6/9 & A Pinch BayBay!

[HHULKK]

I dont speak about the girls that way.
I give it to my ladies by hand with my 30' long hose that reaches around my entire garage from my res.
They reward me big time!

Maybe once this 6/9 run is over said and done ill give my bitches a little more dignity cause they lookin' hawt

I'm super stoked for this new irrigation setup I'm gonna be running. Tired of hand watering all these *iches.

Have you done/considered automation?

 

[xxxstr8edgexxx]

3 times a night, nice! Are you still hand watering them hoes?

yeah i set up a 1 hp booster pump off my rez. pvc piped it to each table. each table has a solenoid valve that opens electrically by a propagation timer (as opposed to irrigation timers that can only be set in minutes) that can have multiple timed feeds a day in durations that can be controlled down to the second. i put manifolds at each light on the table that feed little tiny micro jet downward spraying emitters. so up to 4 times a day i can spray as little amount of feed as required to just run barely runoff. ill time the amount of seconds it takes to start to drip out the bottom. set that as my duration and then time the frequency it takes them to use that amount of water and set as my frequency. ill adjust the amount of frequency as the plant require it. i just copied jackmayoffer and sureshot66 system with a few custom variations to suit my situation. pretty sweet little set up. drip drip win i am hoping.ill set my feed strength to be a near identical runoff as my in put. i hope it works it was a lot of effort to set up lol. but i think not having to hand water will save me time to put in the other maintenance the plants need and they never get thirsty waiting for me to get in there if im busy. consistent dialed feeds on a fixed schedule i think they will benefit from so i dont screw them up by letting them dry out.

 

[Coconutz]

I have blumats on standby.
Im going to pick up a few more cones at the store today.

 

[xxxstr8edgexxx]

I have blumats on standby.
Im going to pick up a few more cones at the store today.

i had wanted runoff which i thought the b.m. couldt provide so iwent with the emmiter system as described. now that im reading more it looks like the b.m. are working great for folks too. i think when i was running my first room that would have been a great system though because everything was gravity fed and those would have been super perfect. this new systemm cant be run on gravity easily so i am still glad i went with this. im still setting it up and the current round is on week 2 with soil and im handwatering while i put the finishing touches on the set up. i have 6.5 weeks til the first coco round goes in so i have plenty of time to get it down before i really depend on it.

 

[Coconutz]

Id rather have runoff now that I have my tables draining out of the room into some totes.
I already have all the blumat gear so Im gonna rock them.
I might do half my room with blumats and the other side with a pump from the main res.
The way the room is set up I would have to do a double res for the blumats or run the tube across my walkway... Not the biggest deal in the world, but I like my setup to be bullet tight and I like to be able to have someone else fill in for me in an emergency. I dont want wires or tubes crossing the walkways and shit. The room is kept really clean with everything in its place.

 

[stoned40yrs]

Blumats are the shitz, don't need no runoff and gravity is free. CNutz don't use that 8mm crap blumat hose. Buy 3/4" black hydro hose and run a loop from your feed rez with two 3/4" bulkhead fittings. Then just poke in blumats 3mm barbs into that hose where ever. The longer your 3mm lines the better so you can move the plants around.

 

[indocult]

Those wifi look amazing man, is it a clone only strain?
What do you use for your manifold from the pump? I'm sure you already said it somewhere. Curious if you use the tubing or pvc. Also what size/rating pump?

 

[xxxstr8edgexxx]

Id rather have runoff now that I have my tables draining out of the room into some totes.
I already have all the blumat gear so Im gonna rock them.
I might do half my room with blumats and the other side with a pump from the main res.
The way the room is set up I would have to do a double res for the blumats or run the tube across my walkway... Not the biggest deal in the world, but I like my setup to be bullet tight and I like to be able to have someone else fill in for me in an emergency. I dont want wires or tubes crossing the walkways and shit. The room is kept really clean with everything in its place.

yeah i feel the same way so i mounted the pvc straight up and over across the ceiling and down to the tables that terminat on the wall that has a gutter along to the drain. the wires are pinnedto the wall and follow the pipe so they are tight and cant get snagged and th pvc doesnt cross any paths and the tubes run from the edgeg of the table inwrds so there is no mess. each row has a garden hose mount independant of the zones. the booster turns on automatically whe n thefaucet opens as its designed to boost water pressure on a well system. i dont need to push any buttons to water i just turn on the faucet and the pump fires up immediatly when it senses the pressure drop. anyone could easily fill in as long as i had time to show them how the simple timers work. if all else failed they could simply handwater without knowing how it works. its actually less tangled and messy than it sounds. theres no hose to drag around like before i just pull a hose coiled at each table to water now if i need to handwater.

 

[Coconutz]

I use 1/2" to the brown dripper hose in a loop, but to feed both sides of my room I was thinking of creating the loop with 2 reservoirs instead of circling back to one so that I didnt have to circle the entire room with hose. Id save about 15ft and reduce the chance of tripping over tubing.

 

[Coconutz]

Those wifi look amazing man, is it a clone only strain?
What do you use for your manifold from the pump? I'm sure you already said it somewhere. Curious if you use the tubing or pvc. Also what size/rating pump?

