Cheap & Easy DIY Hydroponics | Ditch the expensive stuff for a $1 Pool Noodle
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- Easy DIY Hydroponics. Kick the habit of traditional hydroponics which can be quite costly for the beginner. Today I show you how to start growing your own microgreens, herbs and leafy greens with out having to spend a lot of money on things like rockwool, clay pebbles, net cups, etc.
Cheap & Easy DIY Hydroponics | Ditch the expensive stuff for a $1 Pool Noodle
Everyone should be able to grow their own food, not just the people who can afford it. this is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to do just that. Please share this with someone who this may help. Thanks much!
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I got to say, I've watched a ton of aquaponics videos. In fact I'm making a playlist called Gardening. But this is the first I've seen of the pool noodles method, and it is brilliant! Thanks much.
Thank you! I just purchased 2 pool noodles that were on clearance at the grocery store and the clerk kept laughing at me, lol. Nice to meet you!
Pool noodles turn to dust when left in the sun. Just wondering how far they break down and if the chemical constituents end up in solution. I think I'd like to see some sort of chemical analysis of the crops just to make sure that there are no nasty radicals present. Otherwise I'm excited by this technique and it's economy.
@@RedfishInc That is my concern also.
As far as I know most pool noodles are made from EVA not PVC since kids will be playing with them. EVA is used in baby teething rings and medical supplies. They last pretty much an entire grow season and are cheap enough to replace often. In addition, the whole downspout is PVC and comes in direct contact with the water, probably more of a concern than the pool noodle that does not. There are always food grade NFT channels.
@@KeepOnGrowin Thanks and cool idea.
The Bob Ross of gardening.
Epic comment
Epic and absolutely correct! :)
I have watched probably 30 videos on growing hydroponics but at the end when I looked everything up on Amazon it was really expensive to start out I can totally do this!! I'm glad I found you... ❤️🤗
Awesome!! Let me know how it goes!😎🤘🌱
Iv just started and yeah the food is most expensive and hard to find but once you get going you can use pretty much any tub,iv got tomatoes carrots turnips going
This looks amazing! I cannot afford a whole lot of expense, but want to have a garden I can move when I need to. This would totally work! Truly brilliant!
Awesome! I hope it helps. Let me know how it goes! Have an awesome day!
Simple and easy hydroponic system
This is by far the easiest hydroponics setup I´ve ever seen, pool noodles making so much sense now.
It has served me well for many years. I love it!
After only 30 sec. of this video, I subscribed to your channel. Really love your ideas and since I'm on a budget your channel is now my gardening reference. Thank You So Much!
That means so much to me, makes me want to keep on creating. Thank you. Happy gardening!
How are you doing this without pumping the water through
I like how you go in the comments and interact with your audience. Good video man
Thanks, they are some great people, love em!
A pool noodle? That's awesome! I like that it's reusable. I'll probably switch to using one of those once I go through my jiffy pots starters. I'm using a soldering iron to recycle used keurig cups that I take home from work into baskets. Just a few holes in the bottom and side and it makes a small basket just a little bigger than the ones used in an aerogarden.
Awesome, I love the idea of reusing the K cups, you rock!
What are KEURIGS!!??
He discusses gardening AND has an asmr voice? I'm subbing!
You have truly inspired me. We now have 15 plants growing for a start. I can't wait to get the micro greens growing. Thank you!
Awesome, happy growing!
It's been 2 years now since I employed this technique (using pool noodles). And it works! Thank very much for the idea!
Awesome! So glad it worked out for you! 😎🌱🌱🌱🖒
How much it need to be submerged in water?
@@KeepOnGrowin yes, like how many cm must the water solution be from the bottom?
@@nikcjj Keep between half and three quarters full at all times.
Will this work for lettuce?
Editor looks like she hates her job, but she’s damn good at it 😂
Lol, she wants more treats.
Hi folks! This is a great idea, saves money and lots of hassle. But I'm a lil concerned about the pool noodle, which is plastics, and if there can be any health risks, especially used long term and under extended high heat, such as mid-summer sunlight? I remember an article I read some time ago on safety of growing food in plastic container using hydroponics, the author said something like "how much of an effect does heat and light have on plastics in the garden?" is not clear. I'm no expert by any means, but more of a consumer hoping those who are knowledgeable on this shed some light on this for us. Much appreciated.
