I have to leave town for 4 days....
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Boatguy
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Just water them, and turn down your temps. 4 days for a seedling, without a watering, isnt long.
Herb & Suds
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Good to go ^^^
Even in coco and solo cups?
Also, i am going to need something down the road anyway. I leave town a few days at a time. Once they are flowering ill need to make sure they get some water. Let me know if you can reccomend a product. Thanks.
Boatguy
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I put a 12$ submersible pump in a 5gal bucket. Used 1/2 black water line.
tapped in 4 x 1/4” drip lines.
Run the drip lines to your plants. Use a clip to hold it on the pot.
on the 1/2” “manifold I put two 90* elbow in it, at the very top so they shoot back into the bucket to mix and airate the water. Also breaks the vacuum to the 1/4” lines don’t gravity siphon the tank when the pump shuts off.
then get a cheap digital timer that you can set by the minute. Test and set accordingly.
I’ll go dig mine out and take a pic.
was Under 30$ to make.
tapped in 4 x 1/4” drip lines.
Run the drip lines to your plants. Use a clip to hold it on the pot.
on the 1/2” “manifold I put two 90* elbow in it, at the very top so they shoot back into the bucket to mix and airate the water. Also breaks the vacuum to the 1/4” lines don’t gravity siphon the tank when the pump shuts off.
then get a cheap digital timer that you can set by the minute. Test and set accordingly.
I’ll go dig mine out and take a pic.
was Under 30$ to make.
Thank you so much!
SNEAKYp
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Look into Blumats. I’ve run 22 plants and left them for a week with no issues. Just make sure you have a big resevoir and you’ll be fine.
hotrodharley
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You chose coco why? Ridiculous choice knowing you were going to be leaving town.
hotrodharley
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Newbies, don’t do this crap. Seriously. There’s no advantage to coco big enough to have to rig equipment to water shit regularly.
T Ray
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Find a close friend or confidant to help you while your gone. In the long run having a go to person when you take vacations or can’t take care of them it’s a must.
Not saying it can’t be done unattended for short periods but it’s definitely not ideal and things can definitely go wrong in a hurry. I guess a lot depends on what stage plants are in and what your operation is. If something goes wrong, are you going to be ok with a potential loss?
Ive had a exhaust fan go out in my veg room on a vacation and back then was still running 1k mh’s and temps were way above what is tolerable, luckily I had a buddy checking on my shit each day and caught it few hours in and not before my plants fried.
twentyeight.threefive
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You picked the wrong medium for leaving town all the time.
calvin.m16
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TO answer your question without calling you a newbie and shit talking you yes that system would work fine. Amazon has tons of those style systems and I've used a similar system in the past.
I'd set this one to water once a day for 10-15 seconds just figure out how it flows once its setup, with seedlings even in coco you don't wanna soak them too much with water or you'll end up with algae on the top of the coco like me recently. Not the end of the world and don't feel bad for choosing coco to grow in..
calvin.m16
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Apparently every grow facility using coco with drip irrigation is wrong. Noted. I'm going to let my buddy know who runs a licensed grow to stop doing that cause it's a newbie move and hotrodharley said so on Roll it up.
twentyeight.threefive
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You are seriously intelligence deficient. He's talking about new growers. There's no need for them to complicate things when they should just be focusing on growing a healthy plant.
Just go read his other posts. You see the pattern.
“Tunnel-vision opinion typing”
Herb & Suds
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Once again
The world according to CalvinIm16
Even with flood and drain it is hard to trust it from having issues
To the op
I looked at that auto water system and my concern is that stone but if I was going to play with a system like that I would spend the extra cash for a Wi-Fi active unit
Me personally if I just needed to know
Maybe a camera where you could ask someone to check on them if you see any issues
But as most have said coco isn’t the ideal medium to be away from
Straight hydro would even be more manageable
Good luck
The world according to CalvinIm16
Even with flood and drain it is hard to trust it from having issues
To the op
I looked at that auto water system and my concern is that stone but if I was going to play with a system like that I would spend the extra cash for a Wi-Fi active unit
Me personally if I just needed to know
Maybe a camera where you could ask someone to check on them if you see any issues
But as most have said coco isn’t the ideal medium to be away from
Straight hydro would even be more manageable
Good luck
