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Originally Posted by FourOaks
So, just for fun, approx. how much fertilizer would you mix up for that garden? Im just curious.
I can definitely see the plus side to the Hozon. The major plus of not being limited to a container size to dispense the goods.
Honestly though, Im not sure my well could deliver that much water.
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Cole is in good shape because of what is already in his soil.
If you did not have a lot of pre-plant nutrition in place, you would have to run fert through your drip multiple times a week or at every watering to get the total pounds of fert you need to support a crop.
Consider a crop that needs 100 lbs of N per acre over its life.
On a small scale, that is about one pound of N for a 4x100' row.
For a fert with 25% N, you would need to use 4 lbs over the course of the season.
So, think how you would dispense a 4lb box worth of, say, miracle grow, if you were using a tablespoon per gallon.
4lbs x 30 tbs = 120 tabloespoons. That will make 120 gallons.
Drip tape of 1/2 gallon per minute per 100' row.
So, it taks 2 minutes to put out 1 gallon. If you ran the siphon for 2 minutes per day, it would take 120 days to dispense 4 lbs of total fert to give you 1 lb of N per row.
You could run the siphon, longer, but I would have to look into how much N per day would be too much.