Hydroponic Strawberries - Off to a Good Start
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- čas přidán 16. 04. 2021
- This is our biggest hydroponic strawberry crop yet. There are lots of Katy's growing tips in this video. We have tried them in the NFT system, but found they are much easier in buckets. We talk about what it was like growing them in the main greenhouse. Then I got a couple things done in there before heading out to the high tunnel. Doug was also out side working on the strawberry support system. We have 100 buckets and 500 plants. The extra strawberry plants went into hanging baskets.
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i love that you all work as a team, each with their own skill sets. much love!
Thanks for sharing your experiences. I find your commentary to be very thoughtful. It is inspiring that your family has been so successful in this enterprise. I hope you continue to learn and fine tune your farming.
I drove from little Rock down to tutwiler Mississippi back in 73 to meet my gramps brother. It was the only time I saw him. He told me that grampa grew clover and saved seed from any plant having a 4 leaf! He was trying to create a new stain, at least to him in 1905.!!! That's where my love of gardening came from. Thanks grampa Meyer.
Great update on HP strawberry's looking forward to seeing your progress through the year! Nice Job!
Thank for always adding nuggets of practical application (and reasons why and why not)
I have been growing various kinds of vegetables hydroponically for about 3 years now. I started with peppers, tomatoes, and lettuce. They all tasted great, full of flavor. I have since grown spinach, basil, stevia and green beans. I have even just started trying to grow zucchini (I just got some flowers in the last week so nothing has set yet). I think when people say hydroponic vegetables taste bland, they may be referring to things they are buying in the grocery store. Foods that were still picked green and only ripened up in the back of a truck several hundreds or more miles from the grocery store. Love your channel, thanks for all the great information!
I really enjoy your channel, its very informative and I love the whole family thing. Please can you keep the information and progress of the strawberries growing. I've had a few hydroponic ideas flowing to grow strawberries where I live in Denmark, our problem is temperature and the shortness of the summer. Keep the channel going it's a wealth of valuable information.
your camera work and editing is perfect. What a great operation you and your family have.
Oh thank you so much! This makes me happy since I spend a lot of time editting. Have a great weekend!
Nice update, roll on Summer. Cheers.
So much healing in growing your own food...Love it!
Thanks DC! Thank you for supporting our channel. We will be posting some great videos this spring on our growing.
Wow! I am glad I found you guys!!
Yay, love strawberry hydroponics!
Great set up! Will be great to see how the strawberrys come out!
Nice share.
I like your hydroponic way of growing.
You're gonna enjoy the Albion, I have 600 planted in the High tunnel, We just started harvesting super good and delicious
Ok awesome! Our plan was to add more Seascape, but they were sold out. Thanks Farmer Dre!
Good show! Keep up the good Passion...
I love your mum she’s so effin cool !!!
Great family. Hoping you guys really do well.
You and your family do a great work. Love family work together. Like your explanation that nutrition is the key for high qualified strawberries as ones grown in the soil. It’s informative, thanks. Keep going.
We appreciate that! Thank you for supporting our channel.
@@HomegrownPassion Could you share your feeding formula? Also what do you do to prevent root rot when you buy plants whose roots have been packed in soil? Do you treat them in some way before placing them in your hydroponics containers? I washed all the soil off mine and they did well for about 2 weeks and then developed root rot and all leaves died. I want to start a new batch but want to make sure that I set them up for success before transferring into my containers.
Please keep up the magnificent work that I am new to your videos and am enjoying all information you all are saying. Thank you so much!
You are so welcome and thank you for supporting us
Thank you for publishing this video. It was very helpful giving me ideas I can use on my farm. Watching from the Philippines and sharing with everyone I know.
So nice of you! Thank you for watching and supporting our channel. Keep watching
I saw one video and just kept watch your guys next video. You guys are such inspiring folks. Super kool!
Awesome! Thank you!
Awesome... Thanks for video... I love strawberry
Most welcome 😊
The strawberries are Albion and Seascape from Johnny's Seed. The white rail buckets were special order from CropKing. They do not have them listed on their site yet, and I was unable to find them any where online. I will update when I can get a link for them. The rail system is Doug's design.
