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rsbigdaddy

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my buddy has a 99 plant grow he was asking if it would work if it put in a drip sysrem 1 of the 5 gallon per hour dripper per pot they are 12 feet apart so I say the rarest pot is 170 feet away from water but it all down hill would that work trying to make it easy to water
 
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Larry {the} Gardener

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5 gallons X 99 plants is 495 gallons per hour, and 11,880 gallons a day. I'm assuming you wouldn't run it all the time. Does he plan on a solar charger or will he be lugging batteries out there?

Or did you mean the whole system pumps 5 gallons per hour? That would be 120 gallons, but just barely over a gallon per plant. Either way would have it's challenges.

I have heard of using soaker hoses hooked to a garden hose. If it's downhill, you just start the water flowing with suction, then wait a couple three hours while it runs.
 
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rsbigdaddy

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Larry {the} Gardener said:
5 gallons X 99 plants is 495 gallons per hour, and 11,880 gallons a day. I'm assuming you wouldn't run it all the time. Does he plan on a solar charger or will he be lugging batteries out there?

Or did you mean the whole system pumps 5 gallons per hour? That would be 120 gallons, but just barely over a gallon per plant. Either way would have it's challenges.

I have heard of using soaker hoses hooked to a garden hose. If it's downhill, you just start the water flowing with suction, then wait a couple three hours while it runs.
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rsbigdaddy

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It would not run all day just 2 hours there is a well and also there power there just trying to find better way to water all 99 of theme for nutes have big totes with a pump
 
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rsbigdaddy

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Larry {the} Gardener said:
5 gallons X 99 plants is 495 gallons per hour, and 11,880 gallons a day. I'm assuming you wouldn't run it all the time. Does he plan on a solar charger or will he be lugging batteries out there?

Or did you mean the whole system pumps 5 gallons per hour? That would be 120 gallons, but just barely over a gallon per plant. Either way would have it's challenges.

I have heard of using soaker hoses hooked to a garden hose. If it's downhill, you just start the water flowing with suction, then wait a couple three hours while it runs.
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Larry {the} Gardener

Larry {the} Gardener

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rsbigdaddy said:
That drip lines say 5 gallon per hour per drip line
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I got you. Is he trying to mix his nutes in the water? If so, maybe try to find a 200 gallon plastic tank, fill it with water from the well, add the nutes, then run it down to the grow with gravity and the drip system. With power and a well, how ever he decides to go, it will be doable.
 
Larry {the} Gardener

Larry {the} Gardener

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If he was wanting to do it on the cheap, I have made soaker hoses for my garden by drilling holes in cheap hose. He could run one good hose down to the grow, then split it off from there to the plants. Those brass 4 way splitters are about $12. Maybe 5 of those for 16 lines, then a pile of the cheap plastic two way splitters. Are all 99 of them in separate holes? That is going to be a lot of hose, assuming he leaves the hoses laying. The way I use soaker hoses in the garden is to just barely turn them on, and leave it like that all summer. I only turn off if there is lots and lots of rain.
 
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rsbigdaddy

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Larry {the} Gardener said:
If he was wanting to do it on the cheap, I have made soaker hoses for my garden by drilling holes in cheap hose. He could run one good hose down to the grow, then split it off from there to the plants. Those brass 4 way splitters are about $12. Maybe 5 of those for 16 lines, then a pile of the cheap plastic two way splitters. Are all 99 of them in separate holes? That is going to be a lot of hose, assuming he leaves the hoses laying. The way I use soaker hoses in the garden is to just barely turn them on, and leave it like that all summer. I only turn off if there is lots and lots of rain.
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There all in 100 gallon pots
 
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