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...the system was set up to be simple cheap an ez to use, it requires a soilless medium..there are several ways for this..i use 100% perlite..other include parts vermaculte or coco coir...i use the 100% perlite for its ph nutrality...so i dont see much fluction in root zone ph...i personally use r/o water ped to 6.0 an work from there...but i know plenty of people who use this an dont ph at all...using mixs of coco coir an vermaculte can sometimes shift ph....
NOW ON to containers...the pot or "bucket" for this is typilly a cup or bucket ranging in sizes from 16oz to 5 gal....plant size dectates pot size always...you want a container that has no holes on the bottem...you then cut a small hole opn the side of the container 1-2inches above the bottem ...the bottem inch or so now acts like a mini resivor for the roots to work there way to an soak up...the hole acts like an overflow valve an making sure you dont water log the plants...SO NOW come the point of real terms the hempy bucket is a passive hydro system whose growth compeates with that of dwc/swc...so depending on your final plant size most people use between 1-3 gal plastic trash cans/mop buckets from any home supply store....personally ima sog grower so i grow plants in 32 oz cups then bog those on top of 1 gal water jugs all 100%perlite...your pot size will vary on what you decide you want to do....
ON to nutes....in a system like this you want to use hydro nutes..but organic teas an coco specific nutes work well to...seedlings an clones in small container's need to be watered everyday untill root establishment...after this every other day or so an once you get into bigger containers it may be every 2 days depending on your size pots...the lifting method works well here...in my system i go like this for a feeding schudal...water heavey feed water water heavy feed water ...this keeps salts from building up an cusing problems....now that you know...i would like all hempy grower to post pics an experencies with this system....peace az

A one inch hole? I've read everywhere else that .5in or so is the max? Does your 1in work fine? Seems to...

God, with all these cool simple hydro methods, I need to just set up one of each and see what works for me!

as you can see in the pic the 1 in hole is covered by a screen....5 works..somtimes justa a pin hole...this system is very user specfic...peace az

do you put a net basket with the roots to come through in the perlite medium like you would in a regular hydro grow, or just the whole seedling or clone right into the 5 gal bucket with perlite and vermiculite

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start the clone/seedling in a party cup like 16-32 oz...wait till it fills up with roots then transplant into the larger containers...with no mesh..just like a soil pot...peace az

how do you attach the screen to the bucket. did you glue it?

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you can use pvc glue to attach screens..but i'd go with a lil bigger piece just to overlap to the bottem an cover it in place...i personally wouldn't use the glue but i know people who have an had no seen problems...peace az

yea to the hempy thread..now I can lurk and let others ask my questions...

please feel free to ask away....peace az

no i dont like to ask to many questions...there is a great deal of learning to be had in silence....thats huge coming from someone like me who seems to never be in a state of silence....beside you answered all my questions last nite...this thread will just answer all the what if etc....everything I have done in my first and only grow has been a result of truly researching and listening to what other people were asking and doing and picking the best of what was said or done....I have only posted 3 threads with questions about growing (not including my grow journal) and 1 out of the 3 threads got 1 mayb 3 responses.no other answers..i.e. i learned to ask as little as possible, and to read, watch and listen...