Watering suggestions?

[dtl420]

Yeah I guess I can adopt a houseplant or something lol.
Eventually I want to get a tent to start my vegetables early indoors. That will give me more environmental control to make the fans, vents, heaters, etc.. respond to parameters set from the sensors.(like turn on fan #2 when temp or humidity reach certain thresholds)
At that point, I plan to start testing soil moisture sensors and water level sensors- adding peristaltic pumps to water X amount of ml from reservoir #1 when moisture sensor reads below 20%,
Trigger res #2 to top off res #1 when water level reaches below 10%.. endless possibilities

Yea, totally.. lol. That was way over my head. But you sound like you should definitely be growing weed. Or rather designing a computer that grows dank ass weed, that you then smoke on the cheap.

 

[GrayDizzle]

Yea, totally.. lol. That was way over my head. But you sound like you should definitely be growing weed. Or rather designing a computer that grows dank ass weed, that you then smoke on the cheap.

The plan was for me to put together a complete controller for as much automation as possible and my buddy said he might know a few people interested in investing in them..
Just a project when I had spare time lol I might get back into it pretty soon.. but then it would take my time away from reading RiU grow journals and led light builds lol

 

[907cannabis]

I really like the weight sensor idea, that would be epic. If you had them all on separate sensors hooked to a computer with a tare function to each one it would really be functional, program in automatic pumps and halos and you could probably pull off a whole automatic grow without all the tedious efforts involved.

Would be cool to use an iPhone app and iPhone. (Or android) Get Bluetooth moisture sensors or Bluetooth weight sensors and just check with an old phone.

 

[ANC]

I would program it so it rewaters when it reached x fraction of the last heaviest weight (i.e. the last time you watered it). Or you can just run drain to waste on timers. (might be frowned upon in large-scale use).