What exactly turned you off about watering once a day?
With my system, I can mix nutes and water 18 large plants in about 5 minutes.
I'm Literally in & out of my room in 10 minutes….Once a week I prune which takes another 30 minutes.
This is by far the easiest system I have ever run….It has followed me to two locations and I'll be expanding here once again soon.
Good luck man.
Pisces.
...yeah, my coco hempys carry about the same workload, ...i've never used the croutons myself but i've seen threads by folks i respect and i've seen some solid results, for me it came down to wanting to rid my op of stuff like rockwool and perlite, now i grow in coco, i clone in coco, shit, i play in coco, lol, i do NOT like going to the growshop.
so my grows have three ingredients, grorocks for the bottom reservoirs in my hempys, coco for up top as my main grow media and Jack's Pro Hydro, which is actually a 2 part so i'm wrong, there are 4 ingredients.
...those are the only products i buy and i don't buy them very often 'cause i re-use my coco and my grorocks and the Jack's is so economical that i'm still only about half way through my first 25lb bag and i bought that a bit more than 2 years ago so even with a recent expansion i expect i still have enough for another 2 years.
peace, bozo