Should not be high heat. If your nutrients heat up your plant will die.
Answered every question I had.
I'm going to be using fish and shrimp in my growing setups 😊
I Am Happy to See you in The same community as me and Encourage your Interrest in RUclips Creator .I Like your Channel Garden I wanna try you Hydroponics methods and Gonna Stay Around it and help each other. Thank for your Creativity and Let’s GROW UP
Cool, nice to meet you.
Thank you, Mike. I have been trying to find a system which will actually work to grow greens hydroponically on my windowsills. This looks perfect, but I am going to use vinyl containers painted black from the hardware store. I will let you know how it goes.
Awesome, yes, keep me posted 😎🖒🌱🌱🌱
How did it go??
Painted black may heat up from sunlight while in windowsill. Did it work?
About 5 years ago I started using pipe insulation...I was going to use pool noodles but they were more expensive than the pipe insulation...and to take up the space in the hole, I use backer-rod cut at an angle so it is adjustable...
Good job!!
I could see this method working really well cut at the correct length for the top of an aquarium. I would modify it a little bit. Cut small holes in the bottom of the gutter for small neocardina shrimp and small fish fry to get in (so they can be protected from the adult fish which would normally eat alot of the fry. This keeps any damage to roots at a minimum. Also it allows for the circulation of the nitrate rich water below. I would use a sponge filter in the aquarium and either those silver metal racks for the tanks that allow for adjustments of the height above the tank and that way lights can be lowered or raised between the shelves. I haven't figured out what to use to adjust height of the light but it shouldn't be too hard using small chain or those nite ize gear ties maybe. If it was a free standing light holder with no rack, pvc cut as a stand would probably be my first attempt. Great content.
I do like your process. So much, I'm trying to figure out how to fit it into my system somehow. Thanks for sharing. :O)
Hydroponic Gardening & More with Brent Have a great weekend, Brent! When I am not on the road so much, I am going to try to scale up, probably never to your level. You rock!
I didn't start out that way. Lol. Be careful, this shhhtuff is addictive! I enjoy how you think outside the box.
Lol. I like your accent. You sound like Kevin Costner.
Me too. You sound better than Costner.
@@tnijoo5109 MR. ROGERS
Thank you! You just saved an old lady years of work!
Brilliant! I was thinking about pool noodles as I was soaking my rockwool last night, after I had adjusted the Ph level with lemon juice! This is a whole level of non-fuss that is perfect. Thank you for sharing. New subscriber! I'm going to see if I can hunt down how you did the rain gutters.
Hi,
What's your down spout hole diameter (1 - 7/8"?) vs the noodle diameter (usually 2 - 3/8"?).
Additionally, would the same technique of using 2-3 seedling per hole work, until sufficiently big enough (root size) to be transplanted into their individual holes?
Appreciate the feedback if you can, as I am setting up my own system in the Caribbean where I live.
Regards. :)
Yes on the size hole (1 7/8"). Yes, I sometimes put 4 to 5 seedlings in each and thin them out when they are a week or two old, I eat the ones that I thin out. With pak choy, I leave two in each hole, but you can experiment.
I just found your video. This is amazing! I'll be trying this out in Sydney, Australia. Will keep on watching your channel and learn. Hope to set up my first small hydrponic next week.
Just investigating getting into Hydroponics Mike. Loved the pool noodle idea. I'm a cheap sob!!! LOL! Newly subscribed. Thanks for sharing sir! I look forward to learning more from you. I'll be checking out your other releases as time permits.🛶😃
Right on brother! Have fun!
I always wonder what all our plants absorb that we end up eating, things like micro plastic or whatever leeches out. Not that hydro is worse, we use so many things on or for our plants no matter how it’s grown it’s exposed to something “unnatural”
Cool idea tho, I’ll definitely be trying it out… and I’ll consume it too, I just wonder…
Totally agree with you! The best ist to keep our plants (especially those we eat) as natural as possible.
