4×4 tent
15 gallon smart pots each in their own saucer. Trellised into a screen of green
Question: How do I flush my plants. Doesn’t the water get reabsorbed into fabric pots with the rinsed nutrients? and trellis makes plant removal hard. Does the runoff need to be removed from saucers. Or is watering with no nutrients over 2 weeks diluting it enough. Thanks. New member, love the show.
Growing hydroponically without a way to get proper run off and drainage is difficult. To run a large volume of water through each pot requires a shop vac or a drain table. Removing excess salts from the media is necessary. The run off needs to be removed from the saucers.
In 15 gallon fabric pots you could go total organic and not have to worry about flushing anything ever.
Also you don’t want your pots sitting in the saucer anyway, unless you have a bed of aeration in the bottom. Root rot, no root air pruning, and no way to get runoff.
Yep, all fabric pots should be on pot elevators.
Bucket head wet dry vac:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Bucket-Head-5-Gal-1-75-Peak-HP-Wet-Dry-Vac-BH0100/202017218
Great for runoff. Vacuum it up then use the bucket of run off to water some plants in your yard. (Please don’t put run off down the drain.) BYOB (bring your own bucket)
I’ve used this plastic lighting grid type stuff to make little risers to get my pots off the ground.
https://www.1800ceiling.com/polystyrene-egg-crate-return-2×2?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI65HBjOOD5AIVjMhkCh3zFwzxEAQYASABEgJ92PD_BwE
You can buy big sheets of it for super cheap at the hardware store. It’s usually in the lighting section. You can cut it to size and even make risers that fit inside your saucers.
If you’re in a living soil type situation, you can put a layer of pumice in the bottom of your saucers. The roots will grow through the fabric into the moist pumice and it becomes like a sub irrigated pot type of thing. Wouldn’t want to do that with salty run off though, so you probably don’t want to use that trick if you are using bottled nutrients.
I just use regular old pot elevators, they’re pretty cheap.
https://growershouse.com/gro-pro-nx-level-pot-elevator-13-in-up-to-7-gal-pots