Well shoot i wish i had known this sooner..i just spent a half hour on cropking looking for those buckets..your dad did a nice job building those stands and like always you did a great job on the video..have a awesome weekend devon.
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Hi there ,when you search for : bato strawberry bucket you will find them
I found black buckets like this but it,s a Canadian company..i bet the cross border shipping would hurt.
I found black one,s but there in canada..i bet cross border shipping would be spendy
I really have positive envy for you. Whilst I do not think that life is in any way easy with what you do, your family definitely made the right decision to go with hydro farming.
I only wish that I could afford land in the UK to do something similar. Regardless, I have a small setup in my garage that keeps me busy when not at work.
Keep up the good work.
I work in a hydroponic store and cant wait to start growing stuff
As always a great show that teaches how to grow your own crops. I have had their produce and it is wonderful. Please stop at their farm market if you can.
Great info!
Awesome set up!
Glad you think so!
This is a cool idea for my mini ranch I’m playing to start in the summer.
Oh yeah it’s so nice having fresh strawberries. Good luck with your ranch!
What a beautiful set up👍❤️😃
Thank you! 🤗
Great Video! Love to see future updates on yield when the season is over.
we will for sure
Very rich ladies, growing the most. Very nice.
Awesome vids. Love the education.
Glad you like them! thank you for supporting us!
Glad I found your channel. I share your passion for gardening. Strawberries are my favorite so I have been trying different ways to grow them. Wish I could share the strawberries a friend brought me no name the biggest berries on these plants and red all thru the berry. Guess I am going to binge watch this channel now. thanks for the knowledge and advice.
Of course and thank you! Those strawberries sound awesome. I'd love to find a variety that got really big and still had a good flavor like that. It's fun growing them in hydroponics, but I have a little patch at my house in soil that I enjoy too.
Look at you with the Cleveland Brown Shirt, very nice. We live in Lodi Ohio and love our Browns
Thanks! You are very close by. Can’t wait to see how this season goes...Go Browns!
Nice job! keep it up!
I'm glad you mentioned the limitation of NFT: the plant size. Not many gorwers show their problems
Your welcome. We are going to do more vids of problems and solutions....because as you know not everything goes smooth no matter what people say.
How wonderful your life style is , thank you for teaching us your knowledge
I think the reason why people think that hydroponic grown produce is flavorless, is because hydroponic tomatoes for instance, when I see them in the store, most of the time they are trucked in from afar: like from Canada (I live in South West Missouri). So the tomatoes are picked green so they will survive the journey, which causes them not to have the taste as a tomato that is picked at maturity.
It also depends on the kind of tomato u grow, i live in the Netherlands and because of our climate all the commercialy grown tomato's are grown in hydroponic greenhouses. Farmers in co-operation with Wageningen university of agricultural research have bred tomato plants that only need 4 liters of water to produce 1kg of tomato's (around 1.05 gallon for around 2.2 pounds of tomato). Ironically our tomato's taste quite watery, which besides the selective breeding comes from the fact that our tomato's unlike for example Italian and Spanish ones get way less sunlight. Although i kinda like the more watery taste in salads, it's horrible in sauces or soup in which you would really want that strong tomato flavour.
That’s funny because I live in Canada and feel like all our “fresh” veggies are trucked in from the U.S. and are green on the truck and ripen in the dark. But I can tell you I absolutely LOVE growing my own food in hydroponics which I’m doing in a very small apartment and it’s incredible the quantity of food that you can actually grow hydroponically and I can tell you that the taste is beyond anything that I had ever imagined soooo amazingly good!! The tomatoes are the absolute best I’ve ever tasted and I leave them to ripen fully on the plant and only pick them when I need them.
@@leannekenyoung You should make an youtube channel, show us how to grow veggie in our apartments. I would love to grow some stuff, but I don't have a clue on how to do it indoors.
They are talking about the ones the hot houses grow with no flavor ... Some people use plain water I think
Loving your videos here from Sydney Australia
Thanks for watching and supporting us!
