Hempy Headquarters

[TheMadDabber]

When I get it all up and running I will start a Journal and keep you guys and gals updated in here as well! Surprisingly I've got less mo eh in this so far than my 3x3 setup I started out with. 2x4's, panda film, and pvc are cheap!

That's how I rigged my tub grow .

 

[TheMadDabber]

the big day is ever more rapidly approaching ..

 

[BigBearNTexas]

Been there BigBear. I know the frustration. I still do half my grow in soil, but it's with Doc Bud's HB kit, and that doesn't typically come with critters. Lol! I've never had a gnat problem in an HB Kit pot.

Welcome to the wonderful world of hempy. I left the Osmo Plus behind for much more expensive nutrients, and the results keep me spending that money. Lol!

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Hempy has been very, very good to me.

Thanks Sue! I thought I was being all clever with my first grow by getting a nice organic soil. And loaded with gnats waiting to hatch. Lol

And I know you've moved on from the Osmocote+, but it seemed like a good solution for me. I'll progress as well, I'm sure. .

Just transplanted a 3wk seedling into her final home. She had so many roots from her little starter hempy home. I would post a pic, but the app won't let me right now.

 

[Radogast]

So far I’m a fan of this method. I’m using Osmocote+ in the base mix, but plan to supplement later in the grow. The only problem is that my tent has really low humidity. I may put a pan into the tent with plain water to try and raise the RH.

My veg area (3 x 8) has two trays under the plants. One tray is 2x2' and the other tray is 3x2'. My base humidity is about 25-30% in the winter.
I let the hempy runoff stand in the 2x2 tray and it raised my humidity to 45-55%.
I let the hempy runoff stand in the BOTH trays (10 square feet) and it raises my humidity to 65-75%.

It takes a BIG pan of water to raise the humidity. When not using hempy, I use a 3 gallon humidifier

I've never used it but many say rock wool is bad. Either to wet it too dry

Root Riot seems a lot better

Maybe someone else will chime in on the rock wool

I started out using rock wool and humidity domes for cloning. Low success rate. Often smells like something is rotting.

I use a cloner bucket now. High success rate. Added benefit, I can "hold" my rooted clones in the bucket for a month or more.

Thanks Sue! I thought I was being all clever with my first grow by getting a nice organic soil. And loaded with gnats waiting to hatch. Lol

And I know you’ve moved on from the Osmocote+, but it seemed like a good solution for me. I’ll progress as well, I’m sure. .

Just transplanted a 3wk seedling into her final home. She had so many roots from her little starter hempy home. I would post a pic, but the app won’t let me right now.

Osmocote+ in perlite is not working for me. My two in flower will yield under 1oz - If they make it to harvest. I'm throwing in the towel on hempy. I could probably figure it out given time, the desire to experiment, money on supplemental or different nutrients, and the desire to learn about deficiencies.

I'm going back to a living soil that yields repeatable quality product with minimal effort.

 

[Morglie]

I've still got my hempy ozmo+ sitting there for an attempt, but I'm not certain when I'll get around to trying it. Doc's kit makes it so consistently excellent, that it's hard for me to want to try anything else. I won't blame you for trying to figure out a way to make it work.

Have you figured out a way to cook your soil? I've got my veg plants sitting on totes full of soil. Is there anyway you could fit them in your flower room and put your plants on top of them?

Or stick them in a closet in the house somewhere. I know lugging totes of soil around sucks, but you could transport it in smaller containers. Just trying to think outside the box.

Nice looking harvest on your carnival. You and Sue inspired me to try it. I've got my first in veg. It'll be going into flower next weekend, when space opens up. I'm excited to see how she does. She's a vigorous thing. I think she just may be the first plant to push the vertical limits in my new room. I'm thinking they normally only stretch about 100%. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I might need to get out the hedge trimmers before then.

 

[Radogast]

I've still got my hempy ozmo+ sitting there for an attempt, but I'm not certain when I'll get around to trying it. Doc's kit makes it so consistently excellent, that it's hard for me to want to try anything else. I won't blame you for trying to figure out a way to make it work.

Nice looking harvest on your carnival. You and Sue inspired me to try it. I've got my first in veg. It'll be going into flower next weekend, when space opens up. I'm excited to see how she does. She's a vigorous thing. I think she just may be the first plant to push the vertical limits in my new room. I'm thinking they normally only stretch about 100%. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I might need to get out the hedge trimmers before then.

I rarely get 80% stretch out of CARNIVAL. She is indica-like with stretch. Once the buds start looking like fireworks the stretch ends.

I THINK letting my girls in veg bump against the CFL lights slows down my stretch in flower. Sometimes I get only 3-4" of stretch.

