It’s more than just pots!
There’s a lot to take into consideration when choosing the type of pot and configuration for your grow room. Round pots or crop boxes? Run to waste (runoff water runs away from the system and out of a drain versus into a waste pot)? DWC (roots sit directly in bottom reservoir)? Or recirculation (runoff
water returns to the reservoir to be used for the next feed)?
What size fitting will best suit my needs, I hear you asking?
Luckily, these days there are a lot of companies like the bucket company, Current Culture, and Nutriculture, (just to name a few), which are making ready- to- use pot systems that make it easy to choose something just right for your indoor grow. There are some simple easy steps you can take to make your own system perfect for you.
- The first thing to decide is how many plants do you need to fill your room without being over crowded. The easiest way to decide this is to simply try and allocate 1 square meter per tree – so a 3 x 3 meter tent will house 9 trees perfectly. Of course, this can change dramatically depending on the type of plant and amount of room available, and gets a little harder to perfect once we start talking about rectangle rooms, but the same principle applies.
- Let’s look at the size of the pots and type of system. If room height is an issue, then a 20lt pot run to waste is normally your best option. If your trees are filling an area bigger than 1 square meter, perhaps crop boxes or 50 lt round pots are more suitable for you needs. If you’re growing indoors and can’t find anywhere for the excess water to drain, then perhaps DWC or a recirculation system will fit your needs perfectly.
- What size water and air pump will you need will depend of the amount of pot as well as the height and spacing of said pots. A rough guide will be to find a water pump that can move between 300 to 500 liters per hour for each pot in your room. Again, this can change depending on pot size and amount of travel between the pots, but generally speaking , six trees will need a pump between 1800 to 3000 liters per hour, whereas 9 pots will need something that can handle 2700 to 4500 litres per hour. Luckily, with brands like NTS (Nutrient Tank Solution), you can purchase pumps with variable flow rates making this the easiest part of the system to choose.
If you take all this into account, then there really is no reason why you can’t put together the best possible pot system to suit your needs And, if you have read all this and feel like you are more confused now than ever, than that’s nothing to worry about because that is exactly why we are here! Just pop into any Just Hydroponics store and we will sit down with you and put together the best options for you at the best possible price. All our staff have been putting systems like this together for longer than we can remember so don’t feel intimidated by this all – just get up, come in, and get the ball rolling!
We look forward to seeing you soon! And until then you can shop our MASSIVE range of POTS right here!
From the team at JUST HYDROPONICS