Indoor Drip System on soil question

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I'm gonna use a drip system (drainage to waste) with my next grow in soil, it will be 16x Auto Kush Ryders, I already have most of the material. I read up that one 15 minutes per day feed is about ok for young plants and then one increases accordingly. I think this is usually suggested because most use only cheap analog timers which have 15 min steps. But I will have a more precise timer at my disposal, so I'll be able to water for an x amount of seconds when I want basically, the cycle can be programmed in any length and it's not restricted to 24H. So what would the ideal of schedule be if you hadn't timer restrictions?
One watering every x hours:minutes? let's say one every 24 hours at start, then 20, than 16 and so on as they grow bigger?
Very small almost continuous feeding? Like burst of a few seconds every 60 seconds?
Or maybe it's better to follow the light cycle of the plant? As in, a watering 30 minutes before lights on, and others at x time of the day and nothing at dark and at least a couple of hours before it?
Or something else entirely?
Thanks in advance for any help or insight.
 
I think your better off using coco? but more people will stop by. :smokebuds:
 
Well, I'd like to go soil since I already have bought 100L of Atami Janeco Mix and soil oriented nutes. :) I'll have air pumps in the nutes reservoir too.
So? Who here has drip systems on soil and has some knowledge to share?
 
I've read on this forum that using an air pump in your reservoir will raise PH so I left a 20L tank from my 3 stage osmosis filter with some lemon juice to sit for a couple of days, checked it today and it was 6.0 (checked with an Adwa AD12), I left an air pump in it and will monitor PH, see what happens.
Anybody knows if once the PH is raised stopping the air pumps will cause the PH to drop again?
 
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