SnowWhite
Well-Known Member
We all have lives away from growing our plants and sometimes you've got to go away and leave your beloved babies to their own devices.
So what can you do?....simple....automate your system!
This is my step-by-step guide with full pics on how I am creating my automatic irrigation system for my veg cupboard.
So Firstly...lets go shopping....
6 360 Adjust Dripper On Stake
0 13 mm Flexi Tube (1 Mtr)
5 Delivery Pipe 4mm (Soft)
1 Air Pump Rena 100
1 Airstone 15 Cm
2 Silicon Airline Tubing (1M)
1 8 Outlet Manifold (M.BSP)
1 13 mm Manifold Tee (F.BSP)
1 25L Blue Bucket with Lid
3 13 mm Ldpe Pipe (1 Mtr)
1 Variable water pump with 13mm outlet
Now that we have all the bits.....lets start setting things up.......
Connect the drippers to the 4mm delivery pipe, cutting the pipe to the desired length.....
Place a dripper stake into each pot with irrigation pipe connected.
Run all the irrigation lines out to the same spot....
Now connect all delivery pipes to the 8 piece manifold....
and connect the T-piece to the 13mm irrigation line and then screw in to the manifold....
now we can attach the line securely using the 13mm saddle clamps.....nice and tidy.....
Next step is to setup the res and connect the air pump/airstone and then the 13mm irrigation line is connected to the water pump which sits in the res. Simple. I will also need to grab a couple of digital timers for accurate programming of the system......but we'll come to that over the weekend when I get around to it.....for now this is all I've done.
I have an irrigation setup in my flowering room already, using exactly the same components and principals.
So what can you do?....simple....automate your system!
This is my step-by-step guide with full pics on how I am creating my automatic irrigation system for my veg cupboard.
So Firstly...lets go shopping....
6 360 Adjust Dripper On Stake
0 13 mm Flexi Tube (1 Mtr)
5 Delivery Pipe 4mm (Soft)
1 Air Pump Rena 100
1 Airstone 15 Cm
2 Silicon Airline Tubing (1M)
1 8 Outlet Manifold (M.BSP)
1 13 mm Manifold Tee (F.BSP)
1 25L Blue Bucket with Lid
3 13 mm Ldpe Pipe (1 Mtr)
1 Variable water pump with 13mm outlet
Now that we have all the bits.....lets start setting things up.......
Connect the drippers to the 4mm delivery pipe, cutting the pipe to the desired length.....
Place a dripper stake into each pot with irrigation pipe connected.
Run all the irrigation lines out to the same spot....
Now connect all delivery pipes to the 8 piece manifold....
and connect the T-piece to the 13mm irrigation line and then screw in to the manifold....
now we can attach the line securely using the 13mm saddle clamps.....nice and tidy.....
Next step is to setup the res and connect the air pump/airstone and then the 13mm irrigation line is connected to the water pump which sits in the res. Simple. I will also need to grab a couple of digital timers for accurate programming of the system......but we'll come to that over the weekend when I get around to it.....for now this is all I've done.
I have an irrigation setup in my flowering room already, using exactly the same components and principals.