My wife has become interested in growing indoor Brugmansias (can't blame her, really: they're lovely plants). For those who don't know, Brugs require lots of watering (although they need well-drained soil), lots of fertilizer, and lots of light.

This made me think that it might be worthwhile to set up a large hempy bucket filled with perlite and use a 70w HPS for lighting. Using the regimen that would work for my other favorite plant, with slightly heavier ferts, might result in a truly impressive little tree in our living room.

Does anybody have any experience doing anything like this with a Brugmansia or any other large flowering tropical bush? If this works I might set up a few smaller hempy buckets with Datura plants, which are gorgeous and smell great.

nope, you can ONLY grow mj in a hempy bucket

if im correct these brug's are a tree type plant.

i have seen at a glance on the interweb a brug that was kept in an ebb and flow type setup. the tree's main trunk was atleast by eye a good 4-10 inch thick circum.

from what i remember: the holding tank was placed under the very deep growing tray, the tray itself looked like it has upside down seedling trays in.

inside the growing tray this is around 1.5ft deep what looked like a latge 4 inch pot with a small startling in in a good 8 inch or more pot was the largest brug.

the growing medium i could not work out. picture was not very good, but it looked like a soil/husk based max and looked like puffed clay balls too.

i cant see why not a hydroponic setup a hempy bucket could be too much but the ebb and flow was said too have worked very well. i perosnaly would go with ebb and flow this way your root system is not submersed 24/7. i would start a water cutting get some roots onto the cutting via water culture, then plant up the water grown cutting into a ebb an flow system. start small and if all goes well for the first season's growth throw in a few more.