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fureelz
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oh this year im getting a solar panel rigged to a 9v water pump so it will circulate the water in the res when the panel has enough energy. beautiful!
How do I water my remote outdoor plots?
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scrxbandit
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Watch those solar panels, they'll have you reflecting out light like tom hanks on a desert island. This is the year to grow. I'm going to retire in october, and scale downt he indoor. I'm NOT going to put 400 plants down by the water table. I know two people who are licensed to fly choppers, but thats one hell of a way to get spotted making rounds out, and a 4 seater is only rated for a 800 pound payload.
I havnt tested this, but ive taken enough geology classes to understand the slow persistent nature of the water table. Rivers and creeks always mark the top of the water table. Creeks dry up, but it is hard to visualize the millions of gallons of water that slowly trinckles down hill below the creek bed.
PLAN. Get a post hole digger, and an unemployed boy about to get released from county, and dig. Get down a foot, you should see water. Get down 5 feet, youll have water throughout the summer. Drop a 4 inch pvc with perferated sides down the hole, fill the sides and bottom with rocks, and make sure you have an inconspicuous cover for it.
POWER
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001DDBATS?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&tag=nextag-tools-tier3-delta-20&linkCode=asn
the smaller the diameter output x >hp = the more overhead lift.
or if youre not trying to make a ruckus and youve got an unemployeed boy about to get released from county...
http://www.survivalunlimited.com/waterpumps/sppricelist.htm
Dig a hole up top, line with logs, triple tarp it, and plumb it out the bottom for your drip lines down hill. Make a million and buy some land before the country defaults, the dollar fails, and youre left with only your material possesions
scrxbandit
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ohh, those creek beds are destined to have a dumb ass amount of rocks in them so make sure your boy has nothing more to live for
beginnerbloomer
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Once i process this when sober im sure it will be an ingenious solution,so thankyou.
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fureelz
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Actually creek beds can be good too, high in sand and fertile soil. depends on your geography tho
pressDUCK
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Something I have been mulling over in my head for awhile is buried milk crates (or something milk crate like). Dig a hole the depth of a milk crate and open it up to the width and lenght of your desired resevoir. Line the bottom and sides of the hole with black plastic, or rubber or something like that. Insert the milk crates upside down into the hole and cover with a water permeable material - like a weed block fabric or something like that, cheesecloth, you get the picture. Cover the whole thing up with soil except for enough of an area to scoop or siphon the water out, kinda fuzzy on how to get the water back out - was thinking of growing a plant in the resevoir but I think it would drown.
Anyways, what happens is every time it rains, the rain water soaks down into the milk crates and gets trapped above the plastic barrier. A little bit of math here: 231 cubic inches is one gallon of water. When it rains, 1 inch of rainfall is 1 cubic inch, so in this setup, 231 square inches of area will trap 1 gallon of water in the milk crates. Given a 1 foot square milk crate, each crate will yield .62 gallons per each inch of rain. With 9 milk crates (3x3 grid) assuming our 12 inch crates will give us (36*36) 1296 square inches of area. 1296 sq in divided by 231 gives a little more than 5.6. So for each inch of rainfall, 9 milkcrates will capture 5.6 gallons of water. To fully sate this setup will require 12 inches of water (again assuming 12 inch square crates) at which point the resevoir would have amassed 67.3 gallons of water. And of course a larger array of crates will trap a proportionally larger amount of water.
Not really sure of the practicality of this setup, but it keeps creeping back into my head. If there were some way to keep the roots from drowning or some way to aerate the water I think this would be just a peachy way to grow a maintenance free plant.
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Anyways, what happens is every time it rains, the rain water soaks down into the milk crates and gets trapped above the plastic barrier. A little bit of math here: 231 cubic inches is one gallon of water. When it rains, 1 inch of rainfall is 1 cubic inch, so in this setup, 231 square inches of area will trap 1 gallon of water in the milk crates. Given a 1 foot square milk crate, each crate will yield .62 gallons per each inch of rain. With 9 milk crates (3x3 grid) assuming our 12 inch crates will give us (36*36) 1296 square inches of area. 1296 sq in divided by 231 gives a little more than 5.6. So for each inch of rainfall, 9 milkcrates will capture 5.6 gallons of water. To fully sate this setup will require 12 inches of water (again assuming 12 inch square crates) at which point the resevoir would have amassed 67.3 gallons of water. And of course a larger array of crates will trap a proportionally larger amount of water.
Not really sure of the practicality of this setup, but it keeps creeping back into my head. If there were some way to keep the roots from drowning or some way to aerate the water I think this would be just a peachy way to grow a maintenance free plant.
kthanksbye
zerran elar
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Dig a pit and line with plastic, if it dont rain stock it before you plant...