Wet floors?

[benny blanco]

What do you guys do about your drainage? I have to mop everytime I feed and it gets pretty laboring. Just curious if I'm the only one that has to mop.

 

[Murfy]

i just finished putting a large bay sink in my veg room. low to the ground for tall plants.

 

[weedsLV]

What medium r u using? If your hand watering with soil/soiless I would buy or build a flood table drill whole in 1 side place bucket under hole and let it drain into bucket dump bucket after it stops dripping. That's what I do

 

[benny blanco]

I'm handwatering with soil medium. That tray does sound like a good idea. Gotta make one big enough for 30

 

[bbcrazy]

why dont you just make a watering table

 

[JLStiffy]

watering table orrr why dont u just get soccers that go underneath the pots? I finly did that and no more wet floors . Hey they sell them at grow stores same place were u buy your pots

 

[weedsLV]

Your gonna get tired of emtying those saucers the flood table makes it less work

 

[mrduke]

this is all you need. acouple peices off that plasic ribbed roofing shit and a peice of gutter. slope the roofing a bit so water runs to the gutter, then the gutter runs into a 5gal bucket. You just grab the bucket after feeding and dump it on your garden outside, make the outside flowers go crazy and keeps indoors dry and clean.

 

[JLStiffy]

weedslv, Hi,
U would never empty them, since it just to catch the run off. I mean, at the most one cup?? It will be passively wicked up in a very short time.

 

[benny blanco]

The heigh in my space is limited. The lights are almost 6 feet. I'm expecting my girls to stretch out to 3 1/2- 4 feet tall so I don't know. That soccer thing sounds intresting. Maybe ill stop by osh or something to check it out

 

[zem]

don't you have a drain in the room? you can make a drain pipe to wherever you intend to drain, possibly to a backyard or whatever

 

[benny blanco]

Nope. Its in my walk in closet. I have 2 of them so I just put my clothes in one and the other is my growspace

 

[zem]

well it is much better to remove the water from the room somehow, will be much cleaner less pests and humidity problems, so either mop it or make a table drain into a closed jug or something, just dont keep water in the open, my 0.02

 

[benny blanco]

Yeah trust me I mop up. I'm a lazy fuck but I do what I gotta do. #nodaysoff

 

[Stoner.Barbie]

i use plates, plastic plates anything really that willfit under the pot. what little water that does drain out is quickly absorbed within a day, no mess no fuss. shit, you can even use an empty cat litter pan.

 

[EvolAlex]

So all you guys talking about this runoff table, any threads on a DIY guide. Im in the same situation, to the point i dont water sometims because i know it takes at least an hour.

 

[benny blanco]

i use plates, plastic plates anything really that willfit under the pot. what little water that does drain out is quickly absorbed within a day, no mess no fuss. shit, you can even use an empty cat litter pan.

I think I might try the paper plate method. if I do the cat litter I gotta find 30 of them. I've been putting all of them in my bath tub and after it drains I just put them back. That's a lot of back and forth though lol

 

[fabfun]

this is what i did get some plastic milk crates and turn upside down and slide over 5 gallon bucket then u have platform to water and something to catch the water

 

[barcodelxix]

A wet/dry shop vac

 

[Devildog93]

^^^^^^^Was just gonna say this. Use pot "saucers" and suck up the excess with a wet/dry shop vac. I used to do this, and will be getting a new one for my grow I will be starting very soon.