How to Plant using the BudCupsUpdated 4 months ago

Prepare Your BudCups™ Or Starting Container

Drop the bottom plate inside your BudCups and make sure it sits flat at the bottom, with the convex, shiny end facing up. This is very important, as the bottom plates are made on an angle to allow for the tripe-drainage mechanism to work. This means your roots will be automatically pruned at the bottom, and never waterlogged. If you don’t have the BudCups, choose a container around 16oz of volume, and make sure that the bottom is perforated to allow water out and prevent root rot. Containers with poor drainage are tricky because they will let your plant grow, but very slowly.

A hand placing a yellow lid on a yellow pot labeled 'BudCups'. The pot is on a grey wood-textured surface against a soft white background.

Top-down view inside a yellow BudCups container showing a small drainage hole in the center, surrounded by three circular ridges on the container's base, against a plain white background.

Fill With Soil Or Other Media

Fill your BudCups with soil, coco coir, or media of preference, up to the top rim. Make sure to break down any dense chunks of soil and never pack your soil down, as your roots need oxygen in order to thrive. Loose soil creates oxygen pockets for your roots to grow into, and if those pockets are closed, they have nowhere to grow.

A hand using a dark grey scoop to pour soil into a yellow pot labeled 'BudCup', placed on a grey wood-textured surface.

BudCups yellow full of soil to the rim, on top of a grey wooden table and with a white backdrop background

Water Your BudCups™ Before Planting

Watering before you plant your seed ensures it will not be disrupted during the planting process. Using 150ml (5oz) of dechlorinated tap water or distilled/RO water mixed with your vegetative stage nutrients, moisten the soil slowly (ideally, over 60 seconds), until a small amount of runoff starts coming out of the raised bottom. This means your BudCups are fully saturated and your seed will grow its roots over the next 2 weeks in search of all that water, thus growing in all directions.

A grey watering can pouring water into a yellow BudCup filled with soil, placed on a grey wood-textured surface against a soft white background.

Close-up of a yellow BudCup with a clear, water-filled saucer beneath it, capturing water drainage. The pot is placed on a grey wood-textured surface.

For a detailed lesson on how we recommend you plant your seed, check out our article called, "How to Plant & Germinate Hemp Seeds"

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