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This will save you time, energy and money. Instead of watching hundreds of RUclips videos and getting conflicting opinions from several gardeners, you can get all the info you need to start growing with hydroponics the easy, inexpensive way. For the price of a couple of cups of coffee you can save yourself from watching hours upon hours of videos and start growing today. Once you take the course, you can always come back to it for reference. Don't wait!
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Living in the cold Canadian climate, I was so pleased to learn from you this winter. Greens have been outrageously expensive this year. Thanks to you, I have had an ongoing supply of lettuce and bok choi all winter. Your channel is awesome. Thanks again.
Thank you! This makes me extremely happy.
fellow Canuck here - good to see people taking the time to reap a harvest in their own homes, as it's absolutely do-able with consistent care! greetings from MB
Love it!!!!!!!!❤❤❤
@@KeepOnGrowin what are the yellow plugs the roots are growing out of. Did I miss a video?
@@KeepOnGrowin Ok but all of my Herbs are small potted plants in dirt that I bought at Lowe's. I see your are only roots and no dirt at all 🤷. So do I not use any dirt at all in these buckets? Do I have to remove and wash all of the dirt off the roots before I can put them in the holes of the bicket
For other potential places to get cheap buckets I would recommend reaching out to your local bakeries. They go through a ton of 4-5 gallon buckets for frosting and pie filling.
Also, donut shops
Greek restaurants, yoghurt buckets
OK thanks I'll look into that!😊✌️
I get 3-4 gallon buckets from the bakery department of my local grocery store for free. I’ve been using them to collect sap for maple syrup. Looks like I’ve got a new project!
Some Walmart bakeries will sell you their used icing buckets with lids for next to nothing!
Thanks, I will have to check!
im actually surprised Walmart would do that considering they sell buckets in hardware for way more than anyone should pay for a bucket & lid.
I mean i get why they do it and not completely shocked, im just more surprised they dont force them to go into recycling and claim its for safety/legal reasons.. ya know like locking up dumpsters so people cant dive for thrown out food.
@@razoredgechris They just sold me some for $1 this morning!
We have a store bakery here that will give them to you for free.
Its just the workers making a side buck
A gardener's best friend, teaching us to keep it simple, cheap and easy. Thank you.
I tried those containers from the 1.25 store and it got brittle and broke. I hope it works 4 you. I have been doing hydro for 30 years. As a single mother it helped the grochery bills. Now my 20 year old does it. Love your channel. Thanks for the insperation. I'm trying to show my apartment dweler feiends that a padio works too, but now the apartments are revolting on what you can put on your padio. So, I used a beach mat to make the buckets look a bit like "nice planters". Where there is a will theres a way!! Thanks!!
Awesome! Keep up the great work!
Thank YOU for sharing this post...
"YOU GO GIRL"... So Proud of YOU
You could also paint designs on them, if you have the time and inclination
it could be expensive but vinyl could be attached to the buckets to color them.
@@jetah
Or Paint them with Walmart EXTERIOR Latex Paint? Make sure to Clean the Buckets with Vinegar first ...
Or Spray Paint would work... (Expensive)...
Absolute game changer method of growing plants. The option to grow vertically off-grid is absolutely insane.
Was researching vertical garden towers and was freaking out about the $700 and up price tag 😬 (and that's usd) then I stumbled upon your channel. This stuff resonates with me, to reuse, recycle and eliminate waste. I love it. I'm growing seeds using the wet paper towel method and in the meantime collecting all the components I need, for free or at a bargain. Atm I've only paid for the hydroponic nutrient, pool noodle and seeds. Love love loving this, regards from Sydney Australia
Kindred spirits!
Yes! Agree ! Fantastic!
as a fellow sydneysider, super excited to follow this with some good ol' handy pails as every other tutorial i've seen uses PVC piping which is SUPER expensive here right now - we're in this together!!
I'm inspired by what you are doing!!! Just wanted to share a cheaper way to get buckets--I went to bakeries and got there icing buckets with lids for free!!!! I went to price chopper and hyvee--they just throw them away.😊
I'd cut the buckets in half and use the bottom half as you do, then cover with the lid. Index each bucket in the stack so holes are alternating. Doubles food density. Will alter the possible thermal mass of having two-ish instead of four-ish gallons of water.
