Issue #659 - Sunday, December 8, 2024 Greetings Fellow Grower, - Tell your plants to water themselves! Okay, that's not how it actually works, but it's pretty darn close once you get set up. Whether it's for a vacation or regular laziness, you can make it so your plants need you to water them all the darn time.
Sounds too good to be true? It's not!
- Are you curious about auto-watering your plants? Today's article isn't the only way to accomplish the task, but if you want to do it the way we're showing you, you'll need a little bit of preparation. But don't worry, it's worth the time/money to save yourself time/money.
- You guys grow a lot of weed. We regularly receive pictures from our readers that make us gasp. Many of you are able to
pull off grows that are absolutely monstrous, and the grower featured today is one of the people who reminds us of this fact. Check out the pics below!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside
Co-Founders, GrowWeedEasy.com
"To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another." ~Leonardo da Vinci
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How to Set up an Automatic Watering System for Cannabis Plants by Nebula Haze
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Click here to view the full article on GrowWeedEasy.com What is an automatic watering
system?Do you want to “auto water” your cannabis plants? An automatic watering system for your cannabis plants is essentially any setup that delivers water to your plants without you having to do it manually. There are essentially two main ways to accomplish automated water (this article
goes over both). One is using a gravity-fed system with clay stakes, and the other, which I’ll be going over today, is an automatic drip irrigation system. Essentially you set up a water pump to automatically give water to your plant roots on a timer. As a result, you can deliver the exact desired amount of water to your cannabis roots for a week or longer without needing any input from you. Here’s an example of
an automatic watering system. I had germinated a bunch of valuable seeds when suddenly I had to leave for an unexpected 7-day trip. I was able to use this system to give water on a schedule and the plants looked beautiful when I got back.
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If you’re interested in pumping water to your marijuana plants on a timer with tubing, read on for a step-by-step tutorial. Automatic Drip Irrigation Kit (pump water to plants on a timer) This tutorial will walk you through setting up this automatic watering system, but the directions apply to nearly all auto-watering
systems. I recommend using this type of system in a grow tent because most come with a water-proof tray at the bottom that can hold many gallons of water if something goes wrong and the pump doesn’t turn off. You don’t want 5 gallons of water pumped directly onto your carpet due to something springing a leak. What You Need - Automatic watering kit with a water pump – This kit should contain everything you need to get started including the pump, tubing, a weight to hold down the tubing in your reservoir, and little plastic pieces that connect everything together. I’ve been using this kit and another kit that’s not available anymore, but they all seem to work about the same. This kit is a good option as it’s highly rated and used by many people. Just check the ratings to make sure the one you’re getting is reliable and you’re good to go with most models.
- Important note: If the automatic watering kit doesn’t include a water pump, that means it’s a gravity-fed system. These control the water flow by adjusting how high the water reservoir is kept off the ground compared to the plants(as opposed to using a
pump and timer).
- Something to hold water – I used a 5-gallon water jug but you can use almost anything if it holds water and can be covered from the light. These are usually much cheaper to buy in person and are available to buy at stores like Walmart or Home Depot. You could also use a bucket or other container to hold water, but water jugs may be better because they’re harder to spill and let in less air (helps discourage bad organisms from growing)
- Something to catch extra water – Your plant pots
need a way for water to come out the bottom. Most plastic pots come with holes and fabric pots (I love these for cannabis) let water seep out. Therefore you should have some sort of tray or saucer to catch extra water that may spill out the bottom. I love these super heavy-duty 1020 trays even though they’re ridiculously expensive because they’ve lasted me years and I’ve used them over and over. You can fit 4 x 1020 trays in a 2’x4′ tent, perfect for 4 plants in 3-gallon pots (or 8 small plants in 2-gallon pots). If you put a little piece of plastic or something under the trays at the back, the slight slope causes all water to pool to the front for easy collection with a wet vacuum or big syringe.
- Scissors – Cut the tubing to the size you want
- (optional) Extra tubing and joints – If you plan on doing this for a lot of plants long term, it’s helpful to have extra parts so you’re not worried about having to reuse old tubing if they aren’t suitable for a new setup with different pot sizes or a different number of plants. Cheap enough I think it’s worth buying just to have.
