Part 6 - Nutrient Tank & Automation - Basement Hydroponic LED Garden Tour
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Complete explanation of the nutrient tank/reservoir setup, including all pumps, filters and valves. Nutrient dosing with automatic controller via peristaltic pumps and ozone sterilization are also explained.
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like the part on the flow meter. Has absolutely no baring on the system whatsoever just a nice to have ...
I am looking for that float valve.
lol! I love it! $50 a strawberry!
I am in awe at the exorbitant amount of detail, equipment, preventative methodology and knowledge you bring to your system and share with us. Thanks a billion, of course I have subscribed. When my system grows into the commercial one I want it to become (right now I'm experimenting on a small scale so I can find out what will go wrong and how to fix it efficiently and prevent problems), I hope that it will be as efficient as yours. I think you're saving me a lot of pain if I follow your method. Deeply appreciate you sharing.
Your set up is Awsome im thinking I want one like yours. If you dont mind how much would this system cost me
Congratulations. You make simple, complicated!
I got the same pumps lol
Oh my gosh! I am so impressed! I would love to have a system like this but it is so high tech. You have clearly made use of your electronic knowledge and mechanical abilities. Congratulations! Your family is so lucky for these wonderful plants.
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Very very cool installation and awesome knowledge about all things hydroponics. One thing I would say though is that you can't saturate water without using pure oxygen and even there, you won't reach full saturation.
finally i can buy these beauties in uk, had em state side for a few years www.o2grow.com/ ilove them
Good tip on the ozone , may look into that one
Wow.
Id prob just get a wave maker , but if I get a bigger danner pump I could run impellers and keep down on water temp , I never even knew about impeller , can you buy them compatible with schedule 40pvc ?
Brah, just found you. Thought my grow room was gay, dude you win the day. RESPECT.
Esta chingon su proyecto compadre, saludos desde Obregón Sonora!
I'd rely on one set of readings and go with it , you'll know when it's not working lol
anyone know what happened to part 4 and 5?
I am floored. I hope your business does awesome. You clearly have thought through this to a level that is incredibly inspiring. Good on you.
Just run enzyme komplete natural cleaner thru your system compatible with all nutes man way easier and it works 110%
DROP THE EFFIN MIC !!! I can't believe my eyes and ears !!! I gotta watch it again ....
07:39 what is "corp sensor"? I dont speak english and i cant found nothing :(
Cool I was thinking that I was the only one who do things like this 'good job.
I just subscribed to your channel. This is and awesome set up and thank you for going thru that walk through, it's very well thought out. You would make a great Chemical Engineer, using the principles of chemistry, biology, physics, and mathematics to solve problems that involve the production or use of chemicals to grow food... Your attention to detail is one of the best I have seen yet.. Hydroponic growing is new to me, but not farming, I've been growing food for more than 30 years. Thank you for sharing your grow room. Mike
WOW!! What an incredible setup!! I enjoyed watching your description of how everything works, even though a lot of it is way way beyond anything I need or at least I think it is! Also what you did show was how when you setup something like this you have to be flexible because your original setup has been modified when pieces didn’t work as expected. I think that’s a great lesson for us all to learn is we may not get it all done correctly from the beginning but that’s okay things can be added or removed as necessary. Although it was to impart that for us newbies, it also made it a little confusing as to what you are actually using now. I know you mentioned you have to do a clean up and remove all the old pieces of hardware no longer in use. It may be helpful to provide an additional walk through of your entire setup once you’ve removed the hardware that’s not in use? Just an idea.
Now for my questions! Lol!
1. I noticed a lot of your setup is done with actual plumbing pipes and connectors versus using hoses to distribute the water to the various systems, can you tell me what the advantages/disadvantages are? Installation, cleaning, etc.
2. Do you have any issues with using the same nutrient enriched water for all the same plants? I thought plants had different requirements as they mature from seedlings to maturity and I thought mature fruiting plants had a much higher ratio of nutrient requirements compared to say leafy greens? If you explained it already in the video and I just missed it, my apologies but I would think this would be quite a difficult issue trying to control all with the same mix??
3. You mentioned algae have you had significant problems with algae growth and is there anything further that can be done to minimize it? Wrapping top of plants in tin foil?
