How to water while in vacation
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lemme know where you live and where you keep your house key and i can help ya out lol if you are using soil make a wick system with a piece of clothes line put one end in the bottom of the pot the other end in a pail of water just an idea
peace chucky
peace chucky
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I went on vaction for two weeks some time ago and didn't want to kill off my entire room if I could help it, or at least have something ready to grow when I got back. That meant taking clones and ensuring they would be alive the whole thime, completely unmaintained. Well, only one method of cloning allows you to do that, and I'll describe what I did below.
First, you take a round pot, tall as you can get, with sides that dont taper
Then you take a piece of polypropylene (sheet strofoam, available anywhere that sells insulation, like Home Depot. Very inexpensive), Cut it to fit loosely inside your pot, and make holes big enough to stick a stem through
Fill your pot with water, float your styrofoam on the surface, and poke your cuttings through the holes and into the water.
Mine looked like his when I was done
And in 15 days I returned to still submerged stems that looked like this. It's hard to tell, but all of them had at least nubs formed. They were planted immediatly when I arrived home.
They had sucked about two inches of water out of the pot, so theoretically, I could have gone over a month before they drank all the H2O. BTW, you use a pot without tapered sides so the poly doesn't catch as it drops with the water level and expose the stem ends
First, you take a round pot, tall as you can get, with sides that dont taper
Then you take a piece of polypropylene (sheet strofoam, available anywhere that sells insulation, like Home Depot. Very inexpensive), Cut it to fit loosely inside your pot, and make holes big enough to stick a stem through
Fill your pot with water, float your styrofoam on the surface, and poke your cuttings through the holes and into the water.
Mine looked like his when I was done
And in 15 days I returned to still submerged stems that looked like this. It's hard to tell, but all of them had at least nubs formed. They were planted immediatly when I arrived home.
They had sucked about two inches of water out of the pot, so theoretically, I could have gone over a month before they drank all the H2O. BTW, you use a pot without tapered sides so the poly doesn't catch as it drops with the water level and expose the stem ends
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The above will work for soil or hydro growers. If your a soil grower, I'll show you how I kept most of my flowering perpetual harvest alive, in soil, for 15 days. It wasn't easy and only about 75% successful.
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baccas125
mt method
mt method
I usualy ask my brother to stop by and water every other day!
mt method
I usualy ask my brother to stop by and water every other day!
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I'm not sure but maybe Gypsy's Gro-bot will help out with that. Here I just did a search and came up with this hope it helps.
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=7088&highlight=gro-bot
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http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=7088&highlight=gro-bot
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Response said:
NOT when the stems are in water they will not wilt ever......
the same reason i like bubble cloning
mauricio
a small water pump ( walmart ) 19.99 might find it cheaper
1/2" hose for main hose 5.99 - 9.99 depind on how much you need
1/4" for feed lines <^ ( homedepot) 3.99-5.99 ^again how much
dig timer 19.99 ..... might even get away with a none dig 15 min timer
( im sure a lot of place's have them on clearence from cristmas for lights)
i dont know how many plants and how often you need to feed but you will need some sort of rez 20 gallon 50 75 100.
but to save a crop 100 bux is worth ever penny
a dig timer you can prog to go every 3-5 day or how ever you need to water :friends:
Pacridge
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Rain Drip works well
Rain Drip works well
I went to Key West last fall for two weeks (missed two seperate hurricanes by mere days) and I used a rain drip system while gone. It worked so well I've continued to use it once back. I hooked it up to a battery operated valve timer (Melon?). I think I bought the whole thing at Home Depot for about $75.00-timer included.
http://www.raindrip.com/
I've even noticed a larger yield since I've began watering at the same time and the same amount all the time.
BTW- No, I don't work for Rain Drip.
Rain Drip works well
I went to Key West last fall for two weeks (missed two seperate hurricanes by mere days) and I used a rain drip system while gone. It worked so well I've continued to use it once back. I hooked it up to a battery operated valve timer (Melon?). I think I bought the whole thing at Home Depot for about $75.00-timer included.
http://www.raindrip.com/
I've even noticed a larger yield since I've began watering at the same time and the same amount all the time.
BTW- No, I don't work for Rain Drip.
Thank you everybody for your advice.
I just ordered this Automatic Plant-Watering System for $99.95, check it out:
http://www.hammacher.com/publish/70899.asp?promo=QSearch
Thank you again
I just ordered this Automatic Plant-Watering System for $99.95, check it out:
http://www.hammacher.com/publish/70899.asp?promo=QSearch
Thank you again
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Check this one out also ... it is alot like the grobot. I found it at wormsway.com.
Item # gg810 .... costs 50.00
Item # gg810 .... costs 50.00
You should use a Nelson auto water timer found on Ebay and in Target stores etc. This simply waters as long and as often as you set it. It uses two "C" batteries. I use them outdoors because they need zero psi to operate. A bucket or 32 gallon trash can will work where there is no tap supply. You can water from twice a day to every few and from 3minutes to a couple hours! This unit goes to a standard 3/4" water hose.
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bake at 420 until nicely toasted
Hey guys. If interested in the grobot, also check here for further info: http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=4940
I saw that thread a while back about the one from worm's way, and for the longest time I couldn't figure out what was different or how they could make the claims of number of plants that can be watered. Upon closer inspection, that one seems to have more exit ports. The grobot sold on Seedbay has 3 ports, that one has a whole rack of em, maybe 10. Also a bit more hose included.
That being said, the unit is otherwise identical. This would lead me to believe that watering 10 plants for any ammount of time would be asking a bit much of the thing. I mean, think it could water 10 plants, but I'm not sure how evenly, and with that much water being moved, the AA batteries would be toast pretty quick.
Also, with that big long rack of nozzles stickin out, I can tell ya it would be 5 minutes before my clumsy self broke them off the main unit. I'll stick with my grobot, it has served me well (and will continue to in future projects)
cook
I saw that thread a while back about the one from worm's way, and for the longest time I couldn't figure out what was different or how they could make the claims of number of plants that can be watered. Upon closer inspection, that one seems to have more exit ports. The grobot sold on Seedbay has 3 ports, that one has a whole rack of em, maybe 10. Also a bit more hose included.
That being said, the unit is otherwise identical. This would lead me to believe that watering 10 plants for any ammount of time would be asking a bit much of the thing. I mean, think it could water 10 plants, but I'm not sure how evenly, and with that much water being moved, the AA batteries would be toast pretty quick.
Also, with that big long rack of nozzles stickin out, I can tell ya it would be 5 minutes before my clumsy self broke them off the main unit. I'll stick with my grobot, it has served me well (and will continue to in future projects)
cook
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Has anyone tried these?
Has anyone tried these?
Has anyone tried these?
I've used those and they worked fine for a long weekend type trip. Much longer than that I think might be pushing it.
I just got back from home depot and they have a self contained version of that, cept it is a stake you put in the ground and it has water in gel form in a holding area on top - does some sort of time release drip. It said on the box that it is pure water in gel form. A little less messy than the pic you posted.
MarkSteeler
I just got back from home depot and they have a self contained version of that, cept it is a stake you put in the ground and it has water in gel form in a holding area on top - does some sort of time release drip. It said on the box that it is pure water in gel form. A little less messy than the pic you posted.
MarkSteeler
forgot to mention - they were about $4 each
