Outdoors Hydroponics automatic watering kit

[frostymantin]

Hi all,

Please help me design this outdoors automatic watering equiment, so that you can grow anywhere far from houses etc and don't have to lug water there all summer...

1/ Water Barrel made of planks and water liner to hold 1 cubic meter/ 200 gallons of water, or dig hole if ground is soft enough.

2/ Lead-Acid battery, 12v, 15ah, to pump water from the barrel on a timer. 15ah can run the water pump for about 15 hours.

3/ 12v Digital Time Switch, 10$... Cn101a model for minute accurate watering

4/ 12v water pump to put inside the barrel

Water the plants every 3 days with 1 gallon of water, in the thick of night... abit of fert in the water= MASSIVE PLANTS
Anyone heard of someone growing outdoors with automatic timer water???? it may be a new one?

 

[frostymantin]

 

[frostymantin]

Most portable way of making a large water butt, without noisy pickaxe work, is by putting some steaks in the ground, and nailing strong tarp in between all the steaks in a ring... and then you have to figure a way to mouseproof/hogproof the tarp and the pond liner, using sheild/deterrent

 

[robogro]

it looks like you have it figured out in design, but where does the water come from?

I always choose a site that has a water source nearby and use a 12v pump to fill a 55 gal barrel that is on top of another barrel for a gravity feed. I'll see if I can find a picture later.

cheers

 

[Ichabod Crane]

Skip all that and do a sub irigated planter. Other wise known as a SIP. It is a tub on top of a tub basically. The top tub has a mix of 20% NAPA floor dry, 40% coco coir, and 40% peat moss. Use polyester cotton for your wick from the top to the bottom. Put a float in the bottom tub with a 1/4 inch line to a larger res and you are done. No electric and no pump.

 

[frostymantin]

it looks like you have it figured out in design, but where does the water come from?

I always choose a site that has a water source nearby and use a 12v pump to fill a 55 gal barrel that is on top of another barrel for a gravity feed. I'll see if I can find a picture later.

cheers

I'd have to make the rain collecter 1yr in advance and to get rain water, it's 2ft of rain per year here. it's difficult to find a water source near a very safe zone to plant over here, i'm studying the local woods on google maps to find a large scrub zone near a river. i go for the zones where they chopped some hectares of trees and it's grown back low and so dense it cant be walked into even 1 yard

 

[frostymantin]

Skip all that and do a sub irigated planter. Other wise known as a SIP. It is a tub on top of a tub basically. The top tub has a mix of 20% NAPA floor dry, 40% coco coir, and 40% peat moss.

sounds like a good idea i'll see that

 

[frostymantin]

actually in know the DEA look near water courses in their chopper, and we dont have rivers im going for a rivulet except all the forests are on hilltops...