A question about the Hempy Method-

[chaos420]

I've read in tons of places the basics, and I've learned a lot of information.
Basically,you don't have to drain it because every time you water it flushes out the old solution, right?

Do you ever have to drain it completely, or is the overflow enough to keep the water clean?
Also, I know hempy buckets are considered hydro. If I'm using a hempy/soil combo what nutes should I use?

[DieAbetic]

you put a drain about an inch from the bottom so that the overflow comes out and there isnt *too much* stagnant water at the bottom and will mold or anything. since it is in the perlite, and hopefully being sucked up by your plants deep water roots, there isnt much of a problem. when plants are young and dont have roots that deep yet, i would suggest tipping the bucket/pot a little on its side to let out more water that wont be used until they are older.

a hempy bucket is basically jsut a soil grow that is catered to the plants root system and saves a small reservoir that keeps plants well-watered without over-watering. people call it hydro because you can replace the soil with soil-less media like hydroton and grow in the same fashion, you just have to run a water pump every couplesminutes per hour to keep the soil-less media wet enough for the plant to soak up the nutes.

that being said, if you are using soil/perlite/vermiculite mix for a soil hempy, use soil fertilizers. if you are using soiless media (hydroton, rockwool, straight perlite, etc) with a water pump, you use hydro nutrients.

good luck hope this helps!

[chaos420]

So can more than one pot sit in the same resevoir? I suppose Quantity of water is more important than depth? The whole reason I'm looking into hempy is because my pots are inside of my rubbermaid grow, and the pots drained out to about an inch of water. Should I treat it as a hempy grow or what should I do?The pots have holes in the bottom, not the side, but they're sitting in water...

[randy]

quaLlty of water you mean? a tlny plant would not use that res,so becomes rotten, but a blg plant ?,


Never knew that uslng perLlte/vermlcuLlte, needed a solL feed, were you get that lnfo from, not doubtlng you by the way.

[chaos420]

Well it's potting soil that I mixed with perlite and vermiculite, sorry.

And so you're saying, if the plants' roots touch the water, they'll use it and it won't go bad... right?
That explains a lot. So its not so much the rewatering that makes it stay clean, just that the roots drink it all up before it molds. Right?