Automation?

[Ghudda]

I think I'm going to stick with this forum, we're the ones with the experimentation going on with lighting and the vertical designs being run.

I basically want to copy Bobblehead's latest design(s), hoping he'll get back to me on that In the meantime...

Anybody recommend anything that'll automate a setup? I been reading about Blumats but really that's about it. If people are tying meters/sensors into a system that reacts, let me know.

 

[paladin420]

You in dirt or water? I haven't seen Bobbl's. I do water as I do not have the time to service multipul plants.

 

[High Country]

First....start with a timer.

 

[Herborizer]

Blumats with water and quality soil is a great start. Get a round under your belt and start experimenting. Personally I LOVE Blumats with Canna COCO. See sig.

My automation is amazing. So simple and grows monster plants.

 

[rives]

Blumats with CRF's work great. I had tried building up a soil, but it ran out of steam about 3 weeks into flowering. I have to be away for about 10 days every 3 weeks or so, and the combination works out very well for me. In the near future I am hoping to try out a couple of hempy buckets with Osmocote +, tied into a A-B microcontroller. I need to build a device that will sense the runoff, but I have some ideas for that.

 

[Ghudda]

Bobble's setups are in his sig, but https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=218026 is the most recent.

Thanks for the replies, yes a timer and probably some soil will be round one, if I don't end up duplicating one Bobblerack. Those damned Blumats are expensive, imo. To be honest though I want to incorporate some kind of hydro or aero into Bobble's racks (Bobble's racks, sounds like a fat stripper)

 

[Groseph]

As Lazyman states put your efforts into setting up the systems that make your grow run and the success..hands off will follow.

Blumats for watering
Adequate ventilation on thermostat if preferred.
If using RO - toss it on a float valve / shutdown so your water is always made without you having to wait.
High temp shutdown to kill lights in event of a ventilation failure

With a large enough reservoir the only manual task is topping up (weekly or so) and adding back nutes...and tending to the plants directly of-course. No need for sensors, crazy timers, dosers, and what not.. those leave just more room for error/failure.

Put the correct techniques in the place and a room is already practically automated...


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Blumats in coco for the win.. Dead simple so you can focus on pruning, timing, garden orientation.. whatever...

 

[NOTB]

i have auto security and it's well worth the time and money

 

[Ghudda]

Revisiting my old posts What's "auto security" ?