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Chris Scorpio said:
I use clear Solo cups on top of my red Solo cups, works great
Can trim them a bit and they fit right inside the rim
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Hey.... that’s a great idea! :high-five:
 
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DrDoob said:
I haven’t either, but that Bulk bottle gets lots of salt build up around the cap so I’m sure it eventually builds up in the perlite too.
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One of the magic pieces of hempy is the drain to waste bit. You're flushing it with every watering and pushing that old sauce out quickly giving it little time for salt buildup.
I can detect no salt buildup in my pots.

BTzGrow said:
I also read that Nebula Haze yielded roughly an Oz on the above video. Even at a half z , six solo cups yielding 3oz?
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Too small... go with 2L bottles if you want a 1oz plant.
My 2cents.

BTzGrow said:
At this point I'm not seeing any above the RR's surface growth, so I'm assuming the little seedlings are putting all their energy into driving that Tap Root and other smaller roots down looking for a better source of moisture. It this a correct assumption? I don't want to over water, and yet I'm pretty sure under watering is even more disastrous.
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Patience grasshopper... anticipation is it's own reward.
It's about to explode... you just don't know it.
For the record, I don't think it's possible to over-water in a perlite hempy bucket... unless your hole is plugged.


SweetSue said:
Gentlemen, perlite wicks the water up from the reservoir, so the assumption should be that in a solo cup you have a shallow enough depth that the roots will be getting nutrient-rich water everywhere in the cup except the very top, which stays somewhat dry.

I start with 1/4 nutes and bump up faster than others do, but my nutrients allow me to do so. I'm up to full strength within a week, watering ever other day. I never bother with watering around the seedlings, and I always use nutes.
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I love it when Sue does the work.

BTzGrow said:
Actually, you are right on! We are talking about RR's in Hempy Cups and I was hoping you would chime in on this. I had been wanting to know your exact take on the wicking action of Perlite. I was thinking it might be along these lines, just really wanted to confirm. Shortly after I joined the HH here, you mentioned that perlite wicks 8". That's perfect for my cups, just wanted to double check. What I was unsure about was the little tap root being able to get enough to get down to the reservoir. Your answer complete clears that up for me. Thanks, B-)
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Stick your finger into the perlite... see how far you get before you feel moisture. Use a moisture meter.
I usually hit moisture about 1" below the perl.
 
Good morning Tead. :hugs:

I love it when you step in to clean up. :battingeyelashes: :Love:
 
Tead said:
Seems to be my role these days... check in, offer words, run away for a week... check back.
Meh!
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We take what we can get and we’re happy with it. :battingeyelashes:
 
Two up in one day, just two days after planting in perlite (saturated with 1/8 strength nutrients) with humidity domes.

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A week or so in the solo cups and they’ll be ready to set in the tiny closet. By then I’ll have my new lights up. :slide:

Finally, DDA in my garden again. :yahoo:
 
Had a nice little hempy harvest Dog Butt (1024xUnknown OG) yesterday. It ripened very quickly and didn’t flush well but is sure to be fantastic. I gave it just water for a week than a couple days of AN Flawless Finish, but it didn’t really seem to do anything to “flush”.
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Tead said:
Keep it REALLY well flushed. Much of the root mass is not needed and will die off. This sets up a rot situation. Keep your nose peeled for smells of rot.
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Thanks for the tip! I’ll try to keep the reservoir empty and let the perlite stay fairly dry. It’s in a 2.5 gal pot so it probably won’t need more water than the perlite can hold for awhile.

How much light should it be getting to reveg? It’s under a pretty weak T5 light that I use for clones now.
 
DrDoob said:
Thanks for the tip! I’ll try to keep the reservoir empty and let the perlite stay fairly dry. It’s in a 2.5 gal pot so it probably won’t need more water than the perlite can hold for awhile.

How much light should it be getting to reveg? It’s under a pretty weak T5 light that I use for clones now.
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I'm not sure you need or want to dry it out. Not much you can really do about the root die off. I get milky smelly runoff for a long time... like weeeeeks. Keeping a heavy flush schedule going will help, but the roots will and must die off really... and that mass needs to be frequently rinsed out. Not such a big deal for the plant really as uptake during the switch is minimal.
Of course, most of my words need to be tempered with the "Yea... but he lives in a hot-ass world" disclaimer, so your mileage may vary.

I do my reveging in the veg room... no baby chamber in my world.
 
Tead said:
I'm not sure you need or want to dry it out. Not much you can really do about the root die off. I get milky smelly runoff for a long time... like weeeeeks. Keeping a heavy flush schedule going will help, but the roots will and must die off really... and that mass needs to be frequently rinsed out. Not such a big deal for the plant really as uptake during the switch is minimal.
Of course, most of my words need to be tempered with the "Yea... but he lives in a hot-ass world" disclaimer, so your mileage may vary.

I do my reveging in the veg room... no baby chamber in my world.
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Ok, this got my interest. Next time I try I'll remember to leave enough to actually grow. Lol!

I really want to learn to reveg.
 
Tead said:
The more plant mass you leave, the less of an issue root die off will be. I run into it because I hack the crap out of it, then reveg stubs to get cuttings from.
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This is why they recommend you leave the bottom third? Makes sense. In our hempy world I suspect it's better to do this to grab cuttings rather than take them to the end. There doesn't seem to be the same advantage soil offers. I find it so easy to grow with hempy that the time involved to get through veg goes like a breeze. Hmmm.... I'll try one and see what happens. Now I'm curious. Lol!

I have so many seeds it seems crazy sometimes to clone.

Sitting out here in front of the building waiting for the UPS guy and now the tracking info says "Delay." Huh! Looks like I'll be doing this again tomorrow. I have a buzz to get back to and a luncheon to get my behind to.
 
Tead said:
The more plant mass you leave, the less of an issue root die off will be. I run into it because I hack the crap out of it, then reveg stubs to get cuttings from.
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That’s what I’m trying for, hopefully it won’t smell too bad before I can get a couple clones. Really I’m just having fun with it so the outcome isn’t so important. I figured what the heck might as well give revegging a go.
 
It's easy in hempy... just as easy as most others... just not good when you leave 1/10th of your plant rather than the normally suggested 1/3. It can be trickier if you're running liquid nutes, but my Osmo pots haven't given me any problems with nute levels.
I do it fairly often cause I'm a disorganized f..... err.... grower, and frequently forget to clone a plant before blooming.
 
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