16 hours, 4 hours longer than my normal time. I planted it the same depth I'd have done with soil.

 

[SweetSue]

Hempys are rocking it

And new girl with the autos

Hempies rule!!!!

 

[Chris Scorpio]

I followed Keith's advice and soaked it for 16 hours, 4 hours longer than my normal time. I planted it the same depth I'd have done with soil.

Cool

I'll have new seeds this week...I'll try that
I didnt like the rooter , hard to get seeds in em

 

[SweetSue]

TS, you are some of the most delightful reading I come across every day. My heart starts to beat faster when I see you've posted. No need to feel you're out of line on a thread maintained by a wordsmith as loquacious as me.

 

[TorturedSoul]

TS, you are some of the most delightful reading I come across every day. My heart starts to beat faster when I see you've posted. No need to feel you're out of line on a thread maintained by a wordsmith as loquacious as me.

Ah, if only you were still in your 20s, lol. And... <COUGH>batsh*t crazy<COUGH>.

 

[SweetSue]

Ah, if only you were still in your 20s, lol. And... <COUGH>batsh*t crazy<COUGH>.

You sweetheart.

 

[Lazarus13]

Hi hempy folks. Hooray for Sue again starting a thread just in time. I just put my dwc bickets away for the first time in years to try this hempy stuff. It has sounded too simple not to give it a try and i don't have air pumps buzzing through my walls and floors anymore. (Which my wife is happy about)
I've got an LSD 25 Auto from FastBuds and an Auto Masszar from Critical Mass in 3.5g hempys that are hydroton up to the drain hole and coco the rest of the way up.
First time growing hempy, first time growing in coco... Im hoping this goes well. lol

Lsd 4 days from the seed splitting

Masszar had a problem shedding the the shell and had an atrophied cotyledon that fell off but it seems ok to me

Its 3 days old... A day behind the lsd because i had a Girl Scout Cookie photo seedling that damped off when it broke the surface of the coco.

 

[SweetSue]

Hi hempy folks. Hooray for Sue again starting a thread just in time. I just put my dwc bickets away for the first time in years to try this hempy stuff. It has sounded too simple not to give it a try and i don't have air pumps buzzing through my walls and floors anymore. (Which my wife is happy about)
I've got an LSD 25 Auto from FastBuds and an Auto Masszar from Critical Mass in 3.5g hempys that are hydroton up to the drain hole and coco the rest of the way up.
First time growing hempy, first time growing in coco... Im hoping this goes well. lol

Lsd 4 days from the seed splitting

Masszar had a problem shedding the the shell and had an atrophied cotyledon that fell off but it seems ok to me

Its 3 days old... A day behind the lsd because i had a Girl Scout Cookie photo seedling that damped off when it broke the surface of the coco.

Well..... Lazarus.

Hempy in coco? Cool. I think you're the first one in coco. I could be wrong. I have so many projects going on it sometimes gets challenging to follow.

So glad to have you join the fun. I'm really intrigued to see how the coco performs for you.

 

[Gauge Steel]

What's dis?
Papery feeling. The DWC is doing it as well.
The other Hempy which is the same strain but different pheno is not.
Any suggestions?

 

[MagicJim]

What's dis?
Papery feeling. The DWC is doing it as well.
The other Hempy which is the same strain but different pheno is not.
Any suggestions?

far side leaves curling up. What's the high temp, humidity and how close to hot lamps?

My guess heat without knowing other stuff

 

[Gauge Steel]

far side leaves curling up. What's the high temp, humidity and how close to hot lamps?

My guess heat without knowing other stuff

Lights are 30" away. Never gets above 80F but averages 75F. RH is between 45-70 but usually is around %55ish. No taco'ing but it did about a week ago when i had my light turned up around 80% so it might be residual damage just now showing up. BTW they are under 6x 50 watt Cree chips

Yes the other side of the same node is doing the same thing.
Thanks MJ

 

[MagicJim]

Lights are 30" away. Never gets above 80F but averages 75F. RH is between 45-70 but usually is around %55ish. No taco'ing but it did about a week ago when i had my light turned up around 80% so it might be residual damage just now showing up. BTW they are under 6x 50 watt Cree chips

Yes the other side of the same node is doing the same thing.
Thanks MJ

She looks relatively young so likely she just needs some luv and some time to settle in.

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Time in the pots is exactly what I've not been giving my girls. Yesterday, I decided to get all my pots made up correctly. I ditched the solo cups and built 2 hempy pots of those 24 fluid ounce containers I found. I put 6 grams of Osmocote + in these also. We shall see what all the experimental activity brings.

