Not your typical flushing question

Homergrown

Homergrown

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How do you handle the runoff when flushing your plants? If you are supposed to use three times the water of you your container size, where does all your runoff go? It would seem especially hard to deal with using a scrog in a grow tent.
 
Hook Daddy

Hook Daddy

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In an indoor scrog grow it would be something you have to plan for from the start. My scrog is using hempy type buckets with a recirculating system, so I just put a bucket in my res to catch the runoff and water my tomatoes with it. If using soil or something else put the pots in containers and drain them off to the side somewhere you can catch the water. Easy but must be planned ahead of time.
 
Rurumo

Rurumo

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Most of us pump it out of the trays. I never physically lift my plants and dump the tray. Look up "liquid transfer pump" on Amazon-you can use the kind that's meant for transferring gasoline. I don't like the battery powered ones, I've got one that I pump by hand-it was like $12 on amazon.
 
twentyeight.threefive

twentyeight.threefive

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DTW coco. Built a PVC frame for a flood table. Installed bulkhead fitting in the bottom. It's slightly tilted forwards so everything runs to the front and drains below. I now have a sump pump that pumps it out of the tent instead of removing that tray each feed.

As stated above there's almost never a reason to flush a plant.
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Lordhooha

Lordhooha

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Homergrown said:
Thank you for the replies and ideas
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I’m simply don't flush and and never have runoff. I feed until the end only dropping the amount I feed the last few weeks. They are simple solutions if you really want to flush. I flood tray and go never have any sort of runoff.
 
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xtsho

xtsho

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I don't understand why people think they need to feed a nutrient solution that is so strong that they need to water enough until runoff because they need to wash the excess salts out each watering. Feed a much lower nutrient solution and keep the medium moist. Anything more than that is just wasting nutrients and water.
 
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