C’mon Sue! Ya know ya want it!
Smart ass!
I know what a reservoir is. That wasn't what I was asking at least in my head
. I want to know what I need to add to this pot thing so that the water that comes out of the hole doesn't all drain onto my floor/shoes/etc.?We've been growing since summer 2016 and have some of this stuff already. I will be growing in a 3 x 3 Mars Hydro tent with a Mars Pro II Epistar 320 LED light. I have no idea if we have an EC meter since I have no idea what an EC meter is. But, I do know we have a pH meter and possibly a PPM meter but I heard Felonious say he might get a better one but I have no idea whether you need one of those for a hempy grow. The tent has a filter, a fan, a timer and a temperature gauge along with the light.
I doubt I'll have any issues with finding a viable Dark Devil seed given that I am currently the proud owner of 50 Dark Devil seeds and in the event, they all fail, I also have 7 Big Devil XL and 2 Devil's Carnival.
Do you know where I could get such a thing? I don't have a colour printer so I can't print something in colour off the web.
I currently have 1,419 grams of cannabis flower as well as 570 capsules of cannabis oil, some with very high THC so I think I'm good to go.
Yeah, the only young person I have is Felonious and he's 59!
Don't worry about me, TS but thank you for caring. I currently have Felonious at my beck and call for things I can't do and this will probably be one of them AND the laundry room is literally right next door with a sink so it's not far away and there are always water cans or jugs. I'll figure it out.
Yeah, he was one of the members that 420 lost with the website changes and I need to get this so that I can help him. I was originally planning on planting in dirt because that's what he plants in but Sue convinced me to try hempy and I figure if my hempy grow goes well then maybe we'll convert all of our grows over to it. We'll see. The important thing is to grow good medicine for pain, insomnia, stress and anxiety and to get as much as I need.
@HashGirl
come have a look at my journal. the colas you see in my pic above are all grown from 2 litre buckets. the main colas are taller than the buckets they are grown in ...
couldn't be easier. hempy is the cheapest / easiest system available. plus i'm on MC. one nute. self-mixed. insanely cheap. there are zero approaches that are simpler. get a 10kg bag as quick as you can. the stuff is disappearing exponentially due to the pandemic.
the only thing "special" is RO water -- which has been shown to help, but not be essential in this approach.
and the light. just can't replace good light. that is essential.
i am not a great grower at all. average at best. i don't even bring them through flower. i guide someone else through it - much the same as you are contemplating and having issues with.
come on over and ask as many questions as you want. also go have a look @Buck5050 's journal. we do a couple things different but you can't argue with bucks' results. ...
Thanks, bluter. This is helpful. What is RO water? And, do you know what DWO is? I read it on one of the earlier posts by Lady Anthiea (sp?).
Those letters are an abbreviation for "reverse osmosis," a method primarily used for wasting water, but it also has a secondary purpose of producing very pure water at some fractional ratio of the water that one runs through the system. Useful for those who have contaminated source water and/or those who like to remove the calcium from their water so thaat they can purchase a "Ca/Mg" product in one of those fancy bottles instead of leaving it in there and merely spending a few bucks at the grocery store for a five-year supply of magnesium in the form of Epsom salt. One might almost think that the owner of Advanced Nutrients invented reverse osmosis water separator machines, but they have been around for a long time. So have home water distillation units, for those who prefer wasting electricity to wasting water.
you might mean dwc - deep water culture. a form of hydro, essentially a big bubble bucket.
ro water is just a filtering system that removes the minerals and leaves you with a very neutral base to start with. i have a high ppm content to begin in my tap water. running hydro here is near impossible without it. hempy is a hydro system.
if your tap water tests around 120 ppm or under you will have no need for filtering. i run MC and need no cal-mag or other supplements even with the ro.
In regards to the bolded sentence above, I also wanted to say that I do lift weights on a regular basis. For the larger muscle groups, I use 10s and 12s mostly but for the smaller muscle groups 5s and 8s and sometimes even 3s if it's a particularly tough shoulder exercise since my shoulders are shot. I like strength training and typically do it at least 3x a week.
Hi bluter. We're on well water and our tap water is over 200 ppm. Does that mean that I can't do a hempy grow?
Buck5050
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You'll be fine just make sure you have a PH pen and stick it between 5.5-6.0. That ppm just means that you have minerals in your water. Some of those the plant likes too. Best bet is when your mixing nutrients in an unknown water source is to start out softly. Bring your nutrient strength up slowly while watching the plants react.
if you are on MC you should be good. part is dependent on what is in the water. well is usually calcium and iron rich where i am from. seems to be a theme in N/A.
if you use mc just adjust your g / gal accordingly. start with the suggested amounts from the MC fed calculator, and tailor the amount according to the read on your plants. the MC site will teach you a simple read. the deficiency charts on the board will be more in depth, but start with the simple stuff on the MC site.
edit: forgot to say - i'd take well any day over municipal. i filter mostly because i'm on municipal. if you have your own source i'd just "learn" your own water. not that hard.
200 is fine
Mine is like 400-700, it's crap, thus I use RO in my hydro grows
Mine is like 400-700, it's crap, thus I use RO in my hydro grows
mine is 370 plus. and chloramine. and lead now i guess. i'm filtering my own water let alone the plants ..
mine is 370 plus. and chloramine. and lead now i guess. i'm filtering my own water let alone the plants ..
I'm literally see fish and rocks in mine
Lol
saw minnows come out a well in north dakota once ... we were kids at the time and thought it was pretty cool ..
Mine changes based on the rain and flooding
So it's nasty
Seems good for the dirty dirty Dirt girls with MC though
The water report isn't bad, not alcoline that bad, but terrible to try and pH in hydro...buffers kill it bad
Thanks, bluter. I can't use Mega Crop with this grow as the only size they have available is 9.9L and I just don't have the space for that much. So, I've decided to go with General Hydroponics' Flora Grow, Flora Micro and Flora Bloom.
That's my normal nute line, using it now in DWC
Checking the roots
I managed to get this root ball free without scissors.
What do you do with the root ball when your plant is harvested? Do you clean the perlite out of it to reuse or do you just compost the root ball, perlite and all?