Drippers or Hand feeding?

[Captain Beefheart]

1 last thingy...... canna actually like`s water ATM my 6 plants are seeing themselves through with 14 litres between them 6 plants in 5 ltr pots,i get a decent runoff every day

here they been potted up 1 week from a 5 inch pot



cmon do the maths + ffs do the ground work ennit.... the pot of medium is where its at for a healthy plant......+ the odd flush is bang tidy.

[Cave Hill Cole]

Hey bro, personally every time I fooled around with drippers I had problems. I will be the first to put my hand up and say that is most likely user error. But it caused me to go back to hand watering. I hand watered for years and always had good results. It forces you to spend daily time with your plants which is a good thing. But then...life gets in the way. Before the current pandemic state of affairs I would often have to go away for days or weeks on end...which put a stop to hand watering for me and forced me to investigate autopots. Took me a little bit to work out the pitfalls of autopots...since then have never looked back. I'm a huge fan of autpots. If I didn't use them...I would probably make a hempy bucket setup..I hear great things about hempy's...but have zero personal experience.

[Bulls]

Thank you all for the great feedback. Has anyone checked if rootball is better using hand feed and dripper with 2 plants grown next to each other?

I started hand feeding or using the 4mm feed line without any drippers on it..no blocking and takes 2 minutes instead of 15!

[MommaB]

Thank you all for the great feedback. Has anyone checked if rootball is better using hand feed and dripper with 2 plants grown next to each other?

I started hand feeding or using the 4mm feed line without any drippers on it..no blocking and takes 2 minutes instead of 15!

I mix my feed in a 20L bucket everyday. I have a res that I use to hold water for them but I dont feed from it. I mix feed then using water pump and hose with no drippers attached. Like a water hose outside. works for me but i would assume its prob not the best way hahaha

[Bulls]

[kbag]

Pipe Cleaners hope they are secure enough Bulls. You would not want a flood.

[Bulls]

They are secure kbag. I am always there at the moment when I water, no timers. But I am thinking of another way of securing them better..so If anyone has cheap solution..I am all ears

[Grower88]

Iv never had a blocked dripper I just use drip clean from Dutch pro mate.
But I do have a filter in my line so it goes water pump then filter then drippers

Out of curiosity @Bulls how much feed ltrs you put through your pots a day?

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[Wayne36]

I like to hand feed but the dripper I seen recently and would be great for when going away definitely going to grab one so.etimes not home for a couple days

[Bulls]

@Grower1988 Does the Dutch Pro help mate? I do have a filter as well on my system but they keep getting blocked lately. I usually put around 4-5 Liters through my 10L airpots