The Goldilocks Of A Moisture Zone

JustBlazin

JustBlazin

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saw this post on another forum and thought it was very good, so i figured id put it up here

"A GOLDIELOCKS OF A MOISTURE ZONE
Hand-watered gardens or those on timers go through fluctuations of moisture levels.
If you water in the morning for example, it is likely your plants are over-watered for the beginning hours of the day.
They are not in optimal growth/metabolism, and likely won’t be for several hours.
Then as moisture levels get optimal toward the middle of the day, your plants begin to grow rapidly.
As the soil dries toward the end of the day, plants slow growth as they work to conserve water supply.
Instead of going through a daily cycle where optimal growth is achieved for only a few hours a day,
Blumat systems keep your soil in the “Goldi-Locks” Zone all the time.
That interprets into bigger plants in shorter periods of time, and increased yields.
When you are moving in/out of the Goldi-Locks zone, you are wasting precious time and opportunity.
Blumats minimize moisture swings, and you will see that this translate into constantly-vigorous growth and flowering."

after using these for my second cycle and i think this post is spot on, plants grow very well with blumats and my plants have never been bigger and healthier

Blumats for the win
 
JustBlazin

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only used them a short time (4 months) but I'm loving them......not sure what to do with all the free time that they free up :bigjoint::bigjoint:
and my plants have never looked bigger and better, but I'm only three weeks into flower so I'm hoping for my best yeild since using hydro nutes in soil less
 
JustBlazin

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Rurumo said:
I've had my eye on blumats for some time and will definitely jump on board when I expand, nice explanation OP, you will always be my Goldilocks!
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as much as id like to take the credit for the explanation it was a post from another member on icmag.
i just thought they hit the nail right on the head with the explained so thought I'd share
 
PadawanWarrior

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JustBlazin said:
as much as id like to take the credit for the explanation it was a post from another member on icmag.
i just thought they hit the nail right on the head with the explained so thought I'd share
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People debate this all the time. So this makes it easy to point them in the right direction. I'm doing no-till, so I don't want a dry cycle. I love the BluMat idea, but I need more space in my closet, and my hard water would probably clog them over time.
 
JustBlazin

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yes I'm just using the carrots, I don't know to much about the drip tape. I heard on the kis podcast on blumats they talked about setting up one carrot on one side of a crop field row and run the hose down the hole row.
i would like to see one in use, in theory you could run one carrot in a huge bed and run the hose around the whole thing
 
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@JustBlazin I'd use Blumats too but unfortunately my 5X5 tent is in a small upstairs spare bedroom without any room to put a reservoir, and my home insurance wouldn't like it anyway. We downsized after the kids left long ago and now live in a townhouse in the 'burbs. I hate it. We have a basement with a drain, but it's in use for other purposes. We're toying with the idea of moving back to the country next year, so I might be giving them a try soon.

With organic methods especially we need our microbes going full blast for continuous cycling of nutrients to feed our plants. Wet/dry cycles would slow them down considerably. And it just makes common sense that if soil doesn't dry out, your plants will grow biomass more quickly. Apart from an underwater kelp forest I've dove in, I'd say the most biomass I've ever seen per square acre was in a tropical rain forest. I've gone there during the driest season on sunny days, and moisture was still dripping on my head continuously from condensing moisture. The ground literally NEVER dries out. The plants themselves make their own weather to their benefit, which is really cool. They say "sunny day? F**k that I'm making my own goldilocks zone of moisture anyway!".

So I'm top hand watering. I maintain soil moisture with a thick mulch layer (feeds too). While the top of the mulch will dry out, I make sure that the humus layer's surface under the mulch always remains moist. Those top couple of inches is where the action is. A drench doesn't seem to hurt my plants when I water, but rarely do I water to runoff unless I oopsy. As long as you have good drainage, going from wet-to-moist-to-wet is much better for your plants than going from wet-to-dry-to-wet. There is nothing worse than a sudden drenching of plants that are water hungry, even if you do have the drainage. Exploding root-hairs doesn't sound like a good thing. lol

So without Blumats, I have to compromise a bit. But you don't have to compromise at all. Lucky you :P
 
JustBlazin

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Northwood said:
@JustBlazin I'd use Blumats too but unfortunately my 5X5 tent is in a small upstairs spare bedroom without any room to put a reservoir, and my home insurance wouldn't like it anyway. We downsized after the kids left long ago and now live in a townhouse in the 'burbs. I hate it. We have a basement with a drain, but it's in use for other purposes. We're toying with the idea of moving back to the country next year, so I might be giving them a try soon.

