White Poison - 2 liter Hempy SOG

First off, thanks to all of RIU who taught me the Hempy Method.

I would like to show you how I apply it to a simple SOG grow.



Genetics:

White Poison is a F1 hybrid of White Widow x Durban Poison. WP for short.

Its a Sativa Dominant hybrid that has an "up" high without a long flowering time. From what I can tell this phenotype expresses the white widow trichome trait along with the purple and sativa high of durban poison.



Space:

I have a simple veg and flowering chamber made out of plastic and a wood frame.

4"w x 3"l x 4"h veg and 4"w x 4"l x 5"h flowering area



Lighting:

In the veg chamber I have a 4 bulb 4 foot T5 florescent with blue vegetative lights. On 18/6 lighting

And the flower area has a 600 watt HPS ran off a digital ballast. On 12/12 lighting



Ventilation:

The flower room is on a thermostat that runs a fan bringing in fresh air. Its set to come on @ 76 degrees.

There is an oscillating fan in the flowering area. I have it hung from the ceiling with wire and its upside down blowing over the tops of the plants. 24/7

Veg chamber has a small out-take fan, fresh air is drawn in from the flower area by displacement.



Media and Method:

75% Perlite to 25% Vermiculite - so 3 parts perlite to 1 part vermiculite

Yes, Hempy SOG ! Learned Hempy from the Hempy Collective Thread.

I have done 2 liter hempy SOG's before, this time will be with only White Poison

25 rooted clones will go into two liter hempy buckets. 5 rows of 5 under the 600 watt HPS



Water and Nutrients:

Well water that is Hard and Alkaline. 8-9 PH

So with my well water its best to use Hard Water Formulated Nutes.

I use Hard Water FloraMicro from General Hydroponics with FloraBloom.

Lucas Formula at full strength 8 micro to 16 bloom per gallon PH'ed to 6.0

This is used for veg and flower stage. Water only flushing is done as necessary. Monitor the PH level of the hempy reservoir to keep it around 6.0



Cloning:

I do my clones via a homemade bubble cloner. Its a rubbermaid turned into a 40 spot cloner. I used a foam pool raft to make collars for my cuttings. There is an aquariam thermostat to keep the temps around 72 f. also there is 2 airstones and the air pump.

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Ok, back in January I was gifted two White Poison Clones from a breeder friend.




They were a bit wilty from their trip and they had infestations of spider mites and powdery mildew lol. First thing I took them out of that soil and setup a mini bubble cloner to help them get over the shock.

I rooted them for a week or so in the bubble cloner before transplanting into a hempy.




For the Spider Mites I killed them with "Hot Shot no pest strip" I had handy from previous problems Then for the powdery mildew I sprayed it with Greencure. Its a Potassium Bicarbonate based fungicide. I also tried to remove infected leafs.


2 months pass and now I have two mothers of WP !


cut a:




cut a:




and cut b:



cut b:




cut b:





And this morning I took about 20 cuttings from each mother.

I used these cuttings to fill up my bubble cloner. The cuts got 5 hours of darkness right after being put into the cloner. This helps to prevent wilting / shock.



WP Cuttings day 0:





This is what the mothers look like after the cuttings are removed:






This is a small sample of the white poison strain:




Macro shots 100 x magnification:















Basics of the 2 liter Hempy:


A Hempy Bucket can be done in any container. I have chosen smaller 2 liter pots because the method iam applying here is a SOG. My goal is to get one large bud per plant with very little branching. Easy to Trim at Harvest and it makes for top quality smoke.

I use soda bottles with the top cut off, the bottom painted black as a prevention step for algae. The hempy holes are 2 and 1/4 inches up from the bottom of the 2 liter. This makes the reservoir of the hempy bucket.






I water when the hempy bucket is dry. For flowering plants that is every other day. Vegging plants do not drink as fast.

It takes two gallons of water with nutes to feed 25 hempy clones. Each clone gets about 9 ounces of water. So I mix up 2 gallons of nutes in a 5 gallon bucket and divvy out a dose to each hempy.



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Iam Excited to start off this White Poison Hempy grow.

Today the clones were taken and Ill show you this grow through clone to veg to flower to harvest.

You are all welcome to join in or just watch. But the end should be around 1st of August.





- Xare

Subscribed bro this should turn out nice
Everything is looking good

Lookin good man, those moms were doing great for being in a 2 liter! Good work

Yea those moms seem healthy, no sign of infection since they were small.

For the last week they have been drinking once a day, because of their size. And they have been tolerating an acidic PH.

They will be re-vegged in the veg chamber to take cuts for outdoor 2010.

But I don't plan on keeping mothers. Instead, after rooting these clones I will keep them in veg till they are at least 12 inches tall. By then they have a few branches to clone for the next rotation and they can be placed into flower.

AWESOME...!!!!

I'm subscribing....

Heya GypsyBush,

Glad to have you along for the ride on my new journal thread

Potassium Bicarbonate is baking soda essentially, if you run out of greencure I would use a baking soda mix for the PM

Cant wait to see how this turns out. Scribed

Im high and scribed man

pullin up a chair 4 this 1 .. hey xare i got a question lik how often do u have to water ur mothers and clones in veg?

The mothers were fed every other day for the most part.

For clones, I place them in a hempy bucket when they are fully rooted.

That first week they don't drink much at all. The roots are getting established. I fill the rez up about half way, and let the roots find the food at bottom.

After that a feeding will last 3-4 days for the smaller vegging plants. Till they start getting bigger.


Environment also plays a role in how fast the plants drink.

why do you use this

75% Perlite to 25% Vermiculite

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why not 100% perlite
or 100% vermiculite

i hear the vermiculite retains too much moisture, ideal for root rot.... which is why you dont use high ratios of it.
the perlite allows air in, and the vermiculite retains moisture. also vermiculite is kinda rough on roots i would think, if you were running 100% its sharp

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wasnt trying to answer for him...lol. just my own .o2

subbed as well. ive been thinking about trying a hempy sog, id like to see what he can do

Yea IAm5toned has it right.

I use the verm to hold a bit of water in the airy perlite mix.

Ive tried it with 100% perlite and had better results with this ratio of 75/25

The 100% perlite dried out faster, the top few inches would be very loose and no roots growing there. But the 75/25 mix retains a bit more water in rootzone above the water level, and this makes for a larger area for the roots to grow in.

AZgrow
runs it at 100% perlite .....i think
i been researchin hempy foer some weeks now
it seems idea for me
i think of it like hydro simulated soil type of growing
i love the fact that it is reuseable, and you get too hand water it so you get that intimate relationship with your plants that soil growers have

thats what i like about it too. im starting to get tired of dealing with soil... i just cant bear to part with the taste of bud grown in it tho haha

well on of the good things about hempy is you can use any type of nutes

thanks.. i've been pretty interested in hempy since reading ur last journal

Scribed and looking forward to this.

scribed mate and looking good, i have a question though i'm getting ready to trial hempy against soil i'm only on my first grow at the mo and the mothers for hempy are vegging away as my others finish up i was wondering why not use a large tote style container for your sog adding extra space for the roots as opposed to lots of little containers?