66 days in flower, 3-4" of stretch. (She's not droopy, I just straightened her up after the whole plant reclined and the buds haven't 'un tipped')

Carnival IS vigorous. I don't remember her dropping a single leaf in flower, but she probably dropped 5-6

Have you figured out a way to cook your soil? I've got my veg plants sitting on totes full of soil. Is there anyway you could fit them in your flower room and put your plants on top of them?

Or stick them in a closet in the house somewhere. I know lugging totes of soil around sucks, but you could transport it in smaller containers. Just trying to think outside the box.

I had an unused rain barrel that fits under my chair in the veg area. Once inside with the door closed, I set the chair where I just walked and I can up close and personal and breathe on the plants

Open 'door' of the veg area showing 50 gallons of second run Hi-Brix soil soil cooking in a rain barrel

Cooking since 12/29, I transplanted my largest girl in veg into "mostly cooked" HiBrix soil 2 days ago. I'll transplant smaller clone girls into fully cooked HiBrix soil on Monday or Tuesday.


I lost over half the roots pouring the perlite gently out of the bucket (no tapping.) Everything broke off except a small ball.

The roots, including the broken off roots, were light brown.

 

[SweetSue]

I like the towel idea, thanks!

I should have taken pictures of the sticky traps. I killed thousands of the damn gnats and just couldn’t eradicate them. Problem solved in an hour when I converted to hempy. Just for that reason I may not go back. Lol

Osmocote+ in perlite is not working for me. My two in flower will yield under 1oz - If they make it to harvest. I'm throwing in the towel on hempy. I could probably figure it out given time, the desire to experiment, money on supplemental or different nutrients, and the desire to learn about deficiencies.

I'm going back to a living soil that yields repeatable quality product with minimal effort.

I'll keep the larger evaporation tray in mind. It gets crazy dry in this apartment in the winter. I finally broke down and moved the bid Homedics humidifier into the living room. So far I'm keeping the flower tents stable, but that's because you can push them down to 30% in late flower.

I'm sorry the Osmo isn't working out for you Rad. I had mixed results myself. My needs were more demanding than an ounce a plant was going to satisfy. If I had to deal with deficiencies I'd probably leave hempy behind, but the RX Green Technologies that I lucked into saves me from any of that. No pH adjustment, no problems with deficiencies, two of the reasons I choose Doc's system.

Should you choose to dabble in hempy next winter I suggest you choose an excellent nutrient line. My results have been so consistent that I no longer balk at the price.

 

[SweetSue]

I rarely get 80% stretch out of CARNIVAL. She is indica-like with stretch. Once the buds start looking like fireworks the stretch ends.

I THINK letting my girls in veg bump against the CFL lights slows down my stretch in flower. Sometimes I get only 3-4" of stretch.

66 days in flower, 3-4" of stretch. (She's not droopy, I just straightened her up after the whole plant reclined and the buds haven't 'un tipped')

Carnival IS vigorous. I don't remember her dropping a single leaf in flower, but she probably dropped 5-6




I had an unused rain barrel that fits under my chair in the veg area. Once inside with the door closed, I set the chair where I just walked and I can up close and personal and breathe on the plants

Open 'door' of the veg area showing 50 gallons of second run Hi-Brix soil soil cooking in a rain barrel

Cooking since 12/29, I transplanted my largest girl in veg into "mostly cooked" HiBrix soil 2 days ago. I'll transplant smaller clone girls into fully cooked HiBrix soil on Monday or Tuesday.


I lost over half the roots pouring the perlite gently out of the bucket (no tapping.) Everything broke off except a small ball.

The roots, including the broken off roots, were light brown.

She's gonna be happier in the kit soil Rad. Brown roots.... Not a good sign. If she were mine I'd chop her back and let her start again. That'd give her more chance to get healthier roots under her. Did you give her a nice DeStress foliar?

 

[Radogast]

She's gonna be happier in the kit soil Rad. Brown roots.... Not a good sign. If she were mine I'd chop her back and let her start again. That'd give her more chance to get healthier roots under her. Did you give her a nice DeStress foliar?

Thank you. I will do a DeStress foliar.

I had Doc tell me to do a DeStress once on my first Doc Bud grow before I got my grow areas built and the environmentals were all over the map - Since then my girls have been happy-ish so I forget about DeStress.

I trimmed about 30% of the leaves, but now that I see the photo through your eyes, I will probably remove another half the plant. It depends on what I see tomorrow

 

[Lazarus13]

Sorry to hear hempy isnt working out for you, Rad. What are you thinking happened to your roots? Too moist? To warm?
I'm on my second hempy run flowering out 2 GSC clones from my last run.. Its 6 days from switchong to 12/12. The new nutrients are doing a solid job and I'm hoping i knock it out of the park this time. The last two grows, using Advanced Nutrients, i had horrible pH fluctuations and Mg/K deficiencies that really killed the yield. No signs yet of any problems.
Im also trying out this flowering initiator. 730nm far red led, on for 15-30 after lights out... I'm going to start stretching my lights on period this week. By the end of next weekend i will be flowering with a 13.5/10.5 schedule.

