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[HashGirl]

Do you put anything other than perlite in the pot? I was watching some hempy grow videos and they all had loose stones in the bottom of theirs.

When buying perlite, does it matter whether it says it's coarse or not? Amazon has 2 possibilities and one says premium coarse (27L for $38) or one that just says perlite (9L for $34). The premium coarse is obviously a better value and the one I will get if coarse is in order.

Thanks, guys.

 

[FelipeBlu]

Do you put anything other than perlite in the pot? I was watching some hempy grow videos and they all had loose stones in the bottom of theirs.

When buying perlite, does it matter whether it says it's coarse or not? Amazon has 2 possibilities and one says premium coarse (27L for $38) or one that just says perlite (9L for $34). The premium coarse is obviously a better value and the one I will get if coarse is in order.

Thanks, guys.

I just use perlite. Stones in the bottom will give your pots more weight if you’re expecting problems with tipping over.

Any perlite will work.

 

[HashGirl]

Felipe.

 

[SweetSue]

Felipe.

To answer the question of roots, I was letting the root ball dry out completely then shaking what perlite I could loose. It’s a messy and time consuming process, and then the perlite got rinsed until the water was clear (soaking for hours in between rinses) to get it to a reusable point.

I’m not sure what the rest do with theirs. I’m the end I knew I’d be moving and just threw it away, but if you garden outdoors it can be worked in somewhat here and there. You’d have to have a lot of space to spread out a lot of perlite though.

I buy coarse perlite, and use only perlite in the pot.

 

[TorturedSoul]

Amazon has 2 possibilities and one says premium coarse (27L for $38)

Why does everything cost garden-related cost over four times as much up there in Canada? Is it entirely because you legalized cannabis? Seems a bit unlikely on the face of it, but...

When I called in January, guy "up the road" at the local nursery said he was probably going to have to raise the price of four cubic foot (about 113 liters, I think) up from $30.something to $37. I thought that was pretty high. And that's USA dollars, not diet-dollars (loonies - less filling ).

Man... We need to figure out how to set up a smugglilng ring for gardening supplies. We'd be rich, RICH. Cars, boats, store-bought food & tobacco...


EDIT: Here's what you need to do. Get a sheet of cheap plywood, cut it and put it together in the shape of a box. Cut a big circular hole in the front of it. Stick the thing in your car's cargo area (or back seat). Drive to the border. Keep right on driving. When you get to the land of cheap gardening supplies and expensive doctors, slide in to the first greenhouse/nursery you come to. NOT An "Indoor Gardening Shop," "Hydroponics Supply Store," or "Dope-Heads' Paradise" - the owners of those kinds of stores probably mark their products up about 300%, because why wouldn't they, LOL? Walk in and ask for some four cubic foot bags of PVP Industries coarse sized horticultural grade perlite. Take them out to your car, open the bags, and dump it all into your box. Then, throw the empty bags into the nearest dumpster and drive home. If you get picked for a search at the border, complain about the crime in the USA - and point to your "speaker box that someone stole the subwoofer out of" as an example . They'll assume that all the perlite is the crap people fill their speaker cabinets with for some sort of acoustical purpose and, instead of trying to make you pay a fee for importing perlite, will just laugh at the unarmed visitors who got ripped off. But you'll be the one with the reason to laugh. . . .

 

[HashGirl]

Why does everything cost garden-related cost over four times as much up there in Canada? Is it entirely because you legalized cannabis? Seems a bit unlikely on the face of it, but...

I suspect that part of it is because the normal stores are closed due to the pandemic so stores that wouldn't normally sell perlite like Amazon are selling it at a higher cost.

However, I just found out that our local garden centre is providing pick-up service after you place your order online.

Unfortunately, the 9L bag of perlite they had, which was the same one as the one I noted above was out of stock. Especially sad since it was only $12.99.

 

[HashGirl]

And, Felonious found these pots for me at the Dollar Store. Are they acceptable?

 

[FelipeBlu]

They are a little narrow at the bottom, which will reduce the size of the reservoir. Try to find something a little less tapered.

 

[Buck5050]

And, Felonious found these pots for me at the Dollar Store. Are they acceptable?

Yeah that should work as long as they hold water.

Personally I would drill the drain hole a little higher than the standard 2-inch mark using those pots(maybe 3-inch). It's a proportion thing. Those are going to grow some monsters for sure. How tall is your grow area? The depth of these will be tricky only when starting young ones. For how deep these are you'll want some water on them every day for a week or so.

 

[Buck5050]

They are a little narrow at the bottom, which will reduce the size of the reservoir. Try to find something a little less tapered.

lol

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. That's why I suggested raising the drain hole.

