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[stoned40yrs]

I have a similar setup with my trays.
They drain out of the room and the water collects in totes in my garage.
It doesnt get emptied every night so I added the sm90 to deal with the funk.
The co2 stays in the room despite the drain setup.
Its a good idea to have some sort of catch to monitor the runoff of the individual blumats to dial them in and make sure they stay at the proper moisture level

How do you know besides the plants telling you if more drip is required? Mine seem to drip most all the time now but there is never any runoff. That's why I bumped to 1ml/gal dripclean like a lot of guys do. The thought of unused nutes staying in the roots 24/7 made me do it Not that I know crap about blumats, coco or growing in anything but soil
I set them at clinging drip + 1 arrow more.

 

[Coconutz]

When you set them up you want to wait til you see a tiny bit of runoff and then dial them back slightly until the bottom stays moist without dripping.
It takes about a day to dial it in.
Thats why the saucer is key when setting them up.
I just had to order a portable dual hose AC for my drying room. Its 95 and going to be hotter tomorrow!
The plants in the veg tent like it, but Im afraid to chop anything down until the AC is here

 

[Coconutz]

How do you know besides the plants telling you if more drip is required? Mine seem to drip most all the time now but there is never any runoff. That's why I bumped to 1ml/gal dripclean like a lot of guys do. The thought of unused nutes staying in the roots 24/7 made me do it Not that I know crap about blumats, coco or growing in anything but soil
I set them at clinging drip + 1 arrow more.

btw... I think its a good idea to do a runoff/slurry test on your coco to see if its still hot from your 1.9ec feedings without runoff.
You might want to run some 1/2 strength juice through it.

 

[stoned40yrs]

When you set them up you want to wait til you see a tiny bit of runoff and then dial them back slightly until the bottom stays moist without dripping.
It takes about a day to dial it in.
Thats why the saucer is key when setting them up.
I just had to order a portable dual hose AC for my drying room. Its 95 and going to be hotter tomorrow!
The plants in the veg tent like it, but Im afraid to chop anything down until the AC is here

231 pages and 3500+ posts in the blumat thread and nobody ever said do it like that.
The method Rives is pushing to everyone is feed/water to runoff then let it sit till the next day, then start the blumat to cling drip. Your method makes more sense to me. No biggie, I'll flood them with 1.0ec feed and then reset the blumats. Only 3 plants got drip of that 1.9ec feed and they are heavy feeders so I'm not worried about it. I ain't driving 50 miles to get some distilled water to do a slurry test.

 

[Coconutz]

231 pages and 3500+ posts in the blumat thread and nobody ever said do it like that.
The method Rives is pushing to everyone is feed/water to runoff then let it sit till the next day, then start the blumat to cling drip. Your method makes more sense to me. No biggie, I'll flood them with 1.0ec feed and then reset the blumats. Only 3 plants got drip of that 1.9ec feed and they are heavy feeders so I'm not worried about it. I ain't driving 50 miles to get some distilled water to do a slurry test.

Same thing...
You set it to the cling drip and then monitor for any runoff.
If you see any runoff you dial it back and if the bottom doesnt stay moist you increase the drip

 

[stoned40yrs]

Same thing...
You set it to the cling drip and then monitor for any runoff.
If you see any runoff you dial it back and if the bottom doesnt stay moist you increase the drip

If it's the same thing why should I mess with them
How you like the coconutz in my avatar?

 

[Coconutz]

Id watch her on naked and affraid...

Looks like the coconut bra is in!
Imagine at all the things you can do with coconuts!

 

[cannacultural]

What a lovely bunch of coconuts you posted sir!

Thanx for the info the blumats. I did wade into that epic thread but didn't get too far. Instead I plowed into the hand watering thread an stuck with that for now (and the H3ad recipe thread of course). So the methodology of using the blumats is to feed until just before run off at a stable EC or what, 1.0-1.2 or something like that? Makes sense to me - love that the system is passive-pressure too. And thanx for clearing up how they worked re terracotta component.

I'm using 2 3gal fabric pots and 2 3.5 gal plastic on this current run - could definitely see a benefit of using blumats in the fabric pots (have also thought of going up to 5gal and cutting to 1 or 2 plants). I'll see how things progress after this run before investing further

 

[Coconutz]

#2 smarties ftw!

 

[stoned40yrs]

What a lovely bunch of coconuts you posted sir!

