COCO and BLUMATS FTW!
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About 4.5 feet I think. They are stretching like crazy and still got more left in them.DH those girls look huge (and healthy)! How tall are the ones that you are going to lay down?
Lostclusters
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Desert:
Looks like you are using two carrots per three gallon bag. I am considering moving to blumats to simplify my irrigation needs. I too use three gallon pots. Your feed is a gravity feed reservoir correct? I have a smaller garden than you, only six pots. So that should work for me. Does your post number 253 still hold as the method for setting up the blumats drip rate? And is there a primer you could recommend for blumat use?
Looks like you are using two carrots per three gallon bag. I am considering moving to blumats to simplify my irrigation needs. I too use three gallon pots. Your feed is a gravity feed reservoir correct? I have a smaller garden than you, only six pots. So that should work for me. Does your post number 253 still hold as the method for setting up the blumats drip rate? And is there a primer you could recommend for blumat use?
only using one per pot. if there is more than one in a picture its simply a place holder. one is good enough for 3 gal by far.
as far as the post being accurate i would say yes, depending on your ratio of coco and if its cut with perlite or not. the more perlite you have the "wetter" you can/should run them. not soggy and heavy as hell but solidly moist all the way through. been doing a weekly flush to send residual salts down and out. gonna test 4" rockwool cubes and blumats soon.
showing some preflowers and praying to the lights. they started praying the day after i hit them with soil balance pro beneficials brewed with kelp and molasses.
first pic is from yesterday before the brewed tea
first pic is from yesterday before the brewed tea
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Burgundy Frost
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Excellent work, getting great ideas from this thread!
thanks, after my last failure because of root rot/overwatering in my recirculating hydro system i needed a win. took me a while to figure out what the fuck i was doing wrong and by the time i figured it out it was too far gone. still harvested a few lbs but nothing worth keeping. it all is getting blasted.
looking happier than ever. gas goes in tomorrow. t-rex feet leaves on my monster cropped dog cage plant. roots are loving the beneficials apparently. soil balance pro added weekly with kelp and molasses
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thanks. they are looking better than ever. im actually gonna set up a small organic super soil grow for my blumats that will be water only. the blumats should do extremely well in there with no chances of clogs or buildup. match made in heaven.
Lostclusters
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Desert:
Do you shut off your reservoir on lights off or let it run 24/7?
I have also just read that blumats may not work well with molasses. I do not run molasses per se, but it does seem fairly prevalent in the nutrient line I am using, Aurora Soul. Even at 1/2 strength, from their feed schedule, it is fairly thick compared to most others. I am wondering if drip clean will be enough to keep the blumats and lines clear or if I should feed with something else and use the blumats to keep the pots wet with just water.
Also, I have read that if blumats are used the feed strength should be less concentrated. I have seen someone recommend no more than a EC of 1.0 max. Does this sound good to you?
Do you shut off your reservoir on lights off or let it run 24/7?
I have also just read that blumats may not work well with molasses. I do not run molasses per se, but it does seem fairly prevalent in the nutrient line I am using, Aurora Soul. Even at 1/2 strength, from their feed schedule, it is fairly thick compared to most others. I am wondering if drip clean will be enough to keep the blumats and lines clear or if I should feed with something else and use the blumats to keep the pots wet with just water.
Also, I have read that if blumats are used the feed strength should be less concentrated. I have seen someone recommend no more than a EC of 1.0 max. Does this sound good to you?
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I was. It was doing extremely well in veg. Didn't wanna run it untested in flower in my big room when I was banking on that crop. Probably would have done well. Gonna run some on flower soon to test
Reservoir cycles 15 min on every couple hours just to keep the gravity reservoir filled and at a constant level. I wouldn't use that nutrient with blumats at all. You'll be fighting clogs left and right even with drip clean. I was getting clogs with sm90 and that's supposed to help prevent them lol. At normal feed strength I was getting really high runoff but I had bad Coco to begin with. You will want to do occasional flushes if you run strong fertilizer
Lostclusters
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What I might do is to continue feeding with my current irrigation system with the Soul line at half strength, and have the blumats setup with some of the Botanicare nutes at quarter strength to keep the pots from drying out in between feedings. That keeps all the boxes checked: I get to keep the Soul line without the possibility of clogging the blumats, and the blumats keep the pots wet and keeps salts in a water media and coco from drying out causing weird lockout issues, quarter strength nutes keep just plain water from the coco. I'll monitor the waste from the Soul feedings and flush as necessary. I agree, it is a little complicated and a little more expensive. But I can have my cake and it it too.
Does anyone see any issues with this?
Does anyone see any issues with this?
