I've wondered about blocking light with green for many years. Do you recall what the roots do in the green lit medium?
I've wondered about blocking light with green for many years. Do you recall what the roots do in the green lit medium?
Hey @Lazarus13 , this is your first foray into hempy if I recall correctly. How you liking hempy so far?
Lazarus13
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This will actually be hempy round number 3 and i am more than satisfied with both the ease and results of it. DWC was fun and engaged my inner mad scientist but it was full time work, monitoring pH and water temps and such. Hempy has that same lightning quick growth and is the easiest way I've ever grown anything.
The first two grows using hempy had some problems but it was mostly environmental. This time, with the bigger buckets and the environment dialed in... Should come close to some of my dwc grows.
The first two grows using hempy had some problems but it was mostly environmental. This time, with the bigger buckets and the environment dialed in... Should come close to some of my dwc grows.
Buck5050
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Nice and green. What kind and how much nutes are you feeding this?The SODK is still chugging along in the hempy bucket. Here she is at day 45 from sprout.
nekvt
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I'm using GH FloraNova Bloom. I start feeding at about day 10 with 2ml (around 200ppm) and slowly work up from there. I'm currently feeding her 6ml (580ppm) and have noticed a slight claw to the leaves. Today I feed her 3ml to try to correct. The ability to make quick changes is another great thing about using a hempy.
That's my thought process over the years as well.
For me, it's the only hydro style I can do in the heat. Hydro in the 80's... not so good. Hempies in the 80's... works all day. Can you imagine a res at 80f+?
Ganjagrowergu
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Since I run 12/12 from seed I am forced to count flowering from first pistils. But it doesn't seem to matter for me, because I harvest when I see overall bud ripeness or the wife calls it. She has an eye for these things while I stand around questioning myself, lol.
I used to veg, when I did that I gave my plants 24hours of darkness and when I turned the lights back on I called it day one of flowering. 24 hours of darkness was likely not necessary at all as I noticed no difference in flowering time.
I count flower from 11/13 flip
Just easier for me
Figure hairs start around day 7, so calculate as needed...lol
Just easier for me
Figure hairs start around day 7, so calculate as needed...lol
Ganjagrowergu
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I think it is the quick fixes to the problems that I love most.... Oops I overfed/bad pH/she looks hungry, flush it, feed it right, done, results are obvious in a few hours if I caught the problem soon enough. That and my tent runs far too hot for "standard" hydro. I also love small containers and big plants. I pretty much like everything about it I guess. Lol. I need to smoke
I have been trying a couple things with my hempy girls and it seems to be working pretty well for me.
One of the things I now do is flush/refill every four days as opposed to every other day. And this is with my flowering or vegging plants. The day I flush/refill I remove the duct tape from over the hole (tape stays on all the time except when watering/feeding) and slowly turn the pot on as great an angle as I can to pour out residual liquid in the reservoir without spilling any perlite. When that has been completed I take the pot to the sink. I have a short hose with a small sprinkler head on it which I use to thoroughly wash the perlite covering the entirety of the surface on top. Takes about 7 seconds and the flow starts below. I do this till I feel the leftover gunk has been washed away. I then feed the plant and fill the reservoir. The second I see liquid about to exit the hole I tilt the pot back, dry around the hole, and slap on a new piece of duct tape. Then back into the grow box she goes. Each day for the next 3 days the flowering plants are fed 450ml of 3/4 strength nutrients. The vegging plants are fed 300ml of 1/2 strength nutrients.
So if I do the flush on Sunday........Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday all I do is add nutrient water. Repeat every four days. The plants have not complained yet.
One of the things I now do is flush/refill every four days as opposed to every other day. And this is with my flowering or vegging plants. The day I flush/refill I remove the duct tape from over the hole (tape stays on all the time except when watering/feeding) and slowly turn the pot on as great an angle as I can to pour out residual liquid in the reservoir without spilling any perlite. When that has been completed I take the pot to the sink. I have a short hose with a small sprinkler head on it which I use to thoroughly wash the perlite covering the entirety of the surface on top. Takes about 7 seconds and the flow starts below. I do this till I feel the leftover gunk has been washed away. I then feed the plant and fill the reservoir. The second I see liquid about to exit the hole I tilt the pot back, dry around the hole, and slap on a new piece of duct tape. Then back into the grow box she goes. Each day for the next 3 days the flowering plants are fed 450ml of 3/4 strength nutrients. The vegging plants are fed 300ml of 1/2 strength nutrients.
So if I do the flush on Sunday........Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday all I do is add nutrient water. Repeat every four days. The plants have not complained yet.
Interesting process. 
If I was going to do all that, I think I would go 4 days between too. Except that you aren’t. You’re still mixing nutes, or at least fertigating, on a daily basis.
