Johnnys dry ring experiment

So I grow in a room with wood floors and all weather carpet on them and I like to use cloth pots. After reading something @bk78 wrote on someone elses post I decided to do something about the wet no air floor issue I have before he called me out on it.... I plan to remove the floor in the near future(when the wife ain't lookin) so in the mean time I came up with this solution and hope it works.
Note: I always carry my plants outside to water them and then let them sit a couple hours and carry them back inside.
I took and cut the top rings off of 3 gallon plastic pots, drilled holes in them. They fit perfectly under 4 gallon cloth pots. I tested it by watering a plant and setting it in there on the ring and waited a while, checked the carpet underneath and it was dry. I just did 10 plants and will check the floor tonight and see

What the hell?

Over carpet?

At a loss for words.

xtsho said:

What the hell?

Over carpet?

At a loss for words.

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Yeah outdoor porch carpet.
Oh sorry its also a homemade storage shed, not part of the house or anything.

Lastmanstandin31 said:

Yeah outdoor porch carpet.
Oh sorry its also a homemade storage shed, not part of the house or anything.

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Oh I see. I was going to say, if it part of the house you'd be crazy to wait and see if the floor is wet.

I was thinking the worst.

xtsho said:

Oh I see. I was going to say, if it part of the house you'd be crazy to wait and see if the floor is wet.

I was thinking the worst.

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Hahah I could tell. I should have been more specific in my post lol.

Saucers are cheap tbh. For many years I just used some deli tray lids I got at my local market (free) and shale rocks. For so many reasons I wouldn’t drain to the floor. But that’s just me.

GeneBanker said:

Saucers are cheap tbh. For many years I just used some deli tray lids I got at my local market (free) and shale rocks. For so many reasons I wouldn’t drain to the floor. But that’s just me.

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I take them outside to water them and leave them outside for a couple hours so no drain to the floor...

Lastmanstandin31 said:

I take them outside to water them and leave them outside for a couple hours so no drain to the floor...

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That's not a bad little shed for a grow room. It wouldn't be hard to rig up some kind of trays for a drain system. It would make it easier than moving the plants when you want to water.

Good luck with your grow.

You have lego in your soil?Aeration lol?

myke said:

You have lego in your soil?Aeration lol?

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Probably one of my kids...shit maybe its mine. Lol

myke said:

You have lego in your soil?Aeration lol?

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Not to mention the thing next to it, a clothes pin spring, assorted other stuff......... and two shoes.
It's called soil amendments.

agree with xtsho, build a flood to drain system in there. Similar to dawgo the hutt.

This is just nuts. Who the hell wants to grow carpet? And then I see it's your outdoor room.

Seriously. Put some tarp down and be safe. No matter what you're going to pick up some mold on the carpet.

testtime said:

This is just nuts. Who the hell wants to grow carpet? And then I see it's your outdoor room.

Seriously. Put some tarp down and be safe. No matter what you're going to pick up some mold on the carpet.

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And I'm in a legal state.

I got Ruby skunk, lem dog, chem squeezy, lost cause, military chocolate and 9d4 currently growing in a tent.

So I can pretend to know what I'm doing.

testtime said:

And I'm in a legal state.

I got Ruby skunk, lem dog, chem squeezy, lost cause, military chocolate and 9d4 currently growing in a tent.

So I can pretend to know what I'm doing.

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I was really just trying to get the pots off the floor so air can circulate under the pots. The carpet is plastic and under it is plastic laminate over pressure treated plywood. As I said up top I don't water inside at all, the go outside, get watered, sit all day and go back in at night so no run off

Soon the floor will be removed out and be bare ground underneath instead.

testtime said:

And I'm in a legal state.

I got Ruby skunk, lem dog, chem squeezy, lost cause, military chocolate and 9d4 currently growing in a tent.

So I can pretend to know what I'm doing.

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You obviously watched too much Mr Roger's in your youth.