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Anything outdoors 2020
- Thread starter TychoMonolyth
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TychoMonolyth
Boreal Curing
I have a question. This week I couldn't just pick up the hose and water my plants. The hose laying on the ground will heat up the water just below the boiling point (lol). If I watered with that I'd kill 'em, so I have to run the water in my 200 foot hose for a few minutes before I get cold water.
How do you get around that if you automate your watering?
PDX Dopesmoker
Active member
If its automated couldn't you just set it to water before the sun comes up?
Dankwolf
Active member
Yea with a garden hose I also find I have to run it first so as not to water plants with hot water. With irrigation lines watering before the sun rises is an excellent idea. You can also bury the irrigation tubing under ground or cover it with mulch.
St. Phatty
Active member
hey st. phatty, check out post#676,first pic. i grow a lot of plants guerrilla style, and have to put out small plants, i have to use about 50/50 native soil to limed aged peat from our many bogs. i have to try to protect the seedlings from slugs by using 4 inch pvc pipe banded with copper tape, and slug and snail bait, or they would be eaten overnight!
I'm watering with a hose still. Haven't set up drip system yet
When you’re done have a solenoid open that allows an air compressor you charge your lines up to the operating pressure of the drip system to push the excess out.
JustSumTomatoes
Indicas make dreams happen
@Tycho: Maybe bury the hose so the sun's not beating down on it? Reminds me of how when I was a kid I would be playing outside and instead of going in for a drink during summer I would just drink from the hose. Nothing like warm, vinyl-flavored water to quench the thirst haha. I've long since abandoned that habit lol, but sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures.
TychoMonolyth
Boreal Curing
YouTube is my friend.
I used a hose under my decks and from there it's all downhill. I buried a 1 inch PVC pipe, 6 inches deep, to a small basin and tap at the foot of the garden. I need to drain the lines for the winter so this setup will be the easiest to drain when it's time to hibernate and it's invisible. At the garden I'm using a vanilla soaker hose without emitters and a timer at the house.
I can save myself and hour a day dragging a 200 foot hose around to water by hand. Then I have to put that hose away without tangling it up. It's always a mess regardless.
yardgrazer
Well-known member
Ran into some issues with other Boreal seeds I tried starting this year (probably mostly damping off), but these three Boreal Lights are chugging along. I'm guessing about 6 weeks since they hit dirt? I had hoped to add a few others, but my dance card is full this outdoor season.
I don't think there's any need to get excited about hot water from hoses in the sun.
back when Cali growers used to post on IC mag you would see that they all had spirals
of black hose on top of every 800 gallon smart pot and their plants usually were fine.
Can you imagine how hot the water gets in those hoses?
Or these?
No doubt about it, exposing your hose is a recipe for disaster!
back when Cali growers used to post on IC mag you would see that they all had spirals
of black hose on top of every 800 gallon smart pot and their plants usually were fine.
Can you imagine how hot the water gets in those hoses?
Or these?
No doubt about it, exposing your hose is a recipe for disaster!
Here is some outdoor thus far ... Central new York State Pics are >>> RuntZ , Mac , RuntZ , Mac ...
