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Good morning.

We're trying to do the nutrients as per @SweetSue 's germination pictorial and her tutorial says to do the nutrients 1/4 strength but the nutrient chart shows that it's already pretty weak. Can you have a look and let me know whether I should just follow the package instructions or do as Sue said and make them 1/4 strength?

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HashGirl said:
Good morning.

We're trying to do the nutrients as per @SweetSue 's germination pictorial and her tutorial says to do the nutrients 1/4 strength but the nutrient chart shows that it's already pretty weak. Can you have a look and let me know whether I should just follow the package instructions or do as Sue said and make them 1/4 strength?

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Usually when one refers to nutrients in percentages of strength it's based off of full strength. If that makes more sense...

I have used these nutes a few times and because I had a lot of the same questions you're having now, I started at half strength of what they recommended and it worked decently.

If I remember correctly @SweetSue tried originally without using nutrients and found that it didn't work well. That's until she started soaking the perlite in a 20% solution.

The thing with little ones is they don't need much and can be easily overdosed.
 
Buck5050 said:
The thing with little ones is they don't need much and can be easily overdosed.
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Thank you Buck. Well put. @HashGirl, seeds are little genetic packages that actually contain everything the plant needs to get started with no feed at all, but like Buck pointed out, I learned from experience that soaking the perlite in the very light solution helped.

I may be wrong, but I believe it was @beez0404 who taught me that. I can say he grew some of the healthiest, most robust plants I’d seen with nutrients, and managed them like a master. It was beez that taught me the fine points to watch for that tell you the plants have reached their limit.
 
Well, thank you for your input but the seeds have been planted and the nutrients were what it said on the label. But, that said, we did mix them with the full gallon of water but only used a couple of cups worth so I'm hopeful I didn't hurt them. I will be starting a grow journal shortly and will post the link here. I hope that some of you helpful people will be following along as a lot of this is really, really foreign to me. Like the whole nutrient thing. It's like learning a new language.
 
Evening, folks. My new grow journal link is in my signature if you'd like to follow along. :battingeyelashes:
 
hey gang, im going to be growing some autos in hempys. i have heard autos hate to be transplanted.

that said im a bit unsure about germinating them. is it possible to germinate them in their final 3g pot? or is that too far for a tap root to travel? i see a lot of people doing solo cups but the "dont repot your autos!" is banging in my head.

how should i germinate these autos for a 3gal hempy grow?
 
politoed said:
hey gang, im going to be growing some autos in hempys. i have heard autos hate to be transplanted.

that said im a bit unsure about germinating them. is it possible to germinate them in their final 3g pot? or is that too far for a tap root to travel? i see a lot of people doing solo cups but the "dont repot your autos!" is banging in my head.

how should i germinate these autos for a 3gal hempy grow?
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I have kicked around this idea also. I would say it can be done but you would most likely have to be watering it 3 or 4 times a day until you were sure the roots could reach some nutrients on there own. Might be less waterings if you're using the vermiculite in the mix. Back in this thread somewhere I did a little experiment on root depth and travel time. It was from a cutting and I had roots shooting out the drain hole in less than 2 weeks I think(would have to look for the original post).
 
Buck5050 said:
I have kicked around this idea also. I would say it can be done but you would most likely have to be watering it 3 or 4 times a day until you were sure the roots could reach some nutrients on there own. Might be less waterings if you're using the vermiculite in the mix. Back in this thread somewhere I did a little experiment on root depth and travel time. It was from a cutting and I had roots shooting out the drain hole in less than 2 weeks I think(would have to look for the original post).
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if it helps, the height from the drainage hole to the seedling would be 8 inches. they are actually 2 gallon buckets, i was mistaken.

my plan was going to be to soak the perlite in 1/4 strength nutes after i washed it, throw it in a plastic bin, mix in 25% vermiculite, mist the mix with the 1/4 strength nutes. perlite in the bottom 2" of the pot, mix in the rest. put the seed 3/8" down, cover, water with 1/4 strength nutes, mist the surface, and cover the 2gal pot with a sheet of saran wrap til the seedling pops up. then remove the saran wrap and go as normal (ideally). if not i will use solo cups, but im hoping the moist vermiculite with the saran wrap and misting will do the trick?
 
