Hempy Buckets - DP Durban Poison | G13 Power Skunk | G13 Gigabud | Afghani

[oSecretGardeno]

Welcome!

Let's try this again! I just finished up my 1st grow (in soil) and things turned out very well. I have had many great reports on the smoke and I surely enjoy it myself. Anyways, onto this one.

After watching killa12345 run a couple of grows in hempy buckets, I decided I had to give them a go myself. So far they have proved to be extremely easy and a very efficient use of space. In my limited grow room (specs below) I am not only concerned with height, but also the footprint that each pot takes up. With the soil, I had to move to 3 gallon pots by the end (which were probably too small) and those ended up taking a lot of square footage. So instead of running 3 big soil plants, I can run 6 hempy plants. The plan is to actually turn the veg box into the permanent mother box and just constantly pull clones from the moms, probably every 3 weeks or so. I am hoping perpetual, but like all good plans, things always change! Anyways, some information on what we are working with here:

Strains:
Dutch Passion Durban Poison Feminized (DP from now on)
G-13 Labs Gigabud Feminized (GB from now on)
G-13 Labs PowerSkunk (PS from now on)
Afghani Clones (AG from now on - unsure of breeder)

The Afghani is from my first run. I took 2 clones in my bubble cloner and after struggling with the process I identified pH as a problem, fixed it and they rooted. They both went into soil originally and recently I put one into soil and the other I tried and experiment to see if I could rinse the roots of soil and put it into hempy. When I post pics you will see the huge difference that shock caused. I believe the one in hempy now is just starting to recover from the shock (2 weeks later) and therefore looks like shit as usual. Either way, I think I will probably just flower out the small shitty one (if it survives) and keep the big one as a mother. I should be pulling 3-4 clones from her in the next week or so.

Rooms:

My space is limited to say the least, but I believe I have set it up to be the most efficient use of the space.
Veg/Mother Room:
20"L x 24"W x 40"H
Inside painted flat white
2 - 105W 6500K CFLs, 2 - 26W 2700K CFLs = 262W CFLs
Space for 6 -1.2 gallon hempy buckets, plus area for 32oz Gatorade jugs
Passive intake with 78CFM axial fan exhaust
Flower Room:
20"L x 24"W x 60"H
Inside painted flat white
250W HPS
Passive intake with 78CFM axial fan exhaust

The HPS is actually new. The last grow I used CFLs the whole way, I just feel that the HPS is probably worth the investment in the end.

Gear:
The hempy buckets are 1.2gallon paint mixing buckets, covered in black plastic with a hole about 1.5"-2" from the bottom. They are approximately 4 parts perlite, and 1 part vermiculite. I am using all FoxFarm nutrients for this grow and I am following their schedule for feedings. These girls get fed EVERY day so far, although I am aware I can let them go to every other once the tap hits the reservoir. I am attempting to water with 10-20% run off everyday which equates to approximately 4-5oz each a day right now.

The following are what are running and their birthdates (in parenthesis). It's kinda a pain in the ass with them being 4-7days apart, but it will work out fine I'm sure. As of now I have 1 DP (1/9/09), 2 PS(1/11/09), 1 GB (1/5/09), 1 AG and 1 AG in soil. Everything but the PS are confirmed female, so that is a good start.

I have been keeping a hand written log with as much detail as possible, so if you have any questions, please feel free to ask. I think I covered everything ... so I'll post some pics in a minute.

Since this entire post got deleted originally, I am going to attempt to play catch up at some point. I don't know if I can get to my pics since they are on a broken computer at the moment, so we'll see how this goes. Please pardon the rapid multiple posts.

Enjoy the ride everyone and stay safe.

-sg

oSecretGardeno Reviewed by oSecretGardeno on 02-04-2009. Hempy Buckets - DP Durban Poison | G13 Power Skunk | G13 Gigabud | Afghani Welcome! Let's try this again! I just finished up my 1st grow (in soil) and things turned out very well. I have had many great reports on the smoke and I surely enjoy it myself. Anyways, onto this one. After watching killa12345 run a couple of grows in hempy buckets, I decided I had to give them a go myself. So far they have proved to be extremely easy and a very efficient use of space. In my limited grow room (specs below) I am not only concerned with height, but also the footprint that Rating: 5

[socialistpete]

Welcome!
The last grow I used CFLs the whole way, I just feel that the HPS is probably worth the investment in the end.

