Outdoor Hydroponic Peppers
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- In this video I go over the setup I used to grow hydroponic peppers outdoors using coconut coir. The plants are grown in 5-gallon buckets using Masterblend Hydroponic nutrients.
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What are you growing for 2022
I'll be updating my progress throughout the season. Here's the list of the pepper seedlings I have started for the 2022 season.
Peppers:
Carolina Reaper
Habanero (Yellow, Red, Orange, Chocolate)
7 Pot (Red, Yellow, Chocolate)
Trinidad Moruga Scorpion
Yellow Scorpion
Peach Ghost
Scotch Bonnet
Aji Charapita
Aji Lemon
Biquinho Yellow Piquillo
Golden Cayenne
Thai Dragon
Thai Prik Chi Faa
Gong Bao
Gochugaru
Calabrian
Santaka
Chervena Chushka
Aconcagua
Orion
Fushimi
Yatufusa
Maules Red Hot
Serrano
African Yellow Pequin
Red Hot Cherry
I'm also going to try some hydroponic tomato varieties:
Cherokee Purple
Isis Candy
Garden Peach
Yellow Beefsteak
Amana Orange
Golden Nugget
Hey, thank you for taking the time to share your setup! I found numerous tips and techniques in your video!
You're welcome. I'm glad you found it useful. Thanks for taking the time to comment!
Nice tip on the looped tubing for even pressure.
Thank you for the video! I have been looking forward to this video. Clear explanation on the loop to keep even pressure on the drips. Amazing setup and beautiful peppers! I agree, the planter box to house the buckets looks much better than the alternative and is certainly worth the effort!
Yes, balancing the pressure is the most important part. Glad you found the info useful. Thanks for the compliments and taking the time to comment!
dude your pepper garden is beyond any i've seen before.. i aspire to one day have something even comparable, kudos.
Thanks for the kind words! I appreciate you taking the time to comment. It has been a learning process, took me a few years to get it right. This has been by best year to date. Glad I can share some info and hopefully help others advance faster.
Excellent vid!! Great explanation of everything. Beautiful looking plants!! Love your setup!!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for the kudos! I uploaded a video that goes into a little more detail about the system if you're interested, maybe you saw it already ruclips.net/video/Wn_nxjhyCn4/видео.html
I'm a fellow pepper grower, and I love what you've got going on here. Great job 👍 Happy gardening
Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
I so much appreciate your video. Your peppers rocked! Between the information in your video, and the effort you put into the comments, no question i can build this. Hope for half as good of results as yours!
Thanks for the kind words and I'm glad you found the information useful. My system is still going strong after several years now with minimal maintenance. I try to answer questions here in a timely manner so feel free to ask.
Fantastic setup ! Very nice. That reaper plant looks incredible.
Thanks for the kudos and taking the time to comment!
Hi man! I’m watching your video from România! Thank you FOR sharing
Beautiful vid ... enjoyed it
Great video and information....THANK YOU!!!
You're welcome, glad you found it useful. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Learn alot thanks for the info.
Good job
Excellent video. Thanks. Will be implementing your multiple barrel reservoir system next season to resolve my low reservoir capacity issues. I've spaces issues and my single 45g reservoir just isnt cutting it. This helped alot.
Glad you enjoyed the video. I'm going to be adding 2 more barrels for a total of 4 (220 gallons) next year. They'll all be connected in the same fashion in the video. This season I added another 10 plants to my system so I'm currently feeding 48 plants with just the 2 barrels and I'm having to refill them every 14 days late in the season when the plants require longer intervals. At this time of year I'm feeding 3 times a day for 4 mins each feeding. Hope this helps.
@@PeaceLoveGarden I've only 15 dutch buckets. Cant really expand due to space limitations, and don't really need to, as I already produce more in a season than I need for he year. But those ratios will definitely help reduce my labor input once I expand my reservoir capacity. Thanks so much. You, mphgardner, and that jeb guy from florida with the classical musical, are true inspirations!
great video bro
With your peppers planted in buckets you could always bring them inside prior to winter and keep the plants growing under some grow lights.
Funny you say this. I was thinking I might do that with some of the varieties this winter.
Wow those plants look amazing! Thanks for sharing your system... looking to do something similar this year. Would love to hear more detail about your nutrient mix/recipe and any changes you made throughout the season. Cheers!
The brand of nutrients I used throughout the season was Masterblend, I ordered it from Amazon. amzn.to/3GT3LzV
I mixed at the recommended rate of 12-12-6 and balanced my pH to 5.8, I did check the EC as well to make sure it was at least 1200. The only changes I made theought the season was the amount of time that the pump ran during feedings, the nutrient strength stayed the same for the entire season.
