Auto-Pumping Drain Bucket

An automatic pumping drain bucket is the final piece to complete an automatic drainage system. This bucket will sit inside the tent and receive the run-off water from the self-draining saucers. Water enters the auto-pumping drain bucket only 2 inches from the floor of the tent. This prevents you from having to raise your plants. The pump inside the bucket is activated on a float switch and turns on when the water level is less than 2 inches high. The pump will send the water out of the grow tent and into a separate bucket or catchment that can hold more water and be emptied with ease.

Automatic Drainage Systems for Grow Tents

In drain to waste fertigation, each watering should produce run-off which must be removed from the plant. We suggest using self-draining saucers and provide a complete tutorial to build your own. However, the saucers need to drain to someplace. If you can raise your plants, perhaps raise the whole tent, then you can simply use gravity to drain into a bucket. Preferably the catchment bucket will sit outside the tent or grow space to reduce humidity.

If you want to maximize the space for growing, then you want to limit the height that you raise the plants inside the tent. Rather than raising the plants to use gravity, the auto-pumping drain bucket is designed to receive the water at only 2” from the floor of the tent. This means that the 3.5” height of the self-draining saucers is sufficient to fully drain each saucer at each event. This keeps plants close to the floor and maintains the vertical growing space needed for your plants.

Supplies for an Automatic Pumping Drain Bucket