. This is merely a tutorial.. Hopefully you can pull something useful out of this.whatup D (and Bobble)
any chance of getting some details on the drain end of things?
peace
. Time is scarce lately, but i'll get to it sooner than later 
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MEGA RESPECT!
solenoids... ingenious - so obvious - yet so foreign - wow guys
Bravo and Thank you.
I have two concerns.
One - how big are the containers your plants are in and are they in a uniform setup on a tray?
I use 3 gal. containers, but the amount of water given to each plant can be adjusted based on the size of pot, and desired amount of run off. The plants are setup on vertical racks/shelves oriented in a circle around a stack of bulbs. Here's a picture to give you a better idea. If you look closely you can see the solenoids between each rack.
Two - If you have no run off - how do you know your medium is properly and/or fully saturated? Hydro or soil?
I grow in my own custom coco based media. I know everything is watered correctly because I lifted each pot every few days for a couple weeks. Making sure everyone was maintaining the desired wetness, adjusting as necessary. If you desire run off it's very easy to adjust either water intervals or/and the 1/4" ball valves to achieve how ever much runoff you want. This system could be used for any media that takes timed interval feedings (i.e dirt, coco, rockwool, etc)
Sorry for all the question - i have more lol
Ask away. I started this thread in hopes it might spark some ideas.
Thank you so much for your hard work and dedication to the community.
Just paying it forward. I've been lucky enough to have input from some great mentors over the years. Including that guy in the next quote down, owe him more than I could ever repay......
I'm going to see if this is potentially viable in my small space.
. Sucks the ass clowns ruined it for everybody else 
. Trolls just let you know you're doing something right though. I'm guessing the sour taste will leave your mouth eventually, and you'll get back to doing what you do best . Whatever the case, keep in touch in bro. Was on the verge of trackin' ya down at one of those other places. Fuckin' good to have ya back :friends:!
Good to see Freds back around! Every single thing I've designed with my vert grows was all based around his preachin'
Thanks for sharing your design, D! I've tried a few times to design a multi-level watering system for my vert SOG cab and its been nothing but disaster.
There was many failures on the road to this design
Fortunately, I'm moving onto bigger things soon. Been gathering equipment together and about to make a move into a place with a basement for me to play with. I've got 2 full rooms to design and I'm definitely running vert in one of the two rooms and I'll be using this system for watering my plants.
Awesome! Hopefully you're planning to do a build log?
Question though - how would you alter your design to accommodate a low ceiling height (6'6'"?) I ask because I know you use gravity to to draw water from your res, meaning your res has to be above the level of the plants. 6'6" doesn't give much vertical space as-is once you take containers and everything into account so I'm wondering if you wouldn't opt for a floor res with a pump feeding a mainfold on the ceiling? I've never successfully had an automated watering system so I can't easily see the flaws in my plans.
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smokin. I actually hadn't considered that the manifold could potentially be used alone as the elevated res part of the system. Does lose the ability to keep your plants watered in the event of pump failure, but that's not an issue if you visit your garden regularly .
I am contemplating a watering system for my racks. Does ur system have the flexibility to move ur racks so that u can train right on the front side of the plant?
It can easily be adjusted by adding extra 1/4" line, or by adjusting manifold placement/shape to be able to move the racks if desired (the only design restriction you have is water must move from a high place (the elevated res and/or mainifold) to a low place (the plants), this can be accomplished a million different ways based on your setup). My current design doesn't necessitate me moving my racks as I have an opening (basically I removed one rack from the circle) that allows easy access to the fronts/inside of the racks for training/pruning/etc. I'll see if I can find a decent pic.
Walk right in, no ducking needed. Also if you look closely to the right there's another "back" to the 8th rack that would close the circle if it were built. I instead use it as a removable "door" for the opening.
With my vert scrog ppks, I came up with a hose manifold that sits on the ground with an arm that goes to each pot to a drip ring I built. Everything being made out of hose gives me flexibility to slide a screen open and train from the inside of the circle.
But with my racks, since they are multiple levels I was going to use a manifold for each shelf, so with 3 levels id have 3 pumps and 3 circle manifolds that have drip line feeding each plant. But with these I think I would have to pull the drip stake out of each plant on one rack to open the rack and get inside to train. Also it presents the problem of having to go under 3 manifolds to enter the middle.
.. Glad ya found your way over bro :friends:. Still trips me out when people tell me stuff like that, but I'm glad you found some of my ramblings helpful . Just chopped the racks last week, so no cool pics at the moment. I'll probably get around to sharing some things again at some point. Kind of on hiatus at the moment though.
