Flower tent autowatering setup, First post!

[BackwoodsCultivation]

Whats up guys. I've been growing for a short time now, and have hand watered the entire time. Due to work reasons I've had to be out of town more than I would prefer so I was forced to either, A) force my partner to water my plants, or B)setup autowatering. I noticed there really isn't much information online overall about autowatering setups and the ones that do exist, no offense, look like a mess. I knew I wanted pvc for reliability concerns, but couldn't find anyone with a build I envisioned so I wanted to share mine for anyone that wants to build off of my idea. This is what I ended up building after finding a company that sells pvc attachments with a kit to make everything easy, "Thebucketcompany". In the future I might be interested in upping the container size, but that would require installing some sort of check valve at the pump T to break the siphon when the pump is off and I wanted to keep things very simple(no moving parts). Pump is 1/5hp(overkill, may swap for smaller pump), pvc is 1in low pressure pipe. Bucket company mini bubbler ring kits and pvc elbows with 1/2" mpt also from TBC. I'll have to do something soon for runoff but that will be later this week. Thanks for checking it out, feel free to offer advice I'm open to learning new things and rebuilding. I'm no plumber that is for sure! Lol.

 

[Newty]

I use 3 gallon containers from The Bucket Company, absolutely love them!
Word of advice, only use synthetic nutrients with the auto watering or else you will clog all your lines and drippers like I did.
That's why I don't have the auto watering system hooked up to my The Bucket Company containers in my picture lol

I plan on going to hard PVC lines for both drain and feed when I set it back up.

 

[BackwoodsCultivation]

I use 3 gallon containers from The Bucket Company, absolutely love them!
Word of advice, only use synthetic nutrients with the auto watering or else you will clog all your lines and drippers like I did.
That's why I don't have the auto watering system hooked up to my The Bucket Company containers in my picture lol

I plan on going to hard PVC lines for both drain and feed when I set it back up.

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I absolutely love your setup!! That is what I would like to do in the end but since I already have 5gal buckets drilled I might just get the stands but then they take up so much room height wise with the buckets. I'll keep that in mind about the nutes because all I have right now is green rush and Gaia green, good looking out!