Hempy Headquarters

[FelipeBlu]

I find that seedlings can grow just fine on very little light. A DLI of only 10-15 is sufficient - as long as the seedlings don’t have to stretch because the light source is too distant.
I’d bet that clones are similar.

 

[DrDoob]

Good move Doob. They do have a limited capacity for photosynthesis.

I have a killawatt meter thing and noticed I was pulling a lot more watts than anticipated. Some thrived and some didn’t, but nothing too bad.

 

[FelipeBlu]

Those killawatts are great! BT brought his up for me to play with, in addition to the PAR meter.

 

[FelipeBlu]

I discovered that my little grow (4 HLG65s, 4” inline blower, 100W reptile heater/lamp, and 4” monkey fan) only uses about $15/mo in electricity during flowering.
Sweet!

 

[bluter]

Just a couple of overcast days..

it's exactly what i said lol

Man I had the opposite problem. My vegging clones were under too much light. Since dimming the lights they’ve started to look a lot better.

i always dim my light under 50% when starting clones and seedlings and slowly work it up.

 

[DrDoob]

I’m on a limited electrical circuit so I dim the lights to vacuum and such, I guess I had them turned too high for a week or three. Seems like just a couple days under 50% has helped them a lot.

 

[bluter]

I’m on a limited electrical circuit so I dim the lights to vacuum and such, I guess I had them turned them too high for a week or three. Seems like just a couple days under 50% has helped them a lot.

lol - i do this exactly

i am super power starved where the veg room is. i used to occasionally run a small space heater in the apt living room in winter, i now run a cord from the crapper to run it as it's on a separate circuit..

 

[DrDoob]

I discovered that my little grow (4 HLG65s, 4” inline blower, 100W reptile heater/lamp, and 4” monkey fan) only uses about $15/mo in electricity during flowering.
Sweet!

I wish. With my current timer set up it’ll cost about $179.82 a month if I don’t get bumped to the excessive usage tier, which I often do, then it’ll cost about $366.30. I often produce a little more than twice the electricity I use, with solar panels so it’s not as bad as it could be.

 

[Ganjagrowergu]

I popped the gfi in my apartment when I first started growing a couple years ago. 1000w hps plus ac and 6 inch fan on one 15a circuit that I didn't realize was also connected to most of the bathroom and part of the kitchen. Lessons learned there.

I built my veg light using the back of a burnt out mars300 pcb, 10 3w 6500k dioides, 10 3w blurple diodes, powered by 1 salvaged mars300 driver and cooled by a salvaged 12v pc fan running off of a 5v cell phone charger from the junk drawer. I think it should draw about 51w not including the fan.

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Now who's chatty???. smokin on that talking weed today, driving wife nuts.

 

[Buck5050]

Purple coming through on the Grape Pupil by massmedical. At Day 16

Cool coloring yet highly unruly with the stretch.

Two times the height of the tubes there in.

This is a clone run from last go around. Sunny D OG at day 27

Overview of the Hempy Tube tent

 

[FelipeBlu]

There's a chart floating around here that has a column for pH (rising, falling, and unchanging), EC (rising, falling, staying the same) in the various possible combinations, along with a third column, "What this means." I think it even made the distinction between, for example, a gradual fall and a sudden drastic one. Plants using a lot of water but not a lot of nutrients (ones in hot locations transpiring, etc.) will cause the EC to rise. Stuff like that.

I know it has been reposted many times, but I can't point to a single specific thread where you can find it. Wait, I believe @Rifleman has posted it (along with some other useful graphics/charts). Maybe he will be kind enough to repost it here if/when he gets my "page." Assuming he has a copy handy, of course. And that I'm not completely mistaken about him having posted one in the first place, lol.

Anyway, if you see the chart, it lists a few possibilities for rising pH. Maybe something on there will cause you to think, "Hmm... That makes sense." Or not, who knows?