Thanks again for sharing all this wonderful information! As a newbie I’m trying to learn as much as possible and try to do it “right” or as close to that as possible. I plan on using a 5 gallon container with a Pawfly 400 gph submersible pump and 1” tubing as the connection to the pump and then I’m thinking an inline filter should be attached ( but I could be wrong with that?)and then off of the 1” tubing I’ll insert those barb connector thingys and attach 1/4 tubing and at the tray I’ll attached 1/4” elbow and then 1/4” tubing and at the end of that I’ll have a flow control emitter that can be adjusted as needed I may actually have two emitters per tray. The 1” tubing will go around in a circle and will end back to the tank with a mesh bag to catch anything that may have carried through. That’s pretty much the setup that I’m thinking of for a small seedling tray setup where it will just add nutrient rich water to the trays so I don’t have to fill them individually. Because they are just new starts I don’t know if a bubbler is required but I will add an air stone to the bucket which I think will provide enough oxygen to the plants? If anyone has any suggestions or doesn’t think this will work at all I sure would love the feedback. This is my first attempt at anything like this. The only thing I can think of to change at the moment is to use 1/2” tubing instead of 1” but at present I’m not able to get 1/2” tubing it seems to be a hot commodity at the moment. 🙏🏻🥰🇨🇦
Appreciate you and your attention to details in your videos.
Outstanding sir!
I'm just starting off and your attention to detail and explanations are greatly appreciated. I would love to bounce ideas off of you in the future if you are willing.
Great work!
WoW ! This is the most Hi-Tech setup i have ever seen ...... infact commercial Farms don't have this ?
This is so cool. Gave me a lot of ideas! Thank you very much!
What an awsome setup. How can you have only one reservoir, when you have so many different crops?
Hope you see my question! Most awsome hydro setup I have seen.
Go watch Dr Bruce Bugbee from Apogee Instruments. He explains that most plants can use the same balanced fertilzer. Most people in the commercial industry use something like Masterblend 4-18-38 with Cal-Nit, or Jacks 5-12-26 with Cal-Nit no matter what crop they're growing.
love this setup
Wow! Makes for some expensive lettuce.... impressive setup....
Fantastic Setup!! Wow! So inspiring!
You can use a 12v switching power supply to power all your little devices instead of plugging them into a power strip for a cleaner look.
Thinking that the orb sensor is affected by ec sensor changing the values . Try alternate the sensing period of both sensors with say a flip flop setting on a relay to give more accurate values
clear and interesting,,,best setup
I would not inject air into a supply line of a pump you will get cavitation and destroy your pump.
That’s an amazing set up if you were to put the Sim in my referees are growing as you do into the equipment you could probably create the finest medical cannabis on the market bar noneSeriously impressive well done I’m just putting a whole new grow together myself in a purpose-built 20’ x 15’ building in my backyard and I’ll definitely be using some of your ideas thank you for sharing
How do you have the APG-U ozone generator connected to power? It comes with just bare wires that are meant to be plugged into a hot tub controller. Great video by the way!
awesome system!
Thanks Tutu :)
Nice setup. Consider using soluble silicon as a replacement for your pH up. It has a lot of advantages for your plants that pH up does not offer. Plants gown in soil uplift silicon into every cell. Plants grown in NFT/rockwool slabs etc miss out on all these advantages.
I didn’t see a reverse osmosis water filter in front of the nutrient tank. Are you feeding municipal or well water directly into the reservoir tank? I thought you have to start with very clean water with less than 20 PPM, ideally less than 10 PPM.
Are you using the three part Masterblend, Calcium Nitrate, and epsom salt dry nutrient mix. If so, which two are in one concentration tank and which is in the other concentration tank? Couldn’t you mix all three parts in one concentration tank?
How much effect does the water chiller have on your production compared to adding oxygen to the nutrient?
That is one amazing setup you have! Everything I hope to build in the near future. Question, how does the tubing in the peristaltic pumps hold up against the salty nutrient solutions? Do you need to change out the tubing fairly often due to corrosion and what not?
Yes
Could you explain the venturi air injection on your recirculating pump. where does that air line that's located nest to the pump intake go to?
Well, impressive system. this is the best that i have seen till now. Very thoughtful. Is it possible ti scale it up for commercial farms?
I see some mounts from some old dosatrons. why did you switch?
