How do you catch the water drainage?

I am building my first stealth cfl grow. What do you put your pots on so that you catch the water that is coming out of your pots? What do you do with that water? I thought that if you have a lot of standing water that might make mold. Thanks for the help.

redonthehead said:

I am building my first stealth cfl grow. What do you put your pots on so that you catch the water that is coming out of your pots? What do you do with that water? I thought that if you have a lot of standing water that might make mold. Thanks for the help.

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I Used to put two 5 gal pots in one of these trays. 6 or 7 one gallon pots. They are pizza dough trays. Dominos really DOES deliver

I'm only running 6" pots as of now, but I have since started using tupperware dishes since I saw a buddy using them. Just water and let em drain and then get rid of the standing water down the drain. With bigger pot sizes Just go bigger dishes.

buckets or tarps work well

They actually make drainage things designed to go beneath flower pots in varying sizes out of plastic, clay, etc. which you should find at a hardware store or garden shop. Most of the purpose made things have feet that hold the pot up out of the drainage water. But, like everyone's said, you can really use whatever will hold water that you have on hand.

Something I did so I wouldn't have to empty out the water from a dish I was using was put a layer of pea gravel in the bottom of the dish. The pot sits on the gravel, and the water seeps down to the bottom, and just evaporates eventually. Works great.

Slow watering is the key to preventing too much waste.

I use propagation trays in the earlier stages to catch the water. The excess evaporates fairly quickly in the summer tent so its not much of a problem.

In the later stages when the plants are too large to fit in the trays and too large to move around easily I just clean up what little mess is created with a wash cloth. (flooring is waterproof material). Again just pour slowly so there won't be much runoff.