easy outdoor nute watering

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4cyl5spd

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here's a lil trick so your plants can get the nutes they need when your not around. cut the bottom of a 2L jug out so it's like a trailer park boys cereal bowl. add a dose of nutes into it. fill it up halfway with water. place under your plant. done.

next time it rains, it will fill up with rain water diluting it more so and overflowing out of the bowl giving it the nutes it craves. don't want to cut your 2L bottle too high cuz some nutes will settle at the bottom, and never spill over. that and taller bottles have a tendency to keel over easier if bumped by an animal or wind blows it over. you want it shallow enough so that the rain hitting it will disperse it up again too. don't wanna over nute either, or may burn/kill your plants if it ever keeled over in concentrate. just a little bit is fine. it's better than none, which is what you'd have if you don't try this! :blsmoke:
 
Covert

Covert

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nutriants, usually nitrogen-phosphorus and potassium... There is a thread on slang terms in the newbie centeral fourm.
 
4mySoul

4mySoul

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Ya man, sounds dope, I was thinking of having a large bucket with a slit near the bottom allowing for a very slow steady stream of nutes/water. I guess I just completely over looked the easiest solution. But hey, you wouldn't want there to be much room from the water level you first add and the top of the bottle or else you would need a fairly big rainfall to spill 'er over. 2" maybe?
here's a though
to be almost guaranteed your 2L bottle wont tip over you could tie one piece of string around the bottom lip of the bottle cap and then around the stem of your plant also close to the ground. Near the top of the bottle (which would actully be the bottom if the bottle was in a store) cut another small hole and with string tie that further up the stem. hmm... burying it would also work. both cost effective and you wouldn't risk giving your plant a big dump of nutes... maybe im baked...
 
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4cyl5spd

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4mySoul said:
Ya man, sounds dope, I was thinking of having a large bucket with a slit near the bottom allowing for a very slow steady stream of nutes/water. I guess I just completely over looked the easiest solution. But hey, you wouldn't want there to be much room from the water level you first add and the top of the bottle or else you would need a fairly big rainfall to spill 'er over. 2" maybe?
here's a though
to be almost guaranteed your 2L bottle wont tip over you could tie one piece of string around the bottom lip of the bottle cap and then around the stem of your plant also close to the ground. Near the top of the bottle (which would actully be the bottom if the bottle was in a store) cut another small hole and with string tie that further up the stem. hmm... burying it would also work. both cost effective and you wouldn't risk giving your plant a big dump of nutes... maybe im baked...
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lol! the best ideas come from being baked! :joint:
 
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el quetal

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Seems like a good idea, but have you tried it yet? I think Ill use this for my guerrilla tree grow, placing it on the trees stem above the plant so itll drip down to it.
 
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4cyl5spd

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my last 3 grows. when I first tried it, It was more an experiment. took a patch of 8 plants. 4 with the 'nute bowl', as I call em, and the other 4 w/o. there was a foot to half foot difference between the 2. they were in the 6-7 foot range. not sure how much more the nute bowled plants yeilded but visually they seemed to have more bud. now I just do it to all of em and grow me some monsters!
 
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4cyl5spd

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other things that happen are they dry out if it gets persistently dry. so everytime I go back to water em, I'd make a new nute bowl cocktail hoping the rain comes again soon before it dries out again.
 
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