I wish more people on here would understand this. If you think you had a good grow last time with your CFLs wait till you harvest this time.:stoned:

[MonkeyBone]

Subbin on this new grow dude!

I second the opinion on HPS...

[oSecretGardeno]

socialistpete - it just makes sense, I can run a 250W HPS, which is basically the same watts as I was running on CFLs and I KNOW the harvest will be much better.

monkey - good to have you over here bro, things should get interesting real soon.

I'm going to throw up some pics of where we are right now. I am also in quite a debate right now as to what to do. I have all these plants that are just huge and are all about a month into veg. I wanted to keep them as mothers, but I am starting to think that they will get rootbound quickly and I will be fucked. They are all in 1 gallon buckets right now. So you say, "flower them stupid" well ... one week from today I am leaving for 8 days to go skiing in California, so I am really worried about leaving them at the beginning like that. I have a friend coming by, but it's still a risk.

I'm just not sure what to do. Do I keep ripping clones and getting those ready for when I get back? Or do I just start flowering these big bitches? Anyone know if I can keep mothers in 1 gallon hempys?

I should have definitely looked into this before. Timing just worked out funny. I will probably just keep ripping clones, let them veg while I am gone and then move on from there. It's safer, easier, smarter, blah blah i hate it.

Pics in a bit

-sg

[XmaxxX]

Dude I remember I was reading somewhere that mothers need to be rootbound to kinda stunt growth at a certain point correct me if Im wrong
How are the PS doing? I just planted couple of them and was wondering if this is a worthwhile strain(got it for free from attitude)

[oSecretGardeno]

yo max, if you could find a source for that, i would be very interested. I am looking into mother plants that I am sure I can do with hempy, it will just be a lot like a hydro system, so I am going to check that out.

So far the PS are going big and strong. I have a really stretchy pheno and a shorter more compact pheno. I think the stretchy one is actually a boy so I am not that torn up over it. They both have VERY narrow leaves, very sativa domniant, which I am happy about. I order DP Durban Poison from Attitude and got the GB Fem for free and the 5 PS for free. Thus far I am happier with the GB then the DP. The DP is a little bitch, breaking reallllllly easily and not looking 100% sativa AT ALL. I am not sure what is up with that.

pics in a little, i just had a massive cloning session (24 clones)

-sg

[oSecretGardeno]

Just a couple of pictures, a couple of the new clone box with DIY dome, a couple of the veg/mother room. That veg room is quickly getting out of control lol. I've had to raise the lights every couple of days, things are going crazy. I am trying to set everything up so I can kind of just leave things on autopilot when I am gone and come back to everything almost ready to flower. Then I can pull more clones, start flowering some first clones and the perpetual will be in motion.

This will have to do for pics, my other ones are on my dead laptop so that's gunna be a minute before I get those back. Beginning of veg doesn't have much action anyways.

Peace,

-sg

[KingKronic420]

looking good there, SG!

ive got this one subscribed, i missed out on your other one.

good luck bro!

[GoldenGraham84]

ooh look at you and your fancy HPS! ya dirty turn-coat! nah, i'm playin. kinda jealous you got one first. looks great though. have fun skiing!

stay safe
-GG84

[oSecretGardeno]

looking good there, SG!

ive got this one subscribed, i missed out on your other one.

good luck bro!

Thanks Kronic! Good to have you along for this one. Should be getting pretty interesting in a couple of weeks here. We already have a few mamas, 3 f-ed up clones that will survive but will take time to recover, and 18 more clones rooting in the cloner now. Stay tuned!

ooh look at you and your fancy HPS! ya dirty turn-coat! nah, i'm playin. kinda jealous you got one first. looks great though. have fun skiing!

stay safe
-GG84

hahaha, i am a dirty turn-coat! What was I thinking with this new HPS, now I can't hang out with you CFL folks. We'll see if I actually have the balls to run it haha. Thanks for comin' by man, it's been too long!

Stay safe all,

-sg