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Originally Posted by GreenBuds  I'm fairly new to hempy buckets but have one finished grow with it. I have been a soil grower for almost thirty years. My water from the tap is a high 700 and about 8.5 ph. I have been adjusting the ph to about 5.9-6.2 and giving about 3/4 teaspoon of GH MaxiGrow powdered fertilizer at every watering with no problems.
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That is really high ph & ppm IMO. Is that well water or city water?
My ppm from tap is ~140ppm @ 8ph. I don't use tap because its so high. Is that 3/4 tsp. per gallon? Why not just collect rainwater? Its only about 10ppm.
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Originally Posted by GreenBuds I am using 3 parts perlite to 1 part vermiculite in 2 gal buckets. The other day my biggest plant almost 2 feet tall all of a sudden just completely wilted within 24 hours for no apparent reason. |
Two gallon buckets are way too small IMO, especially for a plant that:
- You transplanted from soil into Hempy. Why? Best to start & finish in same medium.
- You say later that you 'sexed' the plant, then went back to veg for 2 months. They must
have a huge rootball in that small 2 gal bucket.
- Why did you decide not to use a 50/50 mix? With so much perlite, i'd venture that the
medium is dying out after a few hours of watering. What kind of temps are you in?
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Originally Posted by GreenBuds I just watered her a day ago so I know it wasn't because she was dry. She also looked green and healthy. She never recovered and dryed out completely. I have never seen a plant die this fast. I also had this problem a couple of months ago with another female. She just dried up in like a couple of days. |
That 800ppm is probably the problem. Lots of accumulated salts to start with, then getting accumulated even more inside the 2 gal buckets over 2 months. Why not just collect and use rainwater? Its probably ~10ppm and 7ph
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Originally Posted by GreenBuds My plants were transferred from soil to the hempy buckets and have been in the hempys for almost 2 months. They took a little while to get adjusted with the new medium because I switched to 12/12 to sex the plants when they were in soil. I had a tough time keeping them from flowering because I had the lights at 16 on 8 off. |
I would take clones and sex them, instead of switching the same plant back & forth.
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Originally Posted by GreenBuds They are now under 24 of light and are growing good and green with a lot of new vegetative growth. Except of course the one female that mysteriously died. I'm thinking I'm going to transplant my remaining 2 females in 5 gal buckets with just perlite this weekend to make sure they have plenty of root growth. Could my bad tap water be causing this? |
My recommendation is transplant immediately into 5 gal buckets of 50/50 mix, flush the heck out of them after transplant with 20 gals of rainwater ph'd down to 6.0, and use rainwater instead of tap from now on. I'd love to see a picture of the rootball of that plant. Good luck.