McToker Grows Again ~ CFL/HPS Hempy Bucket ~ Bag Seed

[McToker]

Mrs. McToker and I were not able to get our second grow going after Xmas as we had originally planned. One of our kids moved back in with us after getting out of the Military. But, heâ??s moving out soon to take a new job up north. Whoopie!!! I told the Mrs. that weâ??ll be free to get naked or grow another crop. She insists that nobody wants to see me naked so, it looks weâ??ll start another grow.

We thought seriously about ordering some beans but ultimately decided to grow from the same batch of bagseed that we used for the last grow. Because we are making a couple changes in our setup, we wanted to see just how much quantity and quality might improve. We figured the best test was to grow from the same batch of seeds. The changes are Hempy Buckets instead of soil and HPS lighting for flowering instead of the CFLâ??s we used last time. CFLâ??s will still be used for vegging.

We are anxious to get this second grow going and apply all that we learned on the first grow.

The last grow was all CFLâ??s in soil.

For this grow, hereâ??s the plan:

Homebox S indoor greenhouse ~ 31.5 x 31.5 inches (6.9 sq. ft.) x 63 inches tall

4â?� Vortex fan

Carbonaire CA-4 carbon filter

Hempy buckets

Regular household CFL bulbs for vegging. 6500k ~ 26 watt bulbs

250 watt HPS for flowering (havenâ??t bought the light yet ~ it will be an air-cooled hood with, most likely, a Lumitek ballast)

R/O water

Nutrients will be Cal-Mag, Botanicare Pure Blend Pro Grow, Pure Blend Pro Bloom, with a little help from Molasses and Sweet

The plan is to LST all the plants ~ No Fimming or Topping

This grow should use up our supply of bagseed. If all goes well (knock wood), weâ??ll go for some â??store boughtâ?� beans next time.

Weâ??ll start germinating in the next couple days. Gotta get the timing right. In the meantime, Iâ??ve been brushing up and catching up on the forum.:jointsmile:

McToker Reviewed by McToker on 04-16-2009. McToker Grows Again ~ CFL/HPS Hempy Bucket ~ Bag Seed Mrs. McToker and I were not able to get our second grow going after Xmas as we had originally planned. One of our kids moved back in with us after getting out of the Military. But, heâ??s moving out soon to take a new job up north. Whoopie!!! I told the Mrs. that weâ??ll be free to get naked or grow another crop. She insists that nobody wants to see me naked so, it looks weâ??ll start another grow.:D We thought seriously about ordering some beans but ultimately decided to grow from the Rating: 5

[BeFree]

Glad to see you and the Mrs. back in action. I'll be very excited to see the step by step progress in the hempy buckets as well, my friend.
Count me in.:jointsmile:

beSafe

[McToker]

Thanks for tuning in BeFree. We're anxious to get started up again.

I'm checking out different germination methods right now, trying to find a good method to go along with using the Hempy Buckets rather than soil. I'm thinking that I might be able to use the "damp paper towel under a bowl method" and then place the sprouts directly into their buckets. I'll be using a mixture of vermiculite and perlite in the buckets.

It doesn't seem that the "start small and transplant to larger container" rule applies to Hempy Buckets.

But, I could be wrong. If I am, I'm hoping someone will point me in the right direction.

I noticed that killa put his sprouts into jiffy cubes in one of his grows. Hopefully I'll get some input in time.

[jakezking]

McToker, your last grow was a great one, so I'm looking forward to following this grow. I think you have the right idea to go back and look at killa12345's grows to really get a hang on the hempy buckets; he seems to have them well under control.

Glad to hear you have your house back to you and the Mrs. Good luck with you grow, my friend!

[headshake]

can't honestly say i remember your first grow mc, but i will be following along with this one!

best of luck and good growing!


-shake

[McToker]

The house isn't OUR's, yet, Jakezking. But, SOON.:thumbsup:

He'll be gone by the end of the month.

[McToker]

headshake ~ Thanks and welcome aboard. Our first grow was a quite an education for us. This time, we're hoping to put all that learning to good use as well as try some new (to us) tricks.

Jakezking ~ I hooked up with Killa through his log and he hooked me up with the info I was looking for.

It has begun. We started germinating 16 beans today. It's roughly half of what we had left. We're ultimately hoping to end up with 3 or 4 healthly females.

[KillerBudG]

Good luck man and I will be watching you and the Mrs. grow so please keep it detailed an updated.:jointsmile:



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~BudG~:rastasmoke::rastasmoke:

[killa12345]

I saw the question on transplanting...i plant my jiffy pellets USUALLY(90%) in to their final resting containers.....the only time i tranplant my hempys is when im vegging a ton of plants....i go with syrofoan 16oz cups so i can stuff my veg box....but its is a way unneccasary step with should be avoided if can be avoided! it will save you nutes in the long run if you transplant....just trying to give ya the pros and cons!

[McToker]

KBG ~ Thank you and will do.

Killa ~ Thanks for stopping by. Even though I've been saving up, I only have 6 plastic coffee cans. I do have some slighly smaller containers like 2 liter soda bottles, though. I guess we'll just play it by ear and see how many sprouts we get, first. Although, I did see nice sized paint buckets at the hardware store. A little bigger than the coffee container, but not by much.

Last time we just planted seeds straight into the Jiffy Pellets. I don't know how many we planted but we ended up with 9 plants. From that we got 2 healthy females and a hermie.

A side note: We kicked the hermie outdoors and let nature take its course. We're now down to burning the buds from the hermie. It took a while to clean out all the seeds but while not as tasty as the girls were, still acceptable.:hippy: