Never Water Again! Gravity Fed, Auto Watering System for Potted Plants
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- čas přidán 19. 11. 2022
- Hoocho shows how to build a Gravity Fed, Auto Watering, Hydroponic System for Potted Plants
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Something I always recommend when discussing Autopot is that you reference the "autopot copies" webpage and what it actually means. People outside of Australia are not buying official autopots or accessories despite believing so as the UK distributor stole the product and even the name from the Australian inventor then re-manufactured it. I'd include the URL to the "autopot copies" page but comment might get blocked so you'd have to google it. I don't think people internationally should be supporting them and in most cases they aren't even aware.
wow
I mean if the copies work and aren't damaging the environment or dangerous, I will still buy them, especially if the copies are waay cheaper than the original as they are charging the premium
@@Ryanrulesok Same here. What they did might suck but now, it is what it is.
@@Ryanrulesok they aren't cheaper + you should be supporting australian workers which the copies don't!
Blah blah blah. I'm about to take a set to China and get them copied, and actually sell them for a realistic price.
Ladies and gentlemen! The man, the myth, the legend! BIG DOG! He's at it again. My brain may explode from all the information you supply! Keep it up
Man, you are pumping these videos out! Great to see!
pumping water in, pumping videos out
I've been learning from you since you've started and it's is life saving for me to get better and growing my " 🍅" since my mother was diagnosed with vocal cord cancer , so thank you
You are an absolute legend. Understandable, replicable, helpful. Thank you for the inspiration - and thank you for the passion about the smart valves, you made me appreciate them too
Man I love your videos. You have big brain ideas that you share with the simplest of explanations. Great video! Thank you for sharing your adventures with us.
Very happy to see your channel growing. Great tips from a great guy! Keep it up big man!
Man, you the guy I was looking for Xp sub, that explanation of the auto valve was the most complete I ever heard
Ha, loved the dogs getting a ride in the garden cart! Love the self watering system! Great job!
I know me too I 😂so much seeing him drive the dogs around in the cart like he did! It was soooo funny!! ❤️🥰🙏🏻🇨🇦
Definitely share your love for that funky float system. Love it when 21C engineering/science/design solves a centuries-old problem using no power, passive tech and low maintenance
Spectacular! The demonstrations and time you took to make the videos are very much appreciated.
One of your better videos. Enjoyed the many different ideas and camera angles. Can tell how much work you put into shooting and editing.
Been using the autopot system for a few years! Jim Fah is a legend! I love it! Easy af
Grats on the weight loss Hoocho. You look much healthier and bet you feel much better too.
You communicate your designs very well.
Really nice, love your ideas and also that you include other ideas. Love the background bush and that you always seem to have something growing. You bring a little bit of Australia to a cold northern German village. And make an old Australian a little homesick.
I envy you your space. But I look on the bright side. My limited space has motivated me to build the best sealed, Co² supplemented, climate and humidity controlled RDWC system ever seen 😁👍🏻
Absolutely loving the videos!
Great vid. They look brilliant, I’m really interested in seeing the results. A very practical, and, if needed, are also portable. Love it
Thank you for the advice on the auto pot totally awesome can’t thank you enough
These are brilliant! I have just started my venture into the world of hydrophonics. It's been a lot of fun! It is amazing how many parts you can design and fabricate for this if you own a decent 3D printer. I built myself a little test setup in my closet to play around with different nutrient levels and growth methods and the 3D printer has been key in being able to do that. Also, to the people who want to automate things but are not coders, Using Chat-GPT, You can write simple python scripts and use basic relay circuits to setup a WIDE array of control systems. The one I am currently playing with is atmospheric sensing, since this setup is in a closet I want to know the values of CO2 and other particulates in the air, that way I can also play with those values eventually too. The one thing I have been playing around with on paper myself is fruit trees. After seeing this video, I now know where I need to start. Cheers and keep up the great work!
Very cool idea about overloading the system, hope to see it in the channel as I explore it.
Good to see a video from you
I'm really happy with the video and the information you are sharing. This is a project worth doing. Very professional. Now all you need is some Dwarves to pick the fruit
i found out that air pot are way better for hydro systems outside , as plant grow a lot more, roots grow a lot too and you don't to end up with few inch of roots at the bottom always in water
Yesssss more Hoocho vids! The Autopot smart valve is an incredible design, hopefully they can drop the price a little in future $33+ per pot is difficult to scale.
For home use you could probably 3d print it as it’s not that complex (genius for sure but simple)
@kalancosta7650 so buy all the equipment to 3d print stuff instead of paying for pots? Lol
Enjoyed the video. Really like your channel. I'm getting ready to build an aquaponic greenhouse and I have been looking for ideas on growing a few small fruit trees. That's a really clean setup with the Autopot.
For printing the small irrigation line adapters I think you're right about the .4 nozzle. I've printed some self watering containers and I wound up having to use a .4 nozzle and a .13 layer height. Not sure what slicer you use, but I also found that increasing the wall count to 3 or 4 in Cura helped make things water tight. You might also consider printing them on their side to put the layer lines perpendicular to the forces they will encounter getting knocked around. Should make the tips less likely to break off.
Simply Awesome...
Thank you for a very informative content.. Godbless you more.
Taking the dogs for a ride in the cart made the video even better.
Thank you for teaching us this
Thanks Hoocho
wow great man!
One more step to me wanting to start my own farm XD
Very good idea.
Very cool! Design improvements would include a top to keep out rainwater.
aw yea, orchard hydro! By far the type of content I'm interested in the most
Great setup 👍🏾
This is genius!! You should Patton it. I’m curious now now how I can use this in a raised bed. And then connect them all together!
Another great video. Love that you support the real AutoPot... Where did you get the fabric pot covers?
Interesting. I like this idea. Not difficult to make something like this with things you find around the hime
Thank you for sharing
Wow like this message
Another great video Hoocho !!!
I'm running quite a few AutoPots and the only thing I'd add is to ensure you clean them every month or so and have a good filter to remove any crap from your solution. On a couple of occasions (not too often to piss me off, but enough to be annoying) I've had the AutoPot jam and gone into the greenhouse to find it flooding the floor as the mechanism jammed on.
A good filter and the occasional clean and I'm not having that problem anymore.
I was thinking about that as the main issue especially with doing all of my growing indoors! It would be a huge mess!! I wonder if the nutrients themselves with the salts etc could cause a clogging issue?? I’m always afraid of those auto waterers.
15:05 Ok... basically a bell syphon, don't get me wrong it's pretty neat but let's not get carried away haha.
This was awesome!! I'm trying to find those boxes😍
Another awesome solution Hoocho ! What material are you using as the covers on the pots ?
Thanks so much!
Here we go 👏
Just add inline taps to your trays so u can just open the gate for draining. Great videos buddy.
you are a genius
Love your videos man! How many liters do you think each tree would go through in a week QLD GC region? Just thinking how big of a resoviour I would need to consider
It’s amazing
Check out 'John Guest' fittings, push to connect and quick disconnect.
you should have tried an external fitting for the hose adapter, you have 6-7mm ID (that you can make as thick as you want, to ensure mechanical integrity) with one or two o ring to make the seal (I have tried internal barbs but they tend to leak somehow). or coat the thing in epoxy that also should work to some extent.
gotta love the 14 paRT connectors....
Awesome explanation, thanks.. what are the round Matt’s called and where can they be found?
21:40 a better idea for the auto drain would be to drill a small hole up to the level desired, so if it goes over it will automatically pour out 🙏
Nice, would love to see how small you could go with the systhem. Love the ideea of non-electric long running system.
always support out Aussie products if you can - hoocho + autopot = 👍
Can you explain why you need it to "flood/drain" instead of keeping at a constant level? Also, how far up the pot, towards the soil surface, does the media wick the water? Curious how dry the top portion gets.
Very nice system. To improve water retention and root health I would recommend painting the pots white to reflect as much heat away from the roots as possible.
@RN G The pots are already black. Painting them white won’t allow light to go through
Sorry, I get what you’re saying now. It’s about the heat, not the light 👍🏻
Also paint increases the life of the pot. Especially here in full sun of Arizona.
Was trying to print 4 and 6 mm adapters, 90% of them leaked, that's just pushing the limits of FDM, and this was with waterproof settings, 0.1 layer height, 120% flow
I noticed that you have felt-like covers on your pots. Can you tell us about them?
Don’t those black containers cause the roots and the nutrient solution to overheat and cause damage?
Use organic dry amendments in the soil and you don't even need to add fertilizer to the water. I wont do anything other than sub irrigated planters or drippers in pots anymore. It's just to easy it doesn't make sense to garden any other way. I dont mix fertilizer and I only hand water for a week or two when I transplant. Sub irrigated planters in particular are so efficient with water it makes hydroponics look kinda silly. I use wicking planters specifically like an earthbox brand only I build my own.
Agreed. I used Earth boxes a few times but I’m using Growteck SIP buckets. So damn simple and effective. And they still allow for air pruning like in fabric pots. Organic dry amendments and a microbe inoculation like Recharge and good to go. Plain filtered tap the whole way.
My buddy and I just came across your video and we subscribed. He started building his own hydroponics system. He's very smart and he said to me I like this guy he's smart. Anyway on the subject of the (smart valve) where can he buy them from ? (original inventor) also do they ever built up with water scale or with nutrients that they plug up and what do you do when and if they do? Great videos! Mark from Rochester N.H United States
I am absolutely addicted to your channel. I understand you are located in Australia. How do you deal with temperature when growing leafy vegetables/salad? How do you keep stuff from bolting? Do you use bolting resistant varieties? Have you found that lowering the water temperature helps? I would love an answer or a video from you.
