So it doesn't look like I am not going to able to utilize drippers for this round and so I need to figure out the best way to hand water using a reservoir, water pump, hose, and watering wand. My wand has a shut off valve located on the stem. Now my question is for those who may do or have done this style, once I turn on my pump water will start shooting out of the hose within a few seconds, which it will takes me about 30-45 seconds to get into my room ready to start watering, which will mean water and nutes everywhere. But I can't really use the shut off switch on the wand because this will be very taking taxing on the pump (its a 1/4 hp pump I think, got it at home depot) running the pump while the valve is closed. Does anyone have any solutions or techniques that would help this? I'm in 2 gal coco grow bags by the way.
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Hand watering with a pump and watering wand question?
- Thread starter louie
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budshoteyes
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Remote switch! Either wired in or like a tv remote.
And or a bypass water line that you can switch at the wand.
And or a bypass water line that you can switch at the wand.
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use a Y connector with a valve
the water wand could be connected to one outlet and a recirculating hose on the other outlet. turn the valve so that 20% of flow is directed to the wand and the other 80% recirculates your nutes and prevents too much back pressure on the pump and fittings.
turn the pump on 5-10 min prior to watering and your set.
by doing this you can use a wand that has a trigger so the flow of nutes isnt constant, it stops when your done.
the water wand could be connected to one outlet and a recirculating hose on the other outlet. turn the valve so that 20% of flow is directed to the wand and the other 80% recirculates your nutes and prevents too much back pressure on the pump and fittings.
turn the pump on 5-10 min prior to watering and your set.
by doing this you can use a wand that has a trigger so the flow of nutes isnt constant, it stops when your done.
These things work the tits for hand watering , especially in tight places like scrogs or tents etc.... http://www.lowes.com/pd_303984-1306-190254_0__?productId=3031826&Ntt=round+up&pl=1¤tURL=%2Fpl__0__s%3FNtt%3Dround%2Bup&facetInfo=
only 20$ at local lowes
only 20$ at local lowes
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something like this
you can use any variation that allows you to control the flow.
http://www.lowes.com/SearchCatalogD...+&langId=-1&storeId=10151&catalogId=10051&N=0
you can use any variation that allows you to control the flow.
http://www.lowes.com/SearchCatalogD...+&langId=-1&storeId=10151&catalogId=10051&N=0
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Guest 88950
im sure it could be done but why not have another pump, y splitter and wand? spares are always handy.
for plain H2O why not use a 2 gal pesticide sprayers like the kind DANSBUDS linked.
Yeah, I have a couple of the sprayers. The ones from HD are crap I have found, I've gone through 3 of them over the last couple of years. My money sprayer is the first one I bought, it's from Ace and has been going strong for a few years now. I just see some folks use the wand system with good success so I was curious if it was easy to construct. I've got two pumps sitting idle so maybe you are onto something with the spare idea, I didn't think of that.
This actually a pretty simple setup. Basically your best bet is to get a new wand that has a trigger just google watering wand and you will find several.
so you can pull it to water or your just gonna have to worry about getting water on your floor like now. This is what most coco grows who hand water use, or at least from what i`ve seen.
Simple as get a decent pump, hose and wand. For veg and flower id use a seperate pump and hose cause you will still have flower or veg nutes in the hose after using that will be hard to get out unless you run plain water through your hose everytime you switch but then you will have just plain water in your hose.
Cons of this in my experience:
To figure out how long you need to water we would take a quart cup and press the trigger and time how long it takes to fill how much we want to water.
Works in theory and then you start moving around the room with the hose and the time starts to change and thus you start to water diff amounts to the plants causing problems when you water next time and some plants got more or less than others.
I have had ideas to maybe use pvc blah blah to figure it out but in the end it was easier to just hand water and maybe cause i wasnt doing it.
so you can pull it to water or your just gonna have to worry about getting water on your floor like now. This is what most coco grows who hand water use, or at least from what i`ve seen.
Simple as get a decent pump, hose and wand. For veg and flower id use a seperate pump and hose cause you will still have flower or veg nutes in the hose after using that will be hard to get out unless you run plain water through your hose everytime you switch but then you will have just plain water in your hose.
Cons of this in my experience:
To figure out how long you need to water we would take a quart cup and press the trigger and time how long it takes to fill how much we want to water.
Works in theory and then you start moving around the room with the hose and the time starts to change and thus you start to water diff amounts to the plants causing problems when you water next time and some plants got more or less than others.
I have had ideas to maybe use pvc blah blah to figure it out but in the end it was easier to just hand water and maybe cause i wasnt doing it.
