Me too I post the best ones I can in my journal, but I am going to go get sum more perlite today, I have a 10 gal tub I am going to put 4 girls in, they have all showed sex this week all about 12 inches tall benn in flower for 15 days as of today.....You and me both... lol Sorry for this crappy excuse, but soon as I get a real camera; I'll put up a journal and link it back to this thread ofcourse. Wish I had a half way decent camera now, would have been great to show that move from DWC. The plants just loved the change and didn't skip a beat. Oh well, sure there will be many many hempy journals coming up soon. They'll never be able to get away from the Hempy Collective then... lol
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lol...fuckin lumberjack....lol..hahahahahahha.....anyway lets keep it level headed fellas...if someone cant grasp this i will simply explain again.....put hole 2in up from side of bucket,make the hole 1insq,put a screen or oldwhite shirt infront of the hole to block out the medium...then fill with medium of choice...i prefer an recomend 100%perlite but that doesn't mean you cant use coco,vermaculite,hydroton cubes etc etc.....water plant every day till roots are established then you can cut back to everyother day depending on contitions...peace azif the paintbrush file that looks like a 5 year old doesnt clear it up, you might be beyond help!!!
hahaha.... i've been meaning to do this anyways... here's Hempy's (whom the buckets are named after) original post about them.... i'm simply copy and pasting this from another site...Azgrow= godfather of buckets!!!!
The Hempy Bucket
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Hempy Bucket
Hi every one i thort id add this system of growing i use and have used from the erly to mid 80s , As most of you that know me will all ready know that im a belive in simplicity and things that work and i only realy state facts that i have experencet from hands on.
I like the hempy bucket becouse of its simplicity and the price of the system (ITS FREE ) to make and has no moveing parts that can fail and once the plant has started its root system you can basicly water and forget it for 2 days or 3 depending on temps and you can grow eny strain from sativa to indica in it .
I basicly got the idear from my first hydro kit i ever got that was a tamato hydro kit and i found it realy easy to understand ,It was basicly an aquponic set up and the guy i had got it from i whent back a few years later telling him about my creation and how i got it from his idear and the look on his face and smile sed it all ,Iv spoken to a few people in the hydro industry about it and they all tell me it wont work it will couse root rot so on well there all rong becouse this method works and they say a picture is worth a 100 wards right lol.
I AM NOT SAYING THIS METHOD IS THE BEST BUT What i am saying is its a option and a easy cheep way to grow hydroponicly and nothing more, I have tryed a lot of methods and have all ways gone back to this.
To make a hempy bucket is simple all you need to do is this
Get your self a bucket eny colour but clear as you will end up with algy forming as the nutes react to the light .
The size of the bucket can very from 1 gal (4lt) to 5gal (20lt) ruffly i personaly like useing a 10 lt bucket and have had up to 19 oz yield cured from a single bucket plant but it depends on the strain and given phino .
Once you have your bucket then get a drill and drill a drain hole in the side of the bucket about 2 inch from the bottom , The drain hole can be around 7/16.
And the medium i use is perlite/vermiculite at around 3 to 4 parts perlite to 1 part vermiculite.You can use volcanic rocks coco or 100% perlite but personaly i found the perlite / vermiculite a lot better in meany ways.
All you need to do now is basicly add the rooted clone or seedling water with nutes and thats it,I would water it daily until the tap root and root system has headed down to the res but once you see a desent growth rate id then start to water every 2 days.
The only thing rong with it is you need to hand water and you get run off from the drain hole thats it and as far as checking your PH well the only time you need to do that is when you mix your nutes i like useing a PH of 6.2 PH .
If you want to ask me questions feel free .
If you want to see the resolts of the hempy Bucket let me know and il tell you were to go to see them.
Like i sed im not stateing this methods is the best just saying its a option and a free one and it works and works well ................hempy
first off some of you may be awar of hempy buckets some may...i did not start this method...its just something i feel is a benifit to the marijuana comunity asa whole....the "offical" name for this hempy buckets..started in the late 80's buy a guy named hempy hence forth hempy buckets.
isn't he kinda takin a break now or something? do i remember reading that sometime??? huh...to bad hempys not around to help people much anymore..lol.i sure would like to talk with him about some different things..peace az
i water with 200-250 ml of water everday to every other day in 32 ounce cups...AZ do you think 200ml (1 cup) every 2 days would be enough water, for a 2 gallon HB