Flood n drain preferances

I went to pick up a few supplies today, and noticed that the hydro shops flood n drain set-up used no medium at all in their table. It was just the plants in 6in pots spaced out along the tray.
The way ive been doing it, is a piece of plywood, with holes cut to suspend bottom of net pots about 3 inches off bottom of tray. Then i have a layer about 2 inches thick of hydroton . I have my drain set at 2 inches.
Now, this has and is still working great, but it's a royal pain in the ass to clean the hydroton after each grow. The whole tray will have a 2in or so thick mat of roots covering the whole tray.
Just wondering if maybe some of you flood guys could chime in with how you set-up your tables and medium used. Looking to change up and was looking for some ideas.
Any and all info will be appreciated, thanx ahead

Anybody have any ideas?

I'll try to help .
Please give a quick look at my grow in my signatures.
I always grow using Flood and drain and I never use a medium other than rockwool.

dadio161 said:

I'll try to help .
Please give a quick look at my grow in my signatures.
I always grow using Flood and drain and I never use a medium other than rockwool.

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Thanx, looking at links now.. Looks sweet so far, like the pvc table stand.

Wow, the very reason i did'nt use just rw blocks was i thought the rw would stay wet way to long.. Learn something every day.
How high do you flood to? Or does it just fill the channels?

Only thing is that I bet you can grow bigger plants the way your flood table is set up. They are probably growing some orchid or something that they don't want getting to big anyway hence the small pots. If you try and do that your roots wont grow out of the pots I would think because of the light and drying up.

I run a flood table but I run my plant in air pots right now with straight perlite as a medium. The air pots are 3 gal's but there supposed to allow for a bigger plant but we'll see.

Bigger roots, bigger flowers. Seems like you got some roots systems. lol.

Rockwool is nice because you can stack them on top of each other and they have mats as well. They sell coco type's as well.

Evo8Emperor said:

Rockwool is nice because you can stack them on top of each other and they have mats as well. They sell coco type's as well.

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Thanx, i use 30x40in trays with usually 2 or 3 plants, and when their done i can just about pick up all the roots and hydrton in 1 piece.. lol

Evo8Emperor said:

Only thing is that I bet you can grow bigger plants the way your flood table is set up. They are probably growing some orchid or something that they don't want getting to big anyway hence the small pots. If you try and do that your roots wont grow out of the pots I would think because of the light and drying up.

I run a flood table but I run my plant in air pots right now with straight perlite as a medium. The air pots are 3 gal's but there supposed to allow for a bigger plant but we'll see.

Bigger roots, bigger flowers. Seems like you got some roots systems. lol.

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When you say airpots, do you mean just buckets filled with perilite and holes cut in bottom for solution to enter?

dadio161 said:

I'll try to help .
Please give a quick look at my grow in my signatures.
I always grow using Flood and drain and I never use a medium other than rockwool.

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Just finished looking at the links.. Nice set-up
Thanx