Do it and show me.
I've heard of this system but just as you've said, the inexperience and learning process has not exactly promoted enough confidence to venture away from soil planting. I want to learn this system and am incouraged by your logic. Your my kind of people Mike, good job. ;-)
I believe what you’re doing is a word changing experience. It’s not rocket science and when we share our experiences we can literally feed the world.
Start by feeding your family and friends and grow from here. I’m sure plenty of supermarkets would buy good produce thus paying for everything that you need. I’m definitely going to start a farm using this system and baring in mind climate change and it’s effects on food availability and costs. It’s a very exciting time for those people who are prepared to do some work or hire someone to help. Good luck everyone 🤞🏼❤
Finally someone who is spreading some good karma without doing so for profit or reward. Thank you! Very informative.
I think what would be good to do is merge the two ideas, do 3 of the firehouse buckets, and then a 4th one with the mesh basket on top! Then you can use all the space while also being able to stack them still. Just started following you recently and can’t wait to start my garden soon, I basically grew up with my grandmas garden and love having gardens ❤️ brings me home
if you have cats you get square buckets with lids when you buy kitty litter
Or the buckets grape juice comes in for wine making,
@Embroiderist the cat litter buckets are probably Not food grade, because it only contains clay kitty litter.😺
This is great! I live in NYC but I love gardening and food is expensive so this gives me loads of options for indoor gardening. Thanks. And gardening should be taught in schools 😂
I live in a very small apartment, and I am trying this method with large foldgers coffee cans. Have three holes in each and I place a grow light over it. I am putting strawberries in one, pepper plants in another and lettuce. I hope it works.
So instead of holes in the lid you put 3 or so on the side just below the lid lip?
The large coffee canisters I assume?
@@TheMartiniDiva Yes, I put three holes in each and stacked two coffee cans. I also used a clamp lamp and put a grow bulb in it and placed it over the cans, It is working out well. I really like using the grow bulbs in regular lamps.
@@mariacastro-xk6jx Hey, how's it going with your system? Is it working?
@@lfpurpose yes it is working out, pepper plants are doing well
I got my dirty little paws on an AeroGarden last year (my in laws bought it, used it for a year then put it in the garage where I liberated it) and I am SOLD on hydro! Seeing you do this makes me wonder what else I can do! I've been a gardner most of my life - started young with the "garden" (it was a small farm is what it was) when we were kids in Texas - and I've been wanting to expand into hydro outside as well so I can grow my greens inside and the flowering plants outside since it gets too warm to be able to grow greens outside.
THIS? This is something I can do without having to deal with huge beds or tilling or trying to figure out how to deal with giant pots! I now have ideas on how to get my maters out from the front yard and into a side yard or on the back porch so I can plant flowers and stuff in the front.
THANK YOU so much, Mike. This was the first video I've seen of yours and you've gained a follower!
The only question I have is how do you keep the water from getting too hot in the summer sun? Tennessee can get SUPER hot and I don't want to boil my plant's roots.
I’m homeschooling my teen and garden the traditional way and have decided to expand on that by trying hydroponic gardening. She loves cooking so this is just another great way for her to learn how to grow some of her own food. Small tip regarding the buckets. Reach out to any small bakeries in your area. They toss them out by the dozen on a weekly basis. Friends of mine own one and were happy to gift my daughter buckets to get started.
7:16 $1.25 store 😆 I say the same thing! I greatly appreciate you sharing these economical hands-off kratky ideas, it helps families like mine to eat healthy but we are verypoor, so this helps tremendously & is very appreciated!
I've started using the Polyethylene Pipe Insulation tubes since I had a half dozen left over from a job around the house. I looked it up and everything I read said it's safe around food. So, I began using them in my Kratky downspouts. I use a pair of scissors to cut 3/4" long pieces of the insulation foam tube made for 1/2" pvc pipe. Cheap and easy, like pool noodles. I prefer using 1" holes in my downspouts as it gives a better seal and less chance for the foam to get knocked out. I use the pool noodles on things that are gonna get large diameter before harvest. Works great on the smallest jars, tupperware, leftover containers, and even the plastic tubs that lettuce and spinach and such comes in from the store (note... must cut the holes daintily! LOL).
