My Mystery Indica Reveg

Some pics I took this morning with a potato. On the plus side, at least the leaves are green. Although you can't see the pistils or burgeoning flowers, the dreaded claw is clearly visible.
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And here are the clones just quietly doing their thing, bursting into flower down at the clay surface. I am hoping to use these dears to reveg for the next crop and save myself at least a month. I have to admit that I am astonished that they all survived as I really only just stick them in the clay pebbles and did nothing else, no cloning powder/gel, no humididome, nothing!

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Cheers Meat.
I'm not too fazed about the claw, but it will slow things down a couple of days.

I still want to get hold of a reasonable camera so I can take some close ups of the pistils.
 
One thing concerning me about the diminishing levels in the reservoir (still not 100% certain if it is purely evaporation, an increase in water consumption or a combination of both) is that I have to go away for a week from Saturday and I don't really have anyone I can turn to who can tend to her and I'm not sure what to do.

I am considering switching it back to veg lights only and using a 50% nutrient solution. Any other ideas?
 
Another idea has sprung to mind - manoeuvre the reservoir and pot so I can invert a large bottle of water or two in it. I think I will test this once she awakens as I don't really want the level to drop too much or decrease the lighting or nutrients and this just may be the solution.

This is not the same as inverting a bottle of water into soil as this will rely on air pressure. Not sure if it will work, but It's worth a try.

Alternatively, I could try a capillary syphon from a container above the reservoir. I kind of like this one as it is simple, no messing around and would supply a continuous yet slow supply to the res.

Don't mind me, I'm just thinking out aloud here.
 
Two things come to mind, if you have an inlet on your res near the bottom you could connect a hose to another bucket or something side by side and would then make your res twice the size, take twice as long to use or as you said a bucket up higher gravity fed into a small float setup in the res, would only top it up as it drops then :thumb:
 
If it were me i would go stupid simple and attach a second res same size as the one you have now same mix at the same level. Untested systems could fail causing all your water to go bye bye which would be my luck lol. Garden hose bucket attach at lowest point fill cover forget. When back remove hose plug carry on with life. But if it was me a wild chipmunk would break in chew a hole in the garden hose piss on my plant then raid the fridge so good luck bud lol.:goodluck:
 
Cheers Feral.

My res is just something I found lying around - a 10 litre basin - and I'm none too keen on messing around with it at the moment. A gravity fed float feed is an excellent idea and I like it a lot. Now my head is filled with ways to design it using materials I have on hand. :thumb:
 
MeatGrinder said:
If it were me i would go stupid simple and attach a second res same size as the one you have now same mix at the same level. Untested systems could fail causing all your water to go bye bye which would be my luck lol. Garden hose bucket attach at lowest point fill cover forget. When back remove hose plug carry on with life. But if it was me a wild chipmunk would break in chew a hole in the garden hose piss on my plant then raid the fridge so good luck bud lol.:goodluck:
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:rofl: Thanks for the laugh, meat.
 
OK, I like simple too. Just had a look at the res and there is just no way I can squeeze a bottle in as I first postulated. Meat's idea of a secondary res is good, but that would involve draining the current one, perforating it at just the right diameter for a connector hose, going out and purchasing a flanged connector or rubber seal to seal it and then doing the same with another res container. I like Feral's idea of a float system, but that would involve designing, creating and testing it. Both ideas are good, but I am inherently a lazy fucker. So that leaves plan D, which I am currently testing.

I have sat a 5 litre bottle filled with water on the corner of the screen and run a length of string from that to about an inch above the clay pebbles. Through the process of capillary action, the piece of string is dripping one drop of water every few minutes. Now, this may not be a sufficient flow rate, but I have another cunning plan. By increasing the number of string lengths, I increase the surface area through which the water can be absorbed and thus increase the flow rate.

I'm going to leave the one length of string till tomorrow to see how it is progressing. If it is insufficient, I still have 4 days to test other numbers. In my humble and exceptionally modest opinion, I find this an extremely simple yet elegant and ingenious solution. :)
 
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