DIY DIY Water Vacuum

[MrAutoGrower]

If you are like me and you grow in small spaces, and happen to grow big plants, you will realise it is a pain in the ass to drain the pot saucers. Especially when you are growing in coco.

Please see my picture below:

As you can see, manually taking these plants out here is a pain in the ass and can easily cause damage to them.

The solution:

What you need
1: tubing or a hose
2: a container to store the water in
3: a hoover / vacuum.

Cut a hole in top of the container and thread the hose threw it.

Cut a hole in the other end of the container. This hole is where you put your vacuum hose over the top of it.

What happens is, when your container is sealed and one end of your hose is inside the box, meanwhile the other end of the hose is inside your water source (ur pot saucers), it will create a vacumm within that container and it will suck threw the hose and literally suck the water up into the container for you without you having to move your plants around! It also makes it easier for checking your ph and ppms.

Happy growing! Hope it helped some of you

 

[Sheriffatman]

Nice one I like that, I had the same troubles. I use a manual syphon pump for watering and draining, you have to constantly pump the bladder but it’s pretty quick n easy.

 

[MrAutoGrower]

Nice one I like that, I had the same troubles. I use a manual syphon pump for watering and draining, you have to constantly pump the bladder but it’s pretty quick n easy.

Its genuinely made my job easier. Costs like $20+ for a water vaccum and most of them can't get into the areas I need into. Works like a charm

 

[BII]

If you are like me and you grow in small spaces, and happen to grow big plants, you will realise it is a pain in the ass to drain the pot saucers. Especially when you are growing in coco.

Please see my picture below:
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As you can see, manually taking these plants out here is a pain in the ass and can easily cause damage to them.

The solution:

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What you need
1: tubing or a hose
2: a container to store the water in
3: a hoover / vacuum.

Cut a hole in top of the container and thread the hose threw it.

Cut a hole in the other end of the container. This hole is where you put your vacuum hose over the top of it.

What happens is, when your container is sealed and one end of your hose is inside the box, meanwhile the other end of the hose is inside your water source (ur pot saucers), it will create a vacumm within that container and it will suck threw the hose and literally suck the water up into the container for you without you having to move your plants around! It also makes it easier for checking your ph and ppms.

Happy growing! Hope it helped some of you

Yes, what you have surely works, but it is not particularly failsafe. Any standard hoover/vacuum is going to short out badly if some water is sucked into the machinery. A cheap "wet/dry" vacuum or water pump would electrically be much safer.

 

[MrAutoGrower]

Yes, what you have surely works, but it is not particularly failsafe. Any standard hoover/vacuum is going to short out badly if some water is sucked into the machinery. A cheap "wet/dry" vacuum or water pump would electrically be much safer.

The container is real big and the vacuum hose never goes inside the container. The container stores a few hundred ml of water tops. The container holds upto several litres. Nothing ever reaches the hoover hose

 

[BII]

The container is real big and the vacuum hose never goes inside the container. The container stores a few hundred ml of water tops. The container holds upto several litres. Nothing ever reaches the hoover hose

All you need for an electrical fire is just 1 good splash hitting the vacuum outlet while it's running.

 

[elcoloan]

nice, i use a turkey baster to suck the runoff out of the tray.. takes some time
hahahhaa.

 

[MrAutoGrower]

nice, i use a turkey baster to suck the runoff out of the tray.. takes some time
hahahhaa.

Man my girls are massive right now. Its stressful. This little DIY water sucker does the job very quickly and it takes 5-10min to make

 

[elcoloan]

Man my girls are massive right now. Its stressful. This little DIY water sucker does the job very quickly and it takes 5-10min to make

Cool. Will be making one... with the rukey baster it takes forever!

 

[TheHappyClique]

Mite be worth adding some coffee filters taped or elastic banded to the hoover pipe end that way it will allow air flow with minimal resistance and won't allow any water to go up hoover pipe just a thought great idea tho