TychoMonolyth
Boreal Curing
I'm new to Blumats
I was going away for 3 weeks and decided to get Blumat Jrs to do the watering for me. I had culled 2 Autoflowers from 4 seedlings. Since there was a possibility that the trip could have been extended another 2 weeks, I decided to use a large reservoir (20lt water jug). A month before I left, I installed the Blumats to test and they were working perfectly. When I left, plants were booming.
When I got back, my plants were dry as a bone and my Blumats were just sitting there and the water reservoir was still near full. I put both plants in the shower for a good re-hydrating. The big one pulled through, and the runt never came back. I examined the Blumats and they seemed fine. I decided to wash it all out and put it away. When I cleaned the feeder line, I put the line to my mouth to blow out any water. A a couple snakes of slime dropped out. Line was plugged with algae.
In hindsight, before I left, the water in my reservoir looked a little cloudy (slaps forehead - If I had changed it, I would have pretty big plants by now).
The lesson:
Keep the water/nutes fresh.
The question:
How often should you change the water? Does adding liquid nutes affect the water refresh schedule?
My thoughts are once a month. Is that too long to wait?
(btw, I'm using a 1 liter bottle now. lol)
I was going away for 3 weeks and decided to get Blumat Jrs to do the watering for me. I had culled 2 Autoflowers from 4 seedlings. Since there was a possibility that the trip could have been extended another 2 weeks, I decided to use a large reservoir (20lt water jug). A month before I left, I installed the Blumats to test and they were working perfectly. When I left, plants were booming.
When I got back, my plants were dry as a bone and my Blumats were just sitting there and the water reservoir was still near full. I put both plants in the shower for a good re-hydrating. The big one pulled through, and the runt never came back. I examined the Blumats and they seemed fine. I decided to wash it all out and put it away. When I cleaned the feeder line, I put the line to my mouth to blow out any water. A a couple snakes of slime dropped out. Line was plugged with algae.
In hindsight, before I left, the water in my reservoir looked a little cloudy (slaps forehead - If I had changed it, I would have pretty big plants by now).
The lesson:
Keep the water/nutes fresh.
The question:
How often should you change the water? Does adding liquid nutes affect the water refresh schedule?
My thoughts are once a month. Is that too long to wait?
(btw, I'm using a 1 liter bottle now. lol)