With organic methods especially we need our microbes going full blast for continuous cycling of nutrients to feed our plants. Wet/dry cycles would slow them down considerably. And it just makes common sense that if soil doesn't dry out, your plants will grow biomass more quickly. Apart from an underwater kelp forest I've dove in, I'd say the most biomass I've ever seen per square acre was in a tropical rain forest. I've gone there during the driest season on sunny days, and moisture was still dripping on my head continuously from condensing moisture. The ground literally NEVER dries out. The plants themselves make their own weather to their benefit, which is really cool. They say "sunny day? F**k that I'm making my own goldilocks zone of moisture anyway!".

So I'm top hand watering. I maintain soil moisture with a thick mulch layer (feeds too). While the top of the mulch will dry out, I make sure that the humus layer's surface under the mulch always remains moist. Those top couple of inches is where the action is. A drench doesn't seem to hurt my plants when I water, but rarely do I water to runoff unless I oopsy. As long as you have good drainage, going from wet-to-moist-to-wet is much better for your plants than going from wet-to-dry-to-wet. There is nothing worse than a sudden drenching of plants that are water hungry, even if you do have the drainage. Exploding root-hairs doesn't sound like a good thing. lol

So without Blumats, I have to compromise a bit. But you don't have to compromise at all. Lucky you :P
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i just put a pond liner at the bottom of my 5x5 tent that will hold my res should it runaway,and i bought a sturdy metal shelf that's just under four feet I believe, i also propped it up so it sits a bit higher so my bulkhead fitting is at about four and a half feet right beside my tent,first go around i had about four feet between carrots and bulkhead, this time I've got my smaller plants on a table that is closest in my tent to res so line is only three feet to get to the table, so those ones theres 3 feet between carrots and bulkhead and they are working great so far.also have bigger ones on the floor with the four foot, both elevations are working great
 
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JustBlazin said:
i just put a pond liner at the bottom of my 5x5 tent that will hold my res should it runaway,and i bought a sturdy metal shelf that's just under four feet I believe, i also propped it up so it sits a bit higher so my bulkhead fitting is at about four and a half feet right beside my tent,first go around i had about four feet between carrots and bulkhead, this time I've got my smaller plants on a table that is closest in my tent to res so line is only three feet to get to the table, so those ones theres 3 feet between carrots and bulkhead and they are working great so far.also have bigger ones on the floor with the four foot, both elevations are working great
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Well personally I think my insurance should not only give me a break, but also give me a premium reduction because if a fire that was gonna burn the house down happened, then it would burn the plastic hosing and piping, and the rush of water might put the fire out!

I have pond liner under mine too. But I actually did line a pond with it as well, many years ago now. LOL As we get old we tend to accumulate and hang on to crazy shit, just in case we might need it when we're even older.
 
myke

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Anyone do any diy drippers?Ive just started experiment on a 2 gallon girl, putting 100ml in every morning.
 
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JustBlazin

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myke said:
I found these,are they the right ones?
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B075G1QSBH/ref=sspa_dk_detail_2?psc=1&pd_rd_i=B075G1QSBH&pd_rd_w=3BxKp&pf_rd_p=970b3512-1bd2-4757-829e-ab114c5ecd76&pd_rd_wg=e49CE&pf_rd_r=C0FCAKRHB51PY2PJJD71&pd_rd_r=4354c9b6-fe53-4d53-9d7f-104e3ab1d0d7&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEyTEVYWFRJUTJUMUFKJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUExMDM4NTQwMlA4TkIyTkFKVkVFMiZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwMDIwNDk5M0ZUUEhQQTIzRVU1UyZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2RldGFpbCZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=
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no
those are the jrs i believe
you dont want them for cannabis you want trompf blumats
 
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