Basement hempy with sils, lots of beans, “breakfast weed”

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Hello!
I’m going to use this space to share my grow, discuss my plants, and get some feedback from you all.

So the title kinda says it all, I grow in half soil hempies, use Maxibloom, calimagic and ph up, in tap water. 150 watts ok 5000k sils. Small space, 30 in x 20 in x 70ish.

I prefer herb that doesn’t make me sleepy, I can sleep anywhere without help haha. Favorite thing I ever grew was chocolope, and you’ll see most of my seeds are sativa dominant. I like herb that makes things brighter, and make you feel awake. Bonus if you laugh a lot and don’t grind your teeth lol.

I’ll throw up some plant pics soon, got 3 of Copas Crazy Bitch going right now, 11/13 from seed. Til then here are the things I plan on running in the next little while, up to 6 plants at a time. I don’t keep clones, and intend to make some seeds out of each run. I have some other bag seeds and stuff too, but that’s not as impressive is it haha!

Edit: the unreadable Bhodi packs are Forest Queen and WOMO, both freebies. The top left are some Afterthought autos that I didn’t realize were actually photoperiods haha. Pivotal moment and Anodyne, hoping for some really mellow, kind stuff to share

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#2

Nice selection there bud.

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#3

Thanks for stopping to take a peak!

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#4

Here are the CBs, around 5 weeks from seed, started in 11/13 light cycle, transplanted a week ago into the 2.5 gal hempy. Basements cold now too, 61 at night, 72 lights on. Once they get a bit taller I’ll tie them over to the side of the bucket to spread them out a bit and get some light in the center.
Had a nice male too, but it kept throwing pistils, so I trashed him. Last of these beans too, so that’s a bit of a bummer.

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#5

A nice little collection there my friend, great genetics, looking forward to seeing them produce.

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#6

Thank you, hope I can bring the best out of them and give a good show!

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#7

Think Ill follow along. :smiley:

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#8

Hope there is room for one more freeloader. Gonna take off my shoes, kick up my feet and watch the show!

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#9

Pleeeenty of room, come on in!

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#10

That hillbilly fighter sounds interesting. I hadn’t seen that one.
I’ll tag along if there’s room.
Good vibes for ya :+1::+1:

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#11

Any silica product will raise your ph and builds plants stronger. Must be mixed in water first though.

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#12

I actually have run a few of those! Nice smoke, really relaxing. And the resin was like, really slippery greasy. Will run again! And the more the merrier!

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#13

I had been using ArmorSi, but it started dropping out and getting all mucky so I switched out to the ph up. And yeah, I would mix that with my water first, then the other nutes. Definitely seemed to get worse the longer I owned the bottle, can it go bad in the bottle or get contaminated? I still have it if there is a way to unfuck the bottle.

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#14

I don’t know if it expires but you do have to shake it well before you use it. I let the water get to room temperature, mix the armour si(same as I use) in a smaller container and then slowly add to the water. Wait a day before adding other nutrients and follow the instructions for order of adding your nutrients. I would always get precipitate before I started doing this.

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#15

Hey @potpotpot you say your hempys are half soil. Whats the other half consist of?

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#16

That is to the letter the process I use. The strange thing is it seemed to be getting worse and worse, which is why I folded and got the ph up. Maybe I’ll shoot GH a message and see if they think spoilage is possible.

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#17

They are half soil, roots in this case, and the other half is chunky perlite. Bottom two inches(up to the hole in the bucket) is plain chunky perlite. I ran straight perlite before, but was having all sorts of whacky ph stuff happen. Swapped to half soil and cut my nutes in half, now we’re smooth sailing.

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#18

Gottcha. I have transplanted plants that were growing in 1 gal soil pots into 3 gal hempy pails before. So a little less than a gal of soil and the rest perlite. Did it a number of times with good results.

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#19

So along the way one variation I tried was starting in soil in solo cups, then transplanting to straight perlite. A soil plug I’ve seen people call it. The easiest I’ve found is to start right into the 1/2 soil 1/2 perlite, but I didn’t have enough perlite ready when I started the seed, so I started in cups of the same soil/perlite mix, then transplanted once they showed sex.

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#20

So right after I posted that I mixed up a 1/2tsp to a cup of distilled water, let it sit over night. The next morning I added it a gallon of my tap water, which was room temp. Let sit for a day. Added my maxi bloom and calimagic, and nothing has dropped out yet. I had been seeing a feathery, slimy looking substance in the jug, appearing shortly after mixing the other nutes in.

The only thing I did different here is pre mix the armor si with distilled first, and having the tap water at room temp (67*), before I was mixing straight out of the tap, which now is probably high 40s or low 50s.

GHs contact form asks for too much info, so I decided to say screw that.

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