4' x 8' Capillary Mat System with Blumat Irrigation
4' x 8' Capillary Mat System with Blumat Irrigation
Make your own from parts and get just the right size at just the right price!
SKU: IG16964
$122.00
- Description
- Components
Capillary Mat System, 4' x 8'
Here's a great, automated systems for growing seedlings, starts, and clones. Just hook it up to a gravity reservoir or a pressurized water line (with a pressure reducer) and make sure that those small, vulnerable plants don't dry out or drown.
Click here to download the instructions.
This system needs to have a flat surface but it can be almost anything: a cement or tile floor, a plastic-covered sheet of plywood, metal or glass.
Does not include Impermeable Plastic Layer
The water wicks up from the bottom so it doesn't squeeze the oxygen out of your planting mix or disturb delicate seed sprouts like hand-watering easily does.
https://www.irrigation.equipment/guide-to-blumat-regulated-capillary-mat-systems/
This set-up includes:
- 8 ft. Capillary Mat 4' Wide (AG16037)
- 8 ft. Anti-Algae Perforated Black Foil (IG16354)
- 5 ft. Red 8mm Super-Flex Tubing IG15634
- 4 Blumat 8mm Elbows (IG15595)
- 3 ft. 3mm Drip Tubing for Blumat Systems (IG16021)
- 16 ft. Blusoak 2.0 Drip Tape (IG18206)
- 4 Blusoak to 8mm Barbed Adapter (AG15807)
Watch out for old info: this used to include a Blumat Surface mount but now it's an option along with using a Blumat sensor in one of the pots, manually adding water, wicking it with a strip of cap mat, and using a Surface Mount with Globe rather than connecting to pressure.