The Official Hempy Bucket Thread

[100% Dundee]

If you are worried about root rot, I would just add in a good enzyme that breaks down old roots and helps with the chelation of those organic nutrients. Hygrozyme is my enzyme of choice, I believe it is organic as well since that seems to matter to you. Good price, great results with it, really effective at breaking down old roots. I personally never get root rot running Hygrozyme in my hempy buckets, but I also don't use organic nutrients so your mileage may vary.

 

[mintz]

^^Cheers mate

 

[Capt.Ahab]

Five confirmed females so far but gave a male SWTC99x Bubblicious the chop tonight. It was one of the plants in the coarse coco chips and had perlite on the bottom 2-3 inches of the bucket.
I would say the root growth was excellent for two weeks of growth.

Some root porn.

The Perlite fell off the bottom of the root ball but you can see that the roots were well into it.

 

[Bobbo4200]

Hey guy's!,
How is everyone doing? The last Hempy I made a couple weeks ago somehow got a crack in the very bottom, how should I get her into a new bucket? I was also wondering the procedure to remedy a nute burn situation? How do you flush before the chop, straight RO water for a couple weeks? Thanks for the help guy's!

 

[Capt.Ahab]

Bobbo I would try to find another bucket that the present bucket you are using will fit into. Based on what I saw last night when I pulled the male out of the pot, if your medium is perlite/vermiculite you will not be able to keep the root ball intact when you pull it out of the pot. The perlite and vermiculite will just fall apart.
Another thought. You could try the BOG method. Remove as much of the bottom of the present pot as possible or drill a bunch of holes in it and them place that pot on top of another filled with your medium. The roots will grow through the bottom of the older pot into the new one.
I used a full strength solution a couple weeks ago. My plants didnt like it. The very edges of some of the fan leaves showed a little burn. I didnt flush anything but went back to half strength and they were fine. Ive since upped the mixture to 3/4 strength and things look good, so far. I plan on flushing with plain PH'ed water for a week or so when the plants look nearly finished.

 

[dubwise]

@bobbo- you could do a few different things. As the Capt. said, you could certainly use the methods he described for probably the less stressful situation for the plant. You could also let her dry out and gently pour out the top layer of medium and slowly remove the plant as medium falls, but you run some dangerous risks of dropping the plant & bucket or heck, anything could happen, I like the best of cutting away the bottom quarter of the bucket and replacing it or once the bottom is cut off, you could cut away the rest of it. There's many ways to skin this cat. As for flushing.....I feed every time I water (~3days after roots have hit the reservoir & lightly every day before then). I flush the last 10 days of bloom. If I had overfed & burned them I flush ph'd water for a week.
@Capt.Ahab- Great pics of those beautiful roots! Our plants in perlite/hydroton do the same thing...the perlite falls to the bottom of the container and the hydroton stays up top. I've noticed....and I don't know why this appears to be...but my plants with more hydroton than perlite seem to get frostier. I've been growing the same two strains for a couple of years and this is almost always the case.

 

[Bobbo4200]

Ok guys, I'm gonna try my best, lol! ;-) I am using the 70/30 perlite recipe, so I kinda figured the rootball would fall apart. She is still pretty small, so helpfully that will help. I was gonna try and remove her, and place her into a new bucket of the same shape and size. I also may just drill holes in the bottom of the bucket, and put her into a new same shape and size bucket. I think that will be the least stressful. Thanks for the help guy's!!
O yeah, can someone post the link to the Walmart cloner? I just bought a new bag of Rapid Rooters, but my success rate has gone down since I moved. Thanks again!!

 

[Bobbo4200]

I just got another bucket of the same size and shape, and drilled holes in he old one, and placed it in the new one. Thanks again!!

 

[Seedlin]

Bobbo look back just a couple of pages. I just asked the same question and a pic was posted. Haven't found one yet but don't need it at the moment. Just fixin to replant my seedlins to their Hempy pots and have I second set of beans crackin....

 

[someotherguy]

Ok guys, I'm gonna try my best, lol! ;-) I am using the 70/30 perlite recipe, so I kinda figured the rootball would fall apart. She is still pretty small, so helpfully that will help. I was gonna try and remove her, and place her into a new bucket of the same shape and size. I also may just drill holes in the bottom of the bucket, and put her into a new same shape and size bucket. I think that will be the least stressful. Thanks for the help guy's!!
O yeah, can someone post the link to the Walmart cloner? I just bought a new bag of Rapid Rooters, but my success rate has gone down since I moved. Thanks again!!

here you go man, ...delivered to your door.

ice-tube-trays

...btw, oddly enough, you can also get them at any Walmart, sometimes you'll find them in housewares with other ice cube trays and sometimes you'll find them where they sell water bottles to bikers and hikers and such, ...which also means you can get them at any decent sporting goods chain, REI for example.

Peace, SOG

...if you're just starting out with hempys and you're struggling with cloning a bit then you might want to consider coco as your medium of choice, partly because you'll only need ONE medium so no mixing and partly because coco hempys perform as well or better than the 70/30 mix but mostly because learning to clone in straight coco is so freakin' easy!

...heres a couple pics you may have seen of a couple of mine I was potting up into coke bottle hempys to sex them.

...if I remember right these were at 23 days from the day I clipped them from thier moms and stuffed them into those 9oz cups.

 

[Suspect]

Someone asked about BioBizz organic nutrients.

Make sure you put once some dolomite lime powder (1-2tbsp) in your buckets before watering to buffer the PH to a good level.

I am on my first testrun of them in a Hempy bucket, so far it's been pretty good but now at ~4-5 weeks into flowering I'm experiencing some deficiencies such as Potassium/zinc/both.

Check out my Growdiary for pix.

Any input on this is greatly appreciated, I just fed my ladies with a stronger solution than before.

 

[Bobbo4200]

Thanks for the link SOG!! I know this is gonna sound stupid, lol-but how do you clone into coco? No Rapid Rooter, or rockwool? Thanks again!!

 

[painroad]

Anybody know a good place to get 2.5/3 gal pots?

 

[Bionic]

Dollar store

 

[dubwise]

bakeries! Get 'em fo' free. Used icing containers. They work well.

 

[painroad]

Dollar store

Really?? I was just there today

 

[dubwise]

it's been hit or miss at the dollar store for me.....I have been able to get some nice 15g tote's on the cheap at the dollar store lately.

 

[Seedlin]

That's where I scored mine. They are popping up all over the place down here and I just hit every one I saw. I've bought 20 and they are perfect for Hempy.

 

[dansbuds]

i must be the only idiot payin 3:50 a piece at HD .i can say though ... these 2 gallon paint buckets are gonna last forever . they're thick as hell

 

[the 45 king]

I buy the 10 quart mop bucket at walmart