The UK Growers Thread!

Garybhoy11

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Afternoon fella's,

I need a some excellent worldly wisdom - so that's why I'm askin you lot! Heading away for 10 days shortly, and do not trust anyone to tell about my grow....I have trawled through loads of rudimentary and impromptu examples of drips n shit. But does anyone actually have experience watering successfully using a DIY drip?
Already got my remote camera set-up lol. Just this watering is causing a bit of bother (being broke as shit n all).

Cheers! Any input is mucho apprechiado...
speak to spooningbadgers he had a similar situation recently and made a diy setup with bottles, not sure it would last 10 days though as if i remember right he was away about 4 days and came back to slightly droopy plants,
 

indikat

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Afternoon fella's,

I need a some excellent worldly wisdom - so that's why I'm askin you lot! Heading away for 10 days shortly, and do not trust anyone to tell about my grow....I have trawled through loads of rudimentary and impromptu examples of drips n shit. But does anyone actually have experience watering successfully using a DIY drip?
Already got my remote camera set-up lol. Just this watering is causing a bit of bother (being broke as shit n all).

Cheers! Any input is mucho apprechiado...
sorry to say but its goodbye crop... 10 days they gonna need a shit ton of water, the dripper is really onlt an emergency device for a day or so...we talkin soil rite?
 

Already.in.use

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Cheers....fuck! Yeah 10 days. I have no idea's other than that. And yeah soil...I doubt you're right though - it is a shit ton of water, and I've loads of 5l bottles here, but that won't cut it.
 

mrt1980

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I folier feed.mine with.liquid seaweed from.wilkos they love it just tried it with bio bizz fish mix and my room.fuckin stinks Lol not doing that again .....errrm get some hoods..do you top your plants and tie down the main shoots and shit like that can double your yield..how did your plants go missing lol have u a partner lmao
they died lol. ph problems from re-using the clay pebbles. i dont top or fuck all now i just spread them around the scrog screen. i think the cuttings i had off my mate were a bit fucked. they where all exo but at the start i thought there was 2 different strains because they started out the same size but 2 of the 6 that survived grew quick as fuck and looked a lot bushier. he reveged the strain every time too so i dont know if that had anything to do with it. i had 6 off the big one but only had 2 off one of the smaller ones. these should be ok now but i doubt ill get the g per watt yet. im getting better every grow tho lol
 

Saerimmner

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Cheers....fuck! Yeah 10 days. I have no idea's other than that. And yeah soil...I doubt you're right though - it is a shit ton of water, and I've loads of 5l bottles here, but that won't cut it.
fish tank pump, large water butt, segment timer, pipe to each plant pot, have it come on for 5mins every day n water the plants then turn off again til next day?
 

Don Gin and Ton

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Afternoon fella's,

I need a some excellent worldly wisdom - so that's why I'm askin you lot! Heading away for 10 days shortly, and do not trust anyone to tell about my grow....I have trawled through loads of rudimentary and impromptu examples of drips n shit. But does anyone actually have experience watering successfully using a DIY drip?
Already got my remote camera set-up lol. Just this watering is causing a bit of bother (being broke as shit n all).

Cheers! Any input is mucho apprechiado...
get a sitter, to pop buy and water the garden. for that long it's a bit dicey a waterbutt setup but doable with a pump n timer though it'll need dialling in before you go.
 

newuserlol

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a friend of mine who i taught to grow, well he went abit larger than me lol he use to buy the 100-200ltr storage containers, and had a pump and them feeder tubes runnin to all the plants all on timers, carnt member how long they use to last but he use to not being able to go to the plants for days n days knowing they are being fed, this was in coco tho using canna nutes he first tried it with bio-bizz and soil but the bio-bizz nutes blocked up all the pipes lol
 

Saerimmner

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Nice - direct! Is that costy to set up??
Not sure mate, you may have to go all Mcgyver on it lol,
some links below to give ya some ideas tho


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/15-METRE-MICRO-IRRIGATION-KIT-IDEAL-FOR-BORDERS-CONTAINERS-WINDOW-BOXES-PATIOS-/231000874200?pt=UK_Home_Garden_GardenEquipment_HandTools_SM&hash=item35c8b99cd8

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Garden-Hose-2-3-or-4-way-splitters-Tap-Connectors-or-Micro-Irrigation-System-/160827958286?pt=UK_Home_Garden_GardenEquipment_HandTools_SM&var=&hash=item257217e40e

Basically though you are gonna want:

a large water butt with enough water to last all your plants for 10days ( if you have 10 plants an they drink 2 litres each day then you will need 20-25L water butt)

a water pump

a splitter/manifold to change the water from 1 big pipe from the water butt to small pipes to however many plant pots ya got ( say for example, if you have 10plants you will need 10 small pipes coming from the manifold/splitter, 1 to each plant pot)

spikes or clips to hold the small pipes into the plant pots so the pressure doesnt shoot the pipe out the pot

a large enough tray underneath all the plant pots to catch any water the plants dont drink ( this should be equal in size to the capacity of the water butt) or find a way to drain to waste
 

Saerimmner

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Also remember with the small pipes that come from the splitter to the plant pots you will need to work out the flow rate of the pipes as they will be constantly chucking out water for the whole 5mins per day the pump is on and you dont want to empty the water butt too soon or drown the plants

i.e. if your plants take 2 liters each per day then you will want the small pipes from the splitter into the plant pot to ONLY flow a maximum of 2litres every 5mins so thats roughly 400ml per min flow rate per small pipe to each plant
 

Garybhoy11

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think i better get my shit 2gether now, had the house to myself all day the wifes at college and the kids at school, so ive sat getting stoned since i woke up, need to go pick the kids up in 20 mins tho so need to tidy up and shit.
 

Already.in.use

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Cheers guys! The inputs are good...my situation is shite though, but I'll hopefully get it workin.

@Sae, deadly man; but I'm about as handy as tits on a bull.

A sitter....ya's think MG will cover it for me?! lol...
 
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