Continuing Adventures in Hempy

Trees · Post by **Trees** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:30 am

A substrate is a substrate, a medium is a medium...no semantics here

arb · Post by **arb** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:34 am

yer so silly,kindly define substrate and medium so I understand the context in which you type.

Trees · Post by **Trees** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:35 am

Is my name Noah..?

arb · Post by **arb** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:38 am

Do you want it to be?

Mothers Penis · Post by **Mothers Penis** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:14 am

Omfg ! .. Ok , 1st of all JF I'm sorry for the Hijack , it was not planed .

2nd ...Never mind medium , substrate ; lets call it the stuff that holds your roots and stalk ... Some of that stuff is dense and retain a shit load of water , like soil ... Some of that other stuff is light and dont retain much water like clay pellets , perlite (about 20 % water retaining ) ... So in hydro most of the water falls down in the bucket ... in hempy it seems you should keep a good 2 inches of water a the bottom of the bucket in all time ... in ebb & flow you need to set your pump to water many times a day to keep your root wet ... In Aeroponic root are dangling in air saturated with mist but it's still in tubes isolated from the light and heat ... And in soil you got those open buckets saturated with water just begging to evaporate .

PGGG , no need for a side to side , I grew for about 10 years indoors in ProMixBX with a average humidity of 70% ... since I switch to ebb & flow 10 years ago , using the same amount of HIDs my humidity drop to 30% , shit I even bought a humidifier to raise it to 40% .

Mothers Penis · Post by **Mothers Penis** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:31 am

Arb , what hold down the roots and stalk dont need to retain water has long has the roots are kept wet/humid ... also nutrients are in the water , not in what is holding down the plants ... And now you know the secret to The Hanging Gardens of Babylon .

arb · Post by **arb** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:48 am

Thanks mp,a simple answer was what I was looking for.

PGs GossipGrrl™ · Post by **PGs GossipGrrl™** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:09 pm

arb wrote:Thanks mp,a simple answer was what I was looking for.

always looking for the simple answer, rn't u sickpuppy?

...how bout juicy's Mex, DDT cantaloupe? ...and he still doesn't know what the best white flesh nectarine is...sad.

Here, lemme me split this from the Hempy thread as it's more properly a digression split (ya know, Hax has problems w/being a wordsmith liberal version of WFBuckley, lol):

Substrates even UB can learn about

(back in a 2nd, w/link)

JapanFreak · Post by **JapanFreak** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:00 am

Day 48 flower 250

I'm going to take these on Friday. Should take me about 5 hours to trim, clean, sterilize the perlite and get the next round in there. Even though the yield and high has been good there is something I don't feel is right about these chronics and I think it has to do with taking clones during flower a few cycles back. I'm happy to be able to skip a round and make some Chronic mothers and see if I can't get it back to better health.

JapanFreak · Post by **JapanFreak** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:18 pm

Day 12 flower 400 watts

Just so I can remember where I am in the grow. Pretty even canopy this time it looks like. One in the back left is a bit small though.