 

[Chris Scorpio]

My new Babies today

Purple Kush into the 2l today, she will be an Osmos+ girl also

The 2l worry me, stability, so will be figuring a way to make a base for her...


Fun fun fun

 

[SweetSue]

Scorpio, plumbing supplies. I believe they were 4" PVC connectors.

The 2 liter bottles sit right into them and it stabilizes it beautifully.

I found some good candidates at Big Lots today.

12" deep and 8" across with straight sides for increased stability. They were $6 each, but in my opinion, worth every penny.

I have one prepped for transplanting Candy Cane tomorrow.

Then I'll have to completely rethink the space to fit in all four. Carnival 4.2, Devil's Carnival 1.1 and Thin Mint GSC 1.1 look like the most likely other candidates.

 

[TorturedSoul]

The 2 liter bottles sit right into them and it stabilizes it beautifully.

Good idea, but it could get a little expensive if one has, for example, 64 two-liter bottles. I've been thinking about trying to talk any beverage delivery drivers I see into giving me some of the carriers they use to hold their pop bottles. I'd guess it's unlikely - and I can't picture myself growing 64 plants at one time these days, lol - but if I ask three drivers and one gives me a couple of the carriers, then I could hold a few bottles at variable spacing.

12" deep and 8" across with straight sides for increased stability.

If those are cylinders - the side doesn't taper inwards - then the volume is 603.19 cubic inches. That's just a tick over 2.61 US liquid gallons.

They were $6 each, but in my opinion, worth every penny.

Pretty good score, and those look like they'll last a while.

They are made of thinner material than your find looks to be, but a couple of years ago, I found some cube(-ish - they taper inwards) 8" flowerpots, that have a little "leg" extension on each of the four corners. I got them at a local "dollar" type store (forget the specific chain, might have been Dollar General or Family Dollar, something like that) for $1.50 each at the end of that year's growing season. There a few different colors, including white and green. That's always a good time to find good deals on gardening supplies and related items.

 

[SweetSue]

Good idea, but it could get a little expensive if one has, for example, 64 two-liter bottles. I've been thinking about trying to talk any beverage delivery drivers I see into giving me some of the carriers they use to hold their pop bottles. I'd guess it's unlikely - and I can't picture myself growing 64 plants at one time these days, lol - but if I ask three drivers and one gives me a couple of the carriers, then I could hold a few bottles at variable spacing.



If those are cylinders - the side doesn't taper inwards - then the volume is 603.19 cubic inches. That's just a tick over 2.61 US liquid gallons.



Pretty good score, and those look like they'll last a while.

They are made of thinner material than your find looks to be, but a couple of years ago, I found some cube(-ish - they taper inwards) 8" flowerpots, that have a little "leg" extension on each of the four corners. I got them at a local "dollar" type store (forget the specific chain, might have been Dollar General or Family Dollar, something like that) for $1.50 each at the end of that year's growing season. There a few different colors, including white and green. That's always a good time to find good deals on gardening supplies and related items.

I always wander through the local Dollar General at this time of year. It's when they begin putting gardening supplies on clearance. Good score TS.

And thank you for calculating the volume for me. That's about what I figured. That should be approximately what Carnival 4.1 is in too. I keep forgetting to be assure the reservoir capacity before I fill with perlite to give myself a general feel for what my measurements will be for watering purposes. I detest wasting even small amounts of nutrients. When I drill the next one I'll check then......hopefully. I get all excited about the upgrades and before I know it I've filled the pot with perlite without measuring again.

I have a full day of transplanting and reorganizing ahead.

I've reached the point where I'm beginning to anticipate the day there isn't any more soil in my garden. Is that weird, or what? When I started here I was a strong advocate for LOS, for the simplicity of no-till gardening. Then I switched to Doc's Kit for its simplicity and strength of harvested buds. Hempy has wooed me away from heavy pots of soil, and the RX nute line is outperforming the soil in veg.

Let's see what a harvest looks like before I get carried away. Carn 4.1 will be my first all the way through. She's already the prettiest Carnival I've grown, and she's just now setting buds. She finally stopped stretching at 44".

 

[TorturedSoul]

And thank you for calculating the volume for me.

Cylinders are easy. It's just V=π*r²*h . And once you have the volume just convert to gallons. In this case, since we're dealing in cubic inches, multiply by 0.0043290 .