supersmirky

since they are rather tall assembled, where do you plan on storing these?

wet

The 1L with the plunger down (or even partway up) fits under my 40g/standard 3ft tank stand. But in my case I keep my non-light sensitive dry ferts in (what I think are) nice glass containers meant for spices and nuts and bolts and stuff out on a table in my kitchen since I was dry dosing before getting these new bottles. (I keep my light sensitive stuff on its own half a shelf in one of my kitchen cupboards.) The bottles that are out look good out on the table, too. Since reentering the hobby I don't mind having this nerd stuff out and neither do the ladies, and it is much more convenient for me. I hide my spare pipes and plumbing and pumps and anything ugly in a drawer though. Too much information? Sorry

supersmirky

LOL....good info. Nerd stuff...hehehe, nice.

wet

As I remeasured a new batch, I figured it was time to post some quick thoughts of this solution after a year (much of it away from this hobby, though):

Sometimes I wish the join between the flex tubing into the stopper was tighter as it flops around, but a bonus of the design is on a new batch (lots of liquid) I can pull much of the pump body out and to the side.

Clear containers really remind you how many impurities are in our fertilizers In these cases pulling out the syringe some distance from the bottom prevents it from clogging.

I've only had one syringe clog (really at the union between the flex tubing and the syringe) and easily fixed but pumping in and out tap water. Syringe bodies are easy to clean. Small mouthed bottles not easy.

The glass has a nice weight and I've not been tempted to replace.

Have thought about using glass in the out tube just because it would look cooler.

All in all very happy and still think I will use them for years. Everybody who sees it and any ferts make ask/make a half serious meth-lab question/joke, and really, I would too. I think this bonus.

grak70

I imagine you've probably made your decision by now but I also use the H2O2 bottles. And while you're in the pharmacy, you can pick up one of these:

http://shop.tps-online.com/browse.cfm/4,134.html

They fit perfectly into an open H2O2 bottle and are usually packaged with a 10cc children's oral syringe. Very easy!

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wet

@grak70: nice!

Muirner

I currently use 1L water bottles and a syringe to dose..

In my garage i have 1000ML Glass Flask (narrow neck) of two different shapes that i plan on using as soon as i can figure out the implementation.