Automated Drip System in Soil

green_machine_two9er said:

Look at BluMat systems. They are the best by far for soil. The plant controllers the flow of water. Not the timer and human.... put nature in controll.

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Do you get runoff with those though?? I’ve heard they work well , but those “carrots” fault all the time.

SBBCal said:

Do you get runoff with those though?? I’ve heard they work well , but those “carrots” fault all the time.

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No runoff once it’s dialed in. The key is to have soil properly moistened before setting up carrots. The biggest thing that causes the “faults” is just dirty reserve. Any tiny debris will clog the valve, which opens based on soil moisture. So if one gets plugged, soil dries way to much, until the value comes to full open: then yes you will have a “runaway carrot”.

I love em, they take getting used to for sure. The easiest by far is to by the attachment tohook directly to hose, no reserve. Ez pz

I've used drip tube and drip tape for decades. On everything. Including hundreds of acres of grapes and tree fruit. I grow veganic outdoors weed. I make sure the wet surface of the soil doesn't reach right up to the crown root. Drip subsurface wet zones look like onions. The crown root area will appear dry, but the water will move laterally enough. So the roots get water, but the crown remains dry. I don't like to see emitters right on the base of a plant. Leads to crown rot. When the plants get maybe a foot tall I keep the emitters or tape along the drip line, or edge of canopy. Or even a little further away. I keep that zone replenished with water. Doesn't dry out. The plant will send roots to that zone, or pull roots back as water is needed. Like a reservoir. I have left and come back a week later with no problem. I can't speak to irrigating in pots.

green_machine_two9er said:

Look at BluMat systems. They are the best by far for soil. The plant controllers the flow of water. Not the timer and human.... put nature in controll.

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Im going to look into this ASAP. Thank you

Yea I'm already sick of watering in a small tent.

I'm about to get some halos, tubing and a bucket to pour my solution into from outside of the tent.

Run the tubing from bottom of bucket to the halos and pour in solution. Im never bending over again to water.

As green_machine_two9er said, blumats are the way to go. Fill up a 20 gallon reservoir, then go take a nice bike in the wood,