 

[Tead]

Somewhere.... sometime... a while ago... much longer than intended.... Tead remembers he promised some Malawi comparison shots.

Growing indoors. Probably the youngest, but I'm not so much tracking things.

The outdoor girls... ignore the middle plant. The left one is MUCH redder than the one on the right. The left one also has a 90 degree bent top due to some rough handling.

.... but she sure does have pretty buds....

 

[Blazinjones]

Somewhere.... sometime... a while ago... much longer than intended.... Tead remembers he promised some Malawi comparison shots.

Growing indoors. Probably the youngest, but I'm not so much tracking things.

The outdoor girls... ignore the middle plant. The left one is MUCH redder than the one on the right. The left one also has a 90 degree bent top due to some rough handling.

.... but she sure does have pretty buds....

Dam man those look tastey for sure and is tht purple bud pic a malawi to or is that the ultradog?? But yea very good job also i know u said ignore her but I see tht huge container she is in and im wondering is tht ur dark devil auto u put in a big pot?

 

[Blazinjones]

Also all hempy fans who reuse ur own perlite i had a question I got some bottle nute stuff called hydroguard and its for eating up all the dead organic matter like dead roots and so on and then breaking it dwn as nuterients 4the plant to be able 2 eat so what im wondering is since it's the same dam thing as my sensizym i have could I use it to soak my old perlite in and wouldn't it eat up all the old shit so then after awhile u could jus rinse it off really good and then do what u normally would??

 

[Radogast]

Sorry to hear hempy isnt working out for you, Rad. What are you thinking happened to your roots? Too moist? To warm?

What is too moist or too warm?

My temps and humidity in veg are 65-75F and 55-70% RH. These are environmentals that have worked for me in soil for several runs.

If the roots are moist, that is pretty much what one would expect from perlite with standing water, isn't it?

- - I'm thinking a nutrition problem or some virus that ignores young plants, but I'm mostly done thinking about it and watching to see what happens with a return to soil.

 

[SweetSue]

Also all hempy fans who reuse ur own perlite i had a question I got some bottle nute stuff called hydroguard and its for eating up all the dead organic matter like dead roots and so on and then breaking it dwn as nuterients 4the plant to be able 2 eat so what im wondering is since it's the same dam thing as my sensizym i have could I use it to soak my old perlite in and wouldn't it eat up all the old shit so then after awhile u could jus rinse it off really good and then do what u normally would??

An intriguing idea Jones. I've never seen it done. I'd probably feel more confident if the perlite was sterilized after cleaning, but that might not be necessary with this product. I hope someone else jumps into this conversation.

 

[SweetSue]

Also all hempy fans who reuse ur own perlite i had a question I got some bottle nute stuff called hydroguard and its for eating up all the dead organic matter like dead roots and so on and then breaking it dwn as nuterients 4the plant to be able 2 eat so what im wondering is since it's the same dam thing as my sensizym i have could I use it to soak my old perlite in and wouldn't it eat up all the old shit so then after awhile u could jus rinse it off really good and then do what u normally would??

An intriguing idea Jones. I've never seen it done. I'd probably feel more confident if the perlite was sterilized after cleaning, but that might not be necessary with this product. I hope someone else jumps into this conversation.

 

[Herbinator420]

What is too moist or too warm?

My temps and humidity in veg are 65-75F and 55-70% RH. These are environmentals that have worked for me in soil for several runs.

If the roots are moist, that is pretty much what one would expect from perlite with standing water, isn't it?

- - I'm thinking a nutrition problem or some virus that ignores young plants, but I'm mostly done thinking about it and watching to see what happens with a return to soil.

Do you end up with droopy plants after they've otherwise been growing healthy, radogast?

 

[Blazinjones]

An intriguing idea Jones. I've never seen it done. I'd probably feel more confident if the perlite was sterilized after cleaning, but that might not be necessary with this product. I hope someone else jumps into this conversation.

Oh i figured b4 cause it would help eat up any of those little roots plus wouldn't u need to rinse off the nutrients of whatever is in the hydroguard?? So maybe soak the perlite in a hydroguard water mixture b4 and after rinsing unless u need to get rid of the hydroguard b4 u plant in it again?

 

[Herbinator420]

Oh i figured b4 cause it would help eat up any of those little roots plus wouldn't u need to rinse off the nutrients of whatever is in the hydroguard?? So maybe soak the perlite in a hydroguard water mixture b4 and after rinsing unless u need to get rid of the hydroguard b4 u plant in it again?

I'd probably touch base with the manufacturer to make sure it's safe or even productive to use it that way.

 

[Herbinator420]

Ok, I think I narrowed down my drooping hempys to just PH. I raised the PH to 6-6.1 from the initial 5.8 and they seem to be doing much better.