Wish I Had Read This Before I Bought Them

This was written by sd at icmag.com regarding the Tropf Blumat:

WARNING!!!
These have failed on me!!!
We used these outdoors, and had failure with several of these.
They seem to plug up quite easily, and almost lost a couple of plants, cone gets sucked dry, etc.
Indoors, maybe not a problem, but , from my exp., I cannot recommend these.
If I remember correctly, if one jams up, all the ones past it go dry.


I can verify that these things are unpredictable without major modifications. They flood your plants, your grow tent, your condo, and I've heard they don't even work outside. Whoever is hyping these products are doing a great job of PR to sell these for the $$$ but they are cheap. Specifically, there is no shut off valve, the feed tube is not flexible and it is black which absorbs heat in a grow tent. Try something else with a timer. More crap from overseas.

I almost bought these a while back when I was heading out of town, kinda of glad I didn't. I hope it didn't ruin your crop.

thanks for the heads up. see this is why these forms are FULL of invalueble information for anyone in the grow world.

Had to empty my tent of several gallons of water twice the first day I used them. The tubing they come with pops off and sprays water everywhere. Pieces of shit.

thanks for the heads up.

yeah i researched into this once and discovered its much better if interested in this to do a drip setup and to have individual ball valves so you can tone down each plant's amount of water per feeding if needed.
i'd use something like this in an airpot outside , but only single ones, and maybe make a large inlet filter for the water (to fix the clogging issue)
rinsing the jets and cleaning filter with warm water once a month and adding something to the top of the soil to avoid splash back should help too (river rocks or pebbles or perlite?)
just some advice as to how you can use them if you cant return them.
i'd also make sure to use a soil that dries evenly, there are plenty of mixes you could use. I think if you could figure one of these out right , you could do a nice coco coir setup.
key to avoiding the One go out they all go out thing is by making a manifold for your water, 1 port for each head, and then plugging the outlets (unless these work by some sort of internal pump?)

i'd guess there is some sort of recommended GPH for each dripper used
also you can try and see if you can use a larger drill bit and open up the nozzles a little.
there is a flow rate to drill bit index on the web somewhere.

not saying these work or anything just thinking of a way you could use these if you cant go bring them back :\

on a side not check out world of hempy in the drain to waste section.
a hempy is a way of "passive hydroponics"
it uses any type of medium, and a pot with 1 to 3 holes in it , around 2" from the bottom. (more holes to avoid clogging, some do 1 big hole with a screen)
the bottom of the pot acts as a reservoir for the plant and water wicks upward, and waterings can be anywhere from every day to every 4 days.
I like small pots that I water every 2 days. I believe each watering pulls through fresh air, and helps the roots
I use coco with perlite, all the way through
some use perlite reservoirs and coco/perlite top
some use a mixture of perlite and vermiculite, 70/30
and others just use perlite.
even people using rockwool mixes called "mapito"
this round i might do soil hempys with a perlite base!

the possibilities are cool, and hand watering is fun for some reason. you can catch the runoff water and use it on household plants or a garden.
i use a 10% runoff method