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Musaman
08-07-2015, 10:09 PM
Hi, I'm new to the site and will be finishing a bed for my dwarf cavs. I am installing tubing below the root zone to provide sufficient heat (from a solar water heater) for them to flower. Although we have great humidity here, on the central coast of California, my part of North Santa Barbara County stays a tad bit chilly. Has anyone tried this before?

Thanks!

kubali
08-08-2015, 03:39 PM
Welcome aboard,
pull up a chair and have some fun learning.

Mark Dragt
08-08-2015, 08:43 PM
Cool idea! Let us know how it works out.

City Farm
08-11-2015, 06:30 PM
We have never tried it, but any way to get Root's extra water gota be worth it!! Especially in Cali.. Keep us posted and show us photos of your project..

Snarkie
08-12-2015, 11:05 AM
We have never tried it, but any way to get Root's extra water gota be worth it!! Especially in Cali.. Keep us posted and show us photos of your project..It looks to me like they have enough water. The tubing appears to be for circulating warm water through the ground to warm it, like radiant floor heating. It's a novel idea.

Musaman
08-12-2015, 03:16 PM
Yes, for now we have sufficient waterfor irrigation purposes. Hopefully with El Niņo we will see things turn around for us hereon that front.

Indeed the plan is to build a solar water heater, and the heat exchanger to then circulate water through tubes under the root zone.i've been thinking of doing this for sometime, and I'm pretty sure somebody else has done it before. I was just hoping somebody could shareThe experience they have had before I try and re-create the wheel.

The challenge will be to buffer the high temperature resulting from daytime heat acquisition at peak levels as well as mitigate any heat loss at night in January and February etc. i'm envisioning several pumps, several tanks, and heat exchangers. Additionally, I will be utilizing the water to run below the root zone in my aqua ponics system as well. The temp for the root zone I'm shooting for will be 75 to 85°F.should be a good temperature for some tasty swimmy things as well. I believe those route temperatures will maximize fruit production as well as plant growth overall.

Does that sound right?