Do you have the tray elevated at all? Seems harf to drain if right on the floorI use a water heater tray, it has a side drain hole for easy draining. They come in many sizes. Sorry about the beautiful purple picture.
Ideas for run-off trays?
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Pepperbrew
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I have 4" of foam under the tray.
Edzzed
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I have a 4x4 tent and bought a 4x4 ft ebb n flow table. It sits just high enough on a table I built to put a bucket underneath to catch water. I had planned on more than the legal 4 plants but wife said NO more than 4. Should have bought a 3 ft table. What about using a couple lids from plastic tote boxes.
odam2k
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My run-off tray is the floor, and it is lined with the same black/white plastic sheeting I use on my walls. I'm not expecting any water on it, but it's there just in case, since I'm just starting "unattended automated watering". The perimeter is raised with 2x2 wood boards, with the plastic "lipped" over the edge, so its like a 2" deep pool... Of course, there is no provision for draining it
Anyhow, this is my vote for a liner...
Can I change my vote?
I changed up my grow room, and pulled up the plastic, and found water underneath! Just enough to be wet, not a puddle, but more than just moist. It was stinky and tinged with green, so I knew it was nasty... A good mopping and disinfection and no damage to the floor, so lucky. This was just from runoff and spillage during hand watering...
The Panda Plastic is not durable enough without using extreme caution. I suspect it was tiny tiny holes caused by wear and tear, moving pots around etc.
I'll have another grow tent (with floor tray) in a couple months to replace this setup, but in the mean time, I'm looking at cheap solutions including a raised floor to allow air flow just in case, plastic liner with a plywood floor over the plastic?
SOG001
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I built a catch pan out of 2x4 plywood and shower pan liner I use a washing machine catch pan for catching the runoff
The pan holds my grow pots
The pan holds my grow pots
Haha!I built a catch pan out of 2x4 plywood and shower pan liner I use a washing machine catch pan for catching the runoff
The pan holds my grow pots
I like your style! Looks similar to my set-up.
SOG001
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My catch apn has a basket strainer I can use to plug the runoff and use it to raise the humidity in the room and I don't have to drain it works quite well .
Could suck the water from trays with a wet/dry shopvac. Not most ideal way but it works
SOG001
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Don't have to when the humidity is low I leave the water to evaporate if the humidity is high I can unplug the drain and drain into a catch pan that I vacuum out and dump on my garden outside.
Lungren
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end up finding a suitable solution for this?
im looking for the same thing and think the price for those tables is ridiculous
i saw a guy put a raised grate in his tent and put the plants on that, under the grate but suspended he put a tarp that caught all the water and drained into a bucket
im looking for the same thing and think the price for those tables is ridiculous
i saw a guy put a raised grate in his tent and put the plants on that, under the grate but suspended he put a tarp that caught all the water and drained into a bucket