Soil Drip System Help...

doniboy

doniboy

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Four part question. I want to build a timed drip system to auto water my plants that are in soil. I already have the stakes, tubing, and pump. I'm going to use a 5 gallon bucket for the reservoir for right now.

My question are:


  1. Can I still use Fox Farm nutes that were meant for soil (Grow Big, Big Bloom, Tiger Bloom)?
  2. Being that my medium is soil based, do I need to use air stones?
  3. Will the nutes that are sitting in the reservoir go bad, or will it be okay to sit of a week or so?
  4. Fox Farm says to feed after every other watering. Being that my reservoir will always contain nutes, will I be okay with feeding every watering with an even weaker solution than I would use under a normal feeding schedule?
 
Nizza

Nizza

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1. yes, actually that's what you want cause your still using soil
2. in the nutrient resevoir you do. This keeps it from becoming anaerobic.
3. you can get it to keep for a week ++ if kept 70-80 deg F, aerate, and clean each filling with bleach a dab of soap and lots of water to flush it out. Scrub w/ nylon brush and try and make resevoir lightproof
4. Yes you should run full strength for the first few days, then top off and dilute that remainder so its 1/2 strength for the next day or two
and then do it again to make it 1/4 strg for the next day or so.
then we re dump nutes and step up the concentration
 
doniboy

doniboy

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Nizza said:
1. yes, actually that's what you want cause your still using soil
2. in the nutrient resevoir you do. This keeps it from becoming anaerobic.
3. you can get it to keep for a week ++ if kept 70-80 deg F, aerate, and clean each filling with bleach a dab of soap and lots of water to flush it out. Scrub w/ nylon brush and try and make resevoir lightproof
4. Yes you should run full strength for the first few days, then top off and dilute that remainder so its 1/2 strength for the next day or two
and then do it again to make it 1/4 strg for the next day or so.
then we re dump nutes and step up the concentration
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Very helpful thanks
 
SupaM

SupaM

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4.) Depending on what type soil, and if its amended, I would alternate with plain water as well. ATB!
 
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