Sucks to hear you're still have trouble with blumats.
Might be your environmental issues throwing them off. If you say its getting really hot in there its possible that the pot dries too quickly for the blumat to accommodate. Ends up opening up full stream and not shutting down once the pot is saturated? Media not wicking fast enough to keep up with you're high heat/low RH maybe.
You are not extending the 3mm line much past the 8cm recommended are you?
I had a few run-aways myself this last reload. Typically blumats work flawless for me with no run-aways or dry-ups, but after doing my normal ritual (drench, dial to cling + 1.5 arrow or so) I returned to the room the next day with water on the ground. I'm blaming this on setting blumats up in fresh coco/fresh transplant.
Normally I've handwatered for a bit before going automated so I usually am shoving the carrot into well rooted coco as opposed to fresh out of the bag transplants. That is my only thought as I havnt changed the way I do things.
Despite my success with blumats I crave recirculation as well. I'm not even sure PPK is my answer after reading about painstakingly screening/washing turface and tinkering around with pulse saturation times. I'm sure its no sweat really, but I'm still lured back to fast flow SWC/NFT or similar. Ebb&flow is also pretty effortless.
I'm sick of transplanting..sick of media.. and would like to get back to popping a clone in a plant site and letting water culture do its thing. What I give them is what they get.. none of this noise about cation exchange, accumulated nutrient, etc.
I'd hate to get back into a (roots submerged) water culture system and then deal with root rot pythium, but interested in trying this EWC tea route as opposed to running a sterile system. Flood and drain is really where its at, but lots of stone if running buckets..and increased plant numbers if not.
decisions..decisions.. Going go PPK in my tree room. Will likely rig up a flood and drain table (no media, just clones supported by cups/neoprenes) for remote horizontal spots.
Ultimately something like Heaths orange fast flow SWC setup is where its at, but I'm not doing the plant numbers thing. Wonder if I can rig up an Ebb bucket setup to operate mediumless...or at least with minimal media such as using a net bucket lid with very frequent floods (say 30min flood ever 90 minutes).. roots just suspended in air. Might not be as redudant as PPK, but with good pumps and a UPC for the pump they can operate pretty smoothly.
Might be your environmental issues throwing them off. If you say its getting really hot in there its possible that the pot dries too quickly for the blumat to accommodate. Ends up opening up full stream and not shutting down once the pot is saturated? Media not wicking fast enough to keep up with you're high heat/low RH maybe.
You are not extending the 3mm line much past the 8cm recommended are you?
I had a few run-aways myself this last reload. Typically blumats work flawless for me with no run-aways or dry-ups, but after doing my normal ritual (drench, dial to cling + 1.5 arrow or so) I returned to the room the next day with water on the ground. I'm blaming this on setting blumats up in fresh coco/fresh transplant.
Normally I've handwatered for a bit before going automated so I usually am shoving the carrot into well rooted coco as opposed to fresh out of the bag transplants. That is my only thought as I havnt changed the way I do things.
Despite my success with blumats I crave recirculation as well. I'm not even sure PPK is my answer after reading about painstakingly screening/washing turface and tinkering around with pulse saturation times. I'm sure its no sweat really, but I'm still lured back to fast flow SWC/NFT or similar. Ebb&flow is also pretty effortless.
I'm sick of transplanting..sick of media.. and would like to get back to popping a clone in a plant site and letting water culture do its thing. What I give them is what they get.. none of this noise about cation exchange, accumulated nutrient, etc.
I'd hate to get back into a (roots submerged) water culture system and then deal with root rot pythium, but interested in trying this EWC tea route as opposed to running a sterile system. Flood and drain is really where its at, but lots of stone if running buckets..and increased plant numbers if not.
decisions..decisions.. Going go PPK in my tree room. Will likely rig up a flood and drain table (no media, just clones supported by cups/neoprenes) for remote horizontal spots.
Ultimately something like Heaths orange fast flow SWC setup is where its at, but I'm not doing the plant numbers thing. Wonder if I can rig up an Ebb bucket setup to operate mediumless...or at least with minimal media such as using a net bucket lid with very frequent floods (say 30min flood ever 90 minutes).. roots just suspended in air. Might not be as redudant as PPK, but with good pumps and a UPC for the pump they can operate pretty smoothly.