How to terraponic with blumat?

wwfjdraw

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I have a terraponic bed that I inherited, but I use blumat, I only have 3 blumat cones and with a desire to grow more than 3 plants, to fill up the terraponic bed and I do not want to purchase more cones, I also do not want to have a pump going all the time because of the power bill. Is there a way to just have a watering system used with this terraponic bed and blutmats?

The best idea I can come up with is to have the blumat cones in the terraponic bed with the bed filled with hydroton and the cones planted in the hydroton, then fabric pots planted in the hydroton and when the hydroton is too dry the blumats could then feed into the hydroton till the cone gets wet enough with feed to stop.


Anything better please? Many good Karma Vibes.
 

wwfjdraw

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I've been looking for anything online that has an demo of Terraponics with Blumat and seems there is nothing to find, guess that means I will be the first. I currently have 4 plants in my grow tent. I have 3 Blumat cones and 1 Terraponic table. I suppose the current plan before it goes in to effect is to take the plants that are just seedlings and place them from the peat pellets in to pots that are 1 gallon (or as close to 1 gallon as possible), filled with hydroton and coco and place on the Terraponic bed. I am going to plug up the holes of the bed with something so that it takes less feed to fill it to the trench lines of where the pots will absorb the feed, the Blumat cone will sit in the biggest trench in the middle and will fill up the trench from the cones feed line that comes with Blumat, this will be my first time feeding an entire Terraponic bed trench lines with just one cone and my first time using a Terraponic bed period. There will be no air pump like DWC, I don't think that will be necessary. Please growers share your thoughts.
 
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