Will this work?

[Porky101]

Hi guys ,

I am currently growing in coco and drip feed my plants from a reservoir .

I was thinking of running two separate reservoirs into the main feeding line with each reservoir having its own pump on a timer .


I was thinking perhaps one reservoir is my normal flower feed (1-1-2) and another reservoir being 0-5-5. Then one day I water so the pump on the bloom booster waters and the next day the other feed will water . . . .


Can I do this ? Or will it cause problems with the coco and buffering of the nutes ? ?


Another question I have is , is it possible instead of mixing my A+B together in a reservoir I have one reservoir with A and another with B. . . And I feed each alternating day ? ?

Maybe micro feeding like this makes a difference ? ?


Anyone try this ?

Thanks !

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

the mechanics of it all are easy, and the first half sounds relatively harmless. not sure about putting a in one res and b in another, not sure why it wouldn't work, but it just seems like unnecessary complications.
i think most of the advantage to drip feeding, besides the convenience to you, is that the plants are constantly getting fed small amounts. don't see much point in breaking it down farther

 

[Porky101]

The reason why I want to do this , is in my perpetual grow , the plants in the late bloom phase will need a separate reservoir (for a feeding of 0-5-5) for a week or two . . Same with the plants in early flower (will need to still be on veg nutes) ..

I am using more water and nutrients than I expected , and in order to increase my reservoir capacity I could do one reservoir of A and one of B. This will double my capacity and simplyfy mixing .at the upfront cost of requiring a separate timer and pump .

I guess these are all things I need to experiment with .

 

[orangeade5]

If you're already going to get another res, pump and timer why not just have 2 separate systems entirely and mix each for the specific phases of flowering? Otherwise you'd need check valves or something to prevent pumping nutes through the pump that's not running, sounds like more of a headache than just redoing some of the drip manifold or whatever.

 

[Porky101]

If you're already going to get another res, pump and timer why not just have 2 separate systems entirely and mix each for the specific phases of flowering? Otherwise you'd need check valves or something to prevent pumping nutes through the pump that's not running, sounds like more of a headache than just redoing some of the drip manifold or whatever.

http://www.haywardflowcontrol.com/shop/en/flow-control/automated-valves


Automated valves ftw!


Your right though . . . Simplest option is the best option .

I'll redo my manifold .