hi again it's 2023 and it's time for a new watering system if you guys remember
the old system I had set up at the old house it's something I put together to help water the plants
when we weren't around as much and when I started trying four Flex because of the cocoa it requires
a lot more watering and I wasn't always there to do that some of the drawbacks of the old setup it
was drained to waste so all that water would have to be dumped out or collected and if it got away
from me it would overflow in the tent and then I'd have to clean it up and that definitely happened a
few times so after we moved kind of continuing with that setup definitely wanted some kind of
Auto watering thing to continue to run the floor Flex you could definitely use this if you have
an organic setup you don't necessarily have to put nutrients in the water you could just have a
thing of water and set this up to just water your plants daily or however you prefer but for me with
the floriflex it works really great because I like to mix up a week's worth of Feed in the tank and
then just let it go and not have to worry about overflowing or anything like that so as you guys
know will see this new setup we've got some new bubbler manifolds from the bucket company we're
using the pulse Hub to help monitor stats in the tent like EC and pH and all those good factors
and the moisture content in the cocoa and the EC and the cocoa is something awesome that the pulse
Hub left this monitor plus this new system is a recirculating system so the runoff water actually
gets pumped back into the feeding tank so that gets more mileage on the feed so we're using
less speed and we're using less water because everything is being recycled so sit back guys
I think you're going to enjoy this video of the new watering setup and definitely stay
tuned for new seed Harvest videos they're going to be covering these grows using this system so
you can see how it works we've been running the floor Flex loving it and part of that is just an
auto watering system to keep the plants watered especially in cocoa because it dries out faster
it just makes the whole thing really easy to follow especially when you can just mix up
a whole bunch of feed for a week and what we're doing is using uh just a trash can as a reservoir
um and we made some changes so I did get some other pumps guys I picked this one up just
way too powerful and because right now we only have two plants running out of flex at a time
we needed something a little bit better so AC has these new submersible pumps this one is the
um 36 watt acwp A7 this one has a 10 foot lift so it should be powerful enough I think to push two
plants two waterings should be more than enough um and it does have the right size fitting and we
also switched over to the bucket company bubbler manifold so these ones are great they have two
styles of hosing that you can hook up so it does come with block off so you can block the other
side you're not using and it has adjustable things for how the water comes out so it's a
little little sprays all around or there's these Mister tips so these Rings seem much better in the
other company if you guys remember the other watering video I've gotten a lot of questions
um the previous drip Rings we had used are no longer manufactured by that company so these
are the the alternative and honestly these are are way better and it has a large footprint easy
to get on and off the plant if you need um even when the plant gets larger so loving this setup
from the bucket company and then to control these I was using a smart plug in my previous
setup but now AC has these new um controller 79s and this allows you to control two outlets
through controller here so you can run this off various things but I just thought it would be
really easy to connect to my system set up the watering schedule and have it just keep running
the pumps as necessary based on that just as I'll turn to the smart plug I had it wasn't really the
app wasn't that great I know the AC Infinity app's good and this will be easy with a two plug setup
here you could run multiple pumps or you can have a pump and a mixing pump which is nice for
the four Flex if you have another one in there so it will agitate mix the water I think it'll work
really good so that's gonna be the setup I have you can see the two other manifolds already set
up here these are what's going to be feeding the plants I do have each kind of style drip
tip on there so you guys can kind of see how those are I also like to put these valves in
line so that way you can shut off flow to one if you need it also helps with keeping dripping and
stuff if you're taking the plants out and you're pulling the ring off just to prevent any kind of
water from flowing out of there so what we're going to do is hook this pump up and uh just do
a test run make sure it fires up make sure it can push water through these wood and run a two plant
setup because this other one was just way way too powerful uh it was like overflowing the the
plant pots so I think this new pump and setup will work good uh we are going on vacation so
we need to get this thing set up and uh dialed in but let's go ahead and get her hooked up and test
it out see if we can get some water flowing through these new pumps also have adjustable
um flow rate which is kind of nice I do like the suction cup sides that way I'll be able to mount
it face down so it'll be able to suck down to the minimum level in the tank there but I think this
is uh this is going to be a pretty decent pump so we'll hook it up see uh see what kind of flow she
gets so we got the pump set up uh the new AC pump is in there and we got the controller 79 set up
hooked up to our drip Rings both valves open um I'm doing this as a test to set and make sure that
this pump has enough power to push through these rigs so that's one thing you'll notice when you're
buying um submersible pumps is the lift power this one has a 10 foot lift so I think this should
be enough to push out to these two rings we're definitely not going over 10 feet in height so
it should definitely be enough to push push these two rings so what I like to do with these ones is
I actually set up the cycle basically that tells it every x amount of hours run for this amount of
time so you can set it up to run like every six hours water for a minute or whatever works out
good for you we've been using uh the pulse Hub is something new that we're going to really try
and dial in this Grill watch the moisture in the pot and kind of learn about dry backs and when I
should water based on how fast they're drying so I right now I just want to make sure that it's
going to turn on so I'm just going to switch it to on hear the pump kick on the pump is actually
super quiet it cannot even hear it running and it looks like it definitely has the power
um to push these babies so this is more of the um kind of spray water head it's kicking some
