Blumats for starts and seedlings fit on top of capillary mat with perforated black foil on top of that to prevent algae and other things from growing.
The surface blumat turns water on and off that spreads moisture through the felt and soaks up from the bottom.
It works great with fabric pots and plastic ones with a flat bottom and extra holes drilled in but not plastic pots with a big lip - the mat needs to be touching the bottom of the pot.
Good for pots up to 2 gallon and larger for plants with deep but not surface roots.
In a 5 gallon pot, the moisture will only go up about half way so with that size it's better to use a regular Blumat sensor.
One of these plus distribution drippers will supply enough water for 5 square meters of tray.
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I love the fact that that by using Blumats, one of its greatest realized benefits is it will give you back that time (life) that one would normally spend watering.
It can tend to be somewhat time consuming task (365days x years.)
This works set-up either as a resevoir supplied system or is house pressure hose bib adaptable.
This Blumat product line has a proprietary aspect to it, so most required accessory parts can be only sourced from the distributors, with a few hack type exceptions, such as when running extended runs of 8 mms feeder lines, i use as line extender/ repair connectors a quality, inexpensive ($16 a hundred ft.) hydro flow brand of Black heavy duty 3/16" ID x 1/4" OD tubing that is used with their clog-free Hydro Flow blue basket drippers. The 1/4" = almost 6 mm? fits leak free snugly inside the 8mm tubing.
I have/ had some old tubing rolls laying about, the stuff from home depot may also probably would work, they have several brands available, one may adapt better than another so take a piece of 8 mms and give It a shot If I don't get there first to conduct an experiment .
The 8 mm Blumat tubing can be pricey @ about $50 for 50 feet.
Vandenberg
The surface blumat turns water on and off that spreads moisture through the felt and soaks up from the bottom.
It works great with fabric pots and plastic ones with a flat bottom and extra holes drilled in but not plastic pots with a big lip - the mat needs to be touching the bottom of the pot.
Good for pots up to 2 gallon and larger for plants with deep but not surface roots.
In a 5 gallon pot, the moisture will only go up about half way so with that size it's better to use a regular Blumat sensor.
One of these plus distribution drippers will supply enough water for 5 square meters of tray.
***†****†****†***
I love the fact that that by using Blumats, one of its greatest realized benefits is it will give you back that time (life) that one would normally spend watering.
It can tend to be somewhat time consuming task (365days x years.)
This works set-up either as a resevoir supplied system or is house pressure hose bib adaptable.
This Blumat product line has a proprietary aspect to it, so most required accessory parts can be only sourced from the distributors, with a few hack type exceptions, such as when running extended runs of 8 mms feeder lines, i use as line extender/ repair connectors a quality, inexpensive ($16 a hundred ft.) hydro flow brand of Black heavy duty 3/16" ID x 1/4" OD tubing that is used with their clog-free Hydro Flow blue basket drippers. The 1/4" = almost 6 mm? fits leak free snugly inside the 8mm tubing.
I have/ had some old tubing rolls laying about, the stuff from home depot may also probably would work, they have several brands available, one may adapt better than another so take a piece of 8 mms and give It a shot If I don't get there first to conduct an experiment .
The 8 mm Blumat tubing can be pricey @ about $50 for 50 feet.
Vandenberg
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