flood & drain...buckets or table?

Hey guys looking for some other opinions.
Moving, hopefully within the next month, to our new house and will be setting up one of the room as an actual grow room.
Decided I want to do a flood and drain setup because I feel like once setup it should require less time spent watering. For the last 2 years or so I have mostly been hand watering.
Also we are having our first baby towards the end of april so I want a setup that will for the most part take care of its self with watering. I am hoping i'll mostly just have to check ppms and ph and maybe top the res off.
So im debating between a table setup or buckets and looking for help.
Bucket setup im thinking:
https://growace.com/oxygen-pot-systems-24-bucket-xl-super-flow-digital-controller-105-gallon-reservoir.html

Table setup would be 2x 4x8 tables, 2x 4x8 trays, 2x 115gallon res and 2x 4x8 flood and drain kits.
I am figuring the tables will be around $1500 give or take

What do you guys think?
Thanks

Tables with clayballs in pots fed by drippers. Simple to run and don't have to worry so much about nutrient temps like in dwc etc. One part nutrient for grow and bloom. Forget all the boosters and shit waste a time and money.

I like flood and drain buckets.
Someone gifted me one of these a few years back so I built my own system based on it and it performed amazing.

https://www.1-hydroponics.co.uk/hydroponic-systems/esoteric-hydroponic-systems/hydropod/2-pod-hydropod™-system.html

I would of stuck with it but I didn't size the water pumps properly and the noise was crazy loud.
But the plants thrived. I think it was a lot to do with the huge suction of fresh oxygen to the root zone when the buckets drain.

One bonus about the pod system is you have an inner bucket which you can lift out, so you can have pods set up in veg and then rather than disconnecting it all to move to flower you just lift the bucket and place in another pod in another room.

zypheruk said:

Tables with clayballs in pots fed by drippers. Simple to run and don't have to worry so much about nutrient temps like in dwc etc. One part nutrient for grow and bloom. Forget all the boosters and shit waste a time and money.

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Ya I have megacrop and some other stuff I’m trying to slowly use up. I thought about the drippers for flood and drain also.
I should add I have a coco mix I’ve been reusing for almost 2 years.
Plan to use fabric pots and coco just trying to decide if I want to do buckets or table.

Also I will be using this system for only flowering. I have a separate veg space.