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BigDoobie

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I just set mine up, 3rd day today. I'm also trying to divorce hand watering, its not fun anymore. After I set up my blumats I poured the water I soaked them in into my pot. Next morning the drop of water on all the tips were gone I was just wondering if its normal. I already had my first run while setting it up I walked out the room and left the knob to one of the sensors open. It wasn't shooting water out at first but decided it wanted to after I left.

While setting up the blumats I was thinking that you could set up a watering system using gravity. Just like the blumats but without the sensors. That way you can do teas and water from the same reservoir. I hate making teas. Instead of making a self filling float system, couldn't you just use a bigger tank?
 
ShLUbY

ShLUbY

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BigDoobie said:
I just set mine up, 3rd day today. I'm also trying to divorce hand watering, its not fun anymore. After I set up my blumats I poured the water I soaked them in into my pot. Next morning the drop of water on all the tips were gone I was just wondering if its normal. I already had my first run while setting it up I walked out the room and left the knob to one of the sensors open. It wasn't shooting water out at first but decided it wanted to after I left.

While setting up the blumats I was thinking that you could set up a watering system using gravity. Just like the blumats but without the sensors. That way you can do teas and water from the same reservoir. I hate making teas. Instead of making a self filling float system, couldn't you just use a bigger tank?
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dialing in the blumats isn't gonna be a set it and forget it thing i dont think. each plant is gonna have its own water needs, so i feel they'll need to be adjusted throughout the grows.... just a hypothesis.

yes, i'm going to use a bigger tank, and a self filling system (eventually). i'm gonna be running hopefully 8 no-tills in flower so i'd like to not even have to worry about it by having it self fill! I know what you mean by the gravity watering... have you ever heard of Passive Hydro tables? you use rocks like scoria and pumice to wick water naturally to the soil from below, pretty much how a water table works in nature. it's remarkable stuff, and i'd like to try it out one day. hydro table with water and rocks and the water is level with the rocks. you set an empty fabric pot on top of the rocks and put some pumice in the bottom of it, then nest your fabric grow pot with the plant and amended soil inside the empty one. the pumice will wick water naturally up to the soil, and the soil will absorb the correct amount of moisture all the time. i forget who has this set up, saw it in the beginning of the ROLS thread.

as for not brewing teas.... have you considered the OG tea veganic special sauce? it's probably not as good as compost tea, but it supposed to be some good shit. i just don't want to use all my expensive worm castings to make the compost tea, so until i get my worm farm up and running, i'll be using special sauce with the vegamatrix stuff.
 
BobBitchen

BobBitchen

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first time Blumat user here, gonna follow along, see if I can get a few pointers in set up & control, been lurking your thread for awhile Shluby,
Im also new to ROLS, on my second run, Iv learned alot from your questions & answers, keep up the good work bro....
bob
 
ShLUbY

ShLUbY

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BobBitchen said:
first time Blumat user here, gonna follow along, see if I can get a few pointers in set up & control, been lurking your thread for awhile Shluby,
Im also new to ROLS, on my second run, Iv learned alot from your questions & answers, keep up the good work bro....
bob
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thanks Bob, glad to have you along! this is why i like the thread much better than the journal. gives everyone a chance to share in one spot. good stuff bongsmilie

how was your first run?
 
BobBitchen

BobBitchen

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ShLUbY said:
thanks Bob, glad to have you along! this is why i like the thread much better than the journal. gives everyone a chance to share in one spot. good stuff bongsmilie

how was your first run?
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A learning process for sure, I was happy with the first go.
Still learning, I need to up my pot size, I'm only in 3gal bags now,
Ànd the plants water use is much different than straight pro mix I'm used to.
I havn"t got to the point of it being "easier " yet, but I enjoy the process.
Been feeding only aact's & sst's
 
ShLUbY

ShLUbY

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BobBitchen said:
A learning process for sure, I was happy with the first go.
Still learning, I need to up my pot size, I'm only in 3gal bags now,
Ànd the plants water use is much different than straight pro mix I'm used to.
I havn"t got to the point of it being "easier " yet, but I enjoy the process.
Been feeding only aact's & sst's
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yeah 3 is a little small for sure. not necessarily a bad thing when it comes to watering though. just think they need a little room to stretch. i like a container that requires water every 2-3 days. this IMO increases CEC greatly, but also puts you on the verge of being rootbound.... but requires less soil... there are pros and cons lol. i just feel like soggy roots from having too large of a container have burned me in the past with a little less yield.
 
BobBitchen

BobBitchen

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Im fighting height problems all the time, 7' high tents with a flood tables has me fighting almost everything, except clone scrog's or sog's, but Iv been running all seed's of late.That's another reason for me going to blumats, I'll be able to remove the tables, I'll gain 14".
 
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BigDoobie

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I thought about that, they call it a SIP system. I wasn't too fond of the idea so I went the blumat route. I'll have to look into the special sauce.
 
Smidge34

Smidge34

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I'm following along myself as hand watering 18+ plants sux. I'm considering using a modified version of the kiddie pool method indoors, similar to this trial run I did outdoors last season. I just sat my "ghetto" smart pot on top of a bed of perlite in a cheap tote. I drilled a couple of overflow holes just below the height of the perlite and the roots do the rest.
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ShLUbY

ShLUbY

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whats the bottle for on top??

