eyeballsaul
Well-Known Member
Here is a cheap and easy tip for when you do not want to use a water pump or need to water plants in hard to reach places.
Say you want to use hydroton pebbles but do not wish to use water pumps or you have a large indoor garden and watering the medium in which the plants lie has became difficult. A cheap and easy solution to this is available-
What you need are-
Specific sized plastic containers to meet your needs, plastic bottles may do.
Garden hosing.
Some kind of organic sealant.
Plastic dripper arrows.
This is very simple all you need to do is connect the plastic containers to a fixing somewhere practical at about the same height as the top of the plant, even sit them on top of something outside the tent. Then join the garden hosing to the container, you can burn a hole into the plastic and the tightly force the hosing in. for example if i am using a 2l plastic bottle I will cut off the end of the bottle for appropriate pressure and then burn the hosing into the lid tightly.
next seal the other end of the garden hose (already being cut to the right length) and the attach one or two arrow drippers near the end of the hosing ( it is easier to connect 12mm piping to the hosing and then the drippers onto that). stab the drippers into the medium and fix the hosing into place(here you can even use string) ensuring that the hosing as at a steady gradient to the pot.
Thats it its only a container at the top connected to hosing feeding the plant with a dripper and held in place, all you need to do is fill the container with feed which may be outside of the grow space.
The main advantage of this is that it saves the hassle of moving about lots of plants, just make sure that all the plumbing is secure. Once set up if your plans are to create one harmonious canopy will not need tobe latered.
Say you want to use hydroton pebbles but do not wish to use water pumps or you have a large indoor garden and watering the medium in which the plants lie has became difficult. A cheap and easy solution to this is available-
What you need are-
Specific sized plastic containers to meet your needs, plastic bottles may do.
Garden hosing.
Some kind of organic sealant.
Plastic dripper arrows.
This is very simple all you need to do is connect the plastic containers to a fixing somewhere practical at about the same height as the top of the plant, even sit them on top of something outside the tent. Then join the garden hosing to the container, you can burn a hole into the plastic and the tightly force the hosing in. for example if i am using a 2l plastic bottle I will cut off the end of the bottle for appropriate pressure and then burn the hosing into the lid tightly.
next seal the other end of the garden hose (already being cut to the right length) and the attach one or two arrow drippers near the end of the hosing ( it is easier to connect 12mm piping to the hosing and then the drippers onto that). stab the drippers into the medium and fix the hosing into place(here you can even use string) ensuring that the hosing as at a steady gradient to the pot.
Thats it its only a container at the top connected to hosing feeding the plant with a dripper and held in place, all you need to do is fill the container with feed which may be outside of the grow space.
The main advantage of this is that it saves the hassle of moving about lots of plants, just make sure that all the plumbing is secure. Once set up if your plans are to create one harmonious canopy will not need tobe latered.