I've been using the Masterblend nutrients for a long time indoors and outdoors, great stuff!
@@PeaceLoveGarden awesome thanks!
Great job with you video. You're probably aware but some will like knowing that pepper plants are perennials. I live in Alabama but even this far south, peppers are one of the first plants to be bitten by frost. And when they do, they're toast. However, if brought in at fall, and kept above freezing only minimal water during this dormat period. But when spring arrives, they produce immediately. Egg plants also. Same thing.
I have successfully over wintered pepper plants but never tried it with eggplant. I might give that a try this year. Thanks for the input and taking the time to comment!
Great detailed video...I believe DWC stands for "Deep Water Culture". I have never heard it called Direct Water Column.
Glad you enjoyed the video. And yes, you are correct about what DWC stands for.
Thank you for sharing your setup. I am into aquaponics, but 3d printed my first hydroponic tower. What kind of solution are you using.
Great video. Thank you. I am curious about your thoughts on water temperature for someone in the desert. I need to figure out how to cool the water from the nutrient reservoir.
My nutrient reservoir was in my garage mainly to prevent rain getting in the barrels. It typically gets about 5F higher than ambient temp in my garage. I had some days this summer that reached 95F so I assume my nutrients were at least that temperature. I noticed no ill affects to my plants. The short amount of time the drippers are running (4 mins) don't dump a lot of water into the buckets, less than 2 cups for mine, per interval so I don't think the temp of the nutrients was a factor. It wouldn't take long for the temp for that small amount of water to balance with temperature of the coconut coir and roots. Not sure what your temps get up to but it may not be an issue since the buckets and plant roots will be the same temp as the ambient air, and nutrient reservoir anyway. Maybe use a white barrel to prevent excess heat from the sunlight on the barrel or provide complete shade for the nutrient reservoir. Another option you could experiment with would be more frequent feedings for shorter amounts of time but I'm not sure that would allow nutrients to get deep to the roots. I wish I had a better answer for you.
Plants look great my question is i have been using master blend for years for tomatoes hydroponic and it works great this year i am growing peppers in soil using master blend and the pepper plants look great but no flowers yet its still early here in northern California plants are about 10 inches is there any thing i need to do or just wait i water with master blend about twice a week beside regular water three times a week, my tomatoes plants in the Dutch buckets are hugest l lots of tomatoes a 27 gallon tote of master blend being pump threw the lines, next year i will be doing your method
I'm impressed with your hydrophonic system. I'm doing the kratky method. But I'm having trouble with root rot because of the hot weather here in L.A.. Do you have any other video explaining details of your system?
This video of mine goes into more depth ruclips.net/video/Wn_nxjhyCn4/видео.html
thank you for that very informative video. You gave me a lot of useful information about hydro outdoor. Your coco+hydro+(rain)drain setup makes really sense!
One question about your buckets: Why do you insert these drainpipes in the bucket? Wouldnt it be sufficient to just drill the hole in the bucket, without the tubings?
... also I am curious about what NPK ratio you use in your nutrient tank and what ppm?
You certainly could just use drain holes in the bottom of the buckets. I do the drain pipe to store a reserve of water/nutrients. Sort of like a self watering bucket and this way the nutrients are not wasted to the ground.
The nutrients I use are Masterblend (link in video description). I mix them per the manufacturer recommendation which comes out to a TDS of 1300. The NPK is 19.5-18-38
You should do a Ford commercial with that voice.
You're not the first person that's told me that 🙂 or that I should be a morning radio talk show speaker lol
"In your Ford F-150, you can fit all the buckets you need for hydroponic peppers"
Hi, really GREAT video. Thanks for the infos. One question: can we use rockwool insted of cocunut coir as growing media (mixed with perlite of course)? I am about to prepare my setup next week the same way you did.
I haven't tried filling the contaiers with Rockwool/perlite but the system should work fine with any grow media that can retain some moisture. You'll just need to figure out how often to water. Adjust the intervals feeding times so you're you're not drowning the plants while still ensuring they are getting enough nutrients and you should be fine. I'm not sure how the water hold capabilities of Rockwool compare to coir but I would think it's similar.
@@PeaceLoveGarden Thanks for you rreply. Based on that I follow you with the coconut coir-perlite mixture.
guys, how can I reduce the bass in the video ?
Can the coconut coir medium be re-used again for another grow, or do you compost it? Great looking garden!