I also wondered the health safety of the plastic from the noodles 🤔
Hi Mike, im curious as to how "organic" the plants grow to be. Obviously the pool noodles are not reactive but they are made of inorganic materials. Is there any risk to plants with longer term exposure to pool noodle material??
I could not tell you, I am not a scientist and have not seen any studies. EVA is usually made without plastisizers which is the component in PVC that causes the leaching of toxins. Most hydroponic lettuce is grown on a Styrofoam raft which is in constant contact with the water.
The whole system is plastic why is everyone worried about the poll noodle being plastic?
Probably far less toxic than the ecoli laden chmi-veggies from xxxx-mart
That just blew my mind. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada.
You had me sold at the pool noodle.
I have a fish pond that I want to utilize for the water flow. Still figuring out what setup is good.
Definite winning concept.
Dude! This is absolutely genius!
Thanks, it has served me well for the last 8 years or so.
Back in my day we didn't call them microgreens. We called them sprouts.
Actually, we still use the term sprouts. According to most Health Depts, a sprout is germinated with just water, usually in a jar. A mi rogreens is grown on or in some type of medium such as soil, coir, grow pad etc. Microgreens have less regulations than sprouts which are more prone to pathogens be ausr of the high humidity environment. Microgreens are trimmed above the grow medium thus less chance. 😎🖒
Same man and I'm 18 so I even grew up watching Sprouts the kids channel as well
Hey, i have a question for you.
I like that this method practically cost nothing, I mean even the noodles are reusable. But does that mean I still need soil to turn my seeds into a seedling? Is there a way to make a seedling without soil so as to keep it 100% hydro? (without the rockwool too of course)
Thanks
Yes. There are grow mats and I also set up a grow bed with hydroton. There is a video with the grow bed. Let me know if you can't find it.
How do you make the bases and waterproof. Also why the shape. Thanks great teaching gift. Keep going. Peace and joy at stay in gardening
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Ok, i see you found step one. There's a whole playlist. Rhe shape was so it fit on my handrail!! Thank you for watching 😎🖒🌱
I don’t know if this has been asked. How healthy is the food if it has been grown in a metal gutter and chemical plastic or foam noodle? Honest question. Do you know of any safer options?
Yes, my channel has food grade materials if that concerns you. Look at my playlist where I used milk cartons. I made a grow box out of marble too, still have it. Lots of options.
Thank you I will keep watching I subbed
@Jake Sangria Afaik uptake of "bad stuff" is a much more pronounced problem in hydro/aquaponics than it is in soil. There's also the difference in taste, due to the plants developing very differently in comparison. I don't see much reason to do vegetable hydroponics if you're not doing it out of curiosity, novelty or survival reasons. If you just want tasty vegetables, grow in soil.
@Jake Sangria I'd guess pool noodles are foamed polystyrol. There's probably no need for plasticizers, but I couldn't say for sure. I wouldn't be too concerned about it, as you are unlikely to eat a full plate of your vegetables every day. Also the styrofoam isn't in constant contact with the nutrient solution, I think. Be concerned about what the roots are in contact with. Thorough washing is something you do with all polymers in contact with your food (e.g. polymer water tank of a new coffee machine).
Climate conditions are a great reason to look into hydroponics, I think.
@Jake Sangria If you don't eat the vegetables every day I generally wouldn't worry more than necessary. Polymerized styrol should be far too big of a molecule to be just sucked up by roots, I'm guessing. I'd think more about the plasticizers and the like, which is a possibility. What exactly do you think will accumulate in those plants?
You could compare COD values of your hydroponic and soil grown tomatoes maybe? A uni lab near you will probably be willing to do it. It's a pretty quick test. GC is a lot more involved and expensive. But it's about oxidizing, maybe there's better tests for what you want to know.
The only way to know for sure is testing.
