Is 10 gal hempys overkill

Hey I just went and brought 4 38 litre or 10 gal pots from local hardware there laundry baskets
Brought 200 litres perlite
Iam going to be doing them as hempys straight perlite
In. 1.2 by 1.2 by 2 metre tent under a 600w mh/hps setup using a cooltube
Have a 4 inch inline fan and 4 in carbon filter
Iam thinking I went over board lol on bucket sizes what u reakon

each one would be ok for 4 plants @ 38 liter each
you have 4 of them so you could grow 16 plants in that volume easy lol
which is too many for a single 600w

10-15 liter per plant would be plenty to grow a fairly big plant

yeh it is overkill but it will still work

skunkd0c said:

each one would be ok for 4 plants @ 38 liter each
you have 4 of them so you could grow 16 plants in that volume easy lol
which is too many for a single 600w

10-15 liter per plant would be plenty to grow a fairly big plant

yeh it is overkill but it will still work

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Thanks skunk man there more round then deep about the depth of a normal 10 litre bucket

Gonna do 40 days of veg before I flip

skunkd0c said:

each one would be ok for 4 plants @ 38 liter each
you have 4 of them so you could grow 16 plants in that volume easy lol
which is too many for a single 600w

10-15 liter per plant would be plenty to grow a fairly big plant

yeh it is overkill but it will still work

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Just my basic veg setup

weedenhanced said:

Just my basic veg setup View attachment 3340576View attachment 3340577 View attachment 3340578

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They look smaller than i thought, they will be fine get 4 nice big plants from that

nice setup

General rule is that we need one gallon of pot size for each month you plan on keeping that plant in that pot. I veg for 4-5 weeks and flower for 6-8 weeks so I rarely use a pot larger than 3 gallons.

BigSteve.

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bigsteve said:

General rule is that we need one gallon of pot size for each month you plan on keeping that plant in that pot. I veg for 4-5 weeks and flower for 6-8 weeks so I rarely use a pot larger than 3 gallons.

BigSteve.

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norm go 3 gals but every time Iam finished there fully root bound and there's bucket was as cheap as the 3 gal buckets or pots plus wanted hempy them for a try

I'd imagine you are going to need a bigger extraction fan? I would have thought a 6 inch. How's your temps with a 4? I use a 4 inch in my 1mx1m.

" every time Iam finished there fully root bound".

Many new guys think a full pot of roots means rootbound. Wrong. The plant will grow roots until the roots reach the inside walls of the pot. When the roots do hit the sidewalls then you start to see a lot of growth aboveground.

It would be a problem if you looked at a "finished" plant that did not have roots wall-to-wall. Next time you harvest a plant take the time to look at the root system. I think you will find that what you think is rootbound is actually what a mature plants' root system looks like.

Good luck, BigSteve.