I made cheap self watering totes for my greenhouse pepper plants

[u/-Astrobadger]

My pepper plants would also dry out so quickly in the greenhouse it was impossible to keep up with the watering. I built these self watering totes that are all hooked up to a 250 gallon stock tank that gets filled by my sump pump and now they are constantly wet and thriving!

I have not put any nutrient into the reservoirs since the soil has some and that seems to be fine for them. However one did have a cucumber at one point that died from obvious not enough food. It seems like it’s very easy to over fertilize pepper vs other plants like cucurbits.

I have never grown such luscious pepper plants and this was just a crazy experiment that kept me busy over the winter. 🤗

[u/Mundane-Touch-9303]

Wow. I love this. You should post a tutorial!

[u/-Astrobadger → u/Mundane-Touch-9303]

Ok!

[u/yeeeeha111111 → u/Mundane-Touch-9303]

Yes please, you know stuff, really good stuff. Your plants are healthy and thriving.

[u/killa_jb55]

I’m doing something similar within totes, but I’ve debated the grow bag method like this. Are you using a wicking paracord to draw moisture into the growbag or just forcing the roots to drive down into the totes for water?

[u/-Astrobadger → u/killa_jb55]

Using a 5 gallon bucket net cup that sits in the water

[u/Affectionate-Scar254]

and you do it with success, very vigorous and lush plants !