2 Master Kush 1 Northern Lights Hempy Bucket 7 weeks flowering

Ive currently got 2 master kush and 1 northern lights from nirvana seven weeks into flowering. Im running the hempy bucket method with an 8bulb high output t5 and a few cfls for sidelighting. I've had a few problems along the way, calcium deficiency, lack of light, high humidity and fungus gnats. I've been able to take care of the problems with minimum damage. I picked up a hygrometer last week and found out my humidity was at 80%...i've since got it down to 40%....but fluctuating between 40 and 60 never going above with some damp rid and better air circulation. Let me know what you think...im debating on when to flush...im assuming they need atleast another 2 weeks. Hope you enjoy

Very nice plants, definitely need a couple more weeks at least. They are still vigorously flowering, new pistils, etc.

Good work. I grew hempy for a while, it's not as foolproof as people say, you get deficiencies and pests just like any other method. . . . Definitely keep your RH down now; you don't want mold problems.

I totally agree about the hempy method...its not AS simple as most make it seem...still can havee a fair share of problems. Im thinking of switching to an aeroponic setup next...but i guess ive got a few more weeks to figure that out Anything you think i could do or change to increase bud weight? Also do you think it'd be to soon to flush?

Your plants are really green for 7 weeks of flowering. I don't really know what you are feeding or how much, but you could certainly start tapering off now. As long as they are nutritionally happy at this point they will take their sweet time ripening. Flushing would speed that up, but why rush it? I think they will fatten up a little more over the next couple weeks. You may want to go another three.

I grew 20 hempy plants in 5 gallon buckets once. I had used the perlite a couple of times and had to dispose of it. 100 gallons of it. lol. Store that damp and full of dead roots for a few weeks and you will have the biggest fungus gnat explosion ever!

I clone aeroponically, but I'd worry to much about system failure without some kind of medium sheltering my roots. I do flood and drain in hydroton. Works well.

Yea i may go 10 weeks then. Yea...the 2 mk is the standard perlite/vermiculite mix...but i decided on the northern lights to try straight perlite...and i think thats where the gnats came from....after a few weeks the perlite started turning green, so i had to replace half the bucket with vermic....i was just checkin out your grow man...good shit...similar to what i want. Just waitin on my house to finish being built....then ill have half a basement to grow...cant wait, hhaha...so for me this is practice for whats to come, ha.

Hempy was a great way to learn. The scale is right, and the startup costs are cheap as opposed to what I'm doing now. I'm about $3000 into it with lights and turbogardens and a 3x6 flood table. My latest mistake is I wish I had gotten two 3x3s instead of the 3x6; they can share one small res by staggering the flood. Instead I'm sucking a 50 gallon stock tank dry so I have to keep it maximally topped up at all times. Another lesson learned the hard way.

Haha...well trial by error....not such a bad way to learn in the long run. Speaking of having problems....any idea what this is from? Its only on one budding area...the leaves are literally curling up and the color is all yellowish and such.

Well, it looks like a magnesium issue. That's usually what makes the leaves curl upward like that. Do you have lots of lower fan leaves getting light in color between the veins? Plants use a lot of Mg early in flowering and if you are using RO water, you need to add back some of the minerals it lacks. I use Dyna-gro Mag-pro but I've used Botanicare Cal-mag plus in the past with success.

Ok, yea....i have cal mag plus from botanicare....i guess ill try and up the dosage....im assuming the discoloration is permanant? and that it wont go green once i feed it some mag?

no, you can leave those leaves, but they are not going to get green again. It's good to up the does the first two weeks of flowering. That's when the problem strikes. I've seen it over and over again, first with me, then every new grower goes somewhere around week 3 or 4 of flowering, hey what's that??? it's always cal-mag. epsom salts work too.

Ok cool i just watered them...and up'd the calmag...ill take a few pics tomorrow see if i can see any improvement...anybody else?