Tead's Indoor-ish, Winter, Hempy, OGK, SOG

Photos and feedings... hang on, it's a long one.

Feeding notes-
3rd gear flush
4th gear 2.25 1120ppm
5gal 2.75 1750ppm
2L .75


Betty
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2L
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4th Gear
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3rd Gear... missing 2 limbs
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5Gal
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Osmo2
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OsmoGirl
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Phew!
 
I suppose it would be damn near impossible to grow in that shed come those months your quite a bit south of me and even those months are hot and humid for me lol. Hmmm that sucks man, maybe a gorilla grow in the bayou, lol that could end up being like a huge hempy for you to test out lol.
 
Yea... July thru most of October are just too hot for my big lights to run... even with AC in place. I have some plans in place this year... kinda of a grow wind tunnel... we'll see how it turns out.

There were tons of gorilla grows in the year after Katrina. It was getting pretty funny. Saw some plants in the main branch junctions on old oak trees in a park. Nobody was around for a very, very long time.
 
I was plotting a mini hempy solo cup experiment but -No perlite for sale here in Antarctica as usual. I do have some coco though so I'll try that. But since I'd have to be automating a watering system for daily water/feed- it's basically a drain to waste hydro thing. I could make a mini coco hempy (? Can you tell that I don't have a clue what I'm talking about?) but if it's getting daily feeding- it might as well be called drain to waste, right?
I haven't done a dtw, or any sort of automated feeding system, or a hempy, and am attempting to grow a super stretchy Thai Stick sativa in a cup. Duh...
 
Ok... so been visiting the bowl this morning and kinda missed a point about your post Weas. I responded to a different issue. I felt it was a good response, so I kept it and included it below just for educational purposes. If you were using 5gal buckets, I would have said those words.

Anyway... I kinda like your idea.... seems a lot of work for a solo cup hempy... but still. Maybe start by creating a simple gravity fed device... then covert it over to a pump on a timer.
I dunno how your medium will retain water. You'll have to eyeball that situation and see how fast a solo cup of coco dries out. You still want it to dry between waterings after all.
I did a little clone cup recently and treated it a bit like hempy. No hole in the side. Instead, the holes were in the bottom and I set the cup in a plastic lid that held about 1 inch of water. Kind of an external res. Normally, I'd worry about the light on the res, but since I was feeding (changing nutes) twice a day, there were no issues.
Do you have any pea gravel hanging around? Pea gravel might work similarly in a hempy cup that small. Be sure to bleach it first.


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I think you're drawing outside the hempy lines pretty hard there.
Let's chat about watering techniques for a moment....

Our goals in watering a hempy are 3 fold.
First, we want to flush and fill the bottom res area with every watering. We do this by watering until we get a good runoff flow. When I see that Austin Powers movie with the peeing cherubs scene, it totally makes me think of my hempy runoff. I water until I get enough flow out the hole to cause the stream to project out from the container and form a good arcing stream. I apply the water evenly over the upper surface so that it drains into the res evenly and pushes out evenly... at least that's what I'm shooting for.
The second goal is simply to water the medium evenly so that all the roots get watered.
Last, but way not least, is the drying period between waterings. This is gonna be different for you, simply because of the difference in mediums. I'm not quite sure how coco is gonna work.... never done it before. I try to gauge this by weight and by finger.

So, having said all those words.... I kinda feel that an auto watering system has some real challenges. I feel you'd need at least 2 watering rings in every pot to get even coverage. Additionally, if one is watering every 3 days, ones nute solution would get old quick. One more... water needed changes at every watering due to humidity, temps, and transpiration.

I'd stay with hand watering if it were me. KISS baby... KISS.
 
Random Jack Handy observations....

I've enjoyed Nova for decades. One of the few things I pay attention to. Anyway, they were doing rocks and minerals this morning. Cutting slices of fancy rocks and showing microscope shots of all the little crystals and bits that come together to form any given type of rocks.
Everything in this damn world is Gumbo. Rocks, air, water... everything. All structures (social, physical, whatever) are just different Gumbo recipes at every level of observation.
Damn Gumbo!
 
I like when the leaves start going light green and falling. It is like she is losing a long game of strip poker and she is giving you a peek at her buds.
 
Thanks dude (I wrote Tead just there but auto-correct decided you are a dude). I would definitely prefer hand watering but I run a sort of helicopter grow so I can't be there much. I think it will be quite tricky. It took me a long time to get my system to where it is now by trial and error. Oh well, I might learn something new and don't have that much to lose. I haven't had time to fully digest what you said yet as I am on the run but will study it further. Thanks again
 
ShiggityFlip said:
I like when the leaves start going light green and falling. It is like she is losing a long game of strip poker and she is giving you a peek at her buds.
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All of us on this thread are a lil off. Lol.
 
ShiggityFlip said:
I take that as the sincerest compliment! :high-five:
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Amen to that. :laughtwo: God forbid someone should think I'm normal *gasp*

Tead, chatty is one of your best traits. :battingeyelashes:
 
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