I love both hydroponic and u
Merci pour ses vidéos
So beautiful
Wow. That strawberry system is exactly what I was talking to you about yesterday. Lol
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I was just talking to Katy and she ordered all of these buckets last year in early spring, but they didn't come in until it was too late to get a big crop going. They are from Holland. If you want some, you may want to call up to CropKing asap and see if they have any left in stock. They do not have them listed on their website yet.
@@HomegrownPassion hi how can I contact you? I was amazed by your videos 🙏🙏🙏
Make a dibber for you strawberry transplants. An old shovel handle cut and shaped like a pencil. Charles Dowding uses the dibber to plant everything. I use them too and also for transplanting from 72 cell to 4" pots. Good vid. I learned I can pollinate my strawberries with wind!!! Just like maters
Great idea! I have a several hundred plants to be transplant next week. Thanks for the tip!
Devon, really enjoyed this video! My dear husband is now wondering how to make hydroponic buckets for strawberries. The US border is still closed for travel and shipping would be killer for us to order from Crop King!
Instead of flowers we also planted strawberries in our hanging baskets...LOL!
Our NFT system has exploded with growth! We enjoy every morsel from it.
Look forward to seeing how much strawberries you get this year. Cheers!
Glad you liked it! You're right, I couldn't even guess how much that would cost. I hope you are able to locate some up there if you end up trying them. They are really nice, and we like the curved edge for when the plants are growing over the sides. That's too funny about the baskets! I can't wait to see how they turn out. I was looking online and found some strawberries that have red flowers, and they looked awesome in baskets. I want to try them next year. Glad you are enjoying your NFT. We are happy to be growing a bigger variety now that the days are long enough. I have to harvest stuff out of my Desktop soon. Hope you have a good week!
nice & good video...
Wow nice vedio very informative .Thanks for sharing . New supporter here
We cut the tips of strawberry roots before we plant them in my country. I am not an expert but I heard that if the roots are bended while you plant, it affects the plant negatively. Great greenhouse by the way!
How long have you guys been doing this project? It looks amazing and it’s brave thing to do
I to use Albion strawberry plants but just use Perlite in grow bags. I use Crop King's Hydro-Gro vine mix but water it down to 1.6 EC. It seems to work very well for Strawberries.
We grow the majority of our strawberries in DWC beds so they are all bare root. We use to have them in media and haven't noticed any difference with the production. This year we're building out more troughs that can be overhead. Where did you get the Beto buckets? They can be crazy expensive!
What nutrients did you use for your strawberries? I’m growing mine kratky
Hi Katy, I introduce myself as Craig and reside in St Francis Bay South Africa. A few months ago whilst researching Hydroponics I stumbled on one of your videos and haven't stopped watching ever since, love what you guys do such a beautiful happy family business. I am planning on setting up a few tunnels on a very small scale and would love to ask you questions as we progress hopefully you are available. Love and Light Craig
Looking forward to hearing back from you...will help if i can...Good luck with your build! Keep us informed.
Quality content and a quality chanel thank you from Australia for all the tips and tricks. Quick question the emitters when used for tomato cucumber and strawberry are they one 24/7?
I appreciate the info about growing strawberries from NFT... warning will be heeded. Very impressive operation y'all have. Smash.
Much appreciated
Can you please tell me where you’re getting your strawberry trays that you sit on top of the two poles thank you
Hi Devon. We just discovered your channel as we are doing research on Hydroponics. Strawberries are looking so tempting....
We were wondering how often do you run the heat in the greenhouse for the leafy greens. We are in Southern Ontario, so climate is very similar. With double poly greenhouse, we are trying to figure out how cold its gets inside winter time and how often do you need to run the heaters. Any info would be appreciated.
Again, loving you channel.
Any chance you could do a quick follow up video on the strawberry progress?
Amazing 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Hey, awesome job tha 3 of u. I love the family teamwork. I love those strawberry buckets, tha rectangular tubs. What’s the correct name and where did u source them?
Nice video! Half of the summaries ended up with "and dad figures it out"! haha
Good on ya Mum
It is interesting grounds
I love that
I love your hydroponic system.
What's the likelihood of switching the systems materials from petrol based plastic, to a sustainable material? Such as Hemp?
