Hi anyone interested or who may be able to tell me how it can be better?
Since I built my indoor raised bed and installed my blumat drip system life is great but only when my plants take water when they need it. But I think I still have a problem with my inner hydro and keep overwatering now I've killed 3 plants and could possibly be on the way to 3. I mess up at a certain pot size where the top Dries leaving the bottom wet and I'm sure you know the drill lol, but I get around that now by misting the mulch only.
I been doing a lot of reading on these earthbox things and have loved the grokashi idea of creating a mycelia layer as a micro filter to feed through if I need to opt her than That it's watered through the tube and is constantly covered to retain moisture, anyway cheapest I found was £50 so this I thought was a bargain IF IT WORKS!!!!!
Poundland buckets
They hold 15 liters of soil to the top alowing me to make my bokashi mulch layer so here's the bottom tesevoir with an outlet hole so I do over wet the soil
Then I put 4 pce of pce pipe 2 1/2 inches each to support the top bucket with soil
I used a net pot cut to the same size of the pce pipe to keep it all level
I filled the net pot with a heavy mix of soil and some peat moss hoping they hold water well but I also thought I'd add a couple of shoelaces to help wick water up
And here it is with the soil in
Also here you can see my feed tube which is just another pce of pipe cut to the height suitable for watering
I also just cut a pce out to allow water to pas out easily
Then I filled that shit with soil and here's what it looks like with the cover
And it holds 5 litres of water.
Please excuse the bokashi,mycelia talk etc but you get the idea of where I'm going with this.
It's working on my tomatoe plant so far but it's only been a week so I was thinking of trying a autoflower.
Would this be enough soil?
Will my shoelaces rot?
Bigger res?
Is there anything you would change, I'd love any info before doing a 70 day run lol
Blessings and grattitude
Redz
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