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🚀 Growers, Unlock Your Secrets: Mars Hydro Watering Cycles in Action!

MaestroBud
MaestroBudstarted grow question 8 hours ago
Growers, what cycles (number and duration) do you use with the Mars Hydro kit? I use 40L pots with lightly fertilized Supersoil and Advanced Nutrients Ph Perfect (+ additives). Advice on irrigation? Thanks! 😎
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ATLien415
ATLien415answered grow question 6 hours ago
I have thrown it on a timer according to napkin math per pot size and estimations when needing to leave the room for a few days when doing soil. Never trusted enough for full automation. I see this kit as a supplement for hand watering. Use this kit as a base to build out for a method to water your soil pots during night/during flower/other times when accessing them may be sub-optimal. The kit is okay. The bucket/grommets/bulkhead/tubing are all high quality. The pump itself is nice in that the power cord is partitioned allowing one to break it apart and remove the bucket from the site for cleaning/refill easily if needed. The pump is also finicky, likely extremely overpowered for what you're gonna use it for, and has next to zero tolerance for running air through the pump. Most contactless magnetic propeller pumps can handle air for some time without burning out. Wife found that out the hard way. The emitters I replaced with Netafims, which water consistently and evenly without clogging and are trivial to schedule out because of that. They are real commercial quality drip emitters, mine deliver 4 drops per second to each site by means of a throttle, which makes the pump irrelevant. You could likely find some 3D printer solutions for a mockup that functions similar.
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m0use
m0useanswered grow question 4 hours ago
good luck
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Green_claws
Green_clawsanswered grow question 5 hours ago
I hope this didn't cost much because those attachments I have from amazon and they was cheap,really cheap and the pump doesn't look up to much be lucky to power all those fountains downhill...
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Ultraviolet
Ultravioletanswered grow question 6 hours ago
Mars hydro can barely make tents with functioning zippers, good luck with that.
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Green_claws
Green_clawsanswered grow question 7 hours ago
With soil you have 1 choice and that is to mimic hand watering to the T.. try hydrocorn, rock wool pr coco to use different methods and with amounts and periods... Happy
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00110001001001111O
00110001001001111Oanswered grow question 7 hours ago
What is this an advertisement? lol. you water the same way you always do - after an appropriate dryback. If you want to something advanced like multiple fertigations per day, you need a properly sized pot and plant to warrant it and avoid the risks of an overly wet/all the time root zone. The plant should probably drink at least 33% of the water weight. I'd also make sure to get at least 10% runoff on the last fertigation of the day -- this is assuming soilless substrate for such a thing. Looks like you got some pre-charge of nutes? so realtive to that. don't try to mix methods.. shit or get off the pot is better. strongly suggest you use different emitters. Those adjustable things suck. I made that mistake, too. If you adjust one, you have to adjust them all as athe pressure changes. A little gunk building up? gotta adjust them all again, lol, and no gaurantee what you do the first time around fixes it, likely adjusting a few more to get the pressure evened out. It's a fucking nightmare and high maintenance. Get the 1-2 gph pressure compensating emitters and save a huge headache. Put a shut-off valvue going to each pot for convenience. Plus, you can avoid the headach of 1/4" spaghetti line nonsense. Should diy irriation. It'll be better than any kit. Get one of thos 3gpm / 45 psi pumps, an in-line pressure regulator and you are golden. I make sure my 1/2" line has a ceiling of 20psi so nothing gets blown out. And, holy shit 40L pots? Are these growing outside? you can definitely downsize on those pots. You'd have to have a pretty large plant to warrant so much substrate. it'd stay saturated so long the water would stagnate in the substrate.
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