No these are the 8 bar mammoth lighting lights.
It’s about 12in from my highest canopy right now. I’ll need it move my lights up even more as I get closer to harvest
How can I take my set up and upgrade it into an auto matic watering system, without buying a new growing system?
Hook up drip line and a timer. Guys down at your local grow store should be able to show you conceptually how to hook up the drip line.
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Blumats, resevoir/sump pump/drip lines, or those watering bulbs in the garden center.
Looking good, I’d defoliate it so the bud sites get as much light as you can give them but that’s personal preference. Try lots of styles of growing, take everyone’s advice, and learn what works for you and your garden.
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Personally I like the netafim drippers that you can choose the actual output on - the fuckers even have air valves in them. I set mine up like a parallel electronics circuit so the flow goes back to the res but the pump has enough oomph to it that it keeps pressure in the lines and allows dripping but the dumping will keep the shit from building up in the drippers itself but I have the vinyl lines going from end to end of the circuit via a parallel circuit.
Ex:
It’s funny because if you think about it DC electronics is a lot like water. Actually a lot of the time that’s how they teach you how to expect current flow in DC, is to think of it like water - the path of least resistance. If the flow starts out on the plus end of things and drains out on the minus end of things it’s very easy to visualize in a circuit like that how things will end up. Obviously ignore the resistances listed on the picture as they don’t have much to do with the conceptualization of how you’d set up a drip system unless we’re getting into more variables that will make it way more confusing.
Just like Jeremy said a timer works wonders for this, I personally like the 15 minute at a time ones for these and will stagger them instead of feeding everything at once as a form of ghetto drybacking
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You can get pretty far with some supplies from home depot as well. Just grab some rain drip emitter tubing 6" spacing and create drip rings out of it. Works fine for plain water or hydro nutes if you run cleaner occasionally.
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Home Depot’s not gonna have the guys there to show ya how to hook it all up properly though. Trust me, I’ve worked at a Home Depot before.
For a first time grower, going to the grow store and just talking to someone knowledgeable in person can be huge. Long as they’re not just tryna upsell you on everything.
Come to think of it, I’ve used these for terrarium misting systems:
https://www.amazon.com/RAINPOINT-Automatic-Watering-Irrigation-Self-Watering/dp/B09GYDBC7Y/
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Everything automated has a failure rate. Plan ahead for flood control. A pond liner in a wood and plywood frame at the bottom of your tent could prevent a catastrophe. Black plastic mortar mixing tubs from home depot can work ok, too.
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I have lots of carpeting is it smart to go automated?
You need concrete and floor drains before you think about automatically watering. If you can’t feed six on your own then your job should be paying you enough to get you shit from the dispensary.meaning @DrLoud not @Autumn_Ridge_Hemp
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I can feed 7 plants on my own, it’s just a hassle to keep feeding the way I do. feeding the first three plants is easy, they are in front of the tent, it’s the last 4 that become a problem, they grew so vigorously and blocked all good options for getting the water through.
But thanks for your advice.
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Just get a long watering wand. I like to make mine from 1/2” copper pipe.
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I just made a nice level platform to put my tent on and I dump the water right into the ‘tray’ in the tent.
Gotta check to make it’s water tight, but that made watering easy as shit for me.
Feel like everyone’s making this more complicated than it needs to be for a first time grower.
Assuming your tent is 4x4? Put this on the floor and you’ll never ruin your carpet.
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Get that, not sure people reccomending concrete and pond liners read the assignment here.
Get a 20 gallon trash can (reservoir), a cheap water pump, some 3/4” black irrigation line (main water line), and 1/4” lines with emitters.
$100 on the flood table, around $100 for the rest of those materials, and you’ll have automatic watering without a chance of flooding and ruining your carpet. The 20 gallons will never be enough to overflow that flood table, even if something goes wrong wrong.
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I have defoliated to the best of my ability. I am strictly feeding nutty at the moment.
30 days into flower. 30 more days to go, I hope.
How can I improve my yield atm, is it worth it fixing my light penetration on lower nodes. I don’t want to cut my girls off.
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Looks decent for a first time. Not sure what you can do for yield at this point, just keep on keeping on lol.
Next run I’d cut more lower branches off. I personally don’t think it improves yield in tents but you get bigger tops and less larf.
Overall good job!
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Get some source of CO2 if you don’t already. Might be a waste of money using a full co2 tank+regulator in a tent, since most of it is just going to escape the tent.
Maybe find one of those mushroom grow bag kits that releases co2 as a byproduct, or I think they have kits based on baking soda
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Isn’t co2 a waste unless you’ve already dialed everything else in as well?
I swore that’s the consensus. Plus the tent thing like you mentioned.
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