Recent content by nick5311

100% biochar on the right (except for the small nursery pouch of peat mix). She's outpacing her sisters a little maybe. It's not really fair because there are 3 plants crammed in the container on the left and biochar test has its own container.

Roots hit the res, plant still looks happy

I love to experiment-- the seed was started in a peat pellet and then moved to a nursery bag with about 1/8 gallon of peat-based potting mix with some OC+.... A few days ago I moved the bag into a SIP with 100% biochar charged with JLF for a few weeks, now with JLF in the res.... No idea how...

Here is the flow diagram for how this is supposed to work, and I can confirm it does indeed work as advertized: if one wants to use it SOLELY as a water cutoff sensor for power, you can just use the "out" and "high water" probes and ignore (not use) the low water probe.... if out and high are...

great vid that shows a lot of variations of the Rain gutter grow systems:

not directly -- There is such a product on the Jungle River site for $70+.... instead, I plan on using my 2nd $8 controller such that the high water sensor acts as such -- if the low and out are shorted (simulating wet), then the controller should shut off the relay when the high sensor get's...

I've been exploring autowatering options and was about to go with a float valve inside a 5gal grobucket setup -- I want to use a 5gal external gravity fed reservoir so I can get several days between watering. My issue is that this is in an attic and I have zero desire for any kind of leakage...

:thumb: cool - it looks like they took the retail version of the 3mo version off the market. I was asking in relation to your most recent post, but if it's 6mo release, it should still be active. I remember reading threads here about OC+ 10 years ago, guys like @WattSaver (who I think is still...

Osmocote Plus comes in 2 variations - 3 month release and 6 month release... which are you using?