Fluxcap
Active Member
I have found that watering plants from the bottom is extremely beneficial. I place all of my plants, which are in their own pots, inside of a common drip tray and pour my water or nutrient mix into this tray. The soil soaks up water via capillary action. This ensures all plants get just as much water and that all of the soil is equal moist.
Doing this has saved me hours of time watering because I just mix up one big batch of nutrients and pour. It also encourages roots growth be keeping the soil light and fluffy, rather than packing the soil down.
This also makes it extremely easy to run an automated watering system. Simply put a submersible pump inside a nutrient reservoir, like a rubber maid tote. From this you run a line in to your drip tray. Run your pump on a timer and measure off how much water flows through by catching it in a tote with marked gallon lines. Adjust your timer so your are only pumping enough water to keep all of your soil moist, and plug the line into your tray. I fill my reservoir with a very mild nutrient solution, with an EC of only .8 for peak flowering. This ensures the plants get a small dose of nutrients with every watering but prevents salt build up. This also makes flushing the plants in the final week extremely easy. I simply run pure water the final week and all of the excess salts left inside the plants are pulled back in to the soil because the salts seek equilibrium.
This simple technique has saved me much time, and has brought uniformity and consistency to my garden as well as increased yields.
Doing this has saved me hours of time watering because I just mix up one big batch of nutrients and pour. It also encourages roots growth be keeping the soil light and fluffy, rather than packing the soil down.
This also makes it extremely easy to run an automated watering system. Simply put a submersible pump inside a nutrient reservoir, like a rubber maid tote. From this you run a line in to your drip tray. Run your pump on a timer and measure off how much water flows through by catching it in a tote with marked gallon lines. Adjust your timer so your are only pumping enough water to keep all of your soil moist, and plug the line into your tray. I fill my reservoir with a very mild nutrient solution, with an EC of only .8 for peak flowering. This ensures the plants get a small dose of nutrients with every watering but prevents salt build up. This also makes flushing the plants in the final week extremely easy. I simply run pure water the final week and all of the excess salts left inside the plants are pulled back in to the soil because the salts seek equilibrium.
This simple technique has saved me much time, and has brought uniformity and consistency to my garden as well as increased yields.
I know whatever works for you I mean I can't even grow at the moment but this seems like a waste. But basically it's like soiless water wicking/hydro God this makes my brain hurt this sucks! lol THIS POST IS USELESS WITHOUT PICTURES! 