Thanx for the info the blumats. I did wade into that epic thread but didn't get too far. Instead I plowed into the hand watering thread an stuck with that for now (and the H3ad recipe thread of course). So the methodology of using the blumats is to feed until just before run off at a stable EC or what, 1.0-1.2 or something like that? Makes sense to me - love that the system is passive-pressure too. And thanx for clearing up how they worked re terracotta component.

I'm using 2 3gal fabric pots and 2 3.5 gal plastic on this current run - could definitely see a benefit of using blumats in the fabric pots (have also thought of going up to 5gal and cutting to 1 or 2 plants). I'll see how things progress after this run before investing further

I hate my 3 gal containers. Going to be 2s from now on. Coming from soil I couldn't get it in my head you gotta go smaller so you can feed/water them more often for more hydo like results. They grew faster in my 16oz cups and the 1 gal containers than the 3s.

 

[Coconutz]

My RO unit wasnt even giving me half of its rated amount and I was about to buy a new one.
I had already switched out the filters and the membrane needed to be replaced, but it still wouldnt give it up.
I stuck a hose fitting on the tubes and flushed them out one by one and now the little slut is giving it up like a good girl!
Saved a few hundo there...

 

[noyd666]

lol couldn't keep yer hands off, good choice c.n.

 

[cannacultural]

I hate my 3 gal containers. Going to be 2s from now on. Coming from soil I couldn't get it in my head you gotta go smaller so you can feed/water them more often for more hydo like results. They grew faster in my 16oz cups and the 1 gal containers than the 3s.

Yeah I'm in the same boat coming from soil. When I got into coco after some fluffing about, I thought I'd give the fabric pots a try and the smallest I could get were 3gal. The other pots were just what I had around - and certainly didn't want bigger.

I definitely like your logic for smaller pots - I guess I like the convenience of not having to water so frequently (though if I get blumats or similar, then for sure). I have two spare plants in 1 gal pots which I don't really have space for to flower now I've got the scrog net up... but they look like they'd do fine - though they're the same age as the others, I've not fed them as much so they're much smaller. I'm still not 100% locked on what I'll be doing long term, still going through the R&D phase

 

[theother]

It is possible to just not fill the pots up all the way. That is how I run 2 gal. I fill them up a bit more than 2/3rds probably have 1.5 gallons of coco in them. Two gallons in 3's might be cool. I have noticed a correlation between drip edge of plant and diameter of pot. The wider the pot the naturally wider the drip edge of the plant is. If I had some wide 3s I would probably try not filling them up all the way.

 

[stoned40yrs]

It is possible to just not fill the pots up all the way. That is how I run 2 gal. I fill them up a bit more than 2/3rds probably have 1.5 gallons of coco in them. Two gallons in 3's might be cool. I have noticed a correlation between drip edge of plant and diameter of pot. The wider the pot the naturally wider the drip edge of the plant is. If I had some wide 3s I would probably try not filling them up all the way.

It didn't work for me. I started 2/3 full and when I watered it sank so I would add a handfull of coco here and there, when roots would grow out of the top of the coco I would add another handful and within a few weeks the coco was right up to the rim. I have no self control

 

[theother]

It didn't work for me. I started 2/3 full and when I watered it sank so I would add a handfull of coco here and there, when roots would grow out of the top of the coco I would add another handful and within a few weeks the coco was right up to the rim. I have no self control

I don't think I have ever seen coco compress, what brand are you using? That is kind of strange, actually one of the things I love most about it, is what you fill is what you get with canna coco (which is actually pretty pithy)

 

[Coconutz]

Its important to water them in really good when you fill a pot so that doesnt get too out of control.

 

[Fly by Night]

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[stoned40yrs]

I don't think I have ever seen coco compress, what brand are you using? That is kind of strange, actually one of the things I love most about it, is what you fill is what you get with canna coco (which is actually pretty pithy)

Maybe I dumped the water on it too fast the first week in the 3 gal. Everything granular will realign itself when flooded, got nothing to do with being coco and all to do with being irregular shaped grains. That's why they use water first on sands and aggregate to compress them in construction. There was only minor compression anyway. I also forgot to add I had roots growing out of the main stalk a half inch above the coco and when that happened I couldn't resist the urge to bury them suckers, any roots poke above the coco Im burying them. It doesn't matter why or how the 3 gal got filled to the top, this boy needs his pots filled to the top.

 

[Coconutz]

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