Temperature control is something people tend to gloss over when thinking about hydroponic systems. Important topic especially when doing it outdoors. If you already did a video on this, I apologize. I have not gone through all of you content yet.
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Hoocho i am growing food in vertical tower no media other than coco pete in the Pots but nothing in the pipe . the water showers down through shower head. the water never turns off. have you found that some plants prefere the water to be on a timer on off cycle? love your projects
Hey hoocho, I’m a hydroponics distributor. We make lots of products out of plastic and metal. If you ever need higher volumes of produces like the bato buckets lmk. We can mass produce them for you. I’d estimate the bato buckets being about a buck or two.
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Hello, Mitch
Thanks again for your videos, what do you use as 3D modeling software?
and also what is the title of the music used in your videos?
Do you sell any of these float boxes or are they only available DIY 3d printer. Also the wick bases are great idea
Regards Peter
Zip ties work wonders on pipes that are small
Bottom feeding with nutrient solution, will generally lead to nutrient salt buildup in the medium. Depending on the strength or EC of solution.
Having the base tray elevated, (eg concrete paver featured) with removable bung plug in bottom tray, will allow for periodic top flushing. This would also clean the scoria of nutrient buildup also.
Half or quarter strength nutrient solution should be used to flushed. I think it has to do with cationic exchange. (Hoocho would explain that better)
Use an EC meter to check your run off, you generally only want to flush the medium back to the original strength of solution you are using.
I’m not sure if a bell siphon would clean the scoria ( in base tray) of nutrient salt buildup as well but would work if base tray was empty.
Your thoughts on Nutrient salt buildup, in the medium, caused by bottom feeding, Hoocho?
What do you use for your rain gutter tops??? I can’t find a lid anywhere help pls
How long is the cycle of the auto valve? I realise that it depends on the size of the pot and water container. But how do you make sure it dries enough between high water levels
ive been using auto pots for over a year now indoors and have found they don't dry out enough between cycles and have occasionally caused root rot , whether the auto pots were the sole cause or part cause ive changed to the blumat system which has eliminated the problem and also seems to be a more natural way of watering from the top instead of from the bottom , Ill keep my 12 auto pots for growing trees or berries outside though , because it is an ingenious invention nonetheless , thanks for the great videos
@Canna Denfour20 ok , the blumats are adjustable to drip more but I think I know what you mean about underwatering because the carrots are the moisture sensors and would only sense the immediate area around them , but ive got my fingers crossed that they will be successful for my application which is one plant , one carrot per pot , so far so good
How much fertiliser/nutrients would you put in the water? I'm trying to figure it out but it's rather difficult to calculate
Remove the shoulder on the barb, so that you can insert it deaper into the green pipe. Then add a blob of silicone. Which wil seal it and add somr strength to the reducer.
are autpots really a wet and dry cycle device? It seems like it will refill too fast for the medium to dry up.
One thing you're not mentioning is that floats will inevitably get stuck when you are least prepared for it.
In Australia, who sells the bottom trays your big pots are sitting in?
To keep your mouth off the siphon, buy a squeeze siphon starter from aquarium store
Please do a cool ass time lapse of the trees getting bigger lol
Hydroponicers unite..that's right. It's a word. I promise...
It's not lazy it's called energy efficiency 😊
instead of a fdm u could use a sla printet it'll give u waterproof parts
try to print it with hard TPU (95up), that sticks to itself like honey and seals like nothing else printed
Did you wash your coco?
Also do you have code for autopot?
So wheres the Burning bush at!! healing for the soul cant have a full garden without it
Can you 3d design the same float valve used in auto pot?
Hello friend. Instead of you having too turn on the water too engage Bell Syphon,. Could you have your timer kick on for just long enough to engage the Bell Syphon and then kick back off. Say perhaps 2 or 3 minutes, depending on evaporation and root's feeding. ???
How do you avoid root rot on that citrus with that system?
Thanks for what you do Hooch! Iv long considered the smart valve to be one the worlds most elegant pieces of plastic. Interested to hear your thoughts on whether a wet/dry cycle performs better than the float valve.
Cheers again!
Do you think the autopot valve is worth the extra cost? Do you think cycling the level will have a substantial difference? I assume with the traditional float valve you might get a small amount of root rot at the bottom of the unit once the roots get that far down. Is that the issue with the traditional float valve?
For the extra $5-$8 per valve it may be.
They also have a tendency to clog more than the float valves.
And the 4mm tubing is a real hassle.
I will let you know which works better once these experiments play out 🤣
The pot has holes bellow so the water can go inside?
I love those citrus tree pots! Do they have a name? I have been able to find some similar but smaller
Would the trees get root bound?
You should try resin printers, AnyCubic is fairly cheap and might solve the issue for you ... but would be UV sensitive :(
When using hydroponic nutrients without electricity dont you get nutrients settling out of the water and large ph swings ?
I was wondering how such a large tub was going to go in the tropics with a lot of rain.