I reuse the coir year after year. I just flush the buckets with plain water to rinse away any nutrient salt buildup before planting again. I cut the plants off at soil level and remove the roots the following year, once they dry out they're easier to remove. You'll have to add some coir to top off the buckets after removing old plants before replanting. I don't worry about small amount of roots left in the coir. How this helps. Thanks for the kudos!
Do you mix the fertilizer and Epson salts in one barrel and calcium nitrate in the other barrel? I have read you should not mix the three together at least in there dry form. I have 20 dutch bucket system with reasonably good results. You have an awesome system and a lot of great information. You have given me some ideas to improve my system.
All three end up in the same barrel. I add the Masterblend micronutrients and Epson salt to the water first at the same. Then once well mixed I add the calcium nitrate. You cannot mix all 3 powdered ingredients before adding to water. You can however combine the MB micro and Epson salt in their powder forms if you wish, MB actually sells a tomato/pepper version that comes this way as a 2 part kit. But never mix the calcium nitrate with the other ingredients in their powder form. Hope that made sense. Glad you like the video and found it useful. Thanks for taking the time to comment!
Great information here. Thanks for sharing. I am about to start a smaller version of your system and have a question about nutrient strength. Do you use full strength from seedling to mature plant? I read somewhere that DTW systems can run well on half strength nutrient mix, but would be interested to hear what you use. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed the video. Yes, I used full strength nutrients the entire life of the plants. Thats an interesting thought about DTW systems doing well on half strength. I'll definitely look more into that. Using half strength would not only save money on nutrients but also be less likely to accumulate the excess mineral salts left behind in the coir that makes flushing the buckets necessary periodically. That said, my plants grew great and I never noticed any ill effects on my plants nor did I visibly see and mineral buildup, I mostly flushed the buckets as a precautionary measure. Thanks for the comment. You've given me something to research.
@@PeaceLoveGarden Thank you and sorry for the late follow up. Whatever you're doing it looks like it's working great for you. Those peppers look really healthy. Do you mind if I ask you what EC/PH values you run at? I'm using masterblend too so I'd like to experiment a little with values.
@@johnoneill2848 With the MB mixed at the standard ratio 2g, 2g, 1g per gallon I have a TDS between 1300-1400 and ppm around 650 so I believe the EC would be 1.3-1.4 if I'm calculating correctly. I try and keep my pH around 5.8 never more than 6. Hope this helps.
How did you connect the 1/4 tubes from the 1/2 mainline? I didn’t see 1/2 to 1/4 tees in your materials list. Also, how much water do you recommend per timing interval for each bucket? Thanks
I did DWC peppers in Canada two summers in a row. I always have issues with the nutrients getting too warm in the summer. Do you think your method is better to handle the heat waves of summer? Great video and Great setup!
Yes it definitely works better than DWC in the heat. I had many consecutive days over 90F and never had a single issue. Since nutrients are only fed into the coconut coir for a few minutes at a time a couple intervals a day the environment and conditions are similar to growing in regular soil containers. The plant's roots aren't sitting in hot liquid. Thanks for the kind words and taking the time to comment!
DWC is meant for indoor growing where you can control the temp and humidity it was invented for growing indoor cannabis if you’re using chemical fertilizers it shouldn’t matter appears don’t like direct sunlight anyway you could try using some kind of insulation wrapped around your Reservoir just use a 5 gal bucket filled with water fill it with water and a air stone and air pump for a fish tank and add your nutrients as needed in not sure how often or what type of nutrients peppers need what this man is growing is not hydroponic it’s soilless growing he’s using a non soil medium and adding nutrients in the feed solution
@@HaZe_Da_PiTBuLL "soilless medium with nutrients"... that's literally the definition of hydroponics. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hydroponics
I have a question about the buckets. Can I use just any type bucket or do they have to be food grade? Also I saw that some people use black buckets to prevent algy growth. Do you think its necessery for a set up like yours?
Fantastic video and awesome plants. Well done. I have a couple questions please, if you don't mind.
1. Are the plants in direct sunlight or are they partially shaded?
2. Assuming you started the seedlings indoors, how old were they before you moved them outside?
Thank you kindly.
Thanks for the kind words and taking the time to comment.
1. The plants get full sun nearly all day minus an hour after sunrise and an hour before sunset. I'm in lower Michigan, zone 6b. High temps here are mid 90s.
2. Yes, I start my seedlings indoors mid to late February. They average 6-8 inches tall when I put them in the buckets late May. I don't top my seedlings in case you're wondering. I do however remove any early flowers until they start to get established in the buckets. Especially the flowers that grow in the crotches of main lower branches.
