any ideas people? self watering systems for multiple plants

[tyler_ hobbyist]

Any items are welcome

 

[Daskahn]

Bubbleponics? Bubbleponics with a dwc?
only requires about 5 minutes a day and about 30 minutes a week give or take

 

[GanjaGed]

Flood and Drain allows a lot of flexibility.

 

[IanHale]

I'm running a top fed dwc. 5 tanks. 5 plants each with plenty of room to flatten out and grow upwards. Checking on the plants is easy and quick. System maintenance is cake.

changing out 5 tanks of water (approx 25 gallons)
total time: 2 1/2 hours.

Draw the 5 gal
let it sit 24 hours
add your junk (nutes and supps) and PH 5 mins per tank
drain res, fill res. 10 mins per tank or so.

then you're good to go for 7-10 days, keep an eye on your temps (water and air) and add just ph'd water to top off if they're looking low.

 

[tyler_ hobbyist]

This will be in soiless (promix)

 

[tyler_ hobbyist]

I was thinking run a water pump off a timer and run a garden hose off the water pump and put a shut off valve on the end of the garden hose and either drill holes in the garden hose or insert misters into the garden hose. What are ur thoughts

 

[GanjaGed]

Coco runs in F&D fine, not sure about pro-mix.

You could run them on a tray/table and drain to waste or recirculate, which ever would be appropriate. That's one of the beauties of an F&D set up, the versatility and options it allows.

For example if you wanted, you can set up a drip feed in the tray, or go F&D or a combination, drain to wast or recirculate, hell I'm pretty sure it can be run as a DWC if desired. pretty much any medium. NFT style. Once the tray/table is set up it's easy to make attachments for different options, letting you switch up between grows or if you set up dual trays instead of a table you can run side by side grows using different nutes, mediums, styles.

It seems an amazing system. I almost feel like I must be missing something because I just don't see why it's not the go-to hydro set up. Guess I'll find out on the new grow

 

[Daskahn]

There's much more simple ways to do it.. if you like I can show you

 

[Daskahn]

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Here's my example.. I'm sure you can creat a table at the top to hold the promix just and drain holes along the bottom I'm actually really intrigued with the idea and might try it in the future
just imagin instead of a plant basket and promix tray

 

[tyler_ hobbyist]

Its a great idea but my space will be to big and that would be costly to do that thank u very much for the imput tho I appricate it

 

[tyler_ hobbyist]

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This was my idea. Any input and sugestions are very welcome

 

[tyler_ hobbyist]

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[Daskahn]

Dude I built that system can hold ten plant for 20$ how many you planned on having
pump 10$ walmart
tote 5 walmart
baskets 50cents at local hydroponics store
clay pebbles 4$
i can grow up to 6 with this and I'm currently got 4 bushy ones I'm just saying it's cheap and easy and effective if you got an extra 20 you can add a top feed system which I hear does wonders

 

[Daskahn]

I'm pretty sure you could switch the clay pebbles for promix but eh it's just advice I'll show you a picture if you like

 

[Daskahn]

Ok I'm starting to understand your diagram the more I look at it.. I have a few questions what's your scale? How large is your grow area? If it's really large how are you going to reach the middle plants when it comes to trim? How many fans are you using? And how are they situated? Lighting? What type of lighting are you using how will you reach lights in the middle when and if they need repair? Food for thought.. if I'm getting your concept correct it's a good start for a massive grow but would only work on a very large scale so you can walk in between rows.. if it's smaller I have a better solution

 

[Daskahn]

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If your going large scale here's my idea take like 9 of these line em up and bam.. your barrel idea remain but is a pre mix resavoir pump water in and out as needed if your going small scale a single one works
again about 20$ bucks minus the light. works wonders very cheap very easy to maintain

 

[IanHale]

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I started them in 2 containers and moved them to their own tanks. Explosive growth.

 

[Daskahn]

This is basically the idea I was trying to present this set up is a bit cleaner and has less per container but the idea is the same if this was me though I'd put atleast two per container but that's me

 

[tyler_ hobbyist]

So is that like dwc set ups?

 

[Daskahn]

Aka bubbleponics without the top feed.. Ianhale has dwc bubbleponics with the top feed I have without I find after a few weeks the top feed becomes less effective but idk haven't done a side by side of the three methods