Hey now lol. The main reason for needing some kind of automation is to cover me when I go away for a week at the end of October. The rest of the time I could get by.
I had a similar situation and I got an aquarium pump that I put in a large bucket of nutes and ran a six-line splitter hose, one to each pot and put the pump on a timer.
I set it to pump for a few minutes every day.
This gave the pots some water to survive on for the 3 or 4 days that I was away but wasn't in danger of flooding the plants.
The only real danger was a power loss that would stop the pump from working and the plants would not get enough water. Even if the electric went off for a time, when it came back on, the timer and pump would carry on working on a different schedule but still for only a few minutes a day.
This setup worked fine for being away for a few days.
The hoses did not all deliver the same amount of water so I had to test it out and identify the lines that delivered more and less water and then I allocated the lines to the plants that I knew liked more or less water. The difference is small anyway if you only have the water pumping for a few minutes at a time.
My setup delivered about 1 liter of water in about 5 minutes, so I adjusted the timer to give the plants about 1 liter of water a day. You could set up any sort of schedule you want, even a few shorter times more than once a day, or whatever.
As an emergency measure, it worked great, but you wouldn't want to use it regularly.
Do you seriously have no one that can water your plants while you are gone?
You don't really want to keep the plants wet all the time, so I would worry about a watering system that watered all the time. The plant does need to go through wet and dry cycles. Dripping water all the time could well drown the roots. While the Blumat system looks cool, I don't think it would be good for cannabis. From part of their literature: "... The Tropf Blumat system is always suitable when plant groupings require consistent moisture". As cannabis doe not require consistent moisture, I would worry about them. Also I see that there is no pump or timers--it is meant to be connected to a pressurized system. This could also be disaster indoors. If connecting to a bucket, it would have to be raised high enough to give you enough pressure for the drippers to operate correctly.
Do you seriously have no one that can water your plants while you are gone?
i dont see where anyone was rude to you, just a differing opinion.. i guess you overreacted that is not the best way to start out here. rather show us what your gear does and be positive, everyone loves to see dank, so show us your dankYou know, you always seem to contradict me for some reason.:argue: I've used them for a couple of years and haven't had a problem with them. They DON"T water all the time and my soil isn't soggy, that's where you'll have a problem with root rot or oxygen levels. As I've said, they are adjustable. You can have your plants as dry or wet as you wish. It's excellent for plants that require lots of water because you can adjust it so the soil is very damp/wet while you're away for a lengthy time. You can adjust it so that the soil contains just enough moisture so that the plants thrive very well, no matter what plants you have.
This place sucks. I was invited and told the peeps are very friendly here but even the most experienced with a long history here are prone to be assholes.
I have a lot to offer but if I have to argue my case, I'm not interested. I see a lot of stupid things said in many posts here and this place looks to be too, much work if I'm going to be contradicted, even when I've mentioned success over the course of a couple of years.
Good luck all!
You know, you always seem to contradict me for some reason.:argue: I've used them for a couple of years and haven't had a problem with them. They DON"T water all the time and my soil isn't soggy, that's where you'll have a problem with root rot or oxygen levels. As I've said, they are adjustable. You can have your plants as dry or wet as you wish. It's excellent for plants that require lots of water because you can adjust it so the soil is very damp/wet while you're away for a lengthy time. You can adjust it so that the soil contains just enough moisture so that the plants thrive very well, no matter what plants you have.
This place sucks. I was invited and told the peeps are very friendly here but even the most experienced with a long history here are prone to be assholes.
I have a lot to offer but if I have to argue my case, I'm not interested. I see a lot of stupid things said in many posts here and this place looks to be too, much work if I'm going to be contradicted, even when I've mentioned success over the course of a couple of years.
Good luck all!
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