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[Fermented_Fruitz]

Shady spot might work.

Pretty sure all of Jersey is a “shady” spot!

 

[Badfinger]

I'm to paranoid about auto watering equipment. I am afraid of a malfunction, I grow in an upstairs spare bedroom, and I dont want flooded out and water damage. My wife would beat me to death, and I dont think I'd like that.

 

[Rick Dirte']

I’d love to auto fertigate but am afraid it will be more work than just hand watering.

 

[JP1]

Pretty sure all of Jersey is a “shady” spot!
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So shady I can barely get grass to grow in my front yard

 

[JP1]

I'm to paranoid about auto watering equipment. I am afraid of a malfunction, I grow in an upstairs spare bedroom, and I dont want flooded out and water damage. My wife would beat me to death, and I dont think I'd like that.

I've flooded my garage countless times. Takes some hard learning and $ to have backups for failures of failures. But automated watering and drainage is the tits when it's all working

 

[Badfinger]

I've flooded my garage countless times. Takes some hard learning and $ to have backups for failures of failures. But automated watering and drainage is the tits when it's all working

I'm sure it is great. I just cant risk a single accident.

 

[JP1]

I'm sure it is great. I just cant risk a single accident.

I woulda fucked up a lot of my house if I was growing in a bedroom. Shit can go wrong out of nowhere, and you don't know about it until you get home from work. You can put safety measures on place to prevent it, but it's a live and learn situation

 

[Olderfart]

I've got a set of auto pots collecting dust. There's no problem growing vegetables or whatever in them outside? I haven't tried since I thought the water temp in the rez would be crazy high

I have used them on the deck and in the greenhouse with no problems. I just use them on the deck now, the greenhouse is now all raised beds. I had no issue with reservoir temperature that I noticed. If you can shade your reservoir, it should be ok unless you live where it gets seriously hot. The amount of hot nutes that get at the roots when an irrigation cycle starts is so small, that I doubt that reservoir temperature is an issue unless you put organic nutes in there, and then you would have slime city and plugged autovalves.

I've flooded my garage countless times. Takes some hard learning and $ to have backups for failures of failures. But automated watering and drainage is the tits when it's all working

I had overwatering mess this grow, but I have enough water capacity in the drobe to hold an entire reservoir, so not a drop escaped. The timer had a brain failure and pumped the entire reservoir into the drobe. I was away from home at the time but was monitoring remotely, so I knew what was up, but it was not possible for me to return home to get things sorted. A friendly neighbour, with my instructions, sorted it out for me. He just reset the timer with my help, and transferred all the nutes back into the reservoir, so things were tickey boo by the time I got home. Good neighbours are well worth having.

Anyway, as to the flooding thing, if your grow space can hold the entire reservoir without leaking, there is minimal flooding risk.

 

[Rick Dirte']

I’d have to change bloom nute and I love my Flower Finisher from GreenGro. When my plants get past week 6 or so I have to water slow or my bags drip too much. What a pain in my ass.
Me and my buddy threw this grow room together 6 years ago and I damn sure didn’t know shit about growing weed indoors back then. Maybe if things settle down with work
I’ll redo some stuff.

 

[Olderfart]

I’d love to auto fertigate but am afraid it will be more work than just hand watering.

Nope, I can assure you that it is not, at least not in coco. My coco plants get watered no less than six times a day once they get well underway. This is particularly important with solos. With soil, the situation is different because fertigations can be less frequent. I have never done top watering with soil, so I am not sure how big the difference would be.

Setting auto fertigation (at least the top watered variety) is extra work initially, but once set up, it is really helpful in my experience. Autopots are less initial setup if you can make them work well with your grows. Others here use them and like them, so they can be effective in the right hands, just not mine apparently.