Smidge34 said:
I'm following along myself as hand watering 18+ plants sux. I'm considering using a modified version of the kiddie pool method indoors, similar to this trial run I did outdoors last season. I just sat my "ghetto" smart pot on top of a bed of perlite in a cheap tote. I drilled a couple of overflow holes just below the height of the perlite and the roots do the rest.
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Smidge34

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And btw, that's wheat growing out of the pots that came up from the straw mulch I use. The wheat was grown in the field directly beside my house, which for some strange reason turns me on, lol, and I just left it to shade the soil as a living mulch. Plus, if I'm not mistaken, wheat actually fixes nitrogen instead if depleting. Don't quote me on that though. Fits my narrative anywho lol.
 
ShLUbY

ShLUbY

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Smidge34 said:
And btw, that's wheat growing out of the pots that came up from the straw mulch I use. The wheat was grown in the field directly beside my house, which for some strange reason turns me on, lol, and I just left it to shade the soil as a living mulch. Plus, if I'm not mistaken, wheat actually fixes nitrogen instead if depleting. Don't quote me on that though. Fits my narrative anywho lol.
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my barley straw mulch is sprouting seeds in all my pots right now lol. i have a couple no-till cooking with living mulch. they're ready to plant, but i'm not ready yet lol. veg room needs sorted out still. had too much other stuff to do lately.
 
ShLUbY

ShLUbY

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Confidential Cheese @ 21 days tomorrow....

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these are gonna have some impressive arms up top... really excited to see them in a couple more weeks.


9lb hammer ~15 days i think.... just starting some flowers. this is a fast finisher. been pulling her at 50 days so far. i might let this one go 55 or something just to see if there's a difference in the final product.

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Black Domina @ 12 days... REALLY happy after their watering today!

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some serious praying effect going on there!

Everything is going to get another Neem + bicarbonate bath within the next few days. It will be my last foliar on the Con Cheese, after that it'll be "by hand" combat if the PM gets to be a problem. Been 10 days since i last treated her, and i saw one spot on each plant with a tiny amount of PM showing. i was carefully inspecting them up close. I still need to get that damn germicidal bulb....
 
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@DonPetro I had to fill the bucket yesterday for the blumats. it had about just less than a gallon in it. i think 4 no-tills on one 5 gal bucket is gonna be an every other day fill kinda thing when they get mature.

EDIT: today all my no tills had entirely too much water in them and they were saturated to the point of slow dripping out the bottom. so i closed off the blumats to get them to stop dripping....
 
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Vnsmkr

Vnsmkr

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ShLUbY said:
Confidential Cheese @ 21 days tomorrow....

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these are gonna have some impressive arms up top... really excited to see them in a couple more weeks.


9lb hammer ~15 days i think.... just starting some flowers. this is a fast finisher. been pulling her at 50 days so far. i might let this one go 55 or something just to see if there's a difference in the final product.

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Black Domina @ 12 days... REALLY happy after their watering today!

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some serious praying effect going on there!

Everything is going to get another Neem + bicarbonate bath within the next few days. It will be my last foliar on the Con Cheese, after that it'll be "by hand" combat if the PM gets to be a problem. Been 10 days since i last treated her, and i saw one spot on each plant with a tiny amount of PM showing. i was carefully inspecting them up close. I still need to get that damn germicidal bulb....
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I forgot I also got neem pellets in my soil mix. Neem cake pelletized
 
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anzohaze

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ShLUbY said:
dialing in the blumats isn't gonna be a set it and forget it thing i dont think. each plant is gonna have its own water needs, so i feel they'll need to be adjusted throughout the grows.... just a hypothesis.

yes, i'm going to use a bigger tank, and a self filling system (eventually). i'm gonna be running hopefully 8 no-tills in flower so i'd like to not even have to worry about it by having it self fill! I know what you mean by the gravity watering... have you ever heard of Passive Hydro tables? you use rocks like scoria and pumice to wick water naturally to the soil from below, pretty much how a water table works in nature. it's remarkable stuff, and i'd like to try it out one day. hydro table with water and rocks and the water is level with the rocks. you set an empty fabric pot on top of the rocks and put some pumice in the bottom of it, then nest your fabric grow pot with the plant and amended soil inside the empty one. the pumice will wick water naturally up to the soil, and the soil will absorb the correct amount of moisture all the time. i forget who has this set up, saw it in the beginning of the ROLS thread.

as for not brewing teas.... have you considered the OG tea veganic special sauce? it's probably not as good as compost tea, but it supposed to be some good shit. i just don't want to use all my expensive worm castings to make the compost tea, so until i get my worm farm up and running, i'll be using special sauce with the vegamatrix stuff.
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@Rrog uses blumats he knows the deal he was helping me as I had questions
 
ShLUbY

ShLUbY

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anzohaze said:
@Rrog uses blumats he knows the deal he was helping me as I had questions
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thanks, i'll ask him a few Q's if i can't solve this on my own. dialed back the drippers so they no longer drip in the ones that feel wet on the bottom of the pot still. I have one bed dialed in pretty good. the other three should sort out over the next week i'm thinking.
 
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