Blumat watering system

Jjgrow420

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You aren't going to 'diy blumats'. Either way to automate watering for 40 plants you're gonna pay a couple hundred bucks.
 

Gadget's

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Get yourself a wavemaker or two. Some people use small pumps, but they can raise the water temp quicker if that's an issue. Air stones supposedly raise the ph quicker, and I hate their rigid hoses.
Would either the wave maker or air stone tamper with flow in your experience? Or get air in your lines? That was my work stop until I figured that out.
 

Gadget's

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You aren't going to 'diy blumats'. Either way to automate watering for 40 plants you're gonna pay a couple hundred bucks.
No man I totally get that. I meant like get all the 8mm lines and valves for 1/3 of blumats price, and just buy the carrots. Or another drip system.
 

Jjgrow420

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No man I totally get that. I meant like get all the 8mm lines and valves for 1/3 of blumats price, and just buy the carrots. Or another drip system.
Ah,. I dont think you'll find cheaper line. The red flex tube is better but more exp. Other irrigation lines don't fit.
Once you buy each carrot seperate you end up paying the same as you would for a kit anyways that comes with most of what you needed.
 

Gadget's

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Ah,. I dont think you'll find cheaper line. The red flex tube is better but more exp. Other irrigation lines don't fit.
Once you buy each carrot seperate you end up paying the same as you would for a kit anyways that comes with most of what you needed.
Shit...fuck...shit fuck..yeah the kit I need which is the gravity XL is like 325, and it's not a finished set. Still need to get buckets, and additional accessories.
 

lusidghost

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Shit...fuck...shit fuck..yeah the kit I need which is the gravity XL is like 325, and it's not a finished set. Still need to get buckets, and additional accessories.
To cut down on costs you could grow in beds and use their soaker hose or dripper things, but they are expensive no matter how you do it. I bought a 50 pack of carrots and then all of the parts separately, and it was a costly purchase. They seem very durable though. You could probably sell them for close to the original cost if you decided that you didn't like them.
 
im using 5g air pots filled with lightmix and worm humus. my plants always look very happy in veg. but when flower kicks in I start to see some deficiencies calmag, P def, purple stems etc. I recently start thinking it may be overwatering. I never have droopy plants or runoff but my pots feel heavy all the time. Since I don't have the tensiometer I can't tell the mbar values. But if someone can tell me something like "if you water 1 liter to the 20 L lightmix (5% water content) it makes approximately 100 mbar" kind of thing I can figure out my mbar levels.
My question is how wet does 100mbar soil feel like? or in other words when the pot is very heavy is it like 30-40 mbar?
 

Blue_Focus

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Does anyone have any experience with the Blumat watering system (indoor or outdoor). I am planning to try a grow using an organic super soil (Stepwell soil) and the Blumat watering system.

Here is the website link below. Its an impressive & clever looking system that uses ceramic expansion/contraction to regulate moisture levels in soil.


Any feedback from blumat users would be very much appreciated.

Leon
I'm using them.

You don't want any perlite to touch the carrots or you could flood your room. They can be tricky dialing them in.

I haven't hand watered my plants for a couple of weeks now.

I set up a 3 gallon bucket with a RO float and feed the bucket with filtered tap water. I'm using an inline carbon filter to remove the chlorine from the water. The bucket is always full. By doing it this way I always have the same water pressure down hill at the Blumats.

Watch all the YouTube videos on setting them up. It helped me.

The back two are about ready to be harvested.
 

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Jjgrow420

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I'm using them.

You don't want any perlite to touch the carrots or you could flood your room. They can be tricky dialing them in.

I haven't hand watered my plants for a couple of weeks now.

I set up a 3 gallon bucket with a RO float and feed the bucket with filtered tap water. I'm using an inline carbon filter to remove the chlorine from the water. The bucket is always full. By doing it this way I always have the same water pressure down hill at the Blumats.

Watch all the YouTube videos on setting them up. It helped me.

The back two are about ready to be harvested.
What happened?
 

Blue_Focus

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What happened?
I saw it on several YouTube videos. The Blumats has to be touching the soil only to get a good response to the moisture content. The perlite interferes with this process and can cause over watering, Thus a flood.

They recommend if you have perlite in the soil is to dig out a hole where your going to put the Blumat and fill it with only soil without the perlite.
 

Jjgrow420

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I saw it on several YouTube videos. The Blumats has to be touching the soil only to get a good response to the moisture content. The perlite interferes with this process and can cause over watering, Thus a flood.

They recommend if you have perlite in the soil is to dig out a hole where your going to put the Blumat and fill it with only soil without the perlite.
Hm. I never had an issue before.
 

glassaye

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I saw it on several YouTube videos. The Blumats has to be touching the soil only to get a good response to the moisture content. The perlite interferes with this process and can cause over watering, Thus a flood.

They recommend if you have perlite in the soil is to dig out a hole where your going to put the Blumat and fill it with only soil without the perlite.
I've got long carrots in 25 gallon promix. After a month all six had 'overflowed'. Pulling the carrots showed a kind of 'shadow' left on the ceramic by the pearlite. My solution was to remove the carrot and prep it while filling the hole 75% with peatmoss and then flooding it. When the carrot is reinserted into that hole the peat keeps the ceramic away from the pearlite. Two months later and no over flowing, super happy with how they are working.
 

Psteezy

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Does anyone here have any experience running blumats in a perpetual room? My concern being that when one plants done and i need to pull that itll through the whole system off..
 

brogro

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They are sick af but you cannot let the rez run dry like R. Said. The smallest air bubble can disable your carrot. Right now im stress testing to see how long untill i get clogged lines
A disabled carrot is unacceptable. My girls won't stand for that. They'll ditch me for the nearest able carrot they can find.
 
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