The Hempy Bucket Method

cool saxby, keep em comin!

 

hydro is easy ive done it once the nuts are expensive and the day on the chart wwhen you have to put the nutes in the water system has to be watched with care this is what make growing conditions perfect

 

nice plants man and that cat looks like my cat like exactly... would be weird if you were my dad growing in his room or something... lol

 

Your plants are looking awesome! Really filling out the screens nicely! I like that they are all diff phenos, makes it more interesting. I have a tuxedo cat too, they are the best.

 

Saxby, I know I'm new here, but I just read your journal. Although, I am not a huge fan of CFL's, I think you are a perfect example on how to use them properly. Your grow rocks dude! May I ask, are you flowering with cfls too?


Peace

 

Thanks everyone for stoppin in, and for the kind words.


dgreg, you got me, I am your daddy, lol, J/K man.


Cannagirl, actually there are 3 strains the screened plants are Blacklight and empress the 2 plants in the back are pacific aire clones.


Videoman, I veg with cfl, I flower for the first 4 weeks under 400mh the switch to 1000mh for the 5th week though finish.

 

So I'm watering my girls this morning and my Blacklight is throwing nut sacs all over, opps, he had me fooled. I have got to get better at sexing pre-flowers. So the Hempy grow is now down to three ladies.

 

Looking good Sax!! I'm in the early stages of deciding what method to grow forward with and I'm really digging this method. Seems very simple and effective. Think I'm gonna give it a try.


Hi Ho Hi Ho off to the nursery we go :eusa_dance:


What nutes are you using?

 

hey, Im not a hydro guy for 1 reason..... too much equip. and Im lazy.... wait, thats 2 reasons, oh well..


but!!! this looks very cool and Im thinking of switching my ways around here...


my question is... how much run-off are you seeing, I would be concerned that in the resivoir (sp) there would be a buildup of nutrients..... or am I just way off and being too stoned.... ?

 

Here's week 2 of flower.







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I have been using nutes every other water the last couple days. I was getting some leaf tip burn. As far as multiple plants goes I think that will work just fine. Good luck and keep us posted

 

Update picsOk here we are at around day 27.







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Hi nipple, I found out today that Hempy's friend Jesse uses gh nutes. Maybe with those you can go full strength. I am letting my plants dry out for 2 days, then I am going to use plain water for 2 or 3 days. After that I am going to start at 1/4 strength and go from there. At lest that's the plan, to deal with the slight leaf curling (clawing) I am getting on the pacific aire (the blacklight is fine). I am happy with the growth rate and early bud production so far though.

 

Update picsI guess it's been about 7 or 8 days since last pics. I had the girls on plain pH'ed water from last Sunday until today with the exception of some cal mag'ed water Friday, due to leaf clawing. I believe they are ok now. I started restarted their feeding rate at 1/3 strength today and I will play that by ear and bump that up gradually. They still have about 25 days to go if I chop around the 60 day mark.









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Looking good man!!!

lol, man, i remember you tried to tell me how this method works, but ,TBH, i still have no-clue as to how or how much you add to what size container and how it all works in watering and feeding, and how the Wick part works, NOT got a clue, and qwould LOVE to use thiss method , as it seems EASY,AS YOU put it SAXBY my friend.....:sign13:


ABSALUTELY INTERESTING and very intreagueing grow to say the VERY LEAST on this one, and a BIG congrats on this one, A fine grow your onto there, and GREAT growing so far too, it WILL be EXELLENT to see out this grow of YOURS SAXBY my man...


Prop's my man, Prop's on this one BIG TIME..


Appreciate you sharing this method with us, maybee i just need to go over the whole thread AGAIN, and check it out more thoroughly :icon_bounce:


Briulliant work , and looking forward to the END?HARVEST time my friend, TOTALLKY Interesting and Great results too...


CAnt say enough about this one SAXBY , Geat grow..:sign13:


Peace N RESPECT to you man,


UrBigBuddie............ otleaf: otleaf: otleaf:


P.S, HInt HInt,lol, LOVE to learn this properly friwend, where would i get a lil understanding of it, without busting yer Balls all the time about Q after Q ???lol


PEACE SAXBY! FANTASTIC GROW!

 

UrBigBuddie thank you for the kind words, If you go back and read the 1st paragraph of this thread you have the whole method including assembly, feeding, growing instructions. Total cost for me was $37.50 to put together. Considering that I have enough of everything for at lest 5 runs that's reasonable.


giant bag of perlite..................................15.00


giant bag of vermiculite............................15.00


6-9.5 liter buckets...................................7.50

 

ive been doing dwc and soil this year. so far im definatly liking hydro alot more and im thinking i wanna completly switch to hydro. now i was going to do dwc but now after seeing this thread i kinda wanna do a hempy. what do you thinik will get me a larger yield hempy or dwc. i got amother plant i know is female that im about to clone.