Hi Anti,
This thread is fantastic, so much useful info here. I'm interested in building a system very, very similar to yours, but my problem is I am not going to be able to water my plants every day as I pretty much will only have access on weekends. I was wondering if you had any ideas on how I could modify your design so that this wouldn't be a problem. Some kind of automatic watering solution? Or am I just not going to be able to do this type of perpetual sog grow? I dont mean to hi-jack the thread or anything but I figured this question might help someone else out too. Thanks again, this thread is already helping me a lot in figuring out how to get started
In order to water once a week you'd need a medium that retained water VERY well or you'd need some kind of alternative watering method.
I know many people here rave about Blumat auto-watering spikes. I have zero experience with them, myself.
It also occurs to me that you could do some kind of "mini-hempy" pots but you'd need to design your cab to allow for extra height for your water rez.
I'd be surprised if there weren't some hydro SOGgers out there. You'll just have to search and read and search and read until you find an idea that makes the most sense to you.
Watering every other day is simple enough for me. I've gotten away with watering every third day when I was in soil, but as plants got larger, they'd be pretty droopy by the third day, so now I typically water once every 48 hours.