TintEastwood
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Hobby level.
Automatic watering system for coco
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rollyouron
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If you want simple go with Autopots.
Hot Diggity Sog
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I've been looking for some kind of quick connect like you're using on the 1/4" line. Happen to have a link?
gr865
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http://new.sustainablevillage.com/blumat-quick-connect-reduce, they have 1/4" Red Super-Flex Tubing that is what I am using. Very good flex and have not experienced any kinking.
Hot Diggity Sog
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I found this and this on their site - perfecto!
1/4" Quick Connect Fittings with Stop/Plug
1/4" Quick Disconnect - Connect for Blumat spaghetti tubing. An easy and inexpensive way to be able to connect/disconnect your main 1/4" quarter inch small Blumat tubing with just one quick rotation. Includes a quick connect female plug
new.sustainablevillage.com
Blumat Quick Connect 1/4
Quickly disconnect or connect your irrigation system to Blumat supply tubing.
new.sustainablevillage.com
I'll order a few of each and see what I like best.
gr865
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I just use the Blumat Quick Connect 1/4" x 1/4" , don't use the one with the stop, never have.I found this and this on their site - perfecto!
1/4" Quick Connect Fittings with Stop/Plug
1/4" Quick Disconnect - Connect for Blumat spaghetti tubing. An easy and inexpensive way to be able to connect/disconnect your main 1/4" quarter inch small Blumat tubing with just one quick rotation. Includes a quick connect female plugnew.sustainablevillage.comBlumat Quick Connect 1/4
Quickly disconnect or connect your irrigation system to Blumat supply tubing.
I'll order a few of each and see what I like best.
I mainly use the QC when I am growing on my vertical screens, that way I can remove the individual plants from the tent.
One of my vertical grows.
The group of 5 in the tent.
The 5 ladies out of the tent.
Single plant of the 5.
Just a couple of days before harvest.
Star Dog
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I'm flowering 8 atm but it's normally only 4,
The reservoir...
That tops up this feed bucket that stays in the tent under the canopy.
The stop cock lets it refills as used, you can also see the pump it's connected to this manifold and a line/tube to each pot with a cross on to divide the flow.
Excuse the mess you've caught me in the middle of cropping lol
Edit... I forgot the run off.
I set my trays with a slight slope and a slight bit left/right so it runs to the corner, the capillary mating then delivers it to the jug ready for me to empty in the morning.
I've got basins under my trays to give them 4" height otherwise the capillary wouldn't work, loosely speaking it's no different to siphoning.
The reservoir...
That tops up this feed bucket that stays in the tent under the canopy.
The stop cock lets it refills as used, you can also see the pump it's connected to this manifold and a line/tube to each pot with a cross on to divide the flow.
Excuse the mess you've caught me in the middle of cropping lol
Edit... I forgot the run off.
I set my trays with a slight slope and a slight bit left/right so it runs to the corner, the capillary mating then delivers it to the jug ready for me to empty in the morning.
I've got basins under my trays to give them 4" height otherwise the capillary wouldn't work, loosely speaking it's no different to siphoning.
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all coco
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Last time I used wire shelves on a 4x4 flood table and pumped out the waste water when it got too high. Used a cheap Nearpow digital timer for the feed pump to come on a few minutes 3-4 times a day using a simple drip ring with 1/4 line and 4 t-barbs to dry and disperse it a bit.
