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maryanne3087
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Re: Hempy Buckets [Re: God]
#502342 - 12/01/10 02:57 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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God said: I use medium/coarse perlite, and don't bother with the verm. However, I think people generally go for the big shit.
A grower on another forum did a side by side of 30verm/70perlite vs 100% perlite and the verm/perlite had wayyyyyyyy bigger roots his side by side comparison was done using peppers and the results were so significant a very small sample would be convincing. If I ever went hempy I'd have to use verm or coco + perlite rather than pure perlite.
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maryanne3087
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Re: Hempy Buckets [Re: coda]
#502367 - 12/01/10 05:00 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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coda said: I stopped using the verm because a.) it was fucking impossible to find in my area in a decent qty b.) Thought it was the cause of my algae problem (light leaks turned out to be the culprit).
I'd be willing to give the verm a go again and do a side by side comparison, using verm is a PITA honestly but if it does help produce better plants I'm all for it. I just never noticed much of a difference between straight perlite and mixed, in fact each successive grow with the strains I've been running has been getting better and better.
Just was thinking though, isn't this observation kind of a "no shit, sherlock" moment? You would think that providing additional water retention to your plants roots you will produce a much healthier root system. Not always the case I know, but it just seems kind of obvious. Be nice if I could just buy some premixed stuff because I hate mixing the two together.
Mixing doesn't sound that bad to me. Maybe you're exceptionally lazy?
I thought it was a fairly obvious outcome but I'm often surprised by my assumptions being incorrect. It's hard to figure out what the perfect mixture of water retention and air space is in a medium, I had no doubt that straight perlite was a less than perfect medium.
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Re: Hempy Buckets [Re: coda]
#502399 - 12/01/10 06:34 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Without doing a side by side it's really hard to say what medium you're more successful with. Naturally the more experience you get the better you will grow making less mistakes and such learning how to optimize your garden, etc.
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Re: Hempy Buckets [Re: Pandor]
#502583 - 12/02/10 02:23 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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I think Harry_Ballsach's first grow was hempy buckets.
Integra21 on this website started in DWC, he started the seeds in soil but then cloned the motherplants into DWC (hydro).
Amongst my first indoor grows were coco, which is a form of hydroponics/soilless growing.
I know people who dove into large ops with hydro, some successful, some not. IMO there's a learning curve to growing and it's good to start with soil if you're not familiar with problems to expect. I think that coco is easier than soil and is a lot more problem free. Soil is bad for bugs or at least can be, it's also heavy as fuck, you can easily over water soil.
Coco is cleaner so less bugs, it comes in compressed bricks, it doesn't create huge dust clouds of glass (I believe this is an accurate description?), and it's very hard to overwater you can easily keep your coco saturated and instead of becoming water logged the coco will just continue to drain if you keep watering. I actually water up to 150-200% of the containers volume.
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Re: Hempy Buckets [Re: coda]
#502623 - 12/02/10 05:43 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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I've bought a lot of coco brands.
Botanicare is very good and wouldn't need any rinsing / pre treatment. This coco is steam sterilized and really consistent.
Mo Koko is also very good and ...... """"" This coco is listed under some RHP Dutch thing which basically certifies it as high grade organic horticulture worthy shit.
Canna and B'cuzz are good but who ever pre treats them seems to fuck up a lot. I've rinsed my coco by saturating it and getting 100% run off (100% volume of the pot in water and it had a EC of 3.5-4 or something)
Personally, I have "different" feeding methods than 99.99% of the canna world so I rinse all coco, and pretreat it myself I could for sure use either the Mo Koko or botanicare without rinsing/pretreating.
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Re: Hempy Buckets [Re: muse42]
#505029 - 12/12/10 03:20 PM (14 years, 1 month ago) |
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Harry has a grow log of hempy buckets you can check out. I've gone through it twice now, well worth looking at.
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