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DevilsReject

DevilsReject

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Sup ICM Family,

My first time out of the box for a newbie i want to try Hempy Bucket grow but I need some experienced growers who grow Hempy Style and get some much needed help with a productive soil mix that has a proven track record & pics would be great if possible.

Thanks for your help and it's very much appreciated. :sasmokin:
 
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Mike Seed

Search the forums for "Hempy" - in the thread title.

There are many posts on this.

Your basic soil-less mix is 30% vermiculite, 70% perlite, with the bottom 2" of the bucket being filled with perlite only to act as a reservoir.
 
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Dalaihempy

Mike Seed said:
Search the forums for "Hempy" - in the thread title.

There are many posts on this.

Your basic soil-less mix is 30% vermiculite, 70% perlite, with the bottom 2" of the bucket being filled with perlite only to act as a reservoir.
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Hi all thort to correct this the only time i add perlite to the bottom 2 inchs of the bucket is when i run only coco you could also use coco chips clay rocks gravile what ever you like its only to allow the coco to drain as if its filled completely with coco it will remain to water logged.

You can run perlite / vermiculite coco perlite coco only perlite glay rocks and so on in hempy buckets.
 
DevilsReject

DevilsReject

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thx Dalai

I found more threads and one from the Inventor of the Hempy Bucket style grow Hempy himself and recommended 3 parts perlite to 1 part vermiculite, so I will try that and see how that works first but thanks for your help & your help to Mike.
 
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Mike Seed

Well DalaiHempy, did not "invent" the technique, just brought it to mainstream and has been perfecting it ever since with changes like from vermiculite/perlite to coco coir/perlite.

Ed Rosenthals book from the 80's also mentioned perlite/vermiculite mixtures for growing as soilless and many people like myself in the early 90's grew perlite/vermiculite on the road to more advanced hydroponic systems.

Right now I am pretty torn between a "Hempy" bucket, and a BlazeBag.

Blazebags seem the way to go i think for my first foray back into growing. It is a soil mix, and i have never grown soil before, but Blaze makes it as easy as Hempy.

Here is what is needed for a BlazeBag:

- 1 bag of miracle grow organic choice
- 1 bag of pro mix for containers
- 1 cup blood meal
- 1 cup bone meal
- 1/2 cup dolomite lime
- 10-20% added chunky perlite.

This mix will fill 10, 3 gallon bags. No other amendments needed. You simply feed plain water from start to finish. I am starting my seedlings in jiffy pots, using just organic choice and transplanting to BlazeBag at 2 weeks for 2 more weeks under the light before flipping to 12/12.

I am probably gong to do a mixture of BlazeBags with Hempy's and see how I like the outcome.

I have a huge yard with a mini-forest attached, so ditching soil is not a problem.

Good luck!

And yea, I just coined the term "BlazeBag", based on grows by Blazeoneup like this: http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=59380/
 
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hehehemann

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I too use Hempys to grow. I use 100% perlite though. Only difference with running perlite only opposed to adding vermiculite is that you have to water a little more frequently. The benefit seems to be more air to the roots which I feel helps the plants develop better.
 
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Dalaihempy

Mike Seed said:
Well DalaiHempy, did not "invent" the technique, just brought it to mainstream and has been perfecting it ever since with changes like from vermiculite/perlite to coco coir/perlite.

Ed Rosenthals book from the 80's also mentioned perlite/vermiculite mixtures for growing as soilless and many people like myself in the early 90's grew perlite/vermiculite on the road to more advanced hydroponic systems.

Right now I am pretty torn between a "Hempy" bucket, and a BlazeBag.

Blazebags seem the way to go i think for my first foray back into growing. It is a soil mix, and i have never grown soil before, but Blaze makes it as easy as Hempy.

Here is what is needed for a BlazeBag:

- 1 bag of miracle grow organic choice
- 1 bag of pro mix for containers
- 1 cup blood meal
- 1 cup bone meal
- 1/2 cup dolomite lime
- 10-20% added chunky perlite.

This mix will fill 10, 3 gallon bags. No other amendments needed. You simply feed plain water from start to finish. I am starting my seedlings in jiffy pots, using just organic choice and transplanting to BlazeBag at 2 weeks for 2 more weeks under the light before flipping to 12/12.

I am probably gong to do a mixture of BlazeBags with Hempy's and see how I like the outcome.

I have a huge yard with a mini-forest attached, so ditching soil is not a problem.

Good luck!

And yea, I just coined the term "BlazeBag", based on grows by Blazeoneup like this: http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=59380/
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Mate let me explane things to you i perfected this method in the 80s been using it from the early 80s the method that is called the hempy bucket i my self came up with it and experimented in both bucket shapes and sizes as well as internal rez sizes to get to what iv used for decades now and past on as a basic formula for all to use.

The idea infact came from a aquaponic hydro kit sold by a company that's been around since 1969 as a research and development company, a pioneer in the development of hydroponic systems and design, supply of specialized nutrient formulations, growing medias, and related items.

The person that started this company holds many degrees did not think it would work when i told him what i had come up with i can prove all this to be fact and in all honesty i am tired of hearing this shit fact is he had never sean any thing like it or had hydro stores years later that started to pop up here and there and no one believed it would even work well fact was it did and worked well at that.
 
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