Drip Watering System in Coco

Hi! im currently growing in a 4x4 tent on Coco Handwatered and i want to improve my setup and mount a Drip Watering System but i need some help with this. Lets start
-40 Plants on COCO in a 4x4 tent.
-1,3L Pots
-The main idea is to water three times a day, with a minimum of 100ml per plant and a maximum of 500ml per plant.

Knowing this, how many liters of deposit would need for a week of watering?
What size I need water pump?
What air pump should i use?

I hope you can help me, greetings and thanks!

Yup! Some help please?

I am also looking into a drip system but just for a couple plants.
Hopefully some of the more experienced will chime in.

Drlovekek said:

Hi! im currently growing in a 4x4 tent on Coco Handwatered and i want to improve my setup and mount a Drip Watering System but i need some help with this. Lets start
-40 Plants on COCO in a 4x4 tent.
-1,3L Pots
-The main idea is to water three times a day, with a minimum of 100ml per plant and a maximum of 500ml per plant.

Knowing this, how many liters of deposit would need for a week of watering?
What size I need water pump?
What air pump should i use?

I hope you can help me, greetings and thanks!

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why so many plants in a small area i mean 40 in a 4x4 they gotta be in dixie cups
What pump size well that will depend on the head pressure needed and how long the run is.
The effect of gravity on head pressure is very simple; every vertical foot of distance the pump moves water equals one foot of head pressure (1:1 ratio). The effects of friction on head pressure is a little more difficult to calculate. Every ten feet of pipe through which water will travel contributes 1 foot of head height (10:1 ratio). Every 90 degree turn in your plumbing will contribute 1 foot of head pressure (1:1 ratio). For example: if you were to install your pump 30 feet from the top of your waterfall, which was 4 feet above the pump, with two 90 degree elbows in your plumbing, your water feature’s head height would be 9 feet (plumbing distance contributes 3 ft, the vertical height contributes 4 ft, and the 90 degree turns contribute 2 feet). In this example, you would want to choose a pump that has the desired GPH rating at 9 feet of head pressure. The effect of gravity on head pressure is very simple; every vertical foot of distance the pump moves water equals one foot of head pressure (1:1 ratio). The effects of friction on head pressure is a little more difficult to calculate. Every ten feet of pipe through which water will travel contributes 1 foot of head height (10:1 ratio). Every 90 degree turn in your plumbing will contribute 1 foot of head pressure (1:1 ratio). For example: if you were to install your pump 30 feet from the top of your waterfall, which was 4 feet above the pump, with two 90 degree elbows in your plumbing, your water feature’s head height would be 9 feet (plumbing distance contributes 3 ft, the vertical height contributes 4 ft, and the 90 degree turns contribute 2 feet). In this example, you would want to choose a pump that has the desired GPH rating at 9 feet of head pressure.

I've just gone for drip dtw with coco in flower, flipping from ebb&flow coco veg. Too early to speak of its successes but I can say its easy and cheap to set up and is working well so far.

Running x4 Gavita 750DE's, one table of five plants per light scrogged. Each table fed by a 27gal res and DIY halo drippers to smart pots.

I guestimated my pump size: with my short hose runs 200gph does the trick to give me 0.27gal per plant per minute, and i've built my feed schedule around this.

Figuring this out is easy: install all your halos and take the one at the end of the line, drop it in a bucket and measure the runoff volume: this is your flow rate and you know what each plant is getting as a minimum.

For me in early flower the girls are getting one feed of 2mins and three feeds of 1min, which is over a gallon each per day and .20gal runoff.

I chose drip dtw for more precise control over what i'm feeding each strain and in what quantities and ratios.

Drlovekek said:

Hi! im currently growing in a 4x4 tent on Coco Handwatered and i want to improve my setup and mount a Drip Watering System but i need some help with this. Lets start
-40 Plants on COCO in a 4x4 tent.
-1,3L Pots
-The main idea is to water three times a day, with a minimum of 100ml per plant and a maximum of 500ml per plant.

Knowing this, how many liters of deposit would need for a week of watering?
What size I need water pump?
What air pump should i use?

I hope you can help me, greetings and thanks!

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By saying improve your set up what do you mean because you can't beat hand watering you can tailor each one to what it needs, weather that be because the odd plant is not so well or you have different strains in the same room etc

I'm not sure on your skills but if your Havnt got much experience they can become a pain in the Arse i would say the more growers get consistant results that be by having experience in the essentials like environment etc

My second grow. Just finished setting up my drip system. My room is narrow. 4'x8' so I built a 15" x 8' long table. It was originally going to be flood and drain but I decided to go with dtw. I plan on growing 4 plants so each one has 2' of space, each plant under its own 300 watt LED. 3 gal Smart pots with a layer of clay pebbles on top. Trying 2gph drippers running twice a day for 15 minutes.

Tigerpaws said:

My second grow. Just finished setting up my drip system. My room is narrow. 4'x8' so I built a 15" x 8' long table. It was originally going to be flood and drain but I decided to go with dtw. I plan on growing 4 plants so each one has 2' of space, each plant under its own 300 watt LED. 3 gal Smart pots with a layer of clay pebbles on top. Trying 2gph drippers running twice a day for 15 minutes.

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Tidy that pal