Watering problem.
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AnonymousConnoisseur44
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Buy a bunch of aqua globes fill them up with at least water put a drain pan underneath of them or something that can catch water is it overfills
twentyeight.threefive
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Ask a friend or family member to take care of them while you are away.
Trying not to advertise my grow.
Look up autowatering. People set contraptions up to self-water (with timers and small pumps). I tried to do it with my first grow but couldn't get it set up the way i want so I have about $100 of currently-useless components sitting in my closet. Funny enough, i have no choice but to reattempt setting it up this weekend because i'll be traveling next week and i want to avoid asking my friends to water again (not that they did anything wrong the last time)
Romeo7701
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Gonna chimney in here they have camping shower bags I got mine from Walmart I got a soaker house and 3/4 PVC pipe T's, 90*'s and a valve for each plant, Cut the soaker hose into 12 inch lengths spliced it to some old 3/4 hose I had that my dog decided to chew up then attached the other end to the valves I had placed in the T's and 90* fittings, I then connected another piece of the hose too the shower bag and opened the valve on it then cracked the valves on the lines going to the plants waited to see how much came out of the soaker hoses I had plugged the exit end on the soaker hoses and placed them in some gallon buckets then measured the water in each bucket at the end of the day and adjusted them so I was getting about 1.5 cups out of the buckets over a 24 HR time frame I was in Veg,,, placed the soaker hoses around my plants filled there shower bag up with my Nuit mix and went on vacation 9 days came back and the shower bag was empty but the plants looked great... I think it was a 15 gallon shower bag but not for sure on that, may have been more it was quite heavy and I can't lay my hands on it now... Lol hope this helps!!!
twentyeight.threefive
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That leaves you with 2 options. Don't water them at all while you are away, or install an automatic watering system.
Maggs707
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Buy some water globes and turn your lights down to half strength. Yeah, you'll lose a little bit of growth but it's better than them drying out. OR, You can just get a cheap aquarium pump, throw it in a trash can full of water and set it on a mechanical timer to water for a couple minutes every day. Just buy some cheap aquarium tubing and a splitter.
RadicalRoss
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There are also non-electronic solutions like the BluMat that people have used. I've looked into similar for myself.