Leaving on Vacation!

[furrycnorm]

Ok, I will be out of town for 3 and a half days. I have 3 plants with about a week to go and are close to being harvested, 3 more about a month into flowering, and more that are in veg. They are in ffof soil and I have been watering once a day for the flowering plants and every other day with the vegging plants. I am not worried about the plants in veg, think I can just water them heavily the morning I leave. The flowering plants I am worried about though. I let them go one day without being watered a week ago and one of the plants completely fell over and looked like it was going to die. Luckilly I pulled it up and tied it to a stake so it would stand and watered it and it was fine. Will be gone close to 4 days this time though. Any cheap ideas to keep them happy? I thought about some pvc and a water pump but it seems like it would be a lot of trial and error to get the water levels right and I leave in 3 days. Help!

 

[Bayou bud]

Hey man. There are automatic watering devices at most local home and garden places. You can set to water as often asfive times a day or as little as once a week. I just saw one on skymall magazine in the flight I just took. Better than asking the neighbors haha. Good luck. Costs like 30$-$40

 

[furrycnorm]

Hey man. There are automatic watering devices at most local home and garden places. You can set to water as often asfive times a day or as little as once a week. I just saw one on skymall magazine in the flight I just took. Better than asking the neighbors haha. Good luck. Costs like 30$-$40

Might check those out, only thing is I don't have time to order anything online and j live in Michigan and I don't tjjnk any of the home improvement stores have much of a garden center in January

 

[cannofbliss]

get a couple of gallon water containers and poke a small hole and i mean SMALL like just a drip pinprick of a hole... to get those 2... gallon containers and....fuck im spaced out...

okay to where they drip like 1-2 drops every 10 seconds or so...

set one on the other side of plant container and the other on the other side and if they dont fit reall well on the plant container then just prop them up next to plant pot and then poke hole in side so it can drip on the edges of the plant containers topsoil...

hope that makes sense lol

 

[Ledhed]

Three days is not long, even for a plant that seems extra thirsty. I'd water them good before you leave and not even worry about things, they'll be fine.

 

[ohmy]

you are watering a lil to much if ya do it everyday. just my 02. I water every 4days. temps in low 80's. Rh 42 in flower

 

[weedworm]

Might check those out, only thing is I don't have time to order anything online and j live in Michigan and I don't tjjnk any of the home improvement stores have much of a garden center in January

I live in Michigan to home depot and lowes still have all there garden stuff most of it is still outside stuff that cant be store outside is in the first few iles or however you spell it next to the garden area

 

[rocpilefsj]

You must have pretty small containers if you need to water daily, are you sure you are not over-watering

 

[Bayou bud]

Either way you may be watering too much. Or those plants could be transplanted and given a good deal of room to grow more roots.

 

[mrmadcow]

a- add a alum pie plate under the pots and water till it is full, the excess water will be sucked back up into the soil
b- put a bucket of water next to the pots w/ a piece of cloth going from bottom of bucket to the soil.the water will wick over.the larger the cloth the faster it will wick.
c- also cover the soil w/ alum foil- it will hold the moisture in a little better.
whats your RH? (humidity) it sounds like it might be low if you go through that much water.

 

[furrycnorm]

Well they are in 4 or 5 gal pots, and I check them with a moisture meter every day and its usually dry. like I said before I tried going a day without watering and the pants wilted.

 

[furrycnorm]

You are probably right about the humidity, its wjnter so its naturally dry and cold.