I currently have some plants in 1 gal nursery pots that are going to need to be upgraded to larger size soon. I thought of putting them in 3 gal fabric bags but vacuuming the water out of the runoff pots is aggravating and I hear Scotty talk all the time about how he likes the Hempy Buckets. How do they compare to fabric pots? They are what a five gal with coco on top and clay pellets in the bottom? He mentions watering from the bottom as well which I actually prefer as you can water more often if you want easier.
How many of these buckets would you put in a 4×8 or in a 4×4 if I just wanted to do half?
Is there a good guide that tells you how to construct the best kind? I don’t want to get them all set up and have done it in a crappy style. I am always looking for new ways to streamline my grow and it seems like this would be a beneficial move.
I know I can search for hempy bucket guide but I was wondering what style the DGC would go with?
A true hempy bucket has one hole in the side and you always water to waste which puts you back to vacuuming up water if you don’t have a drain system set up. I think his is more of a wicking style watering from the bottom.
I could vac it out but being able to water from the bottom and have it wick up would be ideal. That is kindof what I was talking about. I grew my last plant like that and if I was gonna be gone a while I would just add more water in the bottom. I would like to see the style he uses.
Personally I prefer neither. I use `Root Trapper II` pots, which were invented by the guy who invented fabric pots as a solution to the issues with his first invention (the fabric pot). They don’t rely on air pruning which causes the soil to dry out too quickly, instead it traps the roots and prunes that way. I won’t go back to regular fabric pots after doing a side by side and seeing how much $ I was saving just by watering less and using less nutes, since I don’t exactly use the cheapest nutes.
I am using everything and all diff size pots right now. How are they better than fabric. I kindof wanted the hempy buckets so I could water from the bottom. I always liked that method as it let me water many times a day or once a week if I wanted. I will look the ones up you mention but I have fabric ones I could use so I probably wouldn’t go that route this grow. I just use gh nutes so at least I am not pouring out tons of expensive nutes. Seems like the hempy buckets like Scotty uses watering from the bottom would get salt buildup I wonder how he avoids that.
https://www.dudegrows.com/bottomfeed/
Here’s some clips not sure if you’ve seen it already. There are some more in members stash. I would bet he just flushes every now and again.
I had not seen that, I hadn’t checked through there in a while. Thanks for the link. That is just what I wanted to see. I wish Scotty and Dude and Guru would update us more on their grows and methods like that.