All my wifis (OG Raskal - White Fire OG) came from seed.
I think theres a 264gph pump in the res, but its overkill for handwatering.
The size of the pump isnt too important for the elevated res. I think the smaller pumps would work if you dont have to pump it too high.
There should be a max height listed on the pumps specs.
Im using a cycle timer to fill the upper res of the gravity the systems. The 15min intervals are overkill. I prefer to have short blasts more often to keep the res mixed and aerated.
There are a few valves on my pieced together hose. I use one at the end of the hose to control water pressure when Im watering.
The blumat setup is kinda complicated to explain to people who havent seen pics.
There are a few blumat threads on IC with various setups.
Its just a gravity fed dripper system that only waters when the plant wants it.
There are ceramic cones that are like censors that expand and contract with the moisture level of the pot. They control a valve that puts pressure on the tubing. When it gets drier the water is allowed to drip faster.

 

[stoned40yrs]

I use 1/2" to the brown dripper hose in a loop, but to feed both sides of my room I was thinking of creating the loop with 2 reservoirs instead of circling back to one, so that I didnt have to circle the entire room with hose. Id save about 15ft and reduce the chance over tripping of tubing.

Ya takes a lot of hose to circle even small rooms. I used about 75' of 3/4". I have my supply and feed rezs up on the second story of my house along with my exhaust fans. My 3/4" hose is ran right through the floor vent and then along the walls in the grow and veg rooms and secured every few feet with screw in U clamps. Neat and clean. 5 gal bucket for feed and 18gal tote to supply it. Pump comes on 8 times a day for 3 minutes to keep the feed tank full. Never varies more than 1", constant pressure pretty much and the feed tank is actually 12' above the plants pots. I bought regular hydro round trays 12" diameter with the 3" sloped out walls and drilled a 1/2" hole in the bottom near the edge and put in a 1/2" grommet, then into that I pushed in a blumat 8mm T that i blocked off one unneeded end with a sheetmetal screw. I used up blumat 8mm hose as my drain lines that go to the drain in the center of each room. I used some 1' thick rubber pad siliconed to the bottom side of each tray so the T isn't touching the floor. Now I can pick up each tray/plant and move it around as the plant grows around the vert lights.

 

[Coconutz]

LOL I cant imagine using the brown tubing for a drain.
Im using 1/2" from the tray. Theres always so much coco in the drains. I even use a filter...
My main res is right next to the table the elevated res is on.

These will hold a couple weeks worth of runoff

 

[stoned40yrs]

LOL I cant imagine using the brown tubing for a drain.
Im using 1/2" from the tray. Theres always so much coco in the drains. I even use a filter...

I'm not using the brown, it's the black and 8mm is like 3/8". I never have any coco in the trays. No runoff with the blumats, absolutely no sense running bigger drain lines and if there was a reason I would have done it

 

[Coconutz]

I couldnt get a good pic of my rooms artwork.
Every room needs some good karma.

 

[Coconutz]

One of my CVKs didnt break ground yet.
When I checked it out the root had rotted.
Fuck swirl!
Luckily, I had planted more than I needed...
The CVK pack was also missing a seed somehow.

 

[cannacultural]

Coconutz man that looks like a badass setup. Mines somewhat temporary so haven't gone for infrastructure like you. Nicely done. And those plants!

Do any of you guys mess with PGRs? I'm not into anything frankenstein, but have been doing a lot of reading on them lately. Aside from rooting hormones, I've not used much in the way of supplements. My mate uses a product which has a mix of triacontanol, gibberellins and cytokinins. Seaweed is a suitable organic source for the latter two, the other is a bit different. Anyhow, got this product which has a mix of triacontanol, cytokinins, auxins + b vitamins which is made from kelp/fish/fulvic etc. About to trial it on a mix of mj and vegies. Currently trying to source another commercial product which is triacontanol and brassinosteroids + b vitamins and saccharides

 

[Coconutz]

I cant afford to play around too much.
These plants need to be healthy from start to finish.
Dont experiment on your entire crop at once.
Dropping micro too early and fading it out has been a pain in the ass.
Id recommend dialing the basics first before trying to figure out if some magic potion is doing anything for you.
You need to have a control to judge against that was dialed from start to finish.
Are you talking about nitrozime?
I didnt like using it. The base nutes had to be cut back to use the recommended dose and I didnt notice any difference after a few applications on 1 out of 3 bubbas

 

[watts]

I dont know how h3ad dropped micro so early. I've always had issues dropping it when he said, even on 56 day phenos.

Im using 1/2" black poly tubing for drain and 1/2" for water manifold, with two 1/4" vinyl tubing at each plant. EcoPlus 185 water pump fed for 2 minutes twice a day. 2.5 gallons coco per plant.

I bought a liter of food grade 85% phosphoric acid on ebay. Works great as pH down in reservoirs. Very little is needed. I rarely need it but sometimes tap water pH can drift over time.

 

[Coconutz]

fuck lowballin bitches with bunk weed like erryday

 

[stoney917]

Dropped my micro n im getting instant fade... gonna finish this run without it seeing if ne flavor changes. .. but def not digging the rapid fade so early... mainly my ogs n raz kush are fading the fastest. ..
Pgrs r no bueno for the most part... im sure most of us got a bottle of phosphoload or bushmaster in our cabss gettin dusty.... which pgr u looking at sure we can put u onto better things to use