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    Hi there

    Can anyone give me a coupple pointers to dripfeed intervales.

    Take a look at my system here.

    Im new to hydro and automatic feeding. Used to grow in coco and hand feed

    Anyway, how many times aday and for how long should i run my water pump?

    Any idea?

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    im using the wilma drip system which is same sort of thing!
    at 3 minute drip intervals every 2 hours
    seems to be working great so far.. fingers crossed

    p.s your setup looks great.. cant wait to see ur other rooms

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    thx m8

    Flower room is almost ready, only need to mount the air system and some electrics then its set to go.
    Mother room havent i started on yet but its the easyest one anyway.

    Forgot to mention that im currently running the pump on 15min every 2hr, only got 15min window bc its an mec timer

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    only got 15min window bc its an mec timer
    buy yourself a digital timer bro.. can choose whateva intervals you want then
    personally i think a 15 minute drip is abit much.. better to under water than over water

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    It depends on the strain aswell but I feed using a grasslin segmental timer at 4 hour intervals for 20 minutes in early stages and veg stage then flowering I up it to every 2 hours for 20 minutes.

    Edit: I see someone said 15 minutes is a bit to much but your roots are not sat in the res there out of water so 15/20 isn't to much just means you space out how often you have them drip.

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    Edit: I see someone said 15 minutes is a bit to much but your roots are not sat in the res there out of water so 15/20 isn't to much just means you space out how often you have them drip.
    yeah true true
    i feed every 2 hours so personelly 15 minutes is too much
    i prefer regular feeds rather than a few floods

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    Quote Originally Posted by ChronMan View Post
    yeah true true
    i feed every 2 hours so personelly 15 minutes is too much
    i prefer regular feeds rather than a few floods
    I've not had any problems with 20 minutes every 4 hours using my Grasslin segmental timer. I used digital before and it let me down and broke almost messing up my grow so thats why I don't use them. Also if your to worried about flooding theres always the dripper feeding systems instead of the flooding systems

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    About digital timer, I had a coupple of those on my last coco setup. One of them failed shortly after i started to flower. Some think its bc the humid so thats why i svear to an mecanical timer. Tho its not that flexible as an digi.

    Ive taken a notice of what you guys wrote, I guess 15min every 3hr should do. If im totaly wrong, correct me

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    To be honest it depends on your grow wether you use 5 minutes every 2 hours or 20 minutes every 4 hours. I just followed what others used in the forums and that worked for them. Seems to work for me to so thats what I do now.

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