Terimakasih dari Magelang Indonesia....
That what us Dads are for, fixing stuff. lol
Good amazing
Thank you so much 😀
Make sure you keep your tunnel under 85 degrees with day-neutrals, or you'll see blossoms but fruit won't set. Fertilize routinely with P/K when you are blooming. Hit them with a more concentrated N and a humic April/May. I helped to develop some now patented day neutral varieties when I was at MSU. I grow one of them now commercially on a plasticulture system. The variety I grow out-performs and out-flavors both Albion and Seascape. I have berries May-July and August-October. If you ever want runners I'm in Michigan and can help to work out royalties with university and get your farm going with some.
We are located in central Michigan and have been growing hydro strawberries vertically for several years now. We would be very interested in the new varieties available to us.
man I didn't know this existed until saw some amazing bright red and huge strawberries at costco. They were so tasty and sweeet. I'm gonna buy hydroponic grown strawberries and whatever fruit is grown this way too.
Yes they are so good and ripe all the way through the berry. We grew almost a 1000 pounds last year and I still didn’t have enough to satisfy all my customers. Check out my later strawberry videos. I go into much more detail.
@@HomegrownPassion absolutely wonderful.. thank you for what you do. 🙏
Thanks for watching and supporting the channel. Hope you subscribe to stay updated on what I’m doing. Strawberries are all ready growing!!
Excellent video I'm watching while I fetch water to filter through for a nutrient change ... this is one of your best vids !! Great energy and practical advice makes for info I can hold on to !! Y'all are the best. . So inspiring ! What nutrients do ya'll use ? Or from " scratch " ? Or is that a trade secret? Thanks!
Thank you very much! I really appreciate this...I tend to spend a lot of time editting. We are giving the strawberries the leafy crop nutrients from the main greenhouse right now, but we are working on getting the emitter system set up and they will have their own nutrients. We are still deciding which to use, but I will put it in a video once we decide. Hope you have a great weekend!
1 person operation on A conveyor belt .good set up is wise an profit 📈
What people don't understand is that hydroponic and aquaponics make sure that the plant has everything it needs that are readily available, so it takes far less, to get far more, as those in soil, have to go looking for what they need, by growing more roots, which takes time.
I have found that strawberries are better in 6 inch gutter, with a fine grill put in half way up the inside of the gutter, and you can then circulate the water, then your not wasting nutrients. They also like cool temps in the evenings.
I like the strawberries containers. Link?
Devon...have you looked into vertical hydroponic towers for strawberries? Isn't it a lot of vertical height waste for such short plants compared with tall growing plants like tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, etc? Even with the planters you have now, you might be able to create at least a two tier system with sufficient gap between each tier to prevent shading. Please ask your "evil genius" dad to try building a small scale two tier system in a corner. If it works, you can replicate throughout the greenhouse next season. No offense to Dad...a nice compliment, that's all! 😁 😁 Good luck!
As always, you guys are doing an awesome job with your farm! Love it! Learning a lot, and hope to start a small farm one day! Thank you for sharing all of your knowledge! 😀
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great video! i have planted 200 albion's in stacking planters in soil this spring, but northern michigan weather isn't cooperating much. i've been running a propane heater in my small green house and hoping for sunshine. hope they produce well! Good Luck with your crop.
It might have been covered in a comment, but where did you get those container/buckets from?
The planters that hang on the pipe, going to try my luck
They work great... I think you will like them... check out this video from Fenster Farm...they use them too and sell lots of Strawberries. czcams.com/video/YacmjU6qP1I/video.html
I had a question regarding the perlite/vermiculite mix you use with the strawberries and similar mixes for seedlings. I was thinking about doing a perlite type hydroponic tubs for growing onions and carrots. I have read that perlite and vermiculite is used for doing that but what would be the go to mixture assuming I wanted to start onions and carrots from seed with a dripper system with small reservoir at the bottom with a return line sorta like a dutch bucket. I currently have hydroponic dutch buckets for tomatoes with good success, and wanted to setup some 27 gal totes in a similar way to grow root crops.