Good video! Will check out your others. I am 78 and I can still handle a drill. Was going to invest in a shelving and lights system for growing inside. But this would be good for winter and summer. I have been learning to grow a garden outside for the past few years. Just 10 x 10 but I have been more successful the more I try.
Awesome!! Keep up the great work!!!
I LOVE your Analogy of starting with the easy math before the higher level math! Totally speaks to me! Ive been wanting to plant things for years and this video was actually something i felt i could do.! I am definitely going to do this. Thank you.
I like this. I'm definitely going to try doing this.
As you said at the end of the video, this method makes hydroponics very accessible to starters. like me :)
Awesome! One of the easiest ways to get into hydroponics.
Glad you got away from HomeDepot, Bad mojo there. Firehouse sound like good folks. 😎👍
I still shop there, lol. Whoever has the cheapest prices.
This was an ingenious idea you are super talented. I went to both my local Firehouse subs and bought out other buckets and made myself three towers three buckets high and they perform well and now my grandpa has one that three buckets high and all my friends built three towers three buckets high because of how easy it is you are amazing thank you for teaching me this!!
Cool! Wait till you see the tomatoes!
My wife wanted to know if the pool noodles makeup or chemicals that were used to make the food grown in them safe to eat. I did a hybrid tower using cut down buckets, a wheeled grow base and pump. To make it look like the one you can buy for 1200 cdn. My cost was about 200. I like the simplicity of yours. Please let me know on the pool noodle question. Love your simple and effective methods. Keep up the great work and paying it forward approach
Well, they know these are made for kids and they will put it in their mouths. Also, the pool noodle just holds the plant, It is not a grow medium like rockwool. It's kind of like a plastic nursery pot holding your plant.
I am loving you and these videos. I moved to the desert and my growing has failed. I have seeds sprouting and have so many ideas. I keep telling people if the world go to shift tomorrow you will want to have cottage cheese containers. You can store with them, plant them, easy to cut and more. I bought some strawberries a couple of days ago. Have you seen the big pots they are using? Guess what? One fit perfect on top of a Tide Pod container!!!! There was only 4 left so I grabbed what they were sitting in and it is perfect to have it on top of a container with solutions in it. I don't think I can share picture on RUclips comments or I would show you. I got some coffee mate powder containers from work last year that I was composting in. I would put coffee grounds in them and my scraps and put it on the kitchen floor. I would just kick them around when they needed to be rotated. Now I am going to use the container for a tower garden. I will put two holes on each side and then twist the containers when on top of each others. I am looking into making vine poles out of coco coir or moss for the climbing vegetables. Do you think that will work for melons??? I also saw how you made that grow box. I have a metal shelf and I am going to run aluminum foil down the sides. I wanted to have a lite on my plants during the winter months and know what I bought a trouble light. You know the once with the hooks that people hang on the car hood when they are working on them. They have a metal cage around the light bulb. They are amazing and now they make them to be plugged in with electrical cords. I plan on using magnets to light the bulbs but having issues finding the magnets so using the extension cords at the moment. I use those Christmas Tree light timers to have the lights come on when it gets dark out. Before seeing your videos I saw at Pet Smart a plant that they put in a glass jar with water and put a lid on it. I experimented with that. I have a plant that I cut off and placed inside. It grew a root and new leaf. It is very slow growing but I think if you have a plant sitting in it and growing a root, you can have the ready to plant at any time if needed. I will update you with more ideas as I go along having all this fun. PS you can use any of these ideas to do videos on. I just want to help people grow food and be ready when when things get very stressed or can't afford food.
That's awesome! Lots of great ideas, thanks for sharing. I am sure a lot of people will find it useful. You can always share pics in our Facebook group or the Thinkific community .Let me know if you can't find it and need a link.
This is so genius!! The towers are so expensive and you guys solved it!! Thank you!!
I just started Tik Tok and garden Tok so filled of new gardeners that don't know a thing. Sad really
Thanks for all you do for us!! You’re amazing!!
