Watering lots of plants equally by hand?

[Greyskull]

The point of hand watering is to spend time next to every plant.

With my style I give the plants all the same water. It has worked for years. As long as the sizes stay similar it works just fine.

Water twice per week, and that's it.

In the pictures of the flower room that were posted there will be roughly 960 plants.

With a mirrored side soon to be built.

So roughly 2000 flowering plants, plus veg plants and clones. So the numbers get real big real fast.

Honestly after a nights sleep I am thinking the only way to do this efficiently is to setup automatic watering for 1 day a week, and then hand water the other day.

P.S. The guys are not watering the plants the same at all. Not even close. The error always comes from humans.

good help is hard to find

good luck

 

[Mikell]

P.S. The guys are not watering the plants the same at all. Not even close. The error always comes from humans.

Is that their fault or the guy that trains/manages them....?

Not trying to come off as a total dick, you clearly have a rockstar show going, but yeah. The buck stops where?

If they can't manage to water a room consistently counting off, the system isn't the problem. Lamebrains like that will muddle up anything you throw at them, though the auto + hand water sounds like a solid way to mitigate the inaccuracies.

 

[Dank Demon]

What about just using a stop watch and a wand and time how long you water each one for? which will work as long as they are all at the same age and require the same amount of water?

 

[GanjaRebelSeeds]

There are meters you can attach to your hose that will keep track of and measure how much water your using. The cheap plastic ones I've used seem to work ok but break easy. Cost 20-30 bucks.
You can get nicer fancy water meters but I haven't used them in this manner.

I hear you on wanting to stick to hand watering,if it ain't broke don't fix it mentality, but i think you would benefit in the long run in terms of efficiency from an automated system.

 

[Photosynthesis]

There are meters you can attach to your hose that will keep track of and measure how much water your using. The cheap plastic ones I've used seem to work ok but break easy. Cost 20-30 bucks.
You can get nicer fancy water meters but I haven't used them in this manner.

I hear you on wanting to stick to hand watering,if it ain't broke don't fix it mentality, but i think you would benefit in the long run in terms of efficiency from an automated system.

What are these metering devices you speak?

Seriously though. I can't find anything like this.

 

[Photosynthesis]

Found them!

Awesome possible solution.

 

[Pro Headies]

you talking about something like this, this is a cheap model and there is more expensive more precise ones out there. just google "hose water meter"

http://www.envirogadget.com/tag/water-meter/

 

[Classic Seeds]

if you know how long it takes for a X amount of water to come out a wand just hold it down for that length time ,but to water every plant the same even with clones is not as good as checking to see what a individual plant is doing consumption wise to its other plant companions .some people use metered watering systems to feed each plant that seem to do what a single plant requires on a large scale. for a small garden watering by hand is easy for the most part and with different levels of water consumption taking place its by far the most economical method to water by. a drip system will water with a timer and do what you want

so if you take say a pint container or what ever amount of water you want to deliver to your plants and test spray it into vessel and count you will know the answers to the question your asking about why you can not find a metered spraying unit its always done on time sprayed or time watered until you get into sensors or metered watering systems in your pots which are expensive and require tuning for each unit if they are not adjustable it back to time water x amount of flow .there is no magic number for watering its what a plant needs each plant strain is a little different from the rest and one will love a lot while another will drownd by that amount .but if your doing as many as I read a irrigation system would be the best way to water since your gone way past what makes sense time wise to water by hand in your plant numbers 960 to 2,000 is not something that makes much sense to hand water to me anyway .

when I did larger grows in the past I always used timers and drip systems with fertilizer purportioners and a run off planters base ,now you can use cloth buckets and growing trays you can flood and let the plants take what they want and have it all used up in your 3 day water cycle if you don't like drip but trays are expensive to garden with cost wise but if you got the numbers you got to automate some of it just to save your back and your time aloha cls