Watering while away on vacation?

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Sxxx we ate a looooooooot of bologna lol

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Dude, aint nothing like a fried bologna and mustard sandwich. Back in the day for a buck, you could buy a pack of bologna and a loaf of bread and mayo amd mustard

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I steer clear of bologna now, only because Iā€™ve had a lot of free ones in county lockup lol. But SPAM? Iā€™ll fry up some SPAM

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As kids, my brothers and I would fry bologna until it cupped like a bowl, then filled the bowl with ketchup. The struggle was real and drinking ketchup from a fried bologna bowl was delicious! I miss my koolaid mustache too :rofl:

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@Hoggwild

I ran a halo watering system this past grow. Worked ok but not 100% sold on it.

I have now switched to Autopots.

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Whats wrong with halos? Top feeding is sweet. Bottom feedingā€¦nice but if you neef to flush you will wish you top fed. Just my opinion only.

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Ive switched to auotpots aswell for simplicity and vacationing lol. It works!

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We bought a shower bag, 5 gal. Have had it dripping from trellis watering honeysuckles. The petcock works, no leaks, hanging 5gals would be 40lbs full. You can drip that at any rate. Just an idea.

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@Mosca geniusā€¦

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Thank you kind sir, might help someone.

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Bottom feeding properly should never result in needing to flush.
Its best used with an inert medium like coco-coir or something of the like and its crucial that once bottom feeding is started with nutrients, absolutely nothing goes in from the top or you will create issues that could lead to needing to flush.

For simplicity imho, bottom feeding is superior just because less moving parts.
But in the end, high frequency fertigation top feeding or constant bottom feeding will basically give the same results in the end if utilized properly.

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Ive seen guys run into issues using jacks and coco and autopots. Top feeding u can get your runoff. I get that when done correctly and if lucky enough to have o issues, bottom feeding is nice. But resetting media daily with proper runoff will yield better results imho. You never heard of people not being able to run same strength of jacks in autopots vs top feeding? I certainly have.

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Its true you dont have to run the same strength nutrients with autopots as you do top feeding.
Theres no reason to ā€œreset the mediumā€ with autopots, its hydroponics, once the medium established its good to go :+1:

But only time Iā€™ve ever seen an autopot need flushed is because the grower was also adding things in the top :man_shrugging:
Im not saying it canā€™t happen, but if it does, Iā€™d bet money it could have been prevented with a better understanding of how autopots work.

Check out the plants I grow with my autopots useing GH 1 part nutrients at about half strength of whatā€™s normally used. My ppm is rarely over 600 in my reservoir in flower, my plants veg around 400ppm.

Thatā€™s another advantage of bottom feeding, no waisted water or nutrients as everything is consumed as the plants need itā€¦

I did very well top feeding but I do way better now that Iā€™ve learned these autopots. No way Iā€™d dobit any other way nowā€¦

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To each there own. I would rather run full strength if they could handle it. There is some people here that also do not water to runoff top feeding. Is that the best way to do it? Not imo. Jacks is gentle i agree been using it a while myself, but not sure how not watering to a runoff using any salt based nute is better then a to runoff point.

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Yeah once supplemental nutrients is started itā€™s advisable to get runoff.
If all organic inputs then sure, no runoff as you dont want to wash away anything good.
But if you useing salt and no runoff, youā€™re asking for issue.
Iā€™d bet money again that anyone doing this with salts and not getting runoff either has tiny plants and only feeding once a week at most or there plants look like crap by harvest time because they plant struggled with salt build up.

Absolutely nothing wrong with top feeding, I didnā€™t mean to imply that if I did :blush:
I just meant to show bottom feeding can do just as good as top feeding and does have a few advantages over top feeding like the no waist water and potentially half the money worth of nutrients sense nothing is washed away, if youā€™re into all the save the environment stuff then its less environmental damage as that run-off full of nutrients has to go somewhere.

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Well said. I was up in the air on the autopots myself. Definite advantages no doubt.

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