Hydroponic - Flood & Drain Basic Rundown

Flood & Drain hydroponic system basic rundown (ebb & flow)

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Switched on Gardener
• Flood & Drain
• Ebb & Flow
• Hydroponics
• Hydro
• Indoor growing.

[CLeach13]

I wish someone would make a similar video for the bell syphon, its a great cheap ebb and flow system but can be extreamly finicky at times but I do find that once you have it set up it makes things fairly hastle free. I set one up with my aquaponics system and aside from some fine tuning of the inlet and outlet it works great. Just an illustation such as this would definatley be a big help

[Mallinson85]

@444caveman 4-5 times a day for about 15 mins each from the information ive gottenfrom other vids... but im in the same boat as you just learning

[steveeb1269]

i have ran flood systems, but the whole top tank i filled with hydroton, using separete planters, does is hurt the roots that stick out, when the grow tray is drained?

[444caveman]

how often do you flood/drain?

[initialsareAK47]

Thank you so much. I have this exact setup but i never new how the water will drain back fully. i thought the overflow was supposed to take all the water but it didnt so i didnt know what to do. obviosly i needed a timer so the outlet could stop pumping and drain. but foolishly before i knew that i made wholes on the grow bed. this explains so much to me. THANK YOU!!!

[neogardener]

Thanks for posting a great illustration of the ebb and flow system. This is going to be very helpful to novice growers who are planning on setting up their own flood and drain system. I guess one great advantage of this system over other hydroponics systems is that the nutrients and additives can easily penetrate the roots of the plants causing them to grow faster and better.