What grow would be better for autoflower? soil or hempy?

texastiger707

texastiger707

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I just got my seeds today. I will be growing 2 autoflower red poison. I will be using a cheap CFL grow. I was wanting your thoughts on what would be a better grow. Should I grow in ocean forest soil or a 100% perlite hempy bucket? Which do you think would yield the best?
 
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mrblu

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hempy would probably do better with auto. gets what it needs more often and when it needs it. thats just my opinion. i need to do a hempy grow one time just to try it out only read and saw other peoples hempy grows so far.
 
texastiger707

texastiger707

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mrblu said:
hempy would probably do better with auto. gets what it needs more often and when it needs it. thats just my opinion. i need to do a hempy grow one time just to try it out only read and saw other peoples hempy grows so far.
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Thank you for the reply. I have also seen hempy grows. So I was wanting to try it. So thats why I asked what would be better for autos.
 
ThorGanjason

ThorGanjason

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I'll say this much-- I grow soil and I ran a couple plants Hempy style for a little bit and if you are gonna go Hempy then you need to make sure and stay on top of it. You have to feed everyday, mix nutes everyday--the results can be as good as hydro, where the plant is getting mostly advanced nutrients but its a lot more work than soil.

I was used to only having to feed/water every few days and my plants that were Hempy style didn't grow hardly at all. They got enough food to stay healthy but where I was only feeding every 3-4 days they weren't getting enough food to grow.

If you're just doing autos then at least it isn't as long to have to do it daily, but even hydro only needs res changes every so often. Good luck bro on whichever you chose.
 
texastiger707

texastiger707

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ThorGanjason said:
I'll say this much-- I grow soil and I ran a couple plants Hempy style for a little bit and if you are gonna go Hempy then you need to make sure and stay on top of it. You have to feed everyday, mix nutes everyday--the results can be as good as hydro, where the plant is getting mostly advanced nutrients but its a lot more work than soil.

I was used to only having to feed/water every few days and my plants that were Hempy style didn't grow hardly at all. They got enough food to stay healthy but where I was only feeding every 3-4 days they weren't getting enough food to grow.

If you're just doing autos then at least it isn't as long to have to do it daily, but even hydro only needs res changes every so often. Good luck bro on whichever you chose.
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Thank you for the reply. I am just trying to keep things simple. That why the question. Some people say hempy is so easy. Some say soil is the easiest.
 
Pcinla

Pcinla

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Hey Texastiger, I've done soil, soil-less (promix-perlite) and this time hempy buckets. I have the most experience with promix-perlite, and although I've yet to complete my hempy run I can tell you there's no going back to soil-less. My closet is overflowing with the biggest, bushiest plants I've ever had. I use two gallon buckets, which I got at a dollar store for $2 apiece, with three parts coco coir and one part perlite above the reservoir, and Grodan rockwool pieces in the bottom. The plants are three weeks into flower, and right now I give them nutes every three days (although I can soon seeing it being every second day). Hopefully I'm done with the stretch, because my lights are as high as they will go and the plants are within inches of the lights. It's such a simple method, and right now I'm betting I double my output from growing in promix-perlite. Most of what I learned -- and there really isn't a lot -- you can find in this gentleman's thread right here on RIU.
 
texastiger707

texastiger707

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Pcinla said:
Hey Texastiger, I've done soil, soil-less (promix-perlite) and this time hempy buckets. I have the most experience with promix-perlite, and although I've yet to complete my hempy run I can tell you there's no going back to soil-less. My closet is overflowing with the biggest, bushiest plants I've ever had. I use two gallon buckets, which I got at a dollar store for $2 apiece, with three parts coco coir and one part perlite above the reservoir, and Grodan rockwool pieces in the bottom. The plants are three weeks into flower, and right now I give them nutes every three days (although I can soon seeing it being every second day). Hopefully I'm done with the stretch, because my lights are as high as they will go and the plants are within inches of the lights. It's such a simple method, and right now I'm betting I double my output from growing in promix-perlite. Most of what I learned -- and there really isn't a lot -- you can find in this gentleman's thread right here on RIU.
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Thank you for the reply. So you are saying go with hempy buckets for the 2 autos.
 
SmokeScholar

SmokeScholar

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My experience is via soil. Our plant was supposed to yield less than what we got, but it grew beautiful. It really comes to a matter of preference. They both are easy to use, if the soil is easier for you to get and cheaper go with it. If the perlite hempy is cheaper then go with that.
 
loquacious

loquacious

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Soil is the easiest by far. You can get away with higher temps and missing feedings. Hydro you have to stay on top of it at all times.
 
tekdc911

tekdc911

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i use 1/1/1 ratio of coco , heavy loam , perlite
handful of worm castings
all i grow is auto's but the photo i have had vegging for like 5 months and just keep pruning it
is happy with the mix too anything that isnt real compact and drains well is a good start
soil is alot more forgiving
 
Chronic Masterbator

Chronic Masterbator

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Soil if your time restricted. Hempy if Yer timings allow it. Like other mentioned soil is forgiving. I find the more room you give for auto roots the better. They most def grow differently from photoperiod plants.
 
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