Great video Im no expert but one thing I do in my greenhouse is to limit my harvesting of leafy greens per plant and hardly ever have to replant. As long as I leave a few leaves on each plant they come back again and again it seems like the more I do this the quicker and thicker they grow. I'm thinking it is like when you prune a tomato and pinch out the suckers the plant reacts like it's life depends upon growing replacement leaves quicker and fuller to improve it's chances to survive. I like the pool toy idea, I have been using foam from fabric store cut into square pac man 1" cubes and by opening pac mans mouth I can tuck my seedlings in allowing the rooots to reach out to the nutrient level, As I also use the Kratkie Method with out pumps per say. Im useing fish for my nutrients and it is like you say set it and forget it till harvest time. Which like I said before with my harvesting methods has been for a few years now. I only lost crop and had to reset ounce due to weather snap that my passive system couldn't keep up with but I am in the process of adding a system of what I think are called dutch heaters where you take a can with a candle in it and place a clay pot over it so that air can move through it and it heats quit nicely from my experiments with them so far. Sorry for my long winded ness but hydroponics are my favorite since I found this method. Well keep the faith and you'r green thumb growing !
Lol, yes, I have to stop my wife from over harvesting some times. The plants need a few for photosynthesizing. Yeah, we do cut and come again on most of our plants.
I just RUclips easy hydroponics diy and this video was the first video that came up I am so happy I found your channel. Some one that says hey hydroponics can be easy and fun use what you have and adapt to what you have you don't need anything supper fancy! Great info and easy to watch. Hope to see many more!
Thanks Mike. I want to make it easy so everyone can do it! I really appreciate your comment! 😎🤘🌱
So simple when you know how top marks thanks
I must say you are brilliant. Was just learning about the bedding and come across your this video.
From Malaysia 😆
Cool, so glad I could help!!
Dude, thank you!
I have a custom hydro setup that I was looking to change the medium I clone into, I am going to give this a try.
I had the pool noodle idea too but I didn't have any kind of system at all. I learned a lot from this video that will help. Thank you so much.
Awesome! Rock on!
Your voice is a bit too soft and gravelly. It made it difficult to understand for people who have trouble hearing sounds of a lower register. Please consider putting subtitles. Thank you!
I hear perfectly fine but have trouble understanding him anyways.
I’m not having any problems understanding this gentleman.
My heroooooo!!!! Omg this is INCREDIBLE! THANK YOU FOR SHARING
Glad you enjoyed it! This was years ago, many more money saving ideas on my channel. I hope you ding it useful. Happy gardening Nicole!
EVA is considered to be a safe alternative to PVC, as it doesn't require plasticizers like phthlates, and it's BPA free. However, a few years ago it was found that EVA foam contained formamide. Formamide is used to make the foam soft, but it's considered to be carcinogenic and a developmental toxin.
Basically it is holding the plant in place, you don't grow it in the foam . Most greens are trimmed well above the base.
OMG that doggy is so cute!!!!❤️ thank you for the step by step lessons, very nice 👍
You're welcome! 🐶daid hi!
What a great idea. Cheap, and effective. Thanks for sharing.
Yup ! I love the simplicity
Thanks a bunch. I took your advice about the pool noodles and it works. I am not a hoarder, but I have been saving some of my plastic cat food containers. I wish now I had not thrown away some of them. They work perfectly because they have a flip-up tab in a corner of the lid. PERFECT. I'm spray painting them black with a strip of tape along one side that will be removed after painting to check the water levels. I sure hope this works.
Awesome! I love experimenting. Have fun!!!
I use foam pipe insulation. It blocks light better, and costs about the same. Every home store sells it.
Great tip. I use the pool noodles because I found most are made of EVA, not sure about the pipe insulation. I use the black indoors or in the winter, during the summer, the black heats up and kills my little sprouts. It's ok for more mature plants.
@@KeepOnGrowin
If heat is an issue, I just cut small panda film squares to make little sun shades.
Oh God! What a great idea! THANK YOU for sharing!
Thank you! I am glad you find it useful!
I’ve been sharing this video with friends and strangers on fb! My lettuce plants are growing fantastic in the pool noodles! I’m a first timer as well!!
Awesome!! Thank you so much! I appreciate that. If you email me at keepongrowin1@gmail.com, I will give you a free copy of my ebook. I hope it helps. Thanks again.
@@KeepOnGrowin Sent you an email!! Thank so much!
