Blaze & Daze

[TCH]

Got home late tonight and missed the feeding, but I can tell that they got fed and the water shut off. Looks like the system is gonna work just fine.

Just happened to remember right at 630 thus morning to run back and check on the timer and pump and it ran perfectly. The only "complaint" is that a small, constant drip comes out of the air bleed valve when it's running, but I suspect that's from the low pressure from my pump. Gonna run to Home Depot to get the union valve I need to hook up the larger pump in a few as soon as I finish getting Chicken N Noodles started in the crockpot.

 

[Rsawr]

One beep two beep. Hiya, you meep. :]

 

[DarkWeb]

Mornin

40° later, overcast all day, lots of rain to come.

How's everyone today?

 

[TCH]

Not really diet friendly, but good thing I'm an adult and I can do what I want!!!!! Haha

 

[DMChiz]

Youngest Son’s Saturday morning basketball and ain’t no way I’m replicating last weeks mistake. @StareCase would kill me. Coffee firmly in hand

 

[curious2garden]

Youngest Son’s Saturday morning basketball and ain’t no way I’m replicating last weeks mistake. @StareCase would kill me. Coffee firmly in hand
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Good morning, now I just need to remove my husband from blocking my access to the coffee pot! I need my coffee and he's not budging sigh.......

 

[shnkrmn]

My first timed event went off without a hitch or flood this morning.

"Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien."

O, Brave New World!

Good morning.

 

[DMChiz]

remove my husband from blocking my access to the coffee pot! I

Mornin! Agreed. We’re the worst. Or so my Wife tells me

 

[StareCase]

... @StareCase would kill me. Coffee firmly in hand ...

Would there be a backup mug close by as well?

 

[DMChiz]

Would there be a backup mug close by as well?

Sadly no, but there are no swimming lessons after basketball today, so the Good Ship Caffeine can make its way home for refuelling.

 

[Laughing Grass]

Any of you guys experiencing your hose coming out of your floraclips?

had one out yesterday and I noticed most of them had backed up quite a bit from where I had put them.

I think my pump is too powerful. The hoses move around a lot when the pump kicks on.

I added some rubber grommets to keep them in place.

 

[shnkrmn]

I haven't seen that with the same pump but I'll check. My tubing doesn't seem to move around either. But I'm distributing to 4 manifolds into 12 pots. The grommets are an easy solution.

 

[Laughing Grass]

I haven't seen that with the same pump but I'll check. My tubing doesn't seem to move around either. But I'm distributing to 4 manifolds into 12 pots. The grommets are an easy solution.

I’m not running that green pump. Got a 3/4hp pump in there.

 

[curious2garden]

Mornin! Agreed. We’re the worst. Or so my Wife tells me

Your wife sounds like a wise woman! Give her some coffee!!

 

[curious2garden]

I haven't seen that with the same pump but I'll check. My tubing doesn't seem to move around either. But I'm distributing to 4 manifolds into 12 pots. The grommets are an easy solution.

HA!! and I just managed to have many of them here woot, winning. Wait I maybe getting ahead of myself. Let me weeble upstairs and hunt for them before I crow.

 

[curious2garden]

Any of you guys experiencing your hose coming out of your floraclips?

had one out yesterday and I noticed most of them had backed up quite a bit from where I had put them.

I think my pump is too powerful. The hoses move around a lot when the pump kicks on.

I added some rubber grommets to keep them in place.

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Found them, genius, thanks!

 

[Rsawr]

I feel like I have spent 30 minutes watering my plants this week with a ye olde watering can, and you guys have spent hours fiddly farting with your hoses. Does the work curve eventually even out?

 

[TCH]

I feel like I have spent 30 minutes watering my plants this week with a ye olde watering can, and you guys have spent hours fiddly farting with your hoses. Does the work curve eventually even out?

At the risk of giving this comment more weight than we have already provided I have a question about a check valve for siphoning.

Does the valve have to be above the bubbler? Or does it just need to be spliced into the supply line anywhere?

I ask because it won't fit in the reservoir due to how I have it set up. I was thinking about putting it near the air bleed valve, but then I remembered opening that valve all the way up and the water still siphoning.

This is what I'm hoping to use.

 

[Jeffislovinlife]

Coffee to all may you have a great day and a better night

 

[shnkrmn]

I feel like I have spent 30 minutes watering my plants this week with a ye olde watering can, and you guys have spent hours fiddly farting with your hoses. Does the work curve eventually even out?

I've spent 7 whole minutes watering this week, so going forward I am going to gain 23 minutes a week on you. Plus it's fun and helpful to work out our kinks together and onlookers learn stuff too. What you call fiddly farting helps keep my aging brain supple.