Hope this helps!
@@PeaceLoveGarden Thank you very much. I have one more question that I forgot to ask, if you don't mind.
Do you have minerals/salt build up problems using this system? If so, how often do you flush the plant, and how do you flush it, just plain water? Thanks.
I haven't had a problem with it. The buckets get flushed from the rain periodically. If it doesn't rain I flush them with the garden hose once every two weeks.
If I mix and match plant types - like tomato, cucumber and peppers - on the same system, do you think running the nutrients for the same duration will work as water consumption requirements of these plants will be different from each other ?
Also, do you use hydroponic grade coco coir or just the regular ones ?
Yes you could do all vegetables you mentioned with the same nutrient strength using this system. The nutrient strength will be the same at all the drippers off the same reservoir but you can adjust how much moisture they get without changing time intervals. I'm doing tomatoes, beans, and peppers this year. I used the same nutrient strength for all but the tomatoes needed more water so I used higher gallon per hour drippers for them to compensate for their thirst but use the same timer intervals. You will however need grow veggies that all require a similar nutrient strength. The TDS of my nutrients is around 1400, I use Masterblend (amzn.to/3dORGCM)
You can Google "TDS hydroponics yourvegetable" to find out what veggies that will work well on the same system with the same nutrient strength then adjust flow rates by way of the gph of the drippers to compensate for their water thirst without needing to change the timer intervals.
Here's a low cost TDS meter amzn.to/3cszRZR
I think most larger veggies would be good together but things like lettuce (and non fruiting veggies) usually require half the TDS strength nutrients. I run my pH around 6 which is also something different is some veggies so you'll need to search pH ranges for what you want to grow as well. This is the pH meter I use amzn.to/3q6TFpb
The coconut coir I use
amzn.to/3Rfxto4 does require buffering before use which is simple (rehydrate it with calcium and mag water, then rinse with plain water) but cheaper than hydroponic coir which is already buffered. I reuse the same coir year after year so it is an initial investment but the following years it makes up for it versus buying new putting soil each year if growing in dirt. Buffered or not buffered is usually the only difference between regular coir and hydroponic coir.
I also use this same system on a smaller scale indoors under lights during the off season. How this helps!
you should water enough to get run off from time to time to clean out nutrient deposits in media...
I think I briefly mention in the video about flushing the buckets occasionally
How often did the two 55 gallon drums have to be filled?
I believe I filled them 4 times over the season. That's for 38 plants in 5 gallon buckets.
I live in the tropics and I plan to grow peppers. I will use this method. A quick question why do you use growing medium instead of regular soil? What’s more economical medium or soil? I wonder if I can grow peppers all year around in this system, since there is no winter here.
I like using the hydroponic method because I found the plant growth to be superior vs using soil. However you can certainly use soil in the buckets and the drip system with water only.
@@PeaceLoveGarden how do you manage the insects and the diseases for peppers that you grow outside in hydroponics?
@@PeaceLoveGarden did you grow any habanero peppers? What was your yield?
Do you know if can be use other type of media. maybe a using a mixture of pumice and fine/Medium Dark Fir. or just pumice it self. my local supplier sell the pumice by the yard very cheap. the perlite and the coconut coir is very expensive in my area.
I don't think it would matter much about the type of media as long as it's inert. I'm not familiar with pumice or dark fir. Make sure the fir is not acidic which would affect pH. The other thing to consider is that the coconut coir absorbs and holds omto the nutrient water for the plants to use. If you use a non absorbing media that just drains away then you'll need to water small amounts more frequently using short timer increments. If it runs thru the media too quickly and your watering increments are too long you'll waste a lot of nutrients to the ground. Hope this helps.
@@PeaceLoveGarden thank you for the helpful reply. What I have been reading the pumice has the similar water retention like the perlite. I thinking 🤔 going for a mix of 75% pumice and 25% peat moss. Using regular 4 gallon black plastic pots, I can find them used, literally free in my area. What it's your thoughts? Thanks 🙏.
@@Reynieri I did some reading on the peat moss because of cost as well and seems it would work well in place of the coconut coir. From my research ProMox would be a better substitute than straight peat moss but I think it costs slightly more. However the ProMix is said to be better pH balanced as well. Peat most can be pretty acidic so I'm not sure how that would affect the hydroponic nutrients. This link explains some of the pitfalls of using peat for hydroponics scienceinhydroponics.com/2017/04/using-peat-moss-in-hydroponic-culture.html
Curious for a 12 bucket system how large should the reservoir be? Also is your 3 times a day feeding schedule the only time the plants get watered?