Step 1: Set up water reservoir Get your water reservoir where you plan to keep it. If growing in a tent a great place is typically right outside the tent door next to a port or peeking through the bottom zipper. Most importantly, you want to keep it in the coolest available place with a way to hide it from the light like covering the tub with a blanket. Dark and cold helps prevent bad stuff from growing in your water reservoir. Heat and light
make bad things grow in the water. - Fill with water and add nutrients and supplements (if using any)
- Place water reservoir outside grow space
Step 2: Connect pump to water reservoir In this step you will connect your water pump to the reservoir with tubing. - Most models have ports on the side, top, or back of the device
- Some models let you place the pump directly on top of your water reservoir
- If the tubing that collects the water doesn’t naturally fall
to the bottom of the water container, you may need to add a weight to force it to go to the bottom (that way it uses all the water)
Most pumps have ports on the side, top, or back. One for water going in, and the other for water going out. This model lets you place the pump on top Kits often include a tiny air stone like this or other weight to help tubing fall to the bottom of the reservoir. Connect one side of the tubing to the airstone, then drop it in the water reservoir. Take the tubing and feed it into the reservoir until the airstone touches the bottom. Then lead it to the “IN” port of your water pump and cut your tubing to that size and connect to the IN port. When cutting tubing, it’s better to leave too much tubing than too little because you can always cut it again
later. At the end of this step, you should have tubing that goes from the bottom of your water reservoir to the “IN” port of your water pump. Step 3: To be continued... There's more article left, but it was too much goodness to include in a single newsletter... 👉Click here👈 (or the picture above) to
continue where you left off and tell your plants water themselves! Water Your Plants Half As Often...
Or Less! For under $40 and a little effort, you can make it so you're watering your plants half as often as normal. If you're really determined, you can water your plants as little as once every week...maybe even less! Interested? Check out this popular automatic watering system on Amazon. We're thinking of setting this up to water a SoG (Sea of Green) grow with a bunch of different strains. What do you think about that idea? Let us know by replying to this newsletter! Tropicanna Cookies PurpleJust look at this beautiful bud. It calls out: "Grow me!" We've realized that we have way too many strains lined up to grow. But you know what? That's a good thing! 🌳💜 Get your hands on some Tropicanna Cookies Purple 💜🌳 It's great to have goals for the future when you're growing, and switching strains is one of the easiest and most rewarding goals you can set. If you read this far, send me pics of the best strain you've grown. If you haven't grown it yet, reply and tell us the strain.
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📸 Weekly Plant Spotlight: They're ready for their close-up!
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"Your article today was most serendipitous...The Girls are all pruned and "curing" in the cellar waiting to be bottled and vacuum packed. The hanging room is 14 feet long and the buds are spaced about 1 inch apart. There's 6 rows of them. You do the math (OVER 1,0000!)" ~Mr. K "This is a true, in-depth look at the cell of a man who just served time in trim jail. Your harvest looks fantastic!" ~Sirius
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Recommended Cannabis Seed Sources
These sources have gotten great reviews from our readers:
- Seed Supreme – Florida, United States
- ILGM (I Love Growing Marijuana) – California, United States
- North Atlantic Seed Co. – Maine, United States
- DNA Genetics – Netherlands (with US centers)
- Seedsman – Ships from US & Europe
- MSNL – Netherlands bank with shipping centers in the US, Canada, and UK.
GrowWeedEasy.com has hundreds and hundreds of pages! Check out more resources related to today's main theme of growing weed with a smooth experience. - How to Water Cannabis Plants on Vacation - This article is a more meat-and-potatoes version of today's article. If you're looking to implement a watering system, it can't hurt to read this article and be super-informed on your task.
- Top-Fed DWC Cannabis Setup Guide –
Bubbleponics - Growing in bubbleponics doesn't mean you don't have to water your plants, but you can set up an extra reservoir so you can water less often. We've seen growers with extra reservoirs bigger than their real reservoirs which lets them water less than half as often.
- How to Grow with Organic Super Soil: Just Add
Water! (including super soil recipe) - Rather than cutting down on how often you need to water, growing with Super Soil makes the task of watering easier, so you save time in a different way. Just add spring water - or any water at the right pH - and you're good to go! No more time wasted adding nutrients!
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Who Runs This Newsletter?
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Nebula Haze: When I first started growing, I struggled. Now, it is my mission to make it easy for new growers to get started while helping advanced growers get bigger, better yields with less time and money. We update/add articles every week. Anyone and everyone can grow if they want to! Learn which seed sources are recommended by Nebula Haze Sirius Fourside: Sirius Fourside is a hobbyist grower who has gained the bulk of his experience growing in water as a medium (deep water culture, bubbleponics). "Growing
cannabis can be a relaxing hobby in and of itself, but it also saves you money and keeps you from having to deal with shady characters. Cannabis is much easier to grow than people give it credit for, and growing in water doesn't increase the difficulty much, if any. But whether you want to grow in water, coco, or a different medium, we'll show you how easy it can be!" Copyright (c) 2024 GrowWeedEasy.com NOTE: If links aren't working or if pictures are not showing up properly, please view the full newsletter here: http://archive.aweber.com/gwe-updates Disclaimer: Grow Weed Easy only recommends products that we've either personally checked out ourselves, or that come from people we know and trust. For doing so, we may receive a commission. Nothing in this e-mail should be considered personalized Financial, Legal, or Medical Advice. The contributors to this magazine grow legally under their local laws but are not lawyers or medical professionals. Any decision to grow
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