any guides for automated watering?

2cent

2cent

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coco dtw 9 plants and i need to water them,
i got a 4000lph pump, but i cant workout lines where 1 pot gets a trickle, was nobrainer on 4 pots 9 is killin me,
chopped it up binned it ready to order

im dtw so i kinda flood my medium, i dont drip feed, i like a good flood open ended 19mm t or 19mm halo with 4mm holes x4


any guides on here i cant seem to find? see some mean setups feeding 20 odd plants but no guides in the diarys im sifting thru to find out what they used lol
 
Would help to see a pic of the setup that failed.

If you have all the lines equal lengths then you should be able to achieve pretty equal flow rates.

Floraflex makes a great setup.
 
Some folks have put a valve on each pot feeder line if using 1/2" feeders, then partially closing the lines that flow more than the others to balance the flow rates.
 
If you have a larger area to cover, instead of running a trunk line to a dead end with the takeoffs along the line, loop the trunk line back to the pump so it feeds the loop from both ends. This helps balance flow.
 
Renfro said:
If you have a larger area to cover, instead of running a trunk line to a dead end with the takeoffs along the line, loop the trunk line back to the pump so it feeds the loop from both ends. This helps balance flow.
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Do you mean with a tee into loop?
 
Quite str8 forward really its a 2meter 2xmeter room.

Plants sit 3row3row3row.
And tanks in this corner

I did my old like my small grow. Like u said a trunk down and nipple breakers 7mm to each potx4

Last pots got a squirt first got drenched.

Ive seen somany manifolds look awsome. But i either csnt type correct names for psrts find the names or ppl have left forum lol.

Saw 1 with a manifold from pump to 40mm tube breaking off to each from it via the top looked mint. But cant make sence of all his other pumps n valves lol.
Just wanted to feed em
 
This is the best photo I have available.
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The pump is inside the bucket running off a timer, inside the pots there's a small tap to control the flow (if required) a with a X to divide it across the surface of the coco.
 
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