My first run with Hempys

Hi all and welcome to my grow journal.
I have my other journal running but I thought this one deserves a seperate thread as its a completly different growing method.

I'm just starting to find out what this Hempy buckets thing is all about so I'll only be using one 1.8l bucket.

I got a 2l water bottle, cut the top off, sprayed it brown so it will let much much less light in and with a strip of masking tape I kept a line clear to act as a gauge for me to see the water level.

I got left with 1.8l of available space for medium, and I only use about 1.6l.

I cut 6 holes with a 4drill 2.5 inches from the bottom the let excess water out.
As I figured, the bottom part is the place where the water and fertilizers solution is kept and the roots push up the water to use it as needed.

most of the bottom part is perlite and the rest is 33%coco and 77% perlite.
These day go up to 40deg C so something to hold water is crucial.

Yesterday the clone rooted and transfered to the hempy. Its a clone of the Greenhouse Cheese.
I put the top of the bottle on as a humidity dome to help this weak clone.

It will not have much vegging time and will not be topped or trained as it needs to get the height of my pretty big other plants.

The fertilizer I use currently is a one part TotalGrow solution by GHE (General Hydroponics Europe) with a PH of around 6.
No PPM\EC meter available.
I use tap water that sat over 24 hours leadless to let chlorine evaporate.

One thing I already learnt is to rinse the coco and perlite better. I rinsed them but it bugs me I haven't done it better.



As this is my first run with the hempy thing I encourage you to post any idea you have about it. I'm totally new and eager to learn.

Thank you all for watching

Good idea with the water level meter.

At this stage I like to spray the top of the mix lightly. Until the tap root reaches the rez you dont need to have it full of water.

It might take a week for the hempy to take hold but once it does growth will explode.

As there is a major heat problem the water from the rez just evaporate enough. the top of the bottle acts as a dome to keep this vapor in and so the top kept moist.
Also, the clone is in a jiffy pellet (peat pot) which hold a lot of water. It can survive on thoes water alone for a few days.

The rez is filled mainly because I rinsed the media is it first and it didn't drained totally. added only half the rez with 2xthe nutes needed.

I'll keep an eye on the top surface however.


Thanks for you help Xare

kept on spraying the top. growth is extremely slow, especially compared to my soil trees. But its just a baby, so I guees its normal.

I'll keep waiting, but here are some pictures

My hempy is FIANALLY starting to grow normally. It been very slow and its almost 1 month old. however, he had a LOT of heat, humidity and other issues.
It is now better and starting to grow.

Its in my new vegitative cab and it should get proper conditions there.

I'm comparing it to hand-watered coco\pelite mix that I run with the same nutes.
My next grow is definetly going to be hydro, but not sure which method to use.

We will se

finally its picking up

Night Claptoman said:

finally its picking up

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update:
as this is a test run and not much more, it was put into flowering on the 19th of november below the canopy.
i want it to strech up to the canopy height, produce a single cola and finish around the same time as my soil plants.

started to gave it the same nutes as my other coco flowering plants, mainly due to laziness. 5ml of Hesi Coco at 5.95PH.
as it seems to me by yesterday measurment, it finishes a rez after watering in 5 days. it will get water at the same time as my other hydro plants - once every 3 to 4 days for now, and gradually build up as they need it.

picture is in a funny hue as the camera doesn't like the HPS color. however, I found a way to fix it and the next pictures should be better.

the plant fell down and the main stem broke. plant is dead now.
sorry.
was a really crappy plant anyway.