This is a pic of my fabric pot interpretation of Hempy. This is a 10 gallon ViaGrow pot which fits perfectly in a 2" deep saucer ($2).
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I'm using coc myself for the first time with house of garden coco nutes. My plants looked kind of stunted or growing slower than the three plants in my dwc but I'm not giving up since its my first time with coco. Gonna try to dial it in before I jump in the deep end of verm/perm and never look back.I'm trialling the Coco along with my Mapito Hempys atm ... They aren't the same age so I can't do a direct comparison but my strong impression so far is I don't think it's as good. Not in my setup anyways.
I don't think Coco is as 'airy' as Mapito. .. If, heaven forbid I was buried alive, I know which one would be easier to escape from. One would feel like regular earth and the other one would feel like a foam pit. ..... when wet the mapito is just like a sponge.
The growth in the coco just has not taken off in the same way as those in my Mapito Hempy's and they are showing a yellow hue. I've started on the Magne Cal so that may help. ... I should say I have been using a CoCo specific nutrient so it may be the new nutes.
I'm going back to Mapito and today bought another 2x80L sacks. .... I just can't be arsed dialing in the coco when the rockwool works so well.
is this going to be with that saucer filled with water? i like the idea man, but what about algae creeping up the smart pot from the exposed water? not too sure how snug it fits? i like that shit, but know that to get the full benefits from smart pots they should be either suspended in the air with a fan blowing on it, or on top of an air floor (exhaust at top of room pulling air creating negative pressure that makes air come through an intake under the perforated sub-floor that the plants rest on)This is a pic of my fabric pot interpretation of Hempy. This is a 10 gallon Via Grow pot which fits perfectly in a 2" deep saucer ($2).
Sky, I'm one of the grow medium freaks here on WOH...I've tried and tried to get DWC performance out of a hempy bucket...but I doubt I'll ever get there..I do narrow the gap sometimes.....however, my baseline for any hempy bucket tweak is that done in plain coco coir with a chunky perlite reservoir. You will dial it in I'm sure of it. Don't freak over yellowish green young ones , they all come back to forest green when old enough to administer nutes. I always add extra cal/mag even with coco specific nutes. When mixing nutes, add the cal/mag first to buffer the water, then your regular nutes. Let the coco breath too with as few watering s as possible. Watch that base stem diameter compared to your verm/perl, you will never go back to verm/perl when you see your final results up top come chop time.I'm using coc myself for the first time with house of garden coco nutes. My plants looked kind of stunted or growing slower than the three plants in my dwc but I'm not giving up since its my first time with coco. Gonna try to dial it in before I jump in the deep end of verm/perm and never look back.
That is one way to make an air pot work, however in this setup it will still work as the sides will let it breath. I have grow in 7 gallon smart pot with soil and had no issues other than overflowing the saucer, as the plant would use or the bag and media would absorb the excess water. The disadvantage I see is that the water will evaporate faster that the plant can use it from the res with a fan blowing and the heat from the lights. Though the perlite will hold moisture within and around it, I see the fabric being an issue.is this going to be with that saucer filled with water? i like the idea man, but what about algae creeping up the smart pot from the exposed water? not too sure how snug it fits? i like that shit, but know that to get the full benefits from smart pots they should be either suspended in the air with a fan blowing on it, or on top of an air floor (exhaust at top of room pulling air creating negative pressure that makes air come through an intake under the perforated sub-floor that the plants rest on)
Good looking out j10. Yeah I know one of my problems I think I'm over feeding them. I'll dial a bit back and wait for the coco to dry out before I feed them and this time not feed too much. I did had to but some cal mag issues early in veg because I thought my house of garden nutes had enough cal mag in the base nutes but did not have enough so I bought some general hydroponic cal mag to remedy the problem.Sky, I'm one of the grow medium freaks here on WOH...I've tried and tried to get DWC performance out of a hempy bucket...but I doubt I'll ever get there..I do narrow the gap sometimes.....however, my baseline for any hempy bucket tweak is that done in plain coco coir with a chunky perlite reservoir. You will dial it in I'm sure of it. Don't freak over yellowish green young ones , they all come back to forest green when old enough to administer nutes. I always add extra cal/mag even with coco specific nutes. When mixing nutes, add the cal/mag first to buffer the water, then your regular nutes. Let the coco breath too with as few watering s as possible. Watch that base stem diameter compared to your verm/perl, you will never go back to verm/perl when you see your final results up top come chop time.
