Hi, to cut a long story short my father is in hospital. I live in one city, him and my mother another city and he is in hospital in a third city.
He has 3 plants back home with auto-timed lights, and normally waters and feeds them regularly himself. However, because he is in hospital none of us will be able to regularly take care of them so I need to set up a way for the plants to be left unattended but still be able to get adequate water and nutrients, enough to be left unattended for say two weeks at a time maybe, or as long as possible
His current set up is just them under auto lights in pots, they are at the flowering stage and in a light/dark cycle as far as I know
So, my questions are:
I have researched growing myself and often saw hydroponic set-ups where the plants would be in some sort of big plastic bucket filled with water and nutrients and the roots would just grow into the water and no actual soil/pots were needed. If this is true, then I was thinking, fill their bathtub up with water, put a big piece of wood over it with holes for the plants and just set them up in there and fill the tub with nutrients to last the two or so weeks (still in the right proportion and right pH).
So my question is, is this a good idea? Will it work? Are there better ways of accomplishing a self-sustained set-up? Can I even transfer them out of the soil into a hydro set-up (sorry, I am pretty newb I have never done my own grow before) Any advice to accomplish a set-up that can be left for two weeks at a time.
tl;dr
Sorry, no cliffs please read it I would appreciate it so much. I don't want the plants to die as my dad is in intensive care unit, he nearly died and would be really happy to come home to healthy plants.
Thank you so much guys!
He has 3 plants back home with auto-timed lights, and normally waters and feeds them regularly himself. However, because he is in hospital none of us will be able to regularly take care of them so I need to set up a way for the plants to be left unattended but still be able to get adequate water and nutrients, enough to be left unattended for say two weeks at a time maybe, or as long as possible
His current set up is just them under auto lights in pots, they are at the flowering stage and in a light/dark cycle as far as I know
So, my questions are:
I have researched growing myself and often saw hydroponic set-ups where the plants would be in some sort of big plastic bucket filled with water and nutrients and the roots would just grow into the water and no actual soil/pots were needed. If this is true, then I was thinking, fill their bathtub up with water, put a big piece of wood over it with holes for the plants and just set them up in there and fill the tub with nutrients to last the two or so weeks (still in the right proportion and right pH).
So my question is, is this a good idea? Will it work? Are there better ways of accomplishing a self-sustained set-up? Can I even transfer them out of the soil into a hydro set-up (sorry, I am pretty newb I have never done my own grow before) Any advice to accomplish a set-up that can be left for two weeks at a time.
tl;dr
Sorry, no cliffs please read it I would appreciate it so much. I don't want the plants to die as my dad is in intensive care unit, he nearly died and would be really happy to come home to healthy plants.
Thank you so much guys!
