Growing Strawberries, Chard, Lettuce, Tomatoes and Stevia in the Same Home Hydroponic System
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- čas přidán 24. 08. 2024
- This spring we tried growing a wide variety of plants in our indoor home hydroponic system and had good results. In this video I review how it went and give some tips based on our experience thus far. I encourage you to try indoor hydroponics!
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A "Nutrients 101" video would be great.
I'm in the process of building a system based on yours, thank you for all the info! I would be really interested in a video on how you did the strawberries from the start with a bit more detail, but over all thanks! Keep it coming!
G'day, I have actually watched this video before,,but dropping into say g'day again! Cheers from Australia Marty
THIS IS BEAUTIFUL, THANK YOU FOR SHARING THE KNOWLEDGE
Amazing Results!!!
Hey! Could you share on how did you manage to get your stevia to germinate? Thanks
Beautiful setup
Your problem isn't the size of the rail it's that you're crowding the plants and mixing plants with greater nutrient requirements with plants requiring less (both EC and pH) Grow tomatoes separately, grow nutrient hogs like Chard, Kale and other fast growers together and keep strawberries separate. Also you're trying to combine NFT with a hybrid deep water culture. The issue isn't that your rails are not large enough but you're flow is near nonexistant because your system is level, roots grow above the nutrient level and block flow. So when heavy rooted plants like tomatoes and strawberries bunch their roots directly below the net pot they keep 80% of their roots above the water and cause a clog which then stagnates because there is no flow. Instead raise your system 3-5 degrees and allow nutrient to "flow". The plants' roots will chase the nutrient and their roots will spread along the bottom, stretched out and not bunched. If the flow is moving you only need a scant amount like 1/4 to 1/2 inch max of nutrient. Remember NFT is nutrient FILM technique not nutrient FLOOD technique. With the drain outlet at the rear side of the channel it will be very difficult to reduce that flow down to where it should be. The drain works best at the bottom with a drain collar a fraction of an inch high allowing the nutrient to flow out and not collect. NFT is a continuous flow, not on a timer. With the limitations of your set up, maybe consider using your channels as a wicking system using containers with coco/perlit medium (think hybrid Dutch buckets type concept), spread the plants out. Good luck with your system.
Strawberry tip burn is classic.
For some reason they don't like the extra nutrients. I'm not sure why. It would be interesting to pin point exactly what specific nutrient causes it. I assume too high of nitrogen (which causes tip burn in some videos that... Uhh... Jeb the Gardner plants)
I wonder if slowing down water flow and putting the strawberries on the lower rack if you could end up with different levels of nutrients per rack. So the bottom rack would get the least nutrients. That sounds kind of stupid if there's only 3 racks. This might be feasible with a very large resovoir, lower water flow and many many racks.
🍅🍓🍅🍓Why not root prune the larger growth plants to control the growth of the roots? Is that not possible newbie here, tx by the way useful info .....🍅🍓🍅🍓
this is exactly what i was looking for...i was wondering could u grow cucumbers, tomatoes, strawberries,lettuce,spinach,kale together in a kratky style container or how would that be possible
Very nice work, congratulations. It's funny, I have exactly the same tomato plants as you that I grow in a method (kratky + air pump) they don't grow in height, but in width (40 cm high and 75 cm wide) and give continuously tomatoes. Like you, the top of the leaves turn yellow, it is due to the light being too close.
I would be very interested in how you process stevia plants, to replace powdered sugar.
PS : In my first message, I had attached a picture of my tomato plant, to show you, but it seems that your youtube channel does not accept links, because my comment has disappeared.
Thanks! Good to hear you're having success with the Tiny Tim tomatoes, I'm going to give them another try in a new setup.
@@SimpleGreensHydroponics What temperature is your grow room?
what mixture are you using ?
What would be the minimum width of a shelf to support the 4 rail system?
Can you trim the root from time to time? Nice video! I always enjoy time lapse vids. Thanks!
You can.
no need actually
is it possible for you to show how much this setup cost, cost of running per month and how much you gain by growing yourself as opposed to buying on the store
Yup! I have a video on ongoing cost and cost to build.
My friend where to buy good seeds please provide link.
I like Johnny's Seeds
how much is the ppfd or PAR. sir
What room in your house is the best place to put something like this?
Any room that doesn't get really hot, basement is often a good option.
@@SimpleGreensHydroponics I was thinking of my basement but my office is in there so I was worried if it would produce bugs? I have products so I don't want anything crawling on them.
I'm very new to hydroponics but I've been cutting the non producing leaf stems off my tomatoes as I figure they're not needed for fruit production and when my plant starts getting old and straggly I cut out one of the fruit producing stems and grow a clone, I don't know I if I'm doing the wrong thing but we seem to be getting a good supply of tomatoes. I looked at your site to see if there were any nutrient need differences between strawberries and tomatoes and lettuce as my strawberries seem to go really well then start dying off while the tomatoes and lettuce keep powering on 🤔 Your nutrient ppm levels seem very low as everything I've read suggests at least 1450ppm and Houcho who sends very successful said in one of his videos that he keeps his at around 2000 to 2400? I'm confused 🤯
Hi very nice and informative video !!!! How's your experience with growing Stevia in a hydroponics system
Stevia grew really well! Just watch for bugs because they like stevia.
@@SimpleGreensHydroponics thanks a lot .... How long did it take for harvest of stevia and what was the approximate yield per net cup did you get
Hi I tried to sign up for your rail system videos and the udemy gateway would not allow it it was trying to force me to use google sign in and would not allow anything else. this is probably a problem for many you might consider using another option...would still like your system
Hmmm... I'm not sure why that would be. We also have the course on Skillshare in case Udemy doesn't work for you.
Is this an NFT system? I’m looking to set up something similar but I was wondering if the pump would be strong enough to feed the top tray
It is an NFT + DWC
How much electricity this system consume on daily basis? What's the growing cost?
The light is the main cost and uses around 200 W. Pump, fan and air pump total less than 40 W. So less than $0.50 per day for electricity. I'm planning a more detailed video on cost.
Is your fan on 24/7?
It was on the same circuit as the light so ~14 hours per day.
Great video, thanks. Looks like an invasion of leafy terrestrials.
How is it working for you in terms of space and harvesting. The density looks insane and insanely difficult to manage.
Great video! I’m 3 weeks into my first hydroponic system that we built exclusively following your videos. One question, should I change the nutrients water yet at 3 weeks? If there’s any way to send you a picture of my plants so far maybe you could tell me if the growth at 3 weeks is good. Anyway, truly appreciate your videos.
@@privileguan9127 I definitely have to search to find some of the strawberries, but not too bad. It is a lot of foliage though :)
@@hakincart Cool! You probably don't have to change nutrients after 3 weeks when you first start. Check the "Contact" page of our website to find our contact info.