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Thanks man, I really love that rootball shot, lol.
And yeah, I read enough to know I wanted to give it a thorough read.
...btw, heres a shot of the daddy AK47 I used in those crosses.
Peace, SOG
ROTFLMAO ...Mr. Rogers I presume?
stihgnobevoli - We haven't heard much from ya and hopefully you've changed your attitude a bit and your plants have thanked you for it. You asked me for some pics earlier and I'm just going to ramble some shit I've learned from growing micro. I ain't shovin any of this in your face because I've got nothing special to show. I want you to see plants that were grown ghetto style and in adverse environmental conditions like you have.
SOG - My new gear which is much like yours is on the way soon and I always love watching micro growers grow up to bigger setups. DR120 II, 600w, 5 gallons buckets, oh my! Nice daddy AK47 you got there and way too show what can be done with such little root mass.
The following pic was from a grow some time ago in about 2 parts Sunshine mix #3, 1 part Ocean Forrest, and some extra perlite. Grow in 16oz party cups, but the height of the soil was only 3.5'' as I recall. 150w vertical bulb.
They weren't party cup hempy buckets, but rather they had lots of drainage holes and needed to be watered every day or every other day. I see a lot of folks amazed at what sized plants coco can grow in small containers, but I believe how the plants are watered is more important than the medium used. These ones were dry to the bone before they got watered.
Now stihgnobevoli, I started some beans in this ghetto half-assed rubbermaid with temps frequently hitting 100F inside of it. First pic is of them just before the flip with 6 23w CFLs and I reverted them to 24/0 with 3 of the bulbs to reveg after being sexed. 100% miraclegro perlite in 2.5''x2.5''x7" containers.
Only had 2 females out of 7 plants and though I'm still growing one I don't plant on keeping, here is the keeper. She is still in the process of reverting, been LSTed a little, stems bent and stuck underneath each other, and she's only been UNDER lights for about a week. Prior to this she was still in the rubbermaid with lights below the tops of her shoots to keep her in there.
There is a hole and mesh screen at the bottom of those containers and what I did/do is put 2 of them in a cut off 2L bottle to serve as the hempy res. About an inch of water above the bottom of the container keeps them going for a day and 2 inches for 2 days. I could hardly be more careless with the nutes they are fed and the pH of the water, but I do pH almost every time to keep it between 6 and 7.
Here is a "real hempy bucket" where I am using Turface MVP at the bottom (with fine particles screened out) and the fine particles of perlite (which were screened) on top of it as a half-assed experiment. This one is just running from seed and has never been put into flower. I've removed some foliage on all these plants to play around some and also because many of them have been burned from getting into the bulbs. This real hempy bucket was probably half burnt at one point in time.
So, you can see the hole in the bottom and notice just how low that is. 2'' above the bottom of a bucket is a good rule of thumb for a 5 gallon bucket to grow big plants. I'm pretty sure that is less than 1/2" up from the bottom. I left a strip unpainted on this spaghetti sauce container to keep an eye on the medium.
More rambling and new things coming in the future. I'm going to try a passive hydro technique I haven't seen anyone try before and maybe there is a reason for that, but here is to hoping for the best.
SOG - My new gear which is much like yours is on the way soon and I always love watching micro growers grow up to bigger setups. DR120 II, 600w, 5 gallons buckets, oh my! Nice daddy AK47 you got there and way too show what can be done with such little root mass.
The following pic was from a grow some time ago in about 2 parts Sunshine mix #3, 1 part Ocean Forrest, and some extra perlite. Grow in 16oz party cups, but the height of the soil was only 3.5'' as I recall. 150w vertical bulb.
They weren't party cup hempy buckets, but rather they had lots of drainage holes and needed to be watered every day or every other day. I see a lot of folks amazed at what sized plants coco can grow in small containers, but I believe how the plants are watered is more important than the medium used. These ones were dry to the bone before they got watered.
Now stihgnobevoli, I started some beans in this ghetto half-assed rubbermaid with temps frequently hitting 100F inside of it. First pic is of them just before the flip with 6 23w CFLs and I reverted them to 24/0 with 3 of the bulbs to reveg after being sexed. 100% miraclegro perlite in 2.5''x2.5''x7" containers.
Only had 2 females out of 7 plants and though I'm still growing one I don't plant on keeping, here is the keeper. She is still in the process of reverting, been LSTed a little, stems bent and stuck underneath each other, and she's only been UNDER lights for about a week. Prior to this she was still in the rubbermaid with lights below the tops of her shoots to keep her in there.
There is a hole and mesh screen at the bottom of those containers and what I did/do is put 2 of them in a cut off 2L bottle to serve as the hempy res. About an inch of water above the bottom of the container keeps them going for a day and 2 inches for 2 days. I could hardly be more careless with the nutes they are fed and the pH of the water, but I do pH almost every time to keep it between 6 and 7.