@@rachelsommerville4383 Did not see it. Make sure you spell it right and try again.
keepongrowin1, there is a 1 in it.
@@KeepOnGrowin resent! Thanks
The information is very helpful. It would be good to zoom in if possible to make seeing the small stuff possible. Thank you.
They work for me and roots are doing well from seeds for micro grows
ok, I'm all excited. My husband and I can't grow anything because we do not have a green thumb, but this video is so inspiring. My husband is cutting the downspout now (we watched your video on how to make that) and I've ordered the mixture for the water. I'm not sure how to go from seed to microgreen but we're gonna try. I know in one of your videos you say where you order your seeds from but can you tell me again? I just ordered some bok choy seeds and hopefully, they come in soon. Anyway, thank you for sharing your knowledge. I really appreciate it.
Awesome, thanks so much. There is a link to my Amazon store, in the section that says seeds, you will find some of the harder to find seeds that I use. The rest I just get from the local home improvement store.
Uh, if you're the first one to use a pool noodle for plants..you created a new style of planting! Poondleponics BAHAHA but no, seriously, this also works great with a cloning gel/powder and clone propagation. Just make a humidity dome and pow, cloner!
Try it, works well in dwc too!!
Awesome!! Thanks much😎🖒🌱🌱
You're so original! I love your style! New subscriber here! 🙋♀️😃
Thank you very much!😀
Very nice my friend. You have given me many many ideas. Thank you for sharing.
Omg brilliant! I want to try this now
Will it grow the weed though?
Don't know, never tried. Sorry.
Yes but not gonna be fire but it does work if ya add a air stone and hook up to a sump in a 5 or 10 gallon container and let it run constantly chang water every week then it will work way better for weed or tomatoes
Cucumbers, peppers and other veggies too.
The root structure on cannabis is much to large. Maybe a 5 gallon bucket?
youd make an excellent pool noodle salesman!
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New subscriber here. I loved your video and your set up is amazing. Simply awesome channel for growers.
Thanks much, welcome 😎🌱🌱🌱🌱
Your yard is infested with cats 🐈
Wow. Just wow. I was blown away by this.
Thanks Martin, I saved a lot of money over the last five years. Thanks for watching.
Thank You for the information; I'm impressed !
I have enjoyed and built downspouts. I had problem with sugar ants, so I used Vaseline on the ends and the ants are gone.
Awesome tip!
Awesome, Mike! Can't wait til I have a yard or patio or anywhere I can start my own garden!
Thanks Alex! Good luck on the move, I hear sunny Cali is an awesome place to grow.
Great ideas and method! I'm thinking of setting up a two-step process, such that the little plants can be grown in a dense arrangement, then moved to a different container with wider spacing, when it's needed.
That is a great idea. That's how commercial hydro ppl do it, maximizes space.
Why move it to a wider spaced container? I'm clearly a newbie !
@@angelicaoliver4915 Just more room to grow -- including roots and light...
Hi from Australia I am going to try this
Hello! That is awesome!!
You're a genius! Oh, what about the trays that holds the noodle slices? How did you make those? How often do you change the solution?
I have a playlist with frequently asked questions.
Nice! Cheap!
In the Wikipedia entry for pool noodle there is a section for Other Uses, you should add this.
Cool, never thought of that!
I am a newbie, on collecting info and research stage about hydroponics.This is the best video I have seen till now ❤️.. however I would be grateful if you could give me little insight about this needs to be done indoors or it's fine if the setup is on the terrace?🙏🏻 Grateful for sharing your knowledge Sire !
Hahaha now we know why they stopped making them hollow😂😂😂basturrrds👍
You are absolutely awesome! I'm going to start growing instead of eating cans of ravioli
Yesss!!! Give it a try. A little ravioli now and then ain't bad either tho 👊😎
My guilty pleasure that I buy once or twice a year is Chef Boyardee ravioli. Hey you can't forget your past.
Wow, thats a great idea
Fantastic using using the pool noodles. Great idea.
Thanks, saved a lot of money.
I love kitty anh doggy. Thank You for Showing the plant hydroponics. Good idea. Good luck . God bless you.
Thank you very much!!😎🐶🐶🌱
Thnks for the advice, I will try it
You are a bloody genius!
