SOG. Homemade bed/frame. Questions about drainage.

[Henrik]

Hei!

Outdoor grower going inside once again... I have that homebox that is one square meter. I have now build a frame that fits Perfect inside! The frame is 18-20cm deep. Thought that was good enough for sog..? In this frame im thinking about putting plastic inside in the bottom, maybe some rocks/leca over the plastic and some good homemade mixed soil over that. All the clones will be in the same "pot" or bed. The question is will this work if im very carefull about not over watering? Will maybe put a stick in one corner so i can check the moisture in every deept of the bed.

the second ide is doing the same thing, but putting the bed on a euro pal(the ones for shipping stuff) and make holes in the plastic for runoff water(if there will be)...

Hope you guys will share your minds! Im basically an outdoor grower but had some problem this season and have no pots now and no money for them!

 

[Henrik]

*bump*

So nobody has any thoughts about this?

 

[señorsloth]

check out my perpetual grow, i use beds, they are wooden drawers, i put a plastic liner on the inside. it's not really necessary but without it the bottoms tend to mold away after just a grow or two.

i usually advocate for about a 10 inch deep bed, bigger beds, like 4 by 8 foot beds should probably be about 12 inches deep...you don't want to go too deep or too shallow or they don't dry out evenly.

putting rocks in the bottom of pots actually doesn't help with drainage much and they are pointless in beds, as most bed growers don't water to runoff...you will find bed growing is similar to outdoor growing vs pots, because beds hold so much soil and each plant shares the entire space. This makes ph much more stable, vs small pots, and nutrient levels as well, it takes many weeks of overfeeding in a bed before it shows in your plants, but it also is much harder to flush out, with a small pot you can completely change the nutrients and ph with one watering, with beds it will only alter the levels, because you never let the beds go dry, you water them as soon as they get dry about 2 inches down, and you don't water them so much that any drains out the bottom.

 

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