Leaving the plants for a week, Need wateringadvice!

[Femora]

Well, Hello there!

Im growing in 12 liter buckets, claypebbles bottom 5 cm, the rest is filled with a soil/veruculit/perlite-mix.

I have to go away for a week over new year and im thinking about if its possible to "drown" the bucket in about 8-10 cm water from the bottom, this gives another 15-18 cm to the rootsystem above the "drowned" level.

Will the plant suffocate anyway?

Planned to cover the open spots of earth in the buckets with something..

Other ideas?

No, there is no time to install and try out a dripper~. :/ and I still have to take care of the dispose water manually.

 

[johnfrusciante]

How big are your plants?

 

[Femora]

Ah, ofc, my bad!
There is 5 of them (3 DPs WWxTU, 2 euforia) SCROGed to a 1x1meter net and set into 12/12 since 7 days now.
That should do it, I guess.

 

[PhatPhreddy420]

Give them a good soak first by immersion in a larger bucket, 5 gallons or so.

After the soil is well soaked you can use aqua globes to keep them hydrated.
How many depends on the volume of soil and humidity conditions.

These are the ones I use;

I've left mine for 7 days and they've been fine.
My mother plants are in 1/2 gallon pots, I use 2 medium globes.


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[Femora]

I dont have time to order those aqua globes, but they sure seem interesting!

Is it possible to make them yourself, and whats the inner diameter of that glass-tube?

 

[vukman]

Those globes have been out on the market for some time now and I know for a fact that some stores carry them already. You might want to check online to see if any store in your area has them.........just a thought...

Good Luck

http://www.factorydirect.ca/Categories/466/Outdoor___Tool/Gardening/Watering

 

[PhatPhreddy420]

1-Local Wally World, Home de Pot, etc.

or

2-Spring for the extra 5 bucks for 2nd day shipping online.

or

3-Order them January 8th, right after you toss out all your dead plants.......

 

[iampolluted]

what i've done in the past is over water em like you were thinking. i'd put em in a deep dish pan and let em soak it up. mine have sat in water for 3-4 days with no ill effect.

 

[Femora]

Atm #3 is closest at hand...
I dont have this kind of stores around. Maybe Ill go desperate and try to assemble them from some 1,5 liter waterflasks..

Well, Noone has answered, or even tried to answer my suffication-question. (!!)

 

[Femora]

what i've done in the past is over water em like you were thinking. i'd put em in a deep dish pan and let em soak it up. mine have sat in water for 3-4 days with no ill effect.

Thanks for the answer! My slow tapping made me miss ure post.

But will this be thesame? Dont you talk about flooding the plant and then drain the extrawater away.
Im talking about a soilmix and flood the bottom 3-4 inches and keep it that way until im back and can take care of it again.

 

[offthehook]

Option A. Fill a 2 liter coca bottle with water, burrie bottle upside down 3 inches deep.

Option B. Hang or place a bucket water amidst your plants, but make sure it's higher positioned then the surface of your soil. This trick uses a combination of capillar & siphoning action.

Make 12 mm diameter mountain climbers rope comming out from the bucket and burrie their ends 2 inches underneath the surface of the soil.
Burrie the cords loopwise along the edge of the pots.
Weigh down the cord endings that remain inside the bucket

Toroughly wet cords protruding from the bucket in order to initiate slow but steady waterflow.

(B. is my personal fav.)

 

[iampolluted]

yep, i grow in soil. i bottom feed/water usually anyway (in veg) so the plants are always sucking up moisture until the tray's dry out. then a couple days later repeat. when i know i won't see em for 4+ days i'll use bigger trey's to hold more water. i'd rather over water once or twice than miss a watering or 2 and see em all die. even in standing water mine don't droop from it.

 

[Femora]

Option A. Fill a 2 liter coca bottle with water, burrie bottle upside down 3 inches deep.

Option B. Hang or place a bucket water amidst your plants, but make sure it's higher positioned then the surface of your soil. This trick uses a combination of capillar & siphoning action.

Make 12 mm diameter polyvinyl or braided/twisted nylon cords comming out from the bucket and burrie their ends 2 inches underneath the surface of the soil.
Burrie the cords loopwise along the edge of the pots.
Weigh down the cord endings that remain inside the bucket

Toroughly wet cords protruding from the bucket in order to initiate slow but steady waterflow.

(B. is my personal fav.)

That B-plan sounds so... so... sooo genous!
Ill go find some 12mm braided rope asap and check out that it really work out for me.
Could you maybe link a product from eg ebay or wherever just to make sure that Im thinking on thesame kind of rope.

like this maybe?
http://www.google.se/imgres?imgurl=...UXSUPm4I6Ok4gSTzoCwCg&ved=0CEMQ9QEwAw&dur=451

And, whats that -"loopwise" along the edge-? Im lost in translation..

 

[offthehook]

No, the type of rope from your link is no good. The strands needs to be of some kind of multifillament. Like as thin as possible and as many as possible.



Check out mountain climbers rope. The ones with a braided cover over multiple twisted strands.

http://www.google.com/imgres?start=...&ved=1t:429,r:96,s:100,i:292&biw=1280&bih=542

Should be synthetic material. Cotton would drain too fast at first, then clogg & dry up underneath the lamps in that diameter.



With "loop wise" I mean: If you burrie your rope along the edge of a circular pot, a loop, noose or circle will appear.

 

[Femora]

yep, i grow in soil. i bottom feed/water usually anyway (in veg) so the plants are always sucking up moisture until the tray's dry out. then a couple days later repeat. when i know i won't see em for 4+ days i'll use bigger trey's to hold more water. i'd rather over water once or twice than miss a watering or 2 and see em all die. even in standing water mine don't droop from it.

I´ll try to get ahold of a rope tomorrow, but if that fail will I go with the bottle-upside-down-method..
I cant fit in any treys under the buckets.. Or, maybe I can... Hmmm.... Hmmmmm!! Well, the pics ill post later will explain my situation a bit more.

I want to thank everyone for nice inputs in the thread!

Merry x-mas and Happy New Year! (If we live on after todays supposed apocalypse, 21 dec, that is)

 

[offthehook]

S'only one week right?, 2 liter bottles will do as well for that time.

 

[Budwhyser]

Blumats!

Read all about them here. https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=111046

 

[offthehook]

Thought he said he had no time to order buddy.

 

[Budwhyser]

Off
He said there's no time, not that he doesn't have the time. Planet earth hydro stocks them and can ship overnight. They're super easy to setup and can be fully dialed in within 48 hrs or less giving him plenty of time before leaving New Years. They can and should be setup with no runoff leaving waste water a non-issue. Just my .02 cents.

 

[Femora]

S'only one week right?, 2 liter bottles will do as well for that time.

Awesome! Ill go with it since the rope-plan failed