I did just think though a setup in a 5 gal bucket like that you could probably hang in there by the bucket handle somehow
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I’m not sure how safe it would be hanging a 5 gallon bucket full of water from one of the support bars for a tent… at best, you’d probably end up just buying a few new support bars. 
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Indeed. Pretty awesome doing DIY stuff because you can customize things how ever you need. I dig it indeed. 
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You might have a point there. Stoner brain types faster than it reasons sometimes
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I’ve had enough bad ideas like that myself, usually I manage to avoid breaking too many things… usually, but not always
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I need a 3D printer, f the bs!
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You need a buddy with a 3D printer. I think we all do, just like you need a buddy with a boat, or a truck haha
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They had ones called a riprap I think… It would reprint itself… Not sure how that works as a business model though…
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While your looking at automation, TrolMaster make a floor flood sensor for the hydro-x series that might let you feel a little more at ease to using a blumat setup.
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Cover crop is up and sad plants are in. Lets hope these ones recover and get healthier faster and more even than the 3x3 bed. I will be installing a net very soon.
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Looking good man! Plants don’t look that sad at all
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Took way too much time and effort to bounce them back to what you see right now. All the plants from that screwup almost got thrown out, but I am suborn and wanted them to TRY to live lol.
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15 mins left till I give the 3x3 bed some tea. The front 2 most likely will not like it very much, but they are so behind and in stasis still that its time to ignore them a bit and just get the tent ready for flowering here soon. I hope they perk up and catch up a bit, but that’s wishful thinking. So annoying that the front 2 are still acting overwatered when they are definitely NOT, the bed is behind on watering’s because of them.
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I love that you got it timed down to the minute! I’m the same way. “It says brew for 36 hours, I will hit 36 hours to the exact second!!”
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Heh, ya it was a short brewed tea with malted barley, kelp meal, alfalfa meal and aloe powder. Just did it for 4 hours.
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With the larger beds, have you noticed more pest or less pest, or no pest at all? Are you running IPM system to help with the matter of pest? Just wondering if people running bigger bed, have any added problems do to the larger mass of soil and moisture when it come to pest, molds, fungi, etc…
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I have very little experience compared to @ReikoX, but the only thing I have noticed is that the compost used to make both batches of living soil had a few fungus gnats in it that I saw flying around for a bit (which I have never had before). Not enough to be an issue or concern at all though. Other than that I have not seen any pest issues from the beds. Off and on I have battled some spider mites that came from my fathers grow and randomly some russet mites made their way in recently that I had been trying to nuke, but none of that was from this soil/beds.
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A few hours after being given the tea brew.
The next morning.
Bonus pic of a Mac#1 showing me it loved the tea a few hours after it was fed. (This is the last plant that is busting out of the funk ALL those plants went through. This is the last one that almost got called out and killed off, it just shows there is always hope!)
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Fungus gnats are the only real issue with living soils. They are atracted to the decomposing matter. When I setup my beds, I inoculated the beds with soil mites, nematodes, and rove beetles. That has kept the fungus gnats populations in check. Otherwise, it has been pretty smooth sailing.
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Prepping these ones early before they recover and start taking off. I wish I would have put a screen in earlier for the 3x3 bed since it ran into height problems from the slower sick plants.
Tomorrow I will post some pictures showing how the 3x3’s canopy will be dealt with 
, along with some other things.
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