40 Plant SOG Drip Ring Irrigation DIY

EmeraldØsiris

EmeraldØsiris

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So I'm tired of hand watering my grows and I'm looking to get a reliable DIY drip ring Irrigation system for 40 pot coco grow in a 4x4 space.

I'm thinking the build is easy just getting the t connectors and cutting the appropriate length and adding T's and connecting to mainline. It will be 4 rows x 5 rows. Should I have a mainline going down each of the 4 rows? How would I make sure each plant gets the same amount of water?

Pump size? Reservoir size?
 
Lordhooha

Lordhooha

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EmeraldØsiris said:
So I'm tired of hand watering my grows and I'm looking to get a reliable DIY drip ring Irrigation system for 40 pot coco grow in a 4x4 space.

I'm thinking the build is easy just getting the t connectors and cutting the appropriate length and adding T's and connecting to mainline. It will be 4 rows x 5 rows. Should I have a mainline going down each of the 4 rows? How would I make sure each plant gets the same amount of water?

Pump size? Reservoir size?
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Build an easy gravity feeder.
 
EmeraldØsiris

EmeraldØsiris

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jzs147 said:
https://www.rollitup.org/t/4x4-40-plants.976417/

Check my grow out got 40 going in a jumbo tray in a 4x4 tent was ment to be sog but I begged them 2 weeks as I’ve said on my thread wont make that mistake again.
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You get to know the veg time by watching your clone grow roots. Just add that time after transplant then hit it. My buddy hits 12-12 straight away with great results. I'm looking at the QB's now so I can lower the lights all the way down to keep from stretching. Nice grow tho!
 
jzs147

jzs147

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EmeraldØsiris said:
You get to know the veg time by watching your clone grow roots. Just add that time after transplant then hit it. My buddy hits 12-12 straight away with great results. I'm looking at the QB's now so I can lower the lights all the way down to keep from stretching. Nice grow tho!
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Yeah looking at the hlg 600h myself from growerslights.com

Cheers mate first attempt at high density planting.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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EmeraldØsiris said:
Nah... I have the impression those are good just to keep your plans alive if you are going on a vacation, but not in coco. I'm thinking more of a manifold system.
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They are not just good for keeping your plants watered while away. They are a watering system that can be used anytime. In fact they work exceptionally well with coco. I use them as do many others with exceptional results. They make watering easy. Just fill a reservoir, connect a line, connect the blumat lines to that line. With blumats you don't need to worry about watering, timers, draining runoff, etc... Just keep nutrient solution in the reservoir. It's the simplest, time saving, automated watering system I've ever used.

https://www.rollitup.org/t/keeping-it-simple-coco-blumats.954950/


 
EmeraldØsiris

EmeraldØsiris

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I'm running a 3x6. 5*10 square pots. Would probably just be easier to create a manifold with PVC pipe with 5 nozzles for 5 mainlines and run each mainline down each row and pop a hole & hosehose each pot down the mainline. I'll have it on a timer for twice or day or depending on pot weight and have the rez outside with a pump to the manifold. I do like how the blumat will individually care for the plants water needs tho. I'm wondering if bigger bursts of watering may be more productive as it delivers more nutes per hit and will soak the medium faster?
 
xtsho

xtsho

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I mentioned blumats because I've used them and found them to work great. Drip systems work great as well. Getting the plants watered and fed is what matters and getting that process automated is the way to go. Hand watering sucks. Good luck. :weed:
 
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I tried to build auto watering system and almost done it but I ended up wasting about $100 on 2 pumps and about the same on tubing and sprinkles. It just did not work as I expected.

I started with a fountain pump which by the spec had a good flow rate. It did not work as there is no pressure for a good water stream. Dripping system may work though with this pump if it does not have to pump water higher that the pump can.

Then I bought a garden water pressure pump with 300L/m flow rate. This one could work only if this pump could stay primed all the time. However it cannot because water required for priming just coming from it at the end and next time the pump is on there is no water in it and it just overheats and shuts down itself for protection. These type of pumps are usually get water from a water tank and connected to a garden tap. Since taps stay closed and they are only open manually when one waters a garden these pumps stay primed all the time.

I think gravity water feeder and dripping is the easiest and the cheapest way. The only thing you need some kind of timer for garden irrigation to open a line at specific time. Not all of them though will open a line if there is no water pressure.
 
Daveindiego

Daveindiego

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EmeraldØsiris said:
Nah... I have the impression those are good just to keep your plans alive if you are going on a vacation, but not in coco. I'm thinking more of a manifold system.
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I’m using Blu Mats in coco, with a weekly ‘rinsing’ of the plant.

Here they are getting their week 3 rinse.

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Daveindiego

Daveindiego

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xtsho said:
They are not just good for keeping your plants watered while away. They are a watering system that can be used anytime. In fact they work exceptionally well with coco. I use them as do many others with exceptional results. They make watering easy. Just fill a reservoir, connect a line, connect the blumat lines to that line. With blumats you don't need to worry about watering, timers, draining runoff, etc... Just keep nutrient solution in the reservoir. It's the simplest, time saving, automated watering system I've ever used.

https://www.rollitup.org/t/keeping-it-simple-coco-blumats.954950/


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Like I said, he knows what he is talking about.


When you set a Blu Mat, do you set it to drop, or back off so that you don’t see a drip.

That one pic where you can see the wet coco, it seems like you have a decent drip going.

The manual says to set it so the drip ‘hangs’, and then back it off just a skosh more from there.
 
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