show and tell about your automated drip/sprayer systems

[tick tack toe]

here is mine and still trying to dail it in. I've got mine in 8 liter smart pots and at around 1.4ec currently. What EC does everyone run here?

I feed 3 times a day. 2 hours after lights on (where I look for 10%-20% runoff), middle and 2 hours before lights off (where I look for a few drops of runoff).

Currently day 35

 

[guerrilla medic]

that looks nice bro. what strain are you running? are you using sprayers? i have been feeding at 550pppm .5conversion(1.1ec) pretty much all the way through flower. did you begin by hitting them once per light cycle and increase to 3 times?

 

[tick tack toe]

The one on the left in Blue Dream and on the right is trainwreck. Both are from seed (HSO). I still need to work on my feeding frequency as I think I keep feeding too fast too soon. In my last transplant (3.6L to 8L) I feed every third day for the first week and then the second week I switched to once day. I waited until I feed close to 600ml per day before switching to 3 times a day. I think during training the plants I might water less often so it builds up it roots better. How does everyone here do it .... what do you look for when increasing feeding?

 

[guerrilla medic]

throw up some pics of your pump and irrigation system if you get a chance...and feel free to throw up as many flower pics as you want!

 

[tick tack toe]

Yea I like the flower pictures too. Shame that the flower pictures are only around day 40 now cause ...I hate t breaks

here are my drippers. each dripper gives me 100ml each 3 minutes. They are also self cleaning so they don't block up.


I bought this system for my first ever grow in soil about 10 years ago (to use while on holiday). The timer that comes with it doesn't have the options I want so I just use it on manual and then have a digital timer to make it go. I run a 30 liter bucket so it last about a week before it needs refilling.

 

[guerrilla medic]

 

[guerrilla medic]

 

[guerrilla medic]

Dyna-gro 7-9-5, epsom, cal-mag. I have built quite a few of these systems and been running them steadily for almost a year and have yet to have a single clogged sprayer.

 

[ttystikk]

Those look like unprotected 315W lamps you're running bare over your crop. Is that intentional?

 

[guerrilla medic]

there are four 600w hps in there. Unprotected? Bare? I'm lost brother.

 

[ttystikk]

there are four 600w hps in there. Unprotected? Bare? I'm lost brother.

Never mind lol, I was going to ask about how to run them bare n vertical but wrong lamp!

 

[guerrilla medic]

30 days of flower

 

[since1991]

What are you using to cool them 4 600 watters? Parabolic hoods are sweet arent they? I always did like them for the reflective spread.

 

[guerrilla medic]

i have a 1300 cfm gable fan mounted to the ceiling at the end of the room. its on a thermostat set at 80. box fans blowing the air around the room. i love parabolics. for thousands i mount the bulbs horizontally. people clown on em sometimes as old technology, which they are, but some good things never die.

 

[since1991]

Cervantes gave parabolics an unjustified bad rap back in the day in my opinion. In certain apps they are ideal actually. I bet in the warmer months that gable fan is on all the time?? Intake?

 

[guerrilla medic]

yeah during summer its on more than its off. this time of year it barely comes on though. my intake is just cracking the door. its a 9x19 room built inside my garage thats insulated very well. lights are only ran at night so summer comes and lights are out by 745am the room gets cooled off for a couple hours before it gets hot out. not a real high tech system but the room has ran very well for almost 10 years. i used to have 4 thousands and 4 sixes in there but i got in a little bit of trouble 6 years ago and thinned down the operation. i had like 3 other rooms going at the same place powered by a 12.5kw diesel generator. now i just play by the rules lol. what kinda show you have going at the moment? throw some pics up.

 

[since1991]

Iam on a cheap metro phone. Dont know how to put pics up. Id like to. Iam running 8 Gavita 6/750's in my basement at the moment with a 30,000 btu mini split and a santa fe classic dehumidifier. Running bottled co2 in a closed room using silver backed foam board cap nailed to 2x4 framing. Plants in coco coir in 1 to 3 gallon root pots and grow bags on a simple drip system draining to my sump well. At some other places in town i was running tables for drain to waste but ive since shut these down. Running a sealed room with ac and heavy duty dehueys is frikin expensive no doubt. Sometimes i think about going back to a vented room and ditching co2. I could run some of my older lamps to make up for the weight loss and still save on my electric bill. Shit is expensive anymore. Weed prices falling big time in med states. Iam in michigan and prices have fell considerably in the last few years.

 

[since1991]

Oh....for veg i have a 6x6x6 tent with 3 8 bulb four foot t5' lamps. Nice bushes get put in the bloom room on a timed basis. Perpetual saves me alot of money on electric costs.

 

[Mtn man]

Been feeding these two by hand in coco,canna nutes & interested in a auto dripper

 

[guerrilla medic]

automation is awesome brother. hand watering two plants probably isn't so bad. are you mixing up nutrients for every watering or are you using a reservoir already?