I have two 55 gallon barrels and if I remember correctly I filled them 4 times from late May or early June till the end of the season which was early Oct (zone 6b). Even with a 55 gallon barrel you'll need to fill it several times for 12 plants, my system holds 38. The coconut coir holds moisture well and the plants grew great with my feeding schedule I started out the seedlings at 2 mins per feed interval (2:2:2), as they grew I incresed the morning feed time to 3 mins (3:2:2) then continued to incrementally increase as they grew, 3:3:2 and so on. At maturity I think I was doing 4:3:3. They never wilted nor was it feeding to the point that nutrients were wasted running out of the bottom of the buckets. Also when the nutriemt reservoir needed to be refilled I would run them on straight water for a week before adding nutrients back to the reservoir. This helps to rinse the nutrient salt buildup from the coir. The last two weeks of the season I just used straight water as well. Nutrient cost for the season was about $30-40 for the season with Masterblend nutrients (link in description)
Hope this helps!
@@PeaceLoveGarden thank you. Of all the systems I've looked at, yours seems to be the best fit for me. I now just need to fiqure out what I'll do if the reservoir gets too hot. I'm also in 6b. Michigan
I have mine in the garage which shelters it from the sun but with the door closed it's about 10 degree warmer than outside temp but possible still cooler than the sun baking on the black barrels. I really don't think the nutrient temp is a much of a factor to be honest since such a small amount of liquid is dispensed at each interval it quickly adjusts to the ambient temp. You could position the drippers more towards the outer area along the bucket instead of at the base of the plant if you're concerned about the temp. You could also hang shade cloth over the barrel or build a makeshift shelter for it.
did you wire your solenoid into a extension cord cut off or did it come prewired?
I added the box on the side of the solenoid to contain the wires. Then, yes, I used an old extension cord to wire it. If you don't want to cut an extension cord.... the big box stores sell 36" cords, sometimes called "pigtails", with a plug on one end of the cord and bare wires on the other end for less than the price of an extension cord. The solenoid is low amperage so you don't need any heavy duty wire but it does need to be wire for 110v current so something like a 14g wire would work. Just make sure the power source you're connecting to isn't on more than a 15 amp breaker in your breaker box.
So you don't refill the buckets with water the drippers are enough?
That's correct. I only water using the drippers.
what's your per square foot output?
First year was the only time I weighed the entire harvest. From the 38 plants I got 73 lbs of hot and superhot peppers.
What about if a strong rain pour?
It actually helps when it rains periodically to flush the mineral salts that accumulate from the nutrients. The plants are only fed small amounts per interval, enough to get them to the next feeding interval. So if it rains, barely wasting any nutrients with rain dilution.
@@PeaceLoveGarden i will try this kind of set-up, I hope it will work here in the Philippines because rain here sometimes last for 1 week.
@@larrycorpuz3172 I don't think it will be an issue. The plants still get fed and once the plants are large the canopy of leaves keeps a lot of the rain out of the buckets also.
@@PeaceLoveGarden thanks sir.
Hello,
I like te setup butt is this really a hydroponic setup in the real sence of the word hydroponics? I see this a a nice thing to setup but also as a soil in buckets with plants instead of soilplanting in the ground with trip or timer watering. A agree this is a nice setup, butt as I am resident in the south of Portugal, and the land here needs watering so often, that is the same as what you do liftup on a table. I think to tace over some of the things I saw in this video, butt I want call it hydroponics. Thank you for the video.
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Isnt that not Hydroponic?
It is indeed hydroponic. Coconut coir is inert. It contains no nutrition for plants. I provide the food thru the drippers.
It actually works better
DWC is not Direct Water Column it’s Deep Water Culture lol you guessed the Water part correctly not even close on the D or C
Huh?
How did you connect the 1/4 tubes from the 1/2 mainline? I didn’t see 1/2 to 1/4 tees in your materials list. Also, how much water do you recommend per timing interval for each bucket? Thanks
How did you connect the 1/4 tubes from the 1/2 mainline? I didn’t see 1/2 to 1/4 tees in your materials list. Also, how much water do you recommend per timing interval for each bucket? Thanks
In this video I go more in depth about the assembly and water ruclips.net/video/Wn_nxjhyCn4/видео.htmlsi=t-MENDOrouuDKAAk
At around 11 mins it shows how to connect the smaller tubing to the larger with these 1/4" double barbed fittings amzn.to/3Tc0TX5