politoed said:
seedling would be 8 inches
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The top of the medium can dry out fast and reduce the humidity needed around a young seedling no matter what container. That would be the real test. Trying to keep the moisture levels up without rotting the young roots and getting them to make there way down to feed on there own. I can see an eyedropper helping with this. I know autos were attempted in the past on this thread and it's been said they will flower once the roots hit the bottom of the container. I only read that here and don't have any personal experience with autos in a hempy bucket. But, you might want to take a look at that information and make your own conclusion. I would love to see someone give an auto a go in a hempy again. The newer cultivars are being tweaked enough that it this style of growing makes shine.
 
politoed said:
hey gang, im going to be growing some autos in hempys. i have heard autos hate to be transplanted.
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start them in hempy cups. hempy doesn't stress them so much like other media. up pot as soon as the leaves hit the sides of the cup or even just a touch earlier with auto.

pretty sure @SweetSue did dda hempy style- think it's buried somewhere in this thread
 
It is so weird. I have had no problem germinating photos and tomatoes in 100% perlite hempy (solo cup), but autos and peppers are kicking my ass.

I finally got one of the 6 autos to sprout above the perlite. But it took a week, and it’s not looking good for a 2 day old sprout.

If you can get them to germinate, the tap root will find the reservoir as long as the height is within the wicking zone, generally understood to be around 12”. The problem I have heard of is that the root system never really develops that well if you go straight into a larger pot. The water roots just go down to the reservoir. Good luck amigo. YMMV
 
Buck5050 said:
=I would love to see someone give an auto a go in a hempy again. The newer cultivars are being tweaked enough that it this style of growing makes shine.
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I'm growing autos in hempy. :battingeyelashes:
 
Hey happy hempy-ers! Hope everyone is well and gardens are green. I have a question if anyone has an answer... I have a perfect sun dwarf star led that i bought from a member here, ledrf aka Neil. I mustve gotten a bad light tho as a bout a year and a half into using it i had 2 pucks go out. Emails were sent and everything was covered under the 3 year warranty. Now at the tail end of the third year i had 2 more pucks go out. Emails sent. This time he thinks its the driver so sends me a new one. It was not. I pulled it apart and the leds on the puck are fried. I havent gotten any further responses since the onset of this whole covid-19 shit and im not bitching as im out of my warranty anyway and ive more than made my $ back (was hoping it would last longer than 3 years for all them dollars lol) my question... Does anyone know what wattage the diodes on these pcb's are? I have some 3 watt royal blue and deep red far red diodes left from another project that i could solder on. Hoping they're 3 watt
 
Lazarus13 said:
Hey happy hempy-ers! Hope everyone is well and gardens are green. […]my question... Does anyone know what wattage the diodes on these pcb's are? I have some 3 watt royal blue and deep red far red diodes left from another project that i could solder on. Hoping they're 3 watt.
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Sorry Lazarus, I know next to nothing about lights. It’s a pain when you get that exception to quality, isn’t it? I’m glad you got your money’s worth, and may a helpful answer come through. :hugs::hugs::hugs:
 
Is it the one with 8 groups of 15 leds? That’s 120 leds using an advertised 230W, so they are probably 3W leds not being pushed to their limits.

I noted this on the PS site page:

You don’t have to change bulbs because the LEDs last 50,000 hours, which is 10 years if you run them for 12 hours a day.
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HashGirl said:
I'm growing autos in hempy. :battingeyelashes:
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I pulled my records for my last two DDAs. They were transplanted into their final pots the day they each emerged from the perlite at day three from planting. I got more than two oz apiece dry, and the final one-gallon pot measures 9” from the floor. The depth of those pots may be why that worked so well for me, since the reservoir when I upcanned the sprouts was only 7” below the surface.

They were wonderful plants that thrived with that early transplant.
 
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