The Official Hempy Bucket Thread

[Capt.Ahab]

Yep. 2 x 400. The room is quite long but I have them in one end. The space they are presently occupying is about six feet long, five feet wide and seven feet tall.
The plants are about 24 inches high right now.

 

[Seedlin]

dansbubs how big is your clone room?

 

[Seedlin]

Mine is 4x8x7 and I have a 1000w light. Will that produce?

 

[Capt.Ahab]

Of course.
The space I had them in before was about 4x5x5.5 with one 400 watt.

 

[dansbuds]

dansbubs how big is your clone room?

My shelf for clones & seedlings is in my wardrobe cabinet . the whole cabinet is 36" x 24" x 60" the shelf is about a foot deep . under the shelf is for my small veg & I also use it for drying my harvests cuz i have a scrubber in the cab . for lighting in the bottom i had a 150 hps but changed that out for T5's .

 

[Seedlin]

Thanks man! Those pics have my mind racing now. I kno what I wanna do and kno somebody else has done it. Now I can move n building the clone/ mom room with a combination of t5s for the moms and my cfls. Clones and seedlins on the top, moms on the bottom.....Oh yeah!!!!!

 

[dansbuds]

Thanks man! Those pics have my mind racing now. I kno what I wanna do and kno somebody else has done it. Now I can move n building the clone/ mom room with a combination of t5s for the moms and my cfls. Clones and seedlins on the top, moms on the bottom.....Oh yeah!!!!

thanx & good luck man .... this set up works pretty good for me ..... am sure it will for you too

 

[grassott's dad]

double post lol. can this post be deleted before it gets a ton of dislikes lol?

 

[grassott's dad]

Hi all, your buckets are looking great!

I've just learnt something. Hempy cups are wack compared to rockwool'd clones xplanted in coco. I think for the best potential, as soon as your clone is rooted in rockwool (or jiffy pellet or whatever), xplant straight away in their final Hempy bucket home. This is what my mate's gonna do from now on and it's what Hempy advises.

My mate's just harvested a crop and he tells me that he'll be giving me pics in a couple of days. Personally, I can't wait lol

 

[dansbuds]

Yes the cup stage is not needed for hempy buckets . & i don't use hempy cups , i use cups of straight coco to beef up the root system before dropping into the final bucket cuz it cuts the time it takes for the roots to hit the rez in half . when i transplant a cup full of roots into the hempys , the rootball is closer to the rez & the roots are already established & less chance of a rooted clone dying off .

and now that i'm cloning in cups of straight coco (thanx SOG ) , once the cup is full of roots it goes right into my hempy bucket for the duration


& a side note .... i freakin HATE rockwool !!! that stuff has killed more of my clones than any other way i've tried .... & i've tried them all .

 

[thestruggle]

An idea I had is to keep a mother plant vegging under low wattage, then cut a clone, root it, and place it in the hempy bucket. Id prefer 100% hydroton in the hempy bucket, which would be 2 gallons.

What kind of medium and container is best for keeping a mother plant long term with passive hydro? Will a hydroton hempy work? I wouldnt be against using a blend here since the medium wouldnt have to be changed, but the flowering bucket medium should be reusable.

It'd be used with maxibloom for nutrients.

 

[Bobbo4200]

Hey SOG, how do you use those ice cube trays, do you have the link on that too lol? Thanks again Guy!!

 

[dubwise]

@thestruggle-I use hydroton (not alone) and the only way it would work as a stand alone medium with a hempy bucket is if you had it on a drip system and kept it going. Typically with perlite/vermiculite mix you should be feeding every two or three days. I don't know what the feeding schedule is for coco, but some of the others here are doing awesome things and getting good results with it.

 

[CaptainTrips]

@thestruggle-I use hydroton (not alone) and the only way it would work as a stand alone medium with a hempy bucket is if you had it on a drip system and kept it going. Typically with perlite/vermiculite mix you should be feeding every two or three days. I don't know what the feeding schedule is for coco, but some of the others here are doing awesome things and getting good results with it.

It should work with hydroton. You might have to water more often until roots reach the res. I did a "hempy" before I ever heard that word, with pebble rocks, worked just fine, I would guess the roots would concentrate near the bottom due to hydroton not having any wicking ability tho.

 

[dubwise]

I can agree, but what were the intervals you were watering? My only experience with hydroton as stand alone was flood & drain table, understanding that the mini reservoir would be the same no matter what the medium (in a hempy bucket) so I do see how it could work, but it seems as if you would have to constantly have to feed over the first month.

 

[oneshot]

When you are putting freshly germinated seeds into Hempy buckets (3:1 per/ver), do you guys just use straight water until it sprouts or half strength nutes? I can't remember what I did the first time lol

I am using Lucas formula (8ml/gall of FloraNova) for reference.

 

[dansbuds]

Hey SOG, how do you use those ice cube trays, do you have the link on that too lol? Thanks again Guy!!

the walmart ice cube tray cloner ......https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=42847

 

[CaptainTrips]

I can agree, but what were the intervals you were watering? My only experience with hydroton as stand alone was flood & drain table, understanding that the mini reservoir would be the same no matter what the medium (in a hempy bucket) so I do see how it could work, but it seems as if you would have to constantly have to feed over the first month.

I don't really remember how often I was watering, was a long time ago. But I know there are people that have done straight hydroton hempys, if you google you'll probably find some grows like that. I prefer perlite as its cheaper and doesn't roll everywhere if you spill it. Lol.

 

[Bobbo4200]

Thanks DB!!

 

[thestruggle]

It should work with hydroton. You might have to water more often until roots reach the res. I did a "hempy" before I ever heard that word, with pebble rocks, worked just fine, I would guess the roots would concentrate near the bottom due to hydroton not having any wicking ability tho.

Thanks, I thought I read about someone using only hydroton. I've used a 3:1 perlite/vermiculite mix, but I have a hard time finding both, and I'd rather be able to reuse the medium. I figured I could put an actual wick in the hydroton if it dried out too fast.