Can you tell me please why my seedlings have very thin stem ??
How do I make the Venturi? The bubbles are sooo small. Perfect imho.
Very nice and experienced looking setup love it! Would you mind telling me a bit more about your skimmer like tiny bubble in your reservoir? Are you using a skimmer pimp or kinda injecting air into the pipe? How doe's it works :-)
Thanks.
I think you misunderstood. He was saying that if the air injection is too intense, it acts like a skimmer bringing all of the stuff to the top. Which is undesirable. That's why he has the air injection turned down so low.
my question is why why why would you go through all this trouble to grow cannabis .why not just use soil?
i know your not going have a answer for me. but my finger are crossed that you do.
Bought a Growcraft from you, it's amazing! I tried to implement your idea of introducing air to the tank via a venturi into the intake of my pump. I have had issues with cavitation and reduced flow. How are you preventing this? I don't have a valve on the air intake, but my inlet is very small. I am heading to the hardware store tonight to purchase a valve too see if that helps. Thanks again for all the great content!
sir, may I ask why need 2 nutrient tank ? is that for measure both PH and TDS? so 1 nutrient tank will supply nutrient solution to the water tank based on PH sensor and another one will supply nutrient to the water tank based on TDS sensor?
13:50 I know it has been a long time and you have moved on to primarily doing lighting, but could you elaborate on how your Venturi system is set up? You mention an impeller blade which I have not seen before for Venturi and in general I am having trouble figuring out your setup. You are able to control the flow, but I do not believe that those water pumps have that capability, so you must have a choke set up somewhere for the air line.
This is easily the best overall system that I've seen for automation and am using it as a baseline for my setup, but with a bit more hands-on when it comes to controllers due to the ease of using something like a Raspberry Pi. The largest issue for me has always been from the poor quality of air pumps and I'd like to figure out a more reliable way to rely on Venturi.
From what I can tell, he just has an air line going to the intake of his pump right at the filter. The impeller he spoke of was the pump impeller. The impeller draws water in from the reservoir, and creates negative pressure. This brings air in from the air line which is drawing in ambient air from the room. Although he didn't show it, I imagine he simply had a small twist valve to control the amount of air being injected. Hopefully he will comment to confirm, as I am very interested in this concept as well. The idea is MUCH better that an air stone and pump as it aerates and circulates simultaneously.
@@dudemcgee256 Yea I wish I could get confirmation. The concept is a very cool one because it seems that the quality of water pumps far exceeds that of air pumps on average. They just do their job better. Being able to do both jobs just makes it that much more useful.
@@ashiha13 I have since implemented this idea. I found that introducing air at the intake of the pump caused some pretty significant cavitation which diminished the water flow rate by quite a bit. My pump didn't sound very happy about it either. I may be introducing too much air. I don't have a way of controlling the flow of air yet, I will try that next. I moved the venturi to the output side and I have good flow, as well as a lot of bubbles. But my bubbles are no where near as fine as whats shown here. Even though it isn't working exactly as I'd like it to, it is significantly better than the air stones it replaced. And quieter too.
@@dudemcgee256 Thanks for the update!
Is possible to know what pumps are you using for recirculation?
you could have slowed down when point to the equipment, for example the bluelab, so others can see how it function. otherwise, very well thought out.
I'd like to know what venturi injector you used please?
Did you say you used a venturi on the intake of the pump? Can't that cause cavitation and ruin the pump?
Thanks.
You are a genius😁what brand of chiller is that?
How do you manage to get a stable reading from your pH sensors, I thought you'd have to regularly re-calibrate, how often do you have to do that?
this is my dream
Thank you very much for that thorough overview. Just have a question about ozone. I have been interested in adding ozone to my reservoir. It seems the simplest way to do this is through an ayirstone style unit. I found this unit Aqua-6 Multi Purpose Ozone Generator, It delivers 600mg/hr ozone output and is only $100. How long would I need to run this. I don't really want to go the ORP meter route as many people have reported what you have with always needing to calibrate it. I have also seen washer machine ozone units that use a water pump to pump water through it and ozone the water. Is one style better than the other? Thanks for any opinions on this!
Hi. I’m having this commercial project for a large scale vertical nft systems and I am having trouble setting up the plumbing and rigs.. I’m really interested to setup something similar to yours (sterilization, automation etc). I really need advises and help. Would you please communicate with me?