Here is a "real hempy bucket" where I am using Turface MVP at the bottom (with fine particles screened out) and the fine particles of perlite (which were screened) on top of it as a half-assed experiment. This one is just running from seed and has never been put into flower. I've removed some foliage on all these plants to play around some and also because many of them have been burned from getting into the bulbs. This real hempy bucket was probably half burnt at one point in time.
So, you can see the hole in the bottom and notice just how low that is. 2'' above the bottom of a bucket is a good rule of thumb for a 5 gallon bucket to grow big plants. I'm pretty sure that is less than 1/2" up from the bottom. I left a strip unpainted on this spaghetti sauce container to keep an eye on the medium.
More rambling and new things coming in the future. I'm going to try a passive hydro technique I haven't seen anyone try before and maybe there is a reason for that, but here is to hoping for the best.
hey dude, no hard feelings on my end i hope i didn't cause any on your end, sometimes i can be a little temper mental, its something im working on.
as for the last remaining plants in the hempy, they are doing well, one is a hermy and sitting outside the cab, the other is the clone of the sativa i showed up there that's looking all scraggly and sick. its better now well they were better back then but it must have got lost in the anger i was currently typing with at the time.
i don't have a camera right now but if you all care to see i will post pics later when i can. it has been a learning experience, the all perlite works, and the 80/20 perlite at the bottom coco on the top mixture works too, but for some reason the ones that were mostly perlite with some coco at the top didnt work too well.
as for the last remaining plants in the hempy, they are doing well, one is a hermy and sitting outside the cab, the other is the clone of the sativa i showed up there that's looking all scraggly and sick. its better now well they were better back then but it must have got lost in the anger i was currently typing with at the time.
i don't have a camera right now but if you all care to see i will post pics later when i can. it has been a learning experience, the all perlite works, and the 80/20 perlite at the bottom coco on the top mixture works too, but for some reason the ones that were mostly perlite with some coco at the top didnt work too well.
headseed
Active member
Sweet seeds fast bud autoflower fem freebie in an all perlite beer cup hempy that was transplanted on top of an all perlite folgers coffee container hempy, about one gallon of medium total. I cut the bottom off of the cup and stuck it about 1.5" into the coffee container. Got about 50 grams of nice diesely flowers.
was a pain watering daily in mid to late flower, I use bigger containers now and 100% coco hand water drain to waste, might try hempies with the coco but I already bought blumats hehehhehehheh.
headseed
Active member
Thanks Warped1! I loved it, for an auto it was fan-fukken-tastic, and the price (free from a CG that got it as a freebie) is like a limp dick! It can't be beat! HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!
New page, old pic:
cheese in a 2-3 gallon 100% perlite hempy. Got like 80g from this one.
New page, old pic:
cheese in a 2-3 gallon 100% perlite hempy. Got like 80g from this one.
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Graham Purwatt
depends on the medium,if you use coco you will likely get fungus gnats but they are killed pretty easily
bobman
Member
Hempy brothers I need your help.
This must have started last run. When I harvested last time I noticed the roots did not look a white as usual. They looked white with a grey or brown tint. Yield did not seem affected but some thing was not right.
Fast forward to today. I have one flower room at 7 weeks and another at 4. The plants look beatiful and conditions are great but the bud formation is not what I am used to with this strain. the 7 week room looks like it is going to need at least 4 more weeks and it usually could be taken at 9 but I go 10. These plants also seemed to stretch more and have more spindly branches also the stalk is not as thick as I remember. Well, needless to say the 4 week room looks to be following the same path.
I have narrowed it down to 2 things. I have not been cleaning the old roots out of my perlite good enough before I reuse and its causing a rot of some kind or root aphids.
I just spent the last hour digging in one 5 gallon bucket about half way down and I did find 2 brownish very small crawling bugs. But they got squashed the minuter i touched them. I assume they could be aphids but I thought I would find a lot more. And the roots had that brownish grayish tint to them.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated,
Bobman
This must have started last run. When I harvested last time I noticed the roots did not look a white as usual. They looked white with a grey or brown tint. Yield did not seem affected but some thing was not right.
Fast forward to today. I have one flower room at 7 weeks and another at 4. The plants look beatiful and conditions are great but the bud formation is not what I am used to with this strain. the 7 week room looks like it is going to need at least 4 more weeks and it usually could be taken at 9 but I go 10. These plants also seemed to stretch more and have more spindly branches also the stalk is not as thick as I remember. Well, needless to say the 4 week room looks to be following the same path.
I have narrowed it down to 2 things. I have not been cleaning the old roots out of my perlite good enough before I reuse and its causing a rot of some kind or root aphids.
I just spent the last hour digging in one 5 gallon bucket about half way down and I did find 2 brownish very small crawling bugs. But they got squashed the minuter i touched them. I assume they could be aphids but I thought I would find a lot more. And the roots had that brownish grayish tint to them.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated,
Bobman
after i trashed one of my plants i noticed a buncha tiny white silvery bugs in the perlite really microscopic and hard to see unless you look at the right angle. see if you see anything under a bright light like fluorescent. the cool ones that give off white light.
