How do you water multiple grow bags in tents with an irrigation system ?

Going to grow 4 autos in a 4x4 . I'm thinking when i water I will do it in the tent . I'll loft the grow bag and place it on a plastic bucket to catch the run off then place the grow bag on a tray . I'll be using grow bags my only concern is disturbing the roots if lifting the grow bags and have large roots ?

How do you usually water ?

This is what held me back when I first started………I looked at a bunch of pics on line and pieced together something in my head that I thought should work…….and It did……I’m coco dtw and I have to deal with 10gal of water a day, when I had my 2.5x2.5,4x4,4x8 all flowering and maxed out I had to deal with 25 gal of run off every day…… this system is not the prettiest. but I’ll tell you what….this shit works bro lol…… take a wire rack remove a shelf. place it on top of a 3 x 3 flood table, that’s it lol…… I bought a $20 bottom suction pump off Amazon very important that it’s a bottom sunction and not a Side suction that way you get the most water out…… however I’ve noticed it’s a lot of water in that flood table it helps drop my note temps down by a couple degrees with all the air movement kind of like Lake affect cold fronts…….hook a black hose you would get from a hydro store on the pump and leave it under the wire shelf so when u need to drai it just plug it in and fill up 5mgal buckets boom it’s that easy……I’m lucky I have a floor drain so I just plug it in and walk away. I have a smaller tray on other side because it was cheaper and I like being able to move things around so I dropped a cheapo 2 foot by 1 foot wire shelf in their and that’s what she’s sitting on I hav e a cheapo pump in that one with a hose leading into the big one

Most folks have a drip tray set up with the pots raised for free draining.
I've got mine raised at the back with some capillary matting to drain the run off in a jug.

I find an easy way if you don't want to go irrigation yet, or even as a stand in until you do figure out your setup, is to put the pots in a saucer and suck the runoff up with a wet vac. The pots go on a cake tray, free to drip Into the saucer unimpeded. I use 410mm saucers with 300mm pots. Use a watering can with a hose attached for reach. Ghetto for the win.

Im watering in Coco twice a day in 3 gal pots. I put about 1.5 gal through each pot and suck the excess up with a wet vac shortly after. Only takes a few mins.

Runoff goes in garden afterwards as a bonus.

Smokeytit90 said:

Going to grow 4 autos in a 4x4 . I'm thinking when i water I will do it in the tent . I'll loft the grow bag and place it on a plastic bucket to catch the run off then place the grow bag on a tray . I'll be using grow bags my only concern is disturbing the roots if lifting the grow bags and have large roots ?

How do you usually water ?

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I run DTW coco. I built a PVC stand and holder for a 2x2 flood table, for my small tent. Bulkhead fitting center front of the table allows waste feed to drain below, with the flood table slightly tilted forward.

Started with just a pan that I could empty as needed, but now have a sump pump remove the waste feed outside the tent into a 5 gallon bucket. Plan was to eventually drain waste to a place where I wouldn't have to always empty it.

VincenzioVonHook said:

I find an easy way if you don't want to go irrigation yet, or even as a stand in until you do figure out your setup, is to put the pots in a saucer and suck the runoff up with a wet vac. The pots go on a cake tray, free to drip Into the saucer unimpeded. I use 410mm saucers with 300mm pots. Use a watering can with a hose attached for reach. Ghetto for the win.

Im watering in Coco twice a day in 3 gal pots. I put about 1.5 gal through each pot and suck the excess up with a wet vac shortly after. Only takes a few mins.

Runoff goes in garden afterwards as a bonus.

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Awesome man I think this will work for the time being and until I move house and workout the setup .. fancy having a flood table diy with rack with long roller trays underneath like 10 liter each and empty after harvest . But legit the wet vac sound awesome need a new hoover anyway llf

Blumats

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Blumats

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I was thinking about these .

What way do you use them do you run multiple containers with weeks worth or two of water/nutes and feed each individually .

Is that coco your using

If I use these with coco and connect to a 5 litre bottle or reservoir that would awesome

What's the best way to use these for seedling Do u use these straight away or wait until week 3-4onwards until full waterings thinking of setting up a reservoir and just increasing the nutes when needed