Cool! Get those lemons hazing for your dial in...because that Pineapple Express is going to change your life...and others if you are the "sharing" type. Compliments are like salmon swimming upstream with PE...they still keep comming....making me want to grow it again. What a robust strain!Good looking out j10. Yeah I know one of my problems I think I'm over feeding them. I'll dial a bit back and wait for the coco to dry out before I feed them and this time not feed too much. I did had to but some cal mag issues early in veg because I thought my house of garden nutes had enough cal mag in the base nutes but did not have enough so I bought some general hydroponic cal mag to remedy the problem.
Soon I will do a side by side comparison with coco vs per/ver in a 2l sog. In the meantime while I wait for my p.e. express moms to produce some more cuttings I'm going to flower my 5 super lemon haze plants in 3 gallon of coco.
Wow after seeing that, a 10 gallon hat in the old western movies doesn't even register....keep us engaged bebobson!This is a pic of my fabric pot interpretation of Hempy. This is a 10 gallon ViaGrow pot which fits perfectly in a 2" deep saucer ($2).
Here's a little update for you guys, I'm fairly new to indoor and this is my first hempy grow, any suggestions are more than weclome. The strain is Afgoo, flo-n-gro system with fabric liners filled with chunky perlite and topped off with hydroton. They were vegged in rockwool and transplanted into perlite 3 weeks ago, they are currently 2 weeks into flowering. Some of them took off while others didn't aren't growing quite as fast, however I'm still impressed compared to the results I was having with only hydroton. Last two pics is when they were put in and 3 weeks later. I vegged them for 1 week under hps before I flowered. Looking forward to seeing how it all comes out!
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Haha ... (made me laugh) ... Tooo True !My most Sativa looking cross has the milkiest trichomes so far. Hard to tell because of flash but this girl is like 80% milky already at just short of 7 weeks. No amber at all that ive seen but she looks like she could be a true 8 week girl.
Oh heads up for those who dont know...Odorsok is utter rubbish at least for a mid sized grow. My filter went out so i ordered a new one and bought the Odorsok to use until new one got here. I got one with a cfm rating almost double my exhaust fans max cfm and holy fuck my entire block smelled like my growroom (i do have skunk going and the sand widow is a stinker too) literally like i had no filter at all. I stuffed it inside my old can filter and together they are eliminating 50-60% of smell now. Odorsok are cheap as hell for a reason.....to trick people who know better into buying one. Plain and simple.
If you are growing one or two plants with a low terpene profile one might work....but as far as im concerned its a big fuck you to Odorsok...they know what their customers do and obviously dont care.View attachment 2593279View attachment 2593280
Heard of egg shells for keeping slugs at bay never for Calcium.Working on my Vegetable garden this weekend, beautiful spring day here yesterday...Planted some Tomato seeds and a few others with my granddaughter, she loved it...Boiled some Eggs for Easter and strained the water for the Calcium for my other plants, anyone else use egg shells or coffee grounds?
Yes, save the egg shells and crush them up, mix the coffee grounds after you made coffee and the egg shells in the soil. The water from the boil is good but the shells themsevles will break down and add calcium the coffee ground are a good source of nitrogen.Working on my Vegetable garden this weekend, beautiful spring day here yesterday...Planted some Tomato seeds and a few others with my granddaughter, she loved it...Boiled some Eggs for Easter and strained the water for the Calcium for my other plants, anyone else use egg shells or coffee grounds?