Hempy vs Square Pots

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Cocktrauma

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High guys
I am planning my new setup 8x4 with 1000w led in total.
i want to to a Drain to waste Hydro but can’t decide potsize und wether to use Hempy buckets or normal square pots. Both would be filled with perlite.
i am thinking about 3-5l pots and 18 plants in total.
I have some experience with hempy and it was going quiet good but the biggest plants sometimes got some nute buildup because they where drinking more with led to less drain. More feed would lead to a lot of waste by the small pots. Flushing used a lot of water because it remixed in the hempy button and took some time to get the flushing done.
normal pots would be easier to flush and feed but I don’t know if hempy might give better results and is less likely to die at the spot when the pump fails.

what do you guys think
which system and which pot size

thank you!
 
Billy the Mountain

Billy the Mountain

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Cocktrauma said:
High guys
I am planning my new setup 8x4 with 1000w led in total.
i want to to a Drain to waste Hydro but can’t decide potsize und wether to use Hempy buckets or normal square pots. Both would be filled with perlite.
i am thinking about 3-5l pots and 18 plants in total.
I have some experience with hempy and it was going quiet good but the biggest plants sometimes got some nute buildup because they where drinking more with led to less drain. More feed would lead to a lot of waste by the small pots. Flushing used a lot of water because it remixed in the hempy button and took some time to get the flushing done.
normal pots would be easier to flush and feed but I don’t know if hempy might give better results and is less likely to die at the spot when the pump fails.

what do you guys think
which system and which pot size

thank you!
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The pot size is largely irrelevant. I've used 1,2,3, and 5 gallon fabric pots w/ coco. There's no difference in growth or yields between the pot sizes. The only difference is fertigation frequency, not total volume.

I prefer using small containers and frequent fertigation, primarily for convenience and economy.
 
.Smoke

.Smoke

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After 5+ years I'm in the process of switching from 5gal hempy to 1gal coco straight dtw for the same reasons the OP listed.
I'd stick with small pots dtw but maybe rethink your plant count. When I ran a 4x8 I only had 8 plants total and with that much square footage it was a handful to take care of. Couldn't imagine having that many individual plants to have to tend to and adjust feed for.
 
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Cocktrauma

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Thanks
but why rethink the plantcount
I’ll have automated waterings and work with clones
if I improve a bit I’d be able to keep them all same sized.
i was thinking about doing twice the amount to save veg time but let’s see
but 18x1Gal is enough media for the grow?
what do you think about adding small amounts of vermiculite?
maybe at a 6:1 ratio perlite/vermi?
 
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