I’m glad it’s working for you, but it sounds like more work than I would want to do.
For me, the best part of hempy is the simplicity. Every ~3 days, I mix nutes and rapidly pour into the perlite until it pees out the hole. If you need to move the pot before it finishes draining, the hole can be taped. That’s it.
If I was going to do all that, I think I would go 4 days between too. Except that you aren’t. You’re still mixing nutes, or at least fertigating, on a daily basis.
I’m glad it’s working for you, but it sounds like more work than I would want to do.
For me, the best part of hempy is the simplicity. Every ~3 days, I mix nutes and rapidly pour into the perlite until it pees out the hole. If you need to move the pot before it finishes draining, the hole can be taped. That’s it.
So every 3 days you mix up a fresh batch of nutrients for your plants. As rapidly as you can you pour your freshly mixed nutrient water into the pot where it mixes with the nasty leftover stuff in the reservoir. What exits the hole is the excess old nutes mixed with new nutes. What's left in the reservoir is old nutes mixed with new nutes with your method. A percentage of the stuff you JUST mixed goes down the drain.
I don't mix nutrients every day, but do feed the plants every day. A total of 5 plants and feeding them takes perhaps 4 or 5 minutes and that includes checking them out a bit. Your method is what works best for you. And perhaps at some point in this grow I will see the errors in my ways. But my logic tells me that giving the 5 plants a nice flush every 4th day and feeding them with new, clean, pure nutrient water has to be a good thing for the plants.
I don't mix nutrients every day, but do feed the plants every day. A total of 5 plants and feeding them takes perhaps 4 or 5 minutes and that includes checking them out a bit. Your method is what works best for you. And perhaps at some point in this grow I will see the errors in my ways. But my logic tells me that giving the 5 plants a nice flush every 4th day and feeding them with new, clean, pure nutrient water has to be a good thing for the plants.
Oh, and if I go 3 days before feeding/watering my three flowering plants nothing would drain out when I took off the tape and tried to pour it out. They are drinking pretty much all I am feeding them each day.
I usually water with nutes every 2-3 days
I'll usually pour 4-5 cups in, then do the next one, watch for discharge, then do the remaining 4-5 cups of nutes
Im sure I get a good % of swap of the reservoir, but I'm like @FelipeBlu , simplicity is what I like about Hempy
If I go 3 days the Rez is pretty empty so I know it's a 100% swap, in 2 days maybe not as high a % but still a good swap
Since I've been lazy with my DWC, sooooo of ready for my 6 mo vacation ...lol.... I can see how not always doing a Rez changes dosent negatively effect the girls, so that translates directly to Hempy
I know Sue waters every other day and has great results
I'll usually pour 4-5 cups in, then do the next one, watch for discharge, then do the remaining 4-5 cups of nutes
Im sure I get a good % of swap of the reservoir, but I'm like @FelipeBlu , simplicity is what I like about Hempy
If I go 3 days the Rez is pretty empty so I know it's a 100% swap, in 2 days maybe not as high a % but still a good swap
Since I've been lazy with my DWC, sooooo of ready for my 6 mo vacation ...lol.... I can see how not always doing a Rez changes dosent negatively effect the girls, so that translates directly to Hempy
I know Sue waters every other day and has great results
Yeah, this is what’s going on with me too. I should have been a little more clear about that. After 3 days, the perlite is still moist, but it pretty much takes the entire reservoir volume before it pees. The runoff goes on garden plants after readjusting pH.
Ganjagrowergu
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I "waste" far more nutrients than I should. My 20oz hempys get fed to runoff 3x daily, 40oz 2x, and currently my autos are being fed daily, I drain the reservoir every couple days. They are only 2 weeks old..
I think my SSDC hit the reservoir overnight.
I think my SSDC hit the reservoir overnight.
Sounds to me like you got a vigorous SSDC seed there my friend.
See, that's what I am trying to avoid especially with the flowering plants. So I keep the tape over the holes and top off the reservoirs every day. The nutrients are already mixed in a gallon jug. And I'm making sure the girls have all they want to drink.
I will admit that when I started with this "system" I would do the flush on Sunday morning first thing, and put the tape on, and then weigh the plant/pot and make a note. On Monday I would weigh the plant first thing in the morning and pour in nutrients until I reached the weight from the day before. So I knew I was filling just to the top of the reservoir. After a few days I quit weighing the plants as I found they were consuming pretty much the same amount each day. So that's how I do it now with my hempy plants.
And I don't know if it's all hempy plants or just the Dark Devil plants, but the DDAs are gluttons for Cal-Mag.
Ganjagrowergu
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Grew about an inch all of the way around. My DDA is going the slow steady route. I will snap a couple pics later on.
DrDoob
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I think it’s all hempy plants, cause I’ve noticed the same thing and now add it at every watering to prevent issues.