is a blue Lowe's bucket ok for hempy?

[SSDIPainGuy]

What I mean, is it dark enough to prevent algae from growing? Also, do you recommend straight perlite or perlite and vermiculite in a 3 to 1 ratio?

SSDIPainGuy Reviewed by SSDIPainGuy on 09-13-2013. is a blue Lowe's bucket ok for hempy? What I mean, is it dark enough to prevent algae from growing? Also, do you recommend straight perlite or perlite and vermiculite in a 3 to 1 ratio? Rating: 5

[Shovelhandle]

best results I've seen were straight perlite. drain hole s with screen 1-1/2 - 2" from the bottom of a 5 gallon pail. Water until 25-30% run off to clean out the bottom.

[SSDIPainGuy]

I didn't know until I got there, but they have a gray bucket also, much more opaque.

[jnewcs]

To me 5gal is a waste of money(nutrients). Maybe outside I could see using something like that but that seems way overkill for an indoor grow. I like 1-3 gal.

[SSDIPainGuy]

The only reason I went with the 5 gallon is because all the research I did said the bigger the bucket, the bigger the plant. I just can't wait for this grow to finish, I have to harvest as soon as possible. Next grow I can veg much longer, grow big beautiful plants then flower them and harvest pounds.

[Jbone77]

Like I told you in your other thread, you can't treat a hempy like a soil grow. It's hydro so the roots don't need all the space in a 5 gallon bucket, your using way more nutes that needed and you added another 6" or so that the roots need to go before they reach the res so that's going to slow you down, you've lost another 6" or so in head room, and you bought $5 lowes buckets instead of $1 for a 3.5 gallon dollar store buckets. Why ask for advice and then not use it? It's your grow tho so il stop ranting and let you do it your way. Good growing

[Shovelhandle]

Lets see some of your grow results, jnewcs, jbone77.
I've seen many, many professional grows with trees indoors. I know of a few people getting 2.5-3 pounds per plant indoors. Sea of Green is not the only way to grow a successful crop. Especially when mmj growers are limited to the number of plants.

[Jbone77]

I'm with you 100%, "they grow trees indoors in 5 gallon hempy buckets", that's my point exactly. They have the experience and the equipment to do it, they aren't new to hempys and understand how hydro works. A 3.5 gallon hempy will grow a 4' plant nicely. He's asking if he should get a silver or blue bucket so he's not a pro, he's never grown hempy style, with that I'm assuming he doesn't have the equipment needed to grow anything over what a 3.5 gallon bucket will do. Will a 5 gallon bucket work, of course it will, is it needed for the average person growing 4-5 plants in a 4x4 tent, no. If you think a 3.5 gallon hempy is used for a sog grow well that's just silly, most hempy sogs iv seen are either 2 ltr soda bottles or 1 gallon. So I guess I may have made a mistake by assuming he wasn't set up to grow trees so il ask, hey pain guy what is your lighting and room set up? Do you have growing experience? Hydro experience? PH/ppm pens? Maybe Ur right and his intentions are to grow trees and he has several 1000 watt rigs and 10' ceilings so for that I apologize

[Esteban1]

Bone, it's only advice.... ingest at your own risk. Random information is out there for all to ingest. Chew it, eat it, compute imp:

[Jbone77]

Agreed, however when the advice given is "iv seen professional growers grow 3 lb plants this way" to someone new, that's silly, hell iv seen Payton manning throw a football so could I be his back up? Someone new needs guidance, what's simple, what's feasible, what works. My personal thoughts on a hempy grow for a new grower is 3.5 gallon buckets, 100% perlite, lucas formula, cal/mag, ph up/down, ro or distilled water, 400-600 watt light, ph pen, exhaust and carbon filter. It's simple, it's repeatable, it's something to easily build on and it works with little attention.