Options for automatic watering

[jessethestoner]

Wanting to see whats available for a automatic watering setup for a coco and promix 3 gallon pots in a 4x4 tent. I want to pack it, so i am thinking of doing 6 to 9 plants.

I have always hand watered, but a recent accident has left me a little less mobile and watering is harder than it once was.

Open to all options, lets hear it!

 

[TychoMonolyth]

Drip without emitters. Just the lines. One you dial it in, it'll save you a lot of work with little waste. I'd ignore emitters because it eliminates a point of failure and is really only a fancy shamcy extra you don't really need.

 

[f-e]

8 plants perhaps. The middle will fill. You can use that space for a common collection bucket to pump out from. 3 emitters in each pot, 2LPH per emitter. That could be basic arrows for this job. You will need an inline filter (tenner) and the real fall down in most systems is the pump. 660a3 perhaps.

Can you make stuff like this?

I have a thread 'fill her up' to detail making a tank fill each day with such a thing. It goes beyond, into feeds, but just this bit sticking the water in is very satisfying. Leaving you just the waste to carry, after testing it.

These are a few of the bits you might like
No.. the pic posting has beaten me again.. I will upload a second copy..

 

[Growenhaft]

3 gallons are 11l -13l!
With this volume it is much better to water according to the needs of the plants and not after fixed times where all plants get the same amount at the same time. if you irrigate automatically the pot size should be smaller with coco.

if a lot of coco is kept too wet for a long time, its oxygen saturation is lost. Large volumes require the wet / dry cycle otherwise there will be too little oxygen in the core. With such large volumes, the plants will dry out very differently. what is due to the plant and its development on the one hand, but also to the location, how strong the wind catches it, how strong it gets light. With such large volumes, the pouring times are often many days apart.

When setting up the automatic irrigation, you must always concentrate on the thirstiest, otherwise it will not get enough. In my experience, very thirsty plants are always in the minority when it comes to large volumes. the majority will take longer to empty the pot, yet another few are even extremely slow in their water consumption, although they are developing just as splendidly. do you pour all of them whenever she wants to be thirsty ... all others will suffer from it ... in such a way that they are disadvantaged in their development. With such large volumes of coco you shouldn't drip either ... it is better to pour a lot of water into the pot at once ... the rapid penetration of the water into coco will create a suction of a lot of fresh oxygen-containing air in it pulls the pot behind

so you should reduce your volume significantly, or continue to treat each plant individually. the latter also works with a large bucket pouring pump hose with pouring lance ...

To do this, you have to build casting tables for the process. This is drained into a barrel at the lowest point with a pump. I watered down the drain heavily and used it for the garden ... now in winter it goes into the canal. About 20% is drained, the rest goes through the plant. It makes the work a lot easier ... the pots don't have to be moved ... just go there with the watering lance and let the water go ... the process takes care of itself ... so you can take care of each plant individually, without going into an oversupply to get water and thus a lack of air in the pot

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[goingrey]

A lot of people online seem to use the Blumats.

My dad tried them and wasn't very impressed for whatever reason so I never did.

 

[anon710]

Wanting to see whats available for a automatic watering setup for a coco and promix 3 gallon pots in a 4x4 tent. I want to pack it, so i am thinking of doing 6 to 9 plants.

I have always hand watered, but a recent accident has left me a little less mobile and watering is harder than it once was.

Open to all options, lets hear it!

get a 30 gal brute trash bin, small sump pump, and a few 12 port manifolds and some pvc. cheap easy and reliable.

 

[ButterflyEffect]

I use the 27G totes. The black ones with the yellow lids that pretty much every store has nowadays. IIRC, Costco was the cheapest. I pop in cheap $50 sump pumps from amazon in with PVC piping and manifolds. I use 1/2" black pond tubing to the plants as I don't drip, I push a specific amount every so often. Each pump is timed with a cycle timer that goes down to seconds(Also amazon about $20 ea).