I had a 35 gallon smartpot because I wanted to go overkill. I might try one 18 gallon since I like having more then not enough.
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How heavy are these pots? Can you lift them yourself?
my distributor s are in the soil practically and seem fine . i enjoy the sence of security with blumats .Well, so far so good but the sides could use a bit more even spread with the distribution drippers. I actually have a bunch of those but never hooked them up.
I dialed the spiked down this morning, so if they continue to look better and better, maybe the solution is 2 maxis turned down but with 3 distro drippers each. 6 total drip points around the pot. The reason I never actually used the distros is just because they are tiny and you pretty much need to have them elevated to stay out of the mulch and any top dressing.
arudino platform (sp?) based pressure valves attached to the blumats so you can link the system to a solinoid valve . thus watering efficenty and monitoring the bars in real time on a cpu ....I am trying to figure out how to or what i can use to monitor 300 gallons of soil blumats are ok for top but looking at other alternatives for deep soil moisture and monitoring
This is what i am in search for presently for my green house this year blumats are great but i want deep water feeding instead of just top i want to know my root activity and development as well as bunch more
- Depth and amount of irrigation,
- Root activity and development,
- Extent of watertables within or just below a crop's root zone,
- Irrigation timing and forecasting based on water use (known as irrigation scheduling),
- Movement of solutes (salts) through the soil profile,
- Soil temperature.
So if anyone has any ideas or grows almond trees there using this tech i need to speak with you please pm me
Anyways couple updates getting all my solar panels up n running for green house power etc pumps exhaust fans and monitoring equipment auto feed running 6000
liters of totes Water and also couple pictures of my No till flowering girls green house will be no till water only and my nutrient line i am making and hoping to market in next year or so
a new meaning to Liquid Gold 100 % pure vegan organic nute line so far it appears to be kicking ass lol but green house grow is the documented grow with variety of veggies as well one feed every 2 weeks till harvest. from start to finish on any veggie or house plant she will be amazing
just like my flowering girls my nutes which i hope to market can go from 150 ppm to 2000 ppm and stay ph constant 6.5 View attachment 3639686 View attachment 3639687 View attachment 3639688 View attachment 3639691 View attachment 3639693 View attachment 3639694 View attachment 3639701 View attachment 3639702
My largest is a gorilla glue in a 5 x 4 in a scrog
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Kona sunset in veg in a 5 gal a few days ago
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Guard dawg in a 5 gal
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they are not that sofistiated ..lol... they are more like a blumat than you may know brother both just use pressure defecits . blumats never runoff for me ....Just an observation / opinion. Each plant and pot will technically have different watering needs. 1 sensor for all isn't optimal, considering how much farting around you'd have to do just to get that far. My opinion, anyway. I've thought about it and decided to control each plant with a serious Tensiometer, not a Blumat. I like the concept of the blumats, but they are crude tech. Runoff potential is not something I'm comfortable with.
Hyroot,
what's good man? Those buckets look sweet, self watering it looks like. i've tried these with tomatoes. anyway you could shoot me a link to when you started using these or what you're build is? I might get back into self-watering designs for my late summer runs and would love to get a look at your design! Hope all is going well on your end buddy! been too long!
and love
@hyroot do you find your gg needs a lot of nutes? I just started growing it and I have one in a lighter mix hating life and another in a heavy mix and it is also not doing the greatest but not bad
What mix u running w her? Coots? Have u amended his amendments to cater to what she needs? I'm making up his mix when I go get some quality compost this weekend and just want to know all I can before I make it up
I was thinking since each plant is different ( @Rrog ) when building a soil, how would I be able to make a general mix for everything? Is it kind of like start w coots and then amend it to what you see?
He uses either peat or leaf mold, then his EWC and then aeration. Leaf mold> peat if he indeed uses leaf mold but the big thing is his castings. He runs a specific batch of compost then runs that through his worm bin. I would think since I'm far behind harvesting my castings, that I would probably show deficiencies since I don't have HIS high quality castings and or leaf mold.
I would think in my mind ok, deficiency...let me add x amount of whatever I see. If I had better castings and or leaf mold that may not be the case. Once I introduce better castings and or leaf mold, the mix would change and my original observations would be null correct?
So I guess what I'm saying is should I wait to mix it up until I have the higher quality castings and or leaf mold or just do it now and add the high quality castings and or leaf mold as a top dress at some point throughout the grow?
Too many factors always to consider in this line of work I feel!
Yea, but I'm still on my first mix. No burn though.Anyone use alfalfa as a staple in their no tills? I'm getting burns I'm not sure if its from too much light or too much alfalfa meal.
I didnt get any burns my first round but after a few cycles my plants seems to have a bit of a nute burn.Yea, but I'm still on my first mix. No burn though.