Help Sick Plant

[Tom]

Here's a picture I managed to find of the reservoir and bottle end of the system:

[Tom]

Here is one of that plant dried out:

[Tom]

And one of the plant end of the watering system, the plant shown earlier is a seedling next to the top left dripper.

[Luke Skywalker]

Hey tugboat, check out my last grow in my sig, it's got some shots of some adjustable drippers I used in there I think.... somewhere

 

These ones could be adjusted from 1L/h to 10L/h, and they were great. One thing with drippers tho, I give them a preventative clean out with hot soapy water once a month or so, just to make sure they don't block. Nothing worse than leaving the grow and finding out they've only gotten 1/2 or 1/3 the water they were supposed to because the salts blocked up the drippers...

 

Just a tip for ya. You can get em at any bunnings or irrigation store.

[TUGBOAT]

Thanks Taz / Luke.

 

I've now set up the semi automated drip watering system. Seems to be working OK

 

Got myself a water storage container and some irrigation bits n pieces from Bunnings & Big W.

 

A couple of pics:

 

Fist up, a pic of the reservoir and my trusty PET bottle feeding some 19mm polypipe

[TUGBOAT]

The 19mm poly runs down the side of the cabinet and in through a 22mm hole I drilled into the side

[TUGBOAT]

The pipe runs along the rear interior of the cab and then up to the pot and into 19mm to 13mm reducer

[TUGBOAT]

It then joins a 13mm polypipe watering ring fitted with a couple of drippers. I didn't have much fun getting the drippers attached without the 4mm offtakes leaking. I am new to setting up irrigation but does anyone else have problems with the offtakes leaking. I tried both threaded and standard barbed offtakes - same problem. Maybe the softer 13mm pipe would prevent this I dunno. Anyway I just taped them up a bit which stopped most of the leaking and it drips into the pot anyway.

 

I ended up getting some variable flow drippers that seem to work pretty well.

[TUGBOAT]

Oh yeah. You may have noticed that I changed mediums. I repotted up to a larger pot and filled the top and bottom with expanded clay.

 

She seems to have taken the move well and hasn't looked better. The tray under the pot is to catch the runoff from waterings which will be placed in the garden outside (nothing goes to waste round ere)

 

Thanks again Taz / Luke. Watering has never been such a breeze. Now I have to think of another excuse to sit and look at Victoria Very Berry.

 

I shall continue her progress in a grow thread / diary I'll start shortly. I think she is almost ready for 12/12.

 

Tugboat

Edited December 18, 2003 by TUGBOAT

[Tom]

I found that sitting the drum on an old bar stool was much easier than having to lift it so high when full, use silastic or hot glue to seal any leaky joins.