Something is wrong with my hempy bucket plant...plz help
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SouthCross
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Check the PH of the run off. If it's below 6.0, you'll need to raise it. Tap water is already alkaline at around 7.5-8.0 so it doesn't eat through pipes. Unless you've been adjusting the PH down.
If tap water isn't raising the PH. You'll need to add lime to the soil.
If tap water isn't raising the PH. You'll need to add lime to the soil.
SuperHI TnT
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Ok cool. I flushed it out with tap water with a ph of 7.3. I think you're right about the ph. This has happened with all of my plants recently and I think it has something to do with the tap water ph. Anyway I bought some ph up and down to control fluctuations. I got all the other plants sorted out and then this one started acting up. Thanks for the info btw. I will update when things change
SouthCross
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I use a different water with a low Parts Per Million. Tightly controlled PH. It's the fertilizer. I tried Maxibloom. I now have a plant sitting in 4.5 PH soil. Hydrated lime is in the mail. No biggy because it's in the 10th week.
The soil went acidic as hell. Only unnatural thing added was the Damn chemical salts that drop PH. 1/2 teaspoon to gallon of water still drops it into red. 4.0-4.5. I adjust it up to 6.5.
That no worky for $hit. I've ordered a different fertilizer and Ill treat this plant with hydrated lime. Just for practice. It'll probably be cut down by that time. I will correct the PH on a seasoned pot. I can't have this ph nonsense.
personal lux
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Be sure your saturating the plants with more water and more often than you would with traditional soil. hempy if im correct is a 50/50 coco perlite mix. which is basically a hydro like system in my experience. be sure your running lower amounts of calcium due to the leaching from the coco.
Buba Blend
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I'm confused on hempy also. Is the mix related to hempy? I'm just learning about them. Recently their was a guy growing in hempy buckets with soil. Sound like you are using them for hydro. Is hempy just a type of bucket or pot??
FennarioMike
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It's just a term for having a plant in coco in one bucket, that's inside another bucket or pan that can act as a small reservoir that the roots can draw from.
Coco acts somewhat like soil, but is a hydroponic medium.
Creature1969
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Technically a hempy bucket can contain any medium. The point is to have a reservoir in the bottom. For example, my hempys are pure coco on top of 2" of hydroton. You put the drain hole about 2" up so the bottom acts as a res. A lot of people use straight perlite or a perlite/vermiculite mix.
Buba Blend
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Thanks guys, that helps a lot. There was a guy in a hempy pot with soil and he was under watering and I couldn't wrap my head around how he could be under watering but have brown roots and all the water he had at the base.
Sickomindo
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All my hempys turned out great. Used airstone ( there was only upside to this because placing it in the bucket doesn't mean you have to run it the whole time like dwc) on the bottom with hydrogen balls on the bottom 2 inch reservoir used PVC pipe to top fade as well.
SuperHI TnT
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I did the same thing with my bucket. I put an airstone in the bottom just for shigs, also I used 2" of hydroton on the bottom with the rest being perlite.