12/12 from seed Party Cup Comp - Mystery Meat Grow

Big Green Thumb

Big Green Thumb

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Well, count me out. No beans as of today, so no beans in cups. I probably mis-typed the address or something. So my 2nd birdcage will go unused this round.
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These are my cups for Dawg's comp. I will tag along as a sideliner and post pics here weekly. I'm pretty sure I killed 2 of my 5 seedlings by knocking over 2 cups. Check out the awesome device I invented to keep cups from spilling! LOL.
 
DesertPlants

DesertPlants

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Big Green Thumb said:
Well, count me out. No beans as of today, so no beans in cups. I probably mis-typed the address or something. So my 2nd birdcage will go unused this round.
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These are my cups for Dawg's comp. I will tag along as a sideliner and post pics here weekly. I'm pretty sure I killed 2 of my 5 seedlings by knocking over 2 cups. Check out the awesome device I invented to keep cups from spilling! LOL.
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Damn, I was looking forward to seeing what you came up with.
 
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boybelue

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Big Green Thumb said:
Well, count me out. No beans as of today, so no beans in cups. I probably mis-typed the address or something. So my 2nd birdcage will go unused this round.
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These are my cups for Dawg's comp. I will tag along as a sideliner and post pics here weekly. I'm pretty sure I killed 2 of my 5 seedlings by knocking over 2 cups. Check out the awesome device I invented to keep cups from spilling! LOL.
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Love the cupholder idea!
 
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boybelue

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@Big Green Thumb how do you like the blumats? I was really wanting to get me some for my soil grow in fabrics but damn them things ain't cheap. Sure would beat hand watering. I was a lil skeptical of the soil staying at the same moisture level as I had always heard the wet and dry cycles promoted root growth and was what you wanted.
 
Big Green Thumb

Big Green Thumb

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boybelue said:
@Big Green Thumb how do you like the blumats? I was really wanting to get me some for my soil grow in fabrics but damn them things ain't cheap. Sure would beat hand watering. I was a lil skeptical of the soil staying at the same moisture level as I had always heard the wet and dry cycles promoted root growth and was what you wanted.
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I love them. You still have to check the plants daily to make sure they haven't over watered to runoff or plugged but it is so much easier than hand watering. Once you get them set correctly, you just peek in at them and keep the reservoir full. I bought the 12 plant kit here
https://www.amazon.com/Blumat-Watering-Austria-Automatic-Vacation/dp/B00ILX5XTQ/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1548725216&sr=8-3&keywords=blumat+12
and a 13 gallon reservoir from a local hydro shop. I have a 6 flowering plant limit, so I usually just put 2 carrots in each pot. Don't try to put kelp or anything like that into your reservoir. I put a mosquito float into my reservoir that causes me a plug now and then, but it's easy to handle when a line plugs.

I really like the system. I am messing around with hempy buckets - some with straight perlite and some with coco/perlite - and am using the blumats like adjustable drippers since in perlite there is very little moisture for them to sense in the top of the buckets.

Oh, an oddity I noticed using regular 5 or 7 gallon pots/bags with coco/perlite is when I kept the coco on the damper side I would grow yellow mushrooms like crazy. I would be pulling 'shrooms *every* day.
 
Big Green Thumb

Big Green Thumb

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Re: Blumats, just an fyi, most of the plants I have grown with them did not even get watered to runoff. The rule of thumb is to water to runoff when you water, but I just keep the coco damp and it is enough. No crazy salt buildup or anything like that. I may just dump an extra cup or 2 of nutrient water in the pot now and then, but rarely would I ever get any runoff and no problem. Weird because that isn't what "they" say you should do, but that's what I do. Nutrient water all day every day.

This plant is in a 5 gallon hempy in perlite only, watered by Blumat.
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It has been watered to runoff several times because it is hard to adjust the Blumat properly in pure perlite.

And my last one, which yielded 10 ounces..

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boybelue

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Big Green Thumb said:
Re: Blumats, just an fyi, most of the plants I have grown with them did not even get watered to runoff. The rule of thumb is to water to runoff when you water, but I just keep the coco damp and it is enough. No crazy salt buildup or anything like that. I may just dump an extra cup or 2 of nutrient water in the pot now and then, but rarely would I ever get any runoff and no problem. Weird because that isn't what "they" say you should do, but that's what I do. Nutrient water all day every day.

This plant is in a 5 gallon hempy in perlite only, watered by Blumat.
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It has been watered to runoff several times because it is hard to adjust the Blumat properly in pure perlite.

And my last one, which yielded 10 ounces..

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Great info, thanks for that, yeah man you really just made my mind up for me. That's interesting with the perlite, I bet it is hard to dial in. Like you said its probably almost like a drip. In the fabric I'd just flush when needed and let her go. I really do like the sound of it. You think one per 7g fabric or two?
 
Big Green Thumb

Big Green Thumb

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boybelue said:
Great info, thanks for that, yeah man you really just made my mind up for me. That's interesting with the perlite, I bet it is hard to dial in. Like you said its probably almost like a drip. In the fabric I'd just flush when needed and let her go. I really do like the sound of it. You think one per 7g fabric or two?
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When I was running 7g fabrics, I ran 2. The carrots drip a single drip off an 1/8" line, so I figured 2 were better to keep the coco all damp. They sell a drip line thing the connects to a single carrot to wet a larger are but i never tried them.
 
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