MoleMcHenry
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Hey coco enthusiasts, I've been wanting to write this post for a while but was waiting to get my camera back from a friend who borrowed it. I finally got it back, and am here to report that hempy buckets with coco ROCK. They are seriously awesome. My grow thread with hempy buckets is here.
For those who don't know, a hempy bucket is passive hydro. It is usually a bucket with a hole drilled in the side of a container about 2 inches up from the bottom. You hand water the plant with nutes and the bottom forms a reservoir--the hole makes the top of the reservoir. Since the water is used up quickly, there is no algae or root rot, and there are no temp/root rot issues at all. People usually use a perlite/vermiculite mix, or sometimes 100% perlite. However, I can report that coco works extremely well, too!
Here's some pics of my plants in hempy buckets with coco.
This is a Satori in a 3-liter plastic soda bottle. I just put her into 12/12 on 7/5/08.
I fill the bottom of my hempy buckets with straight perlite, then cover that with either straight coco or a mix of coco and perlite.
Same Satori top view. She's pretty bushy huh?
Here's another Satori I'm vegging in a 2-liter soda bottle.
Same Satori, top view.
Here's the 2-liter next to the 3-liter, to give you some perspective.
The roots on the 3-liter are healthy and white.
Same for the roots on the 2-liter.
Here's 2 more Satori's I started in solo cups in pure coco then bogged over 1-gallon water jugs. One of them is pure coco over perlite in the res and the other one is a mix of perlite and coco over pure perlite in the res. The all-coco hempy has more roots than the mix, but it was bogged a couple days before the other one, so it's not a true judge of the mediums yet.
The benefits of hempy buckets are obvious: they're low maintenance, produce rapid growth, they're easy to care for, have no parts to break, and cheap as hell. My buckets can go 2-3 days between waterings easily, and I suspect that pure coco may even be able to go 4 days.
I you have any questions about this awesome way of growing, I'm happy to answer them.
For those who don't know, a hempy bucket is passive hydro. It is usually a bucket with a hole drilled in the side of a container about 2 inches up from the bottom. You hand water the plant with nutes and the bottom forms a reservoir--the hole makes the top of the reservoir. Since the water is used up quickly, there is no algae or root rot, and there are no temp/root rot issues at all. People usually use a perlite/vermiculite mix, or sometimes 100% perlite. However, I can report that coco works extremely well, too!
Here's some pics of my plants in hempy buckets with coco.
This is a Satori in a 3-liter plastic soda bottle. I just put her into 12/12 on 7/5/08.
I fill the bottom of my hempy buckets with straight perlite, then cover that with either straight coco or a mix of coco and perlite.
Same Satori top view. She's pretty bushy huh?
Here's another Satori I'm vegging in a 2-liter soda bottle.
Same Satori, top view.
Here's the 2-liter next to the 3-liter, to give you some perspective.
The roots on the 3-liter are healthy and white.
Same for the roots on the 2-liter.
Here's 2 more Satori's I started in solo cups in pure coco then bogged over 1-gallon water jugs. One of them is pure coco over perlite in the res and the other one is a mix of perlite and coco over pure perlite in the res. The all-coco hempy has more roots than the mix, but it was bogged a couple days before the other one, so it's not a true judge of the mediums yet.
The benefits of hempy buckets are obvious: they're low maintenance, produce rapid growth, they're easy to care for, have no parts to break, and cheap as hell. My buckets can go 2-3 days between waterings easily, and I suspect that pure coco may even be able to go 4 days.
I you have any questions about this awesome way of growing, I'm happy to answer them.
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