Soil automated watering system

Hey guys, I am setting up my first grow and would like to make it a little easier on the watering. I plan to grow in soil and want to automate watering as much as possible. I was thinking of setting up drip system using basic supplies available in Home Depot, but read a lot of cons against driplet set up.
What would you suggest?

Thanks.

Hand water your first grow. How can you adjust your drip system if you haven't grown before?

Well, that is what I thought too - hand water it at first, but thought if there is a simple enough system that people use that I can set up right from the start.

Soil will dry at different rates depending on several factors.
http://www.blumats.com/

Check that out. Look up SIP. Sub Irrigated Planters.

whitebb2727 said:

Soil will dry at different rates depending on several factors.
http://www.blumats.com/

Check that out. Look up SIP. Sub Irrigated Planters.

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Interesting system. Do you run it?

SFBayArea said:

Interesting system. Do you run it?

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No but it has been mentioned and used by a lot by others here.

the ability to automate is one of the main reasons why i went hydro. I think that you could get by with a very airy mixture of say 50/50 perlite/soil or maybe 30/30/40 perlite/growrock/soil and automate using a simple timer. I don't advocate using sophisticated soil sensors for personal indoor ops. Have you thought about doing a simple hydro setup? Flood and drain is easy to automate. RDWC as well