Thank you!! It's true I would of never considered this method of growing food. If you didn't make it simple to do with less money! I could never understand the ph and all of the technical stuff. It was just too delicate process. With you taking a more simple, less expensive path. Makes it possible and achievable. Thank You many blessings! 🙏 For actually helping us out here to take care of our families and Grow 🪴😁☺️🙏🙏🙏
Thank you and good luck! That's my mission!
@@KeepOnGrowin best of good food for you
Love this idea. Outside of drilling holes, and stacking, what else do you do?
I have started giving away kratky mason jar micro dwarf tomatoes 🍅. People are super excited 😆
That is awesome! You rock!
Great video! I like the sentiment too, it’s not about views, it’s about getting people started! Well said!
Great, economical idea. You are the man. For those who worry about algae and the plastic getting brittle, I just cut up a cheap black plastic rubbish bag to size, and tape it on the outside of my white containers- it does the job cheaply. Thanks for sharing and keep up the awesome work. All the best. God Bless.
Great tip! They also make food grade bucket liners.
I think you can go vertical with large terracotta planters too, however you will some kind of stand but water can seep into the next planter.
Thank you for this information!!! I’ve wanted to try the vertical gardening but it seemed so expensive. You’ve provided a cost friendly solution!!!
Nice to have options! Clever idea, I like this one and also the individual jugs. The jugs allow a complete harvest and replant as needed for continual production. The towers are perfect for outdoors in tight spaces.
Man this is awesome, I can't wait to try it! Here in Hawaii, a lot of the soil is sapped of nutrients from decades of mass monocrop farming, so this is a promising solution to supplement sustainable local agriculture efforts on the islands! Thanks for the great video🤙
Aloha. I am on the Kona side. How has your garden tower done? We just finished an extensive renovation and ready to refocus on growing food. We wanted to try this tower method that Mike created. Can I ask where you got your containers from? Did you run across any issues? Mahalo nui.
Consider maintaining this channel for simple basic techniques and develop a second channel for second level / more advanced methods.
I have been considering that but have about 5 channels right now and my wife has 4.
Think a flyscreen tape would work good too to prevent bugs getting in. Also perhaps a reflective surface on the wall of the side not getting sun...not sure I'm getting a holeozer yet but looks cool
You could drill a 1/4” hole at the level you want your water to stop at and it will run out if overfilled. Much like a GroBucket system is designed. Really cool ideas. I’m going to try some similar this year. Thank you.
So smart!
Love This! Never thought hydro could be so simple! Recommending to everyone! 🤔Think I'll add a spigot to empty the higher ones😃
Awesome! Thank you!
You can go to any dry cleaners or laundry mat and ask for empty 5 gallons buckets of laundry detergent. I got 28 buckets with lids for $56 . $2 per unit with lids tax free. Hope this helps.
Super pumped to try this but also curious how you would use this method with plants that have larger fruit? Would you have to keep all of those on the bottom rows that way there is something for the fruit to rest on?
Yes, that works. Or tie strings and trellis to something taller.
Because of you, I’ve been growing for probably a year now under lights in my pool room and everything‘s been great. Thank you very much.
Awesome Mike, keep up the great work!
I am learning so much from your channel and excited to experiment with it, thank so much. Waiting for my supplies to arrive. The weather still cold here in NY so starting indoor first, hopefully, by spring/summer time I can have some confident to grow plants successfully 🙏🙏. By nature I am a brown thumb person and wasted lots of money 💰😢
We will fix that brown thumb, lol, you will be growing plenty!
The problem with those buckets is that they're food grade, and they break down in the sun, they only last a couple of Years yet the other buckets are construction buckets and lasts. A very long time, that's been my experience. But this method you're using is awesome
Thanks! I got some from WalMart's deli for $1 with the lid. For a $4 tower, I don't worry about how long it will last.
They're both hdpe, how are construction buckets better?
🎉this is awesome!! I appreciate your attitude and teaching philosophy!!! I can’t wait to get started
Wow! Those are cool.
I'm concerned about plastic leaching into the plants though.
A vertical system with wood &/or galvanized metal would be great & most likely esthetically pleasing....and much more difficult. 😎🤠
Make it a great day!
