Got a question, how high should the water be spraying under the lid of your veg and cloner? Because my sprayers don't reach the net pots. They reach like 2-3 inches below the bottom of my pots. How can my clones root if the water never hits em?
I got that 390+ pump so it's powerfull enough. However I wasn't able to get those Ez-Clone sprayers, instead I got the crappy red 360 ones from home depot, the ones with little tiny holes that clog easy. Are my sprayers the problem? I built it to specifications otherwise.
Also I just have the pump sitting inside the pvc with no seal, is that my pressure problem? How can I seal the pump to the pvc without using cement/silicon?
Something is wrong here. It's impossible to diagnose the problem without actually seeing it but my 400gph pump will shoot water way over the top of the lid if I don't have it on. If I remove one netpot there is water spraying out of the hole. I can try to list possible causes of your issue but as I said before it's gonna be hard without actually seeing it. If anyone saw it in operation they'd probably see right away what the issue is.
It sounds like you don't have enough pressure as the water isn't spraying out. So here goes as to possible causes of that.
1. PVC pipes not joined together.
2. Issue with size of the holes for your sprayer heads
3. Issue with connection of pump to PVC pipe.
Since the water isn't even reaching the pots you can have the lid off and look to see if any water is coming out of where you join the PVC together. I actually use a piece of tube off the end of my pump that fits INSIDE the PVC pipe and I slide the PVC all the way down over the tube as far as it will go. I'm not sure if you can find tube to fit your pump but I believe the 1/2" PVC pipe is the INNER diameter of the pipe so you'd want a tub that is 1/2" OUTER diameter which means it's probably 3/8" inner diameter.
If the problem isn't there I'd move to swapping out the pump if you have another one sitting around. If this doesn't fix it you know it's not the pump.
Start there and report back here if none of this helps and we can go from there. Could you possibly post a picture of the sprayer heads you got? I use the little red EZ Clone ones and never had a problem.
We'll figure this out - we're all here to help.
DP
Hey stinkbud any problems with the cloner being too cold? As it is below 30f here in Ohio. Would I need to add a fishtank heater to regulate it to keep it in the upper 60's F. cause its staying between 60-65 in my house when its 68-70F ambient room temp in my kitchen.