Thank you! 😃🌱🌱
When I first started growing when cannabis was legalized in 2012 in Massachusetts I got a 6 site hydroponic you in it and quickly realized that the air pump that came with it was far insufficient for what I needed. I really Tivoli quickly added one more site or two more sites to the six that I had originally bought and then I built my own 8 site hydroponic unit for my vegging errand I might flower tent I would have the regular reservoir of nutrients being fed to the plants and I had a stop float valve in there connected to a reservoir tank spare that I had half strength nutrients mixed up with and in every single plant bucket I had special circular are stones and very large are stones in the reservoirs which for 30 gallon and 15 gallon. The flower had a 30 in a 15 my vegging 1 had a 30. And that rarely ever got dry the way the flowering one what did. And I had all sausen W lights inside my flower 10 and 8 bulb T5 with a 250 watt CFL to finish off my vegging room I switched all that shit to dirt because my electric bill for those two rooms was almost $650 a month to run all the air pumps 24/7 run the fans run the lights run the exhaust run the intake it adds up substantially I have three rooms now two for flowering one for vegging and I get my build highest is about $280 to run three rooms when it was $650 to run two rooms. I'm also disabled and to keep up with the Hydroponics was almost impossible for me when I started today it would be impossible for me as I've gotten nothing but worse after 2014. All in all I found Hydroponics not to be cheap or very efficient as you need all kinds of chemicals to new switch out the nutrients and all the reservoirs and with the flowering one you have a whole lot more to do as things change rather quickly with Hydroponics you can grow more in a year from Hydroponics with no flavor as the three years that I did Hydroponics either the Hydroponics took the flavor out of that or me not having a dehumidifier and drying them poorly took the flavor from them. If you could run some kind of solar on your roof to run the air pumps in the lights and the fans then Hydroponics might be a good good thing to go with but electricity to get their height commercial heavy duty pumps to work all the time plus heaters and chillers for your reservoirs that stuff is all super expensive to power up and stimulate outside weather inside but better than outside because you don't have the horrible winds or the humidity at flowering time. I live on Cape Cod for 4 years in a row from 2014 to 2018 I tried to grow outside and got my ass handed to me every time due to a heavy nasty hurricane or tropical storm ripping through the area leaving everything wounded and hurt and then humidity at night time climbing to almost a hundred percent every night in through October means I was dealing with a ton of Bud rot. Even cutting it off as soon as I would see it made no difference to my plans and all had to be cut down a month early. And that's the best I've done outside. With one exception 2014 outside I had 23 close to 15 foot plants in July which is vegging time for the plants and the cops came over and cut them down said it was 35 and arrested me for being a distributor of cannabis. And then they started looking at my medications which I was on 30 at the time and with my magical cannabis plant I'm down to just six of them and it's the only thing I treat Crohn's with.
Thank you for this video man
F--King great thinking👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼!!! Thanks for the wisdom, master Yoda!
THIS IS THE FIRST VIDEO OF YOURS THAT I HAVE VIEWED. GREAT INFOR & I LOVE YOUR GARDEN. DO YOU THINK THIS CAN BE USED ON HOUSEHOLD PLANTS?
Thanks. This is a non circulating system. I grow leafy greens and harvest a few months later. Sooner or later the water goes bad. Maybe for annuals but not perennials.
the flowers are delicious
Nice video. And cheapest method of hydroponics. I love it.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks, I am trying this system and they sprout but then don't seem to go any further. Trying grow solution for Vegatables. Can't afford all those special nutrients. Keep trying.
Beautiful presentation, thanks for sharing 😊
Thanks much!!
This is so creative! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you, I have been doing it for 9 yrs and love it.
Thank u that was so easy can’t wait to try it. One question do u grow inside with lights during winter?
Love your money saving way of doing hydroponics, Mike. I built a couple of wicking microgreen containers from your videos. The lids on my containers aren't as deep as your Dollar Tree lids. Hoping they are deep enough. I want to try to grow buttercrunch lettuce to start with and I'm wanting to put them in gutters outside in a small greenhouse. I am in central Arkansas and am worried about water temps in the gutters at night when it gets near freezing. Should I heat and humidify the small greenhouse with thermostat or try the plants in tubs that will allow me to thermostatically heat the water and what is the lowest temp I can get by with successfully. Thanks for your awesome info, especially the pool noodle money saver!
