Making A Home Made Drip Sysytem

edux10

edux10

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Go to the hydro store or fish store. get 1/4 inch tubing and 1/2 inch tubing and a pump. You will need to get drippers from the hydro store. If you can locate any just ziptie the 1/4 inch toubing to the plants. Get the little connecters and connect all the 1/4 inch tubing going to the plants to the 1/2 inch main line tube. connect the 1/2 inch to your pump and put that in your resivor (it can be any tub, like rubbermaid type). Put an airstone connected to the air pump in the res. put the pump on a timer to go off depending on how you are growing (once a day is good for soil, flood and drian might be like once every 15 min) hope this makes sense. Do some research on this site.
 
Maccabee

Maccabee

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If you have an OSH near you, they have a Rainmaster patio-sized drip system kit on sale for $40. It includes a lot of stuff, it's a pretty decent deal. I would have bought it as I intend to eventually convert my flowering closet to full hydro from hand watered soiless mix, but I'm torn between drip and DWC for that space so I held off.

I have a practical question regarding drip:

is it safe to pressurize a drip system using a reservoir (like a 5 gallon bottle, say) and a submersible aquarium pump, left on? Or do you need to time the pump to turn on with the drip timer to avoid burn-out? And even then, will running the pump with the drip system pressurizing end-cap on the line eventually burn it out? As I understand it, these drip systems are meant to use hose timers that rely on water pressure. And if using an aquarium pump is a bad idea, would the amount of pressure generated by standing water in a 5 gallon container fed with a float switch from an RO system be enough to run the drip? Or a pressurized RO storage bottle?


I ask, in order to better decide between drip and DWC as mentioned above.
Thanks!
 
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