Loving my Dutch Bucket

Damn, this thing is growing wicked fast:


She went in there about 15 days ago, she looked pretty sketchy coming out of the cloner (she took three weeks to root), didn't change much for the first five days, then I noticed she had nearly doubled in size over about 3 days, so I figured I better start documenting her growth:
http://imgur.com/a/lxr1R

Medium is 100% perlite in a Dutch Bucket using GH Maxigro at 1/4 strength + CalMag. 425 PPMs currently. Pump cycles for 30 minutes, 6 times a day.

Mmmm, first time doing honest hydro ... eh?

It can be surprising how fast hydro runs....

I'll keep my organic soils though. My choice.

Good work.

I try and pass the knowledge of Dutch buckets and it's variations to the masses.

Keep it up.

I wanna try this

but am safer! with soils lol

good luck

Dr. Who said:

Mmmm, first time doing honest hydro ... eh?

It can be surprising how fast hydro runs....

I'll keep my organic soils though. My choice.

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Yeah, I been wanting to try a hydro method, and this seemed to be the simplest way to do it.

nfhiggs said:

Yeah, I been wanting to try a hydro method, and this seemed to be the simplest way to do it.

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I did ebb buckets, ebb&flow tables with Rockwool (SOG) and DWC & RDWC...

I liked DWC in the winter & RDWC otherwise.

Never did try any hempy.

Nice set up you made.

i had a row of a dozen dutch buckets with a fish tank reservoir. Loved it loved the vibe too. issue was roots plugging up
the bucket drains. I needed a constant flow of effluent water and the buckets filled before drained, aww... I got over it, ditched the buckets and the fish, never looked back!


love the set up man!!

Very interesting.
Cool setup.

chemphlegm said:

i had a row of a dozen dutch buckets with a fish tank reservoir. Loved it loved the vibe too. issue was roots plugging up
the bucket drains.

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Put a 5gal paint strainer in before you add the media and both the perlite and the roots stay where they belong[/QUOTE]

vostok said:

I wanna try this

but am safer! with soils lol

good luck

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My sentiments exactly, Vostok! I may have to try one just for shits and giggles!

I'm setting up my next grow using what are essentially coco hempy buckets with plumbing

Bosgrower said:

Put a 5gal paint strainer in before you add the media and both the perlite and the roots stay where they belong

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that proly would have worked well! poor buckets all dusty in the corner of the barn now

Bosgrower said:

Put a 5gal paint strainer in before you add the media and both the perlite and the roots stay where they belong

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Paint strainer = queen size panty hose.

Paint strainer = queen size panty hose. [/QUOTE]

If you don't happen to have thunder thighs, the paint strainers are 25.10 for 24, and have elastic tops that fit 4 and 5 gallon buckets quite nicely.

Bosgrower said:

Paint strainer = queen size panty hose.

If you don't happen to have thunder thighs, the paint strainers are 25.10 for 24, and have elastic tops that fit 4 and 5 gallon buckets quite nicely.

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Like my munchies 2 pair for a buck = 2-3 strainers.