Thanks much. Don't know what would work best with the heating. I am in Florida and only get a few days of below freezing temps a year. My small downspouts, I bring in for the night. Let me know how you do with heating, I get quite a few questions from our friends up north.
Thanks and keep up the helpful ideas :)
Have an awesome day!
It would've been nice if you mentioned the white container ( House gutters?) That you put your pool noodles in.
Ooooo, sarcasm, lol. They are vinyl downspouts. They are all over my channel. There is even a playlist showing how to make it.
This was brilliant! I do have a question or two: What are the white trays you're using? They resemble a gutter, but I'm thinking they aren't, and do they come with the holes or did you have to cut/drill them out? If you did cut them out,, what was the diameter? I would think they would need to be slightly smaller then the diameter of the pool noodle so they fit snug.? And do you keep these trays outside or are hydroponics for indoor use only?Thank you for the video!!👍👍
I make them and sell them or you can watch more videos to learn how to make it yourself. There is a playlist on my channel. It is a vinyl downspout with 2" holes.
@@KeepOnGrowin Ok thank you. This is the first video I've seen on hydroponics, enjoyed it very much! I will watch the others. 🙂
I'm going to take a guess that the base is a White vinyl downspout. If you look at his video where he claims "That's not my cat" you can see the end of the downspout looks like he bent it up into place, maybe he heated it first then bent it. Good luck with that.
Looks interesting but I'm having problems hearing properly... I think your audiotrack needs eq.. Anyone else experiencing this? 😅
UPDT. From 1 min onwards sounds OK 😋 AND captions would've solved the problem anywayz!
Nice setup you have there!
Cheers man!
Thanks, appreciate it!
Cheapest, easiest method I've seen, no bullshit.
Thank you, we keep it simple. 😎🖒🌱
@@KeepOnGrowin that's the best way to do it! unlike some youtubers that they just advertise their products or getting paid from sponsors. yours is just plain and simple. thanks for your video
You don't know how much I appreciate comments like this. 😎🖒
@@KeepOnGrowin I'm also a youtuber, my channel is tmtx7 but I have a bit different approach from you, I try to do the other youtubers that miss in their video, the hard part I mean they just show the start of the project and then the finished ones. I do the hard part, how to do it, the best or hard way. I do gardening and raising animals but in a larger scale since I sell my produce and the animal products; ie, eggs. I can adapt your way for my own consumption only not in a larger scale. But anyways, thanks a lot for replying on my comments.
I have a question…. Love this idea of hydroponics!! I am a totally newbie THINKING of starting very small and indoors. ( 1 of those down spouts small) The question is does the water start to smell after awhile?
If you grow fast maturing plants, no. If you grow something that will take months and months, it might.
Thank you for sharing! I didn’t know it can be that easy. Now I wanna know how much fertilizer is needed.
Cool! It is in this vidro at about the 2 min mark ruclips.net/video/_Qg5UzOQEKc/видео.html
`This looks so easyy even I could do it with my two black thumbs... Thaaks for this :)
No problem, I hope you give it a try. Let me know if you have any questions.
I just planted a punnet of Peppermint less than an hour ago to try it with :)
Cool, that's a good one to experiment with!
Why it got to be BLACK thumbs
New Subscriber here! Loving the pool noodle idea!
I followed you too. I have family in Red Rock!
Awesome! @@KeepOnGrowin
@@KeepOnGrowin Round Rock?
Hi bubby. Thanks for the great and informative content. But I have a question. All the hydro systems I've seen use plastic products of some sort and being aware of the prevalence of micro plastics in our world should you not be using materials such as copper, glass and stainless steel if you really want to ensure the best possible produce for your loved ones ?
No problem, I have a playlist with more plastic free options. Also Google plastics in modern agriculture, especially plastic mulch, they use way more plastic than hydroponics. They are working on bioplastic but few use it as of yet.