Yes, I travel for work and can be away up to two weeks. This is my first attempt at growing cannabis - trying to automate as much as I can (PH down control and water top-up) and add other controls that can be initiated over wifi (flushing and refilling the res and adding nutes)
I was interested in purchasing one of those BlueLab Guardian meters...guess I'm rethinking that now, haha. You have a pretty cool setup, automated growing is becoming a thing nowadays and with enough $ you can get a (nearly) self running system...but again, that's either with enough $, enough know-how, or enough of both. With a big enough res, and an automated system for PH control, you could probably get away with checking in person once a week or once every 2 weeks.
Yep, the pics above were taken when I was far away from the tent.
Thats cool as $hit !Yep, the pics above were taken far away from the tent.
No doubt. That's awesome stuff.
Have info or pics on your auto dosing setup anywhere? Which model Milwaukee pH controller are you using? You can also get pretty cheap peristaltic pumps if you wanted to use that instead of a solenoid.Thanks. Yeah, the low ph was user error. The bluelab monitor is great for monitoring EC, PH and res temp. To control PH I'm using a Milwaukee Instruments PH controller hooked up to a solenoid that opens up a slow drip line of PH Down when PH climbs above 5.8. Not shown in the picture in an 20 gallon external res. The low ph was due to too much ph down in the line when the solenoid opened up. In hindsight I should have first tested it without plants. Oh well, plants are doing great now and the PH controller issue has been fixed.
Peristalic pumps are awesome because they meter out the amount accurately, where a solenoid valve with gravity feed would have less pressure the lower the volume is on the bottle.
The better ones will wait, and you select the wait time. Look for videos on youtube, some by bluelab for their auto dosing ph controller (and a longer video on the "pro" model) and other brands as well.