Just as a follow up, I found these:

 

[Dro]

Ok, I am believer of Hempy buckets! Two feedings, Monday and Thursday, a gallon per plant, about 20% run off per bucket. 1.7ec, 5.8pH
I am running 70/30 coco/perlite. The coco stays moist the entire week.
I am running 1 with 100% coco to experiment and I only feed that one only on Monday (bottom left). I am seeing a bit of a slower growth compared to the others so maybe it needs 2 waterings after all but coco was always moist.
I like how easy this was too! Way easier and laid back than DWC.

 

[BigBearNTexas]

Welcome to the Hempy Borg! You will be assimilated! Lol

 

[Ganjagrowergu]

The simplicity of hempy has allowed me to focus on genetic preservation as well as producing one of a kind polyhybrids for my smoking pleasure.

 

[Buck5050]

From soil to hempy.
I popped some LVTK x Mimosa testers I received and placed them in some soil and paper cups. I had some different intentions in mind when starting these. I planed to veg and flower them outdoors. I wanted to take clones and put them into the tubes to sex them.
Some early reporters have mentioned hermie traits in this cross. With that information I dint want to spent all summer growing half males and females that would throw nanners.
So into the tubes while there small enough to fit.

That sweet waxy cup technology

Bucket of some H2O and dunk n swoosh (gently)

Cleaned up well

Down the into the Hempy rabbit hole...

And filled up and ready for the Hempy feeding

 

[Dro]

@Buck5050 your plants look damn good and healthy! I have been trying to catch up with this lengthy journal and really like the tubes you got going.

I am finally seeing some green on my clone stems after two weeks of Hempy after they were root bound for who knows how long in some Solo cups. I don't think I will have the vertical space to let them get any healthier as they grew tons once the roots hit the res. Now I understand what @SweetSue meant when talking about roots hitting the res.

Time to toke up on some gmo and head down to the tents and defoliate some wedding cake and get some clones before I flip them

 

[DrDoob]

Here’s my flowering hempies at day 21 after flip. I think the big perlite is a winner.

 

[SweetSue]

It's going to be an Hempy summer.

I added 5 more clones of the Grape Pupil. This pheno is becoming unruly. The little ones were taking off inside the veg area and I had to put them in a week earlier than I was planning on. They are already taller/bigger than the 6 in the middle were when they went in.
I decided to turn on the other light and spread out the tubes. At this point there is a total of 15 tubes. I plan on putting in a few more when they come of age. With this much room between the tubes watering has become easier. I am dumping one red solo cup full of nutes down each tube and walking away. It gives enough run off and the catch tray is funneling all the run off outside through a hose. It takes a couple of hours for everything to stop dripping and water to stop running.

Give this man a gold star.

 

[SweetSue]

i sorta flush....

what i do is plug the hole, and water the bucket til it reaches the top. i use ph'd ro with cal mag and h202. i use the 29% stuff at 1 ml to 1 l, about full strength. i let each plant soak for 20 - 30 min and then let drain. the h202 helps clear crap out the roots, and adds some oxygen. plants always surge after this. like nuts. but you have to feed them within 24 hrs. i'll flush once in veg, and once in flower.

i do this when trying to clear problems as well. quick flush, reset the nutes, and generally all gets well.

I like this method, and when I get back to growing again I’ll use it. It was the H2O2 that caught my eye. This grow is really taking off for you, isn’t it bluter?

aside from a lower middle class basement dweller standard of living, and a dollar rivaling bolivian currency, it's great.

that's why they had to give us health care and weed.

Here’s my flowering hempies at day 21 after flip. I think the big perlite is a winner.

Damn Doob! I’d say the big perlite is a keeper. How much more expensive than what you were using? I think the roots are going to make us all gasp in surprise.

Thanks.....

 

[DrDoob]

It was about $55 (since skyrocketed to $90) vs the about $35 I usually pay. If I can use it a couple times it’ll pay for itself. But I’m not sure I’ll be able to free the roots without breaking down the perlite a lot.

This stuff is #8 size, I found another cheaper brand that has #4 and I think it’s actually pretty similar in size, but haven’t ordered it yet.