What's the easiest to water plants is soil?

[bigcheese510]

This mix is per 4x8 bed, 7-10 day veg SOG
I use Sunshine bales...
1 32lb bag http://monstergardens.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=25_248&product_id=1700
1 30lb bag
Roughly 40 oz. D. Lime
Experimenting with this http://monstergardens.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=25_248&product_id=1552
4 dixies of this
4 dixies of Azomite
and 4 dixies of my bloom top dressing that a buddy makes consisting of several different guano's mainly consisting of Phosphorus and Potassium
Sometimes when running Diesels or OGs I will have to top dress with more EWC/D. Lime and some of this stuff is thrown into my teas.

do you use any bennies ?

 

[GR33NL3AF]

do you use any bennies ?

All CAPs products...
The All-purpose also claims it is loaded with bennies...

Along with mixing it into my beds I also sprinkle a bit into each plant hole when transplanting. After transplant I water with a fresh tea..

 

[spacebomb]

You could use deep drip trays ,and let them fill up. I do it and can leave them for 3,4 -days of I HAVE TO. And there still good when I get back to them. Some people may rag on this idea. As it does leave your gals standing in water and may make you worry about the roots! If they are good roots tho. Should be good :-) a LOT of people on here do it.

 

[urbanfog]

+1 for pump and drip system. Dont need to use drippers (they can clog) just use open ends of 1/4 inch tees.

^^^^^what I do^^^^^ I also just added cleandrip to my res just to make sure of no clogs/build up

 

[spacebomb]

My bad. Sos man. I missed the whole bed thing. Sos dude.

 

[HL Gunn]

Like spacebonb said, bottom feed is fast and not very labor intensive and there are bunches of variant designs online. Gotta keep an eye on humidity and keep the undergrowth managed. Another benefit of bottom feeding is a reduced chance of fungus gnats.

 

[spacebomb]

:-)

 

[We Solidarity]

bottom fed hydroton/coco with organics...I would NOT recommend any drip system whatsoever if you plan on feeding exclusively tea and organics through the same lines...unless you really like the smell of fermenting egg rot diarrhea. With organics I've never ever run irrigation it's either ebb/flo in smarties or hand water everything and throw your hose out every month or two. If you do decide to run irrigation, give yourself options to purge the lines, because nothing is worse than shitbrew sitting in a sealed black tube in an 80 degree room. Trust me. It sucks watering your room and have your eyes tear up from the smell of your feed.

And as far as the clogging issues go, pretty sure you'll clog anything feeding tea through irrigation...or rather biofilm will clog anything.

 

[spacebomb]

Well put man.

 

[Cort]

Hand feed your tea. Irrigation for your regular feed. Putting tea in your rez will just lead you feeding with dead tea. Silly concept.

Should you want to use the irrigation for your tea, push through a bit of fresh water with a smidge of drip clean to clear the lines.