Building a drip/waste system

[Guest 18340]

Hello everybody.
I'm in the process of building a drip to waste sytem tha will water 18 pots at a time, filled with coco.
Basically what i want to know is how do i go about getting even water distibution from one dripper to the next?
I plan on building a "grid" type of system made of pvc with 1/8 or 1/4 inch tubing coming from the pvc going to each individual bucket.
I've read other threads on dripper systems but its still foggy for me.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[thc43]

do you have in mind what drippers you will use. if all plants need equal feeds spaggetti hose or really fine self regulating will do the job 1/4 inch i found harder to get even flow from each hose. The pump will need to be quite large in fish pump terms 3000L/h+.

i use 19mm hose run straight down the centre of the room but you could drill and glue these thin hoses into pvc arangement, 2x drips per pot. About the best way ive found to feed everything from sog to scrog to single plant growing.

a couple of pics may help

 

[OahuGrown]

ok say i was to do 21- 27 pots for a sog how would i achieve this goal. Could i make it like yours?

 

[00420]

8


16

48

96

 

[freeradical]

00420, what size pump were you using for each system?

 

[ChaosCatalunya]

I find dripers block up when you least want them to, often killing the plant, so I use 15mm and 4m hose, but without the dripper "labyrinth" bit that blocks. Water comes out much faster, so you pump for less time, but ... the point is...it always comes out.

 

[00420]

8 = 185 gph
16 = 385 gph
48 = 500 gph or 2 x 385
96 = 4 x 385 gph

I don't use dripers either just open end 1/4 hose
Mines not drip to waste but could be
Watering time is 30-45 sec's every 6 hr's