Please help with watering system

I’m a few weeks into my first grow. My seedlings in solo cups seemed to rarely need water but now I’ve potted up to 1 gallon fabric pots and am watering every few days. I’m on rural water which isn’t pure enough, so I’m using RO to feed plants.

I work a lot, pretty much every day, so any way I can minimize processes, the better. I just set up an auto fill RO humidifier that works great. I’m filling 1 gallon water jugs and PH balancing each one. I’m not yet feeding but I know that will come soon (currently in fox farms 1/2 HF and 1/2 OF). Can someone recommend a good way to mix and water that can be done once a week? I’ve seen a couple people use “culligan” style 10 gallon jugs, and a battery powered pump. Is this my answer?

in summary, how do you mix your watering mixes? I’m not wealthy but I’m old enough that I’d probably spend extra for convenience. Over budget.

Currently growing 1 Durban poison, 2 northern lights autos in a 3x3 tent. DP is about day 18. NL’s are 10 days behind.

Blumats. Google it.

Recycle bins from homeydepot

Use a submersible aquarium pump connected to drip line, controlled by a timer. It's pretty cheap to get the parts and put it together.

For setting up a drip system, is it just trial and error how much to give them? Is there some rule of thumb for quantities on 1 gallon, 3 gallon, and 5 gallon fabric pots?

Autopots! Feed once a week and forget it.

cball said:

For setting up a drip system, is it just trial and error how much to give them? Is there some rule of thumb for quantities on 1 gallon, 3 gallon, and 5 gallon fabric pots?

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Yeah, it's gonna depend on the flow rate of the dippers you get, and how many of them you use per pot. I like 4 drippers per pot, and usually use the 1gph ones with pressure compensating emitters.