air bubbles out through there this is more of the kind of uh spray water Hood you can see it kind of
trickles out more kind of like a sprinkler maybe these both work pretty dope I guess we're gonna
see which one gives a better water coverage in the pot but already can tell that this is this is
going to work perfectly it's not too overpowered for the pump that we're using so it should be
great for what we're doing so that's working great really happy with this AC pump setup looks like
it's gonna work work bomb also going to be running this bucket company recirculator guys this is kind
of nice um because what we've been doing with the recirculating refeeding method is basically
the runoff from the pots here so it Waters these are through the um fluoroflex constant the drain
bases the water goes through those drip Rings down here into here uh once the level gets high enough
this pump kicks on and pumps the runoff back into the feeding tank so it's a recirculating system
um and it's been working well I think we just had to get the pumps down a little better but this
uh one with the cocoa it works works really good so I'm excited to get this all set up
um it's going to be much easier watering mix up like I said like a week's worth of floor Flex
in the tank uh and then just let it go and then with the pulse hub
guys it has its own probe so it has the EC and a pH meter um that we can put in that tank so
that way we can constantly monitor um in real time the EC and pH of the tank to see if it's going up
um or down and we can keep the whole tank dialed and it also comes with one of these
meters that you stick in the cocoa so this will measure the water content of the cocoa and the
moisture saturation levels and on the EC of the cocoa so I can see what's going on with the EC
in the actual substrate or the medium plant so with all this together we'll be able to really
get an accurate picture of what's going on with the plants um and a really great watering system
that's going to re-feed uh and just keep them watered with less daily lip maintenance so I'm
gonna get this all kind of set up into the tent and then it should be good to go another thing I'm
going to be trying with this guys um floorflex is a matrix system so these will actually fit
directly on top of the floor Flex pots so this fits right on top creates a tray for the water
to fill and then it's got the feeding hole so it will water evenly over the whole top of the pot
um so those drip Rings will fill all this area this will drip down into the medium you also have
these little fabric things I haven't tried but you put this actually underneath um so
this sits on top of the cocoa in your pot this goes on top this just helps keep that moisture
um in the pot so it can keep drying so pretty pumped to uh try this we're gonna set this up with
one of these drains see how they go for this run and then everything just flows through the bottom
and the runoff gets fed back into the tank to refeed so this is going to be part of the setup or
something at least we're gonna try versus just the straight Rings into the cocoa so I kind of wanted
to see how these worked um and if it just gave a more even watering over the whole three gallon pot
we're using the three gallon pots here from four flex but I think it'll be pretty slick as you can
see this just goes right over top of the um cocoa down at the base of the plant and then that ring
piece is gonna go on top of it and then this will hold the moisture help keep the top of the cocoa
moist and from drying out got the new controller linked up to the app here so I can turn the pumps
on individually so I have one pump that's going to be for circulation um in mixing in one pump
that's going to be the actual feeding so usually what I'll do is I'll have the mixer pump turn on
um before it does the feed so I'm going to make sure the tank is nice and agitated um and any
feed is mixed in but four Flex is pretty good at just completely dissolving in there so it does
help dissolve it and it works really well when you're adding it or mixing up your tank turn your
mix pump on that will just keep it churning um as you're mixing the stuff in as you guys can see the
mix pump is doing its job down there mixing so I got my uh Mark set for five gallon and 10 gallon
um so all I'm going to do is mix in the flex with the proper amount that I need my phone
the new feed chart so 3.5 grams V1 per gallon and then 2.5 of V2 per gallon so I'm going to
mix that up five gallons worth so we're just gonna mix up B1 first add it to the thing V2
goes in second and it'll be pretty easy so I'm just going to mix up some V1 dump it in usually
I'll take my V1 and kind of pre-mix it in here just to help dissolve it before I dump it into
the tank and then the mix pump will Churn it around and help get it dissolved our V2 [Music]
this [Music] so now that that's in there mixing and churning all I got to do is fill the water
up the rest of the way um and then uh just make sure the EC and the pH is on and this is the dough
part of using the pulse Hub guys because there's sensors in the tank we can see the tank pH live is
6.54 and the EC is 2.3 so this will monitor this and let me know I don't have the sensor in there
yet but when it is in the cocoa it tells you the water content and the EC of the cocoa and then we
can see our EC of the tank and the pH so it really helps keep things dialed at a glance we can just
look at this and see where the EC's at so super dope um love the pulse Hub definitely excited
to be testing it out more um and and get this thing dialed in so as you can see we're adding
water the EC goes down the pH goes up because our tab's higher so I got to get that EC dialed and we
should be good for feeding for for weeks as we can see the pH is a little higher fluorflex recommends
uh 5.5 to 6 for Cocoa I usually put in at 5.5 so if there's any drift it's usually tends to be up
um so I put some PH down in that's another great um set up with this whole whole setup is that um
we can add the ph and because we have the mix pump going um it's just gonna mix in the PH down so
we just gotta you know add some give it a minute to mix check the pH uh until we get it dialed in
now with this all set up you guys can kind of see how these rings are gonna fill up the
tray and then evenly water all over let's go ahead and fire it up see what we get [Music]
so there we go guys guys that's the new watering setup and it works awesome we've already ran a
few grows through it and now with the new pump and even better setup we're starting
our next set of Autos with the Flora Flex in the auto watering system something like this
can work for you even if you're running Organics or just looking for a way to automatically water
your plants on a set schedule and make things a little easier on yourself even if you're not
using any kind of nutrients and you just want some watering this is going to be a
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