[BACKCOUNTRY]

Slap up some pics.

[Tirs]

I can get some shots when the girls go out mid june.

HEY FOLKS!!

Have you seen the watering tubes at homedepot?
THey are 14$ and round,green and you fill an let drip!
looks kinda cool since they are green already......
Maybe hold 15 gallons water not shure?
Good for a few good plants!!(HUGE donut balloon thing)

[Mc__Nugget]

anyone think one of these could work as a ressy? would be perfect for those super back country ops. just roll it up and stick it in your pack.
https://www.winterpoolsupplies.com/cg...=594009,594111

[psilopod]

I love those earthboxes. My Mom used to have a couple of them as her b/f worked for the company that produced them. I'm not sure but I think that somebody in my family might have worked on developing those to tell you the truth. They were a local product, that's for sure. I remember that they worked really well. I'm not positive but I think the plastics company that actually produces them is straight Mafia from what I remember. Whatever though, they have a quality product and customer service. I wouldn't personally buy them though, those one's were a gift and the individual whom I think was involved in their design disappeared w/ them one day. I'm pretty sure he put them to good use

I really think that this person that I'm referring to and his buddy who now works at Rodale developed those earthboxes while doing outdoor back in the day. Don't quote me on this, but it's a definite possibility. His buddy, my friend as well is a horticulturist/weed scientist at Rodale and does Graduate work for money. Must be nice.

[Styles P]

hey bc how do you hide that big rez? could you burry it?

[BACKCOUNTRY]

If you are talking about the 200 gallon one I built, it is actually built in the ground.

[CannabisBlunt]

Thank you for making that picture. This is the exact same thing i am using this year. 10 drip system irrigation with an auto timer on the line. 55 gal resevoir should last about 20 days.

Sometime back, I recommended a game camera at Backcountry's suggestion, to a couple of growers as a way to know if their had been vehicle traffic near their site while they are away. This was a big issue at one particular spot and the idea worked great.

At the end of our first year of drought, I got a visit from one of them. He asked me, " that guy that suggested the game camera, he got any good ideas for watering systems?" Well, it just so happens.....

I provided him with BC's drawing on page 1 which he used and praised all summer. By the end of the summer, we had made some adaptations and the grow was a huge success. He sends his deepest regaurds. You would probably be suprised to know some of the geographical areas that your ideas have impacted.

[sgka]

backcountry,

I have 2 questions on this subject:

I've recently been looking into growing on land that is at least 6-8 hours from my usual location, and wondering if there is a way to make such reservoirs that refill themselves so I only need to attend such a location possibly 3 times in the growing season. I've been looking into some of your posts, and am just a bit confused. First, if I use a syphon effect to fill my res (Which I assume occurs when water leaves my res it will suck up water from a hose in a water source) will this work over a hill/ridge, or does the syphon hose have to be on level ground? Also, if I do attach such a syphon entry into the res, does it go closer to the top of the res, whereas the gravity-pulled outflow go near the bottom? Another though would just be to have rain-filled reservoirs, but is there a way that I can conceal these in the ground, or at least mostly in the ground so if anyone does happen to walk through, it won't be detected? My main goal is not to make trips up to such a location, but still ensure thorough watering.

Second, closer to my home, I grew in a bog/swamp type location which is between 1-3 feet deep year-round. Last season I grew on a fallen tree (which lies over the water) with 5 gallon buckets, but this didn't help me in the watering department, I still had to manually water these plants. I understand that I could use a wick type system, although I don't know if a wick will draw water up 3-4 feet, which happens to be how much space is between the water and the fallen tree. Recently I've been debating a design that would function like a raft, canoe, or some other floating device that I could place containers to house soil, plants etc., with a wick system actively drawing water from the underlying bog as needed. Considering that this raft would be floating on the water, I wouldn't have to worry about the 3-4 foot gap between soil and water. Any ideas/comments on such a design? It's all completely hypothetical, but it would save me time, or completely eliminate the need for me to water these plats, thus keeping my detection level near 0.

Many thanks, not only for your response, but also for your previous postings on guerilla irrigation.