How To Water While On Vacation

I am going on vacation for a week or so. My 2 plants are in about week 3 of flower and are using about 1/2 gal. each every 3 days. How can I get them water while away? Having someone else do it is not an option.

Thanx

This works great for me. You might be able to find it cheaper elsewhere....

http://www.amazon.com/Claber-8053-4-Programs-Automatic-Watering/dp/B000U5YFR4

Water/feed your plants, then set the containers into trays of water/solution and the soil will wick the water into the container as needed.

Water/feed and use a couple of those glass globes that stick above the topsoil, they're only like $2 dollars each.

Transplant to a larger container and water them into it thoroughly. They will take a week at least to grow into the new medium.

Have fun on vacation, make sure your timer is good to go!

Nitegazer said:

This works great for me. You might be able to find it cheaper elsewhere....

http://www.amazon.com/Claber-8053-4-Programs-Automatic-Watering/dp/B000U5YFR4

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Do as Nite says but look for cheaper all you need is a cheap tank and dripping system

az99 said:

I am going on vacation for a week or so. My 2 plants are in about week 3 of flower and are using about 1/2 gal. each every 3 days. How can I get them water while away? Having someone else do it is not an option.

Thanx

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just water them heavily right before you leave. they'll be fine. i've done it.

Here is what I did and it worked great -

I dropped a 460 gph pump into a 35 gallon trash can and hooked up a manifold with drip lines and drip sprinklers. The pump was plugged into a $20 digital timer than could turn on/off in increments of 1 minute. The real task is adjusting the individual sprinkler heads and adjusting the minutes per day and days per week to run the pump - once completed it works great.





At first I tried running loops around the plants with perforated drip line but found it much more difficult to control the rate (and they tended to clog). The sprinklers however are easily adjustable and really just drip - 4xx gph pump isn't enough to spray water.

I think this is the key component you're looking for - hydrofarm dual outlet digital timer. Can have up to I think 12 settings, you can choose single days of the week, every other day..., increments of 1 minute on/off.

http://www.google.com/products/catal...ed=0CDQQ8wIwAQ

Gastanker said:

Here is what I did and it worked great -

I dropped a 460 gph pump into a 35 gallon trash can and hooked up a manifold with drip lines and drip sprinklers. The pump was plugged into a $20 digital timer than could turn on/off in increments of 1 minute. The real task is adjusting the individual sprinkler heads and adjusting the minutes per day and days per week to run the pump - once completed it works great.

At first I tried running loops around the plants with perforated drip line but found it much more difficult to control the rate (and they tended to clog). The sprinklers however are easily adjustable and really just drip - 4xx gph pump isn't enough to spray water.

I think this is the key component you're looking for - hydrofarm dual outlet digital timer. Can have up to I think 12 settings, you can choose single days of the week, every other day..., increments of 1 minute on/off.

http://www.google.com/products/catal...ed=0CDQQ8wIwAQ

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That is a most excellent system for watering, how could you control the nutes going to the plants? Mixing them into the 35 gallon can? Did you have an O2 source to keep the nutes from becoming concentrated in certain areas?

Nite... I've been meaning to buy one of those but keep forgetting. It is now done!

Thanks for the reminder

-spek

I grow in 5 gallon pails indoors so it was easy for me. I put the 5gallon buket with plant into another 5 gallon pail with water in it. The bucket does not go all the way in and I ran 2 pieces ow cloth rag into bottom of the bucket with the plant and they hang into the water below to wick water up. works great.

I have an app on my phone that does it for me. I don't know how but the plants are alive when I get home. I'll post a link later.