 

[FelipeBlu]

Good call. Should have thought of that. I am toasted..

 

[Buck5050]

Good call. Should have thought of that. I am toasted..

Between all the multiple sizes and types of containers, I have tried with the hempy grow style I've found that the plants usually adapt their roots to fit(and in turn overall plant size). Come mid to late flower they'll be sucking most everything you dump down no matter the reservoir size.

BTW this reminds me that I still have about a half-full 30 gal plastic trash can waiting for that epic single plant outdoor hempy run. I am thinking that the hole should be about 4 inches up and vermiculite in the upper mix. Probably need 2 gallons of nutes every 2-3 days.

 

[FelipeBlu]

What a vision!

 

[bluter]

And, Felonious found these pots for me at the Dollar Store. Are they acceptable?

they are a bit big ...

your veg time will expand exponentially in a larger pot, and it takes longer for the plant to hook up. - roots hitting the res.

one of the advantages to hempy is you don't need huge pots for a decent sized plant. the original hempy system used 2L pop bottles

i use a 2L and a 5 L pot. mostly use the 2L ones. i use these pots ...

2L hempy buckets

• bluter
• Feb 7, 2019

the beer bottle is to show scale. six of those pots are responsible for this ...

dr seeds hempy.JPG

• bluter
• Mar 31, 2020

dr seeds hempy grow ..

you will get bigger plants with larger yields per plant in the larger pot. the advantage to the small ones is your veg time is cut in half and you roll more grows through in a year.

 

[SweetSue]

And, Felonious found these pots for me at the Dollar Store. Are they acceptable?

Those were some of my favorite pots. Let me show you what I grew in pots just like that.

CBD Critical Cure 2.8 (Day 94, flip + 56)

• SweetSue
• Apr 13, 2018

I had no problem at all with the reservoir size or from a stability point. The hole in mine is 2” from the bottom. I grew monster CBD CCs in very similar pots.

 

[SweetSue]

they are a bit big ...

your veg time will expand exponentially in a larger pot, and it takes longer for the plant to hook up. - roots hitting the res.

one of the advantages to hempy is you don't need huge pots for a decent sized plant. the original hempy system used 2L pop bottles

i use a 2L and a 5 L pot. mostly use the 2L ones. i use these pots ...

2L hempy buckets

• bluter
• Feb 7, 2019

the beer bottle is to show scale. six of those pots are responsible for this ...

dr seeds hempy.JPG

• bluter
• Mar 31, 2020

dr seeds hempy grow ..

you will get bigger plants with larger yields per plant in the larger pot. the advantage to the small ones is your veg time is cut in half and you roll more grows through in a year.

She’ll be starting with autos bluter, something that just occurred to me.

The CBD CCs did so well, in part, because I upcanned them at least once in the process.

HashGirl, I say give them a try. Like the guys point out, roots will fill any space we give them. With hemp pot size isn’t the restriction it might be with other systems. We grow some serious plants in very little medium with our nearly continuous drenching schedules. Lol!

 

[bluter]

Those were some of my favorite pots. Let me show you what I grew in pots just like that.

CBD Critical Cure 2.8 (Day 94, flip + 56)

• SweetSue
• Apr 13, 2018

I had no problem at all with the reservoir size or from a stability point. The hole in mine is 2” from the bottom. I grew monster CBD CCs in very similar pots.

yeah those pots will grow monsters if you let them ...

1-2 could fill my entire jungle room ..

 

[bluter]

She’ll be starting with autos bluster, something that just occurred to me.

The CBD CCs did so well, in part, because I upcanned them at least once in the process.

ooooh ! yeah that makes a difference.
i'd do a 5L for an auto. but that's me. a larger pot would be justified at any rate.

photos in hempy reach a point in the pot where they want up pot or flower. you can hold them there but they don't like it.

 

[SweetSue]

Sorry about the misspelling of your name bluter. Got a new iPhone yesterday and it doesn’t recognize my cannabis-specific language yet.

If you pull your post back up you can edit the spelling. I already did so in my post.

 

[Piña Delores]

Hi Hempy peeps

My first 2 Hempy Buckets have recovered from my initial balls-up, and are doing well.

They're Auto's so there's been no chance to catch up on lost time, they will remain stunted. They're starting to flower, and apart from their size they look really healthy.

The transition from soil to hempy hasn't been as easy as I'd have liked, but I'm happy with the results so far, all things considered.

HashGirl have you popped any seeds yet? Feel free to pop by my journal, plenty of mistakes to learn from


Cheers for the help all.