Hi..... great video....thanks for sharing ideas & information... all the best from Australia
where did you get the buckets to buy to plant the strawberries in. I like the set-up above ground. Excellent video.
Would also love to know where you got the buckets?
Where did you find those buckets for the Strawberries, that hang on those rails?
Love your videos so informative. Is there anything I can do to make my hydroponic strawberries sweeter?
make sure your ph and ec are right where they need to be...let them get cold at night and they will get sweet...oh let them vine ripe as much as you can
Okay, I'm a few months late watching this video! Blame it on CZcams for not giving me notification when you posted it. Question: where can I buy those buckets you are growing your Strawberries in? Also, will you be growing more Chinese Long Beans and if so can they be grown as a Bush type bean? Lastly, have you tried to grow Strawberries using the KRATKY method?
On the subject of flavor in hydroponic foods , I read somewhere that a grower was having a problem with tasteless produce and he solved the problem by adding bat guano to the nutrients during the last few weeks before harvest .
Considering the lastest pandemic was caused by bats i don't think quano is a healthy option. Worm casting would be way better and carry no disease.
@@articmars1 aged like milk LMFAO. Keep drinking that kool aid
will they survive the winter? strawberries in the soil have the ground to warm them and moderate temperature changes. will these be kept and used next year? or started over?
Just started watching your channel and I love it I always wanted to start a hydroponic farm anything you could tell me get started would be most appreciated thanks
Thank you so much! We'd recommend starting small and growing what you like. Growing in buckets with medium is more forgiving than NFT, but NFT can be pretty simple too. I've seen small setups that have great results. Katy always says to just pay attention to the plants and fix issues as soon as pop up.
I have heard that about hydroponic fruit. Some say it is bland. I grew a hydroponic cherry tomato in my AeroGarden and the tomatoes tasted just like tomatoes. I haven’t tried any other fruit. But I grow a lot of lettuce in my AeroGarden and it tastes great. No dirt or bugs either!
Yes thank you! That's why we love hydroponics. I'm looking forward to showing the ripe strawberries and how red they are in the middle.
I love this. I have a few questions:
1). Where did you source the buckets?
2). What size is this high tunnel and how many rows can you fit in this space?
3). What yield can you expect when all the rows have been planted?
4) With this variant of strawberry, how many times per year can you harvest?
5). Once all is done, what would a set up like this cost?
Thank you😅
CropKing on the buckets. 30 x 96 high tunnel. we are looking at 1 pound per plant. Albion. Not sure now the high tunnel is 8 years old and i have no idea how much they cost now. hope this helps a little.
Hi there love the videos. Silly question about the strawberries. Doe's the water dump out on the ground after its passed through the pot or does the strawberry plants pretty much use it up.
we try to get it so the strawberries use all the water, but you are right if there is left over it dumps on the ground.
Oh I loved your setup. I am starting very small and one day will be as big as yours. Would love to know how you started.
Check out the build video. and the introduction to Bradwood Farm video. Tells you how we got started. Good Luck
Hello how do you call those buckets you planted the strawberries in?
Would you consider doing a nutrition video?
Where can I buy the buckets that sit on rails for the strawberries?/ love your channel, lots of great information. Thx!
They were special order from CropKing last year. They don't have them listed on their site yet, but I will post a link when I can. I have looked other places online, but haven't found anything similar. We really like the rounded edges.
I like the hydro trays containers you use for the strawberries, can you advise where you purchase them, I'd like to try those in my green house in Alaska ???
they would work great. we love them. They were purchased from CropKing. They are not listed on the website.... you have to call them but let them know we sent you and they will take great care of you.
I have the same question as many of your followers. Where did you get the buckets? Ditto on the other comments. Nice work -
I'm wondering where the buckets came from as well?
It's an impressive setup. I'm about to set one up. One suggestion is don't use Duracell batteries as they have a habit of leaking and destroying equipment. Use energizer.
Thanks. We will use that advice. Plenty of batteries leaked in the past.
Love your video's, so much information. I went on CropKing and could not find the strawberry buckets that you are using. Can you help me out to be able to locate the buckets you are using. Keep up the great work.
so, you have to call them. They are not listed on the website. Don't know why but that's how they are doing it.