Plastic Watering Ring.

bravedave

bravedave

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I imagined this product even before I found it.

http://www.tomatocrater.com/home.php

I have many of these $2 million ideas 2 years 2 late. ;) In my case, over and above their designed utility, I wanted them for hard-to-reach plants. This product however only comes in 1 size which is too big for my 3 gallon poly bags (actually too big for 5 gl. bags also). So I wonder if anyone else uses, has come across, or has created something similar????
 
bravedave

bravedave

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Diabolical666 said:
What a waste of plastic ffs
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Much like most of your responses. o_O If you could imagine my room I have 8 plants and unless I take 1 or more out of the room, watering is done from my knees reaching through the front plants to get to the back ones. If I could just reach and fill at one point yet still have it spread it for me...it would be GREAT. So, no...you don't know what the hell you are talking about.
 
jondamon

jondamon

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bravedave said:
Much like most of your responses. o_O If you could imagine my room I have 8 plants and unless I take 1 or more out of the room, watering is done from my knees reaching through the front plants to get to the back ones. If I could just reach and fill at one point yet still have it spread it for me...it would be GREAT. So, no...you don't know what the hell you are talking about.
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Pump sprayer with reach wand?

A MAXIJET pump with hose attachment?

A hydroponic drip ring with MAXIJET pump attachment? Run hose to where you water from, attach it and turn on the pump ?



J
 
Diabolical666

Diabolical666

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Dave, Im not sure why you are on here asking us questions. Didnt you say we are in front of our computers too much and not in our grows, and we have shitty grows bc of it...anyways thats what you insinuated . You should shove that useless plastic ring up your ass
 
bravedave

bravedave

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jondamon said:
Pump sprayer with reach wand?
A MAXIJET pump with hose attachment?
A hydroponic drip ring with MAXIJET pump attachment? Run hose to where you water from, attach it and turn on the pump ?
J
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Interesting and thanks. I have thought of a pump sprayer but as I use them for battling weeds in flower gardens and bugs in fruit trees I think it would be pretty slow...but maybe because I have timed myself and I take 8 minutes to water each 3 gallon poly bag with 1 gallon of water (as my offline mentor's suggestion was to do things a quart at time in a ring around the edge). I will time myself this afternoon on how quickly I can pump out a gallon.

I also found reference to the hydroponic, drip rings when I was searching for the above and they certainly would do the trick but my room is already claustrophobic enough without a bunch of tubes and such I think. Individual waterings lets me know exactly what plants are drinking too. I may re-evaluate this on grow 2 as I am reducing things from 8 plants to 6 plants.
 
jondamon

jondamon

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bravedave said:
Interesting and thanks. I have thought of a pump sprayer but as I use them for battling weeds in flower gardens and bugs in fruit trees I think it would be pretty slow...but maybe because I have timed myself and I take 8 minutes to water each 3 gallon poly bag with 1 gallon of water (as my offline mentor's suggestion was to do things a quart at time in a ring around the edge). I will time myself this afternoon on how quickly I can pump out a gallon.

I also found reference to the hydroponic, drip rings when I was searching for the above and they certainly would do the trick but my room is already claustrophobic enough without a bunch of tubes and such I think. Individual waterings lets me know exactly what plants are drinking too. I may re-evaluate this on grow 2 as I am reducing things from 8 plants to 6 plants.
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You could do it just on those hard to reach plants.

Run tubing to the front of your area from the drip rings on an individual basis and attach the pump mechanism to one drop ring at a time to gauge how they're feeding etc.


J
 
bravedave

bravedave

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Diabolical666 said:
Dave, Im not sure why you are on here asking us questions. Didnt you say we are in front of our computers too much and not in our grows, and we have shitty grows bc of it...anyways thats what you insinuated . You should shove that useless plastic ring up your ass
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You and I both know where my signature quote came from and it was not from me. You and I both know that I never came close to insinuating that you or anyone else had "shitty grows". How small of you to invent a story and attribute it to me. What does that make you? As to the rest? Well, not very lady-like.

As to my response to you, concerning your lack of positive contributions in anything I have posted; that too can be documented.
 
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bravedave

bravedave

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jondamon said:
4 minutes per plant in a comfortable position.

Acceptable or not worth considering?
J
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I will be watering that way this evening. Thanks. My plants are on the floor so I am on my knees regardless. The floor is pink hard Styrofoam boards so its pretty easy to crawl around on. I'll let you know if anything was problematic, but I think it will be fine and an improvement. Still think there could be some utility to the tomato crater type things in the right size.
 
jondamon

jondamon

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bravedave said:
I will be watering that way this evening. Thanks. My plants are on the floor so I am on my knees regardless. The floor is pink hard Styrofoam boards so its pretty easy to crawl around on. I'll let you know if anything was problematic, but I think it will be fine and an improvement. Still think there could be some utility to the tomato crater type things in the right size.
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I use an aquarium hand syphon that I put into an 18L container takes me about 3mins per plant.

But I've only got 4 in 3.2x3.2 footprint.

I did however build a stand that sits the plants off the floor by about 8" on 800mmX400mm drip trays with a slight incline for me to catch runoff out the end.

Means I can sit in front of my plants and water them with the runoff destined for a smaller container.


Let me know how you get on with the sprayer.




J
 
jondamon

jondamon

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bravedave said:
Still think there could be some utility to the tomato crater type things in the right size.
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You could probably make something similar using a bucket with a bottom that's similar in size to your plant pot top. Cut the bottom off the bucket. Then some well positioned holes around cut off piece.

Maybe a slice into the centre across the diameter of the bucket bottom to allow you to slip it around the stem etc.



J
 
bravedave

bravedave

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jondamon said:
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Let me know how you get on with the sprayer.

J
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Worked great. Could not spray at the 4 min gallon rate as it was too much pressure but much better still than my maneuvering the water can. You are now part of my first grow whether you want to be or not. ;) Thanks. Day 50 and smelling some sweetness.
 
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