I’m in the process of building a system to automate my feedings, when I set up my dosers how do I determine if I should add pH up/down or both in the line up? I noticed that most setups have only up or down. Should make up a solution by hand and see how I should adjust it?
so so solid
Hi, what level of Ozone do you recommend ? As you said that you don't trust the ORP meter, how do you control that level ?
(Nice setup btw)
where do i buy the float valve thats letting in water?
How is you input reverse osmosis water to your reservoir tank under such high pressure? I have a Hydrologic 200 reverse osmosis water filter that is connected to city water. The output of the Hydrologic 200 comes out at a trickle, and takes about an hour to fill a 5 gallon bucket. I would like to automate my reverse osmosis water generation and nutrient mix to a reservoir tank, rather than manually creating 5 gallon batches.
I’m thinking about using an electrical float valve in the reservoir tank to control an electrical valve to the water input side of the Hydrologic 200 reverse osmosis water filter. The reverse osmosis water would the flow into the reservoir tank through a physical float valve. The reason for the physical float valve in the reservoir tank is to prevent the reservoir tank from overfilling in case the electrical float valve fails to shut off the input water to the Hydrologic 200.
When you pressed down on the physical float valve in your reservoir tank, it looked like you had high pressure municipal water feeding your physical float valve in you reservoir tank. What kind of reservoir tank do you use, and where did you buy it? I’m not sure how important having a food grade plastic reservoir is compared to just using any kind of plastic reservoir tank.
I use 12 grams of Masterblend, 12 grams of Calcium Nitrate, and 6 grams of Epsom Salt per 5 gallon manually mixed batch for my tomato and pepper mix. I reduce the concentration to 10 grams of Masterblend, 10 grams of Calcium Nitrate, and 5 grams of Epsom Salt for greens, like lettuce. I haven’t thought about increasing the Calcium Nitrate to compensate for using reverse osmosis water, but I’ll think about it. How much of a concern is adding the preservative chemical to your nutrient that may be toxic?
I use many Compact Fluorescent lights and one 315 watt Ceramic Metal Halide light in my grow area.
Thanks for all you Hydroponic videos you’ve posted!
He might have a pump, or maybe he just has higher water pressure
do you mind if i ask how much did you spend on all the hydroponics system? thank you
come and design my room bro..definately the future...and the presence..
From your other comment it sounds like you got your stuff worked out well already :)
Very interesting system and love the attention to small details :)
Curious if you could let me in on your lighting figures lumens, PFF/D, par, etc (or whatever you calculate it in) and for how many watts
Going to check out your nutrient formula now haha
Sure, on the 12 module 650w unit at full power in flowering mode, 4x4ft footprint at 2ft distance produces 1,350micromoles PAR at center. In an future video I will provide measurements at different locations and compare to a few other lights on the market. For single module numbers you can go see the description here: chilledgrowlights.com/shop/diy-led-grow-light-modules/diy-led-grow-light-engine-assembly
That's coming up in the next video, show how I mix my nutes :)
its shame you're not growing weed ! it would be the best love you dude !!!
Tomatoes my ass lol. I have a very similiar setup its not for tomatoes. I'm all drain to waste hydroponics. Are you using reverse osmosis water? And they have smart controllers now that track everything
amazing setup man... Might I ask roughly how much is it? To start saving :D
Cool stuff. Do you do any data collection with these different probes? It would be interesting to do some data science with this type of information
And all of THAT is for lettuce?! )) Bro, that is one tidy setup. To keep the liquid inside the tank moving, try installing a vertically standing impeller, just a little one. Set it right on the bottom and keep it on all the time. Even a tiny 1/2" impeller is going to move the entire volume of water in that tank. One last element you could add to that control board is a USS Enterprise. Peace.
He already has that. That's what the second pump is for. To circulate and aerate.
Where did you get your tank? (Btw this is epic)
Thanks! I got it from www.protankms.com and the exact model is: DR242424A
Bro this is over kill for your system ...high cost
WooW ur too advanced for a basement setup 🤣
Marzouq Humoud not really. Cannabis cultivators been doing it this way for years now.
when money is no object nice weed lol
Ummm,anyone jealous as I am
On to the next. Way too wasteful.