slow_grow
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I mean that the depth of the dish would be hard to get right. If it's too deep then you would have to sacrifice soil to get it down in their. If it's too high instead, then you'd possibly lose height on the plant due to needing to transplant it higher up to keep the lower branching/leaves clear thus needing it to be smaller top end if going for a certain size for space, hope you follow. If you are then forced into using too shallow a dish you may have to refill each individual dish 3 to 4 times to get in the volume, so a big problem if you have many pots.
Gotcha, yeah the priority has been to ensure volume is not an issue. It would indeed suck to have to refill it a few times. It's currently under 2.5" high yet holds nearly 3/4 gallon of water. If a 1G version was created it would be only 1.5" or so high yet still capable of holding more water than a 1G plant could take at a single watering so I'm hoping height as it relates to volume and plant sizing won't be an issue.
You will only be dealing with 2' to 4' max tubing that is only fixed to the soil with some form of peg, easily removed. You mix up neut in a separate big container and that should all be clean with no bits to create any clogging at all. Once mixed you can fill a transport bucket and then with that fill up the gravity container. As you can dictate the size of the gravity container and flow of the liquid due to tube size you will only have to fill it up one single time to feed 4 plants. That is unless your plants are in huge pots so you'd need to do 2 transport pots due to carry weight.
Under the bucket/stool you can place a catch bucket if you are paranoid about leaks so if one does occur (almost certainly at that single connection point) it will drip into the catch bucket.
Is this what you do?