watering question

weednurd420

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is it ok that i leave my plants on big ass digital scales in my grow room to see how much they weigh before i water them or is that stupid. my smaller plant is 6 pounds before she needs watered and my bigger ones are both around 14 pounds before they need watered, i just sit them in my grow room on the scales and watch the numbers drop every day then water lol I may be high or something but it has been working i guess not been over watering lol
 

Alienwidow

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Uhhhhh, thats kinda wierd. I just lift on the pot to see if its heavy. My arm doesnt use batteries either lol. Whatever works though.
 

weednurd420

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Uhhhhh, thats kinda wierd. I just lift on the pot to see if its heavy. My arm doesnt use batteries either lol. Whatever works though.
I got to have my girl lift my plants I got week arms and they hurt all they time due to an accident a while back its mainly just my right arm thats fucked ... it makes it easy for me is the only reason i do it I cant just pick a pot up like that lol a 15 pound pot fills like a 30 pound pot to me
 

cannawizard

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sounds like your over thinking the whole watering thing, just lift the pots, then water if needed~ but whatever floats your boat~ just seems like a waste of batteries~ :P
 

Alienwidow

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I think its a cool idea though. If i were you id keep going with it. It would be cool to record that stuff to see how much shes drinking daily, especially in flower.
 

weednurd420

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I think its a cool idea though. If i were you id keep going with it. It would be cool to record that stuff to see how much shes drinking daily, especially in flower.
They also make soil testers that will tell you how wet the soil is. Theyd be easier than a scale.
yea and i was going to go with that and i read there not that great not to use them i was going to get 1 on e bay, and i just figured if i weigh them it will never lie they always weight the same now as they got bigger they put on a fue grams lol and still do every day
 

Budzbuddha

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Get a bamboo skewer and shove down in the soil , pull it out ... If soil sticks , soil is moist .
Simple.
 

weednurd420

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Blumat makes a water pressure sensor. A couple people here use them.

It tells you exactly when you need to water... One of the dutch growers even hooked it up to an arduino and had all the values in graphical format. Pretty sweet...

http://www.blumat.com/en/general-info-75.html
be cool if they hooked that baby up to a irrigation system and it just water the plants when the soil tells it to and stopped when the soil told it to stop, i watched a good grower on you tube bitching about his irrigation system not watering his farther away plants evenly
 

weednurd420

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Yeah right?

Lol

You just described the blumats. Look em up!

Passive automated watering.
hey at least i thunk of it before i herd of it lol They come up with every thing theses days lol, i got high 2 day and was thinking it be cool if there was milk that tasted like your favorite cereal lol i say they got that to
 
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