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Oh, I just found your channel; I grow a lot of things but never tried this. With everything going on in the world, We would rather grow everything we can, than buy at a store.
55 gal plastic barrel for vertical.alot more real estate, space permitting.
I love it, great idea! The only thing I would be scared of is that it falls over during heavy winds, especially when the buckets are getting lighter over time. Some setup with a float valve could maybe prevent it because then the buckets can be kept full and heavy. But maybe a wind protected area also works.
Thanks for sharing those great ideas!
The idea is to not let it get low. I think I explained that.
Thanks so much for this video. I can't believe how well this worked with some buttercrunch lettuce starts I got at the store. I think for my version 2.0 buckets I'm going to use a 1-1/4" hole to do easy transfers from my AeroGarden. I bought easily removable lids because I like to view the root growth and it's an easy refill method (I know I probably shouldn't for light/algae reasons, but I can't help it). I need to figure out an easy way to detach/reattach the handle so I have an easy way to lift the bucket occasionally, but it not be in the way of the plants when not in use.
Thanks much Jason! I appreciate it. I actually prop my handle up a little with a 4" to 6" piece of pool noodle . It holds it above the plants and is still in place if I need it. Works well so far, lol.
@@blessisrael6455 I keep it simple. I transfer them as soon as they have a decent root system that will reach the nutrients. I don't adjust the nutrients at any point.
Some Publix grocery stores will give you their icing buckets free. Lovely of them.
Would it not make sense for the holes to be lower on the buckets? If you have to top them off anyway, and they are never getting close to the bottom, why does the water level need to be so high?
I'm not sure what the proper answer would be, but to me, those stacked buckets need the weight of the extra fluid. For a tower to be stacked three high, they need extra weight inside the buckets to offset the height and weight of growing vegetation, don't you think? Of course, I guess you could place a brick inside or partially fill with rock or gravel but I'm not sure what that would do for the nutrients that are added.
I guess I'm more invested than I was from just trying to figure out which veggies I'd plant in these babies once I got my set-up completed. I'm excited to see what his answer will be, although I feel like I'd want my holes drilled up higher as his a r e.
Yes, Wanda is correct. The volume of water adds stability. You also want more mass in water, it takes longer to heat up and more time in between refills.
On the supposed algae problem: I too have not had troubles with opaque containers. There is some algae, but it's not an obnoxious amount. And it doesn't seem to harm the overall growth of the plant.
I suppose if you were to use a clear container, then the algae might grow too fast and create a problem. Otherwise, it's just not that big of a deal when growing greens.
I prefer a darker or solid color to blockout nearly all the sunlight. But truth be told, that's not always easy to get with salvaging containers from food stuffs, friends, etc. And I prefer to do this hobby CHEAPLY, but without having my outside hydroponics look like a trash dump either. Spray paint is nearly 8 dollars a can and it doesn't go that far. I'm just not going to worry about the small amount of algae in opaque containers when it doesn't significantly impede the greens growing.
Right on, I agree. My wife is going to paint a few for those that are interested but most of mine will stay the same. I have a lot of the foil bubble wrap insulation, I might put it on but don't know if I will blind the neighbors, lol.
@@KeepOnGrowin ive used aluminum foil. It's not pretty, but it works and its cheap. Ty
Matchstick blinds with the wide edge dowd so it wraps. The home Depot cut the one I got there so I could wrap the balcony railing to block sun and protect the plants
Just found you and am loving the content!! You teach perfectly!!
Thank you very much and welcome!
I have to thank you. I really needed to hear some of what you've shared in videos this morning, spiritually. I'm so glad I found your video's again. I have been trying to teach myself (container) gardening in south TX. I've had some success, but don't have the time required or $ to waste. I'm determined to try this. I just have to find nutrients that aren't hundreds per month! I've been fighting fear w/ all the things going on in the world & your words lifted stress in a way that I truly needed somehow..again thank you. Be well.
So.... i did tomatoes first. 🍅 i couldn't help it. I had tomato plants. 1 per 5 gallon bucket. 12g 12 g 6g. Any advice???? On kratky method. No shade in my yard
Keep the nutrient constant, don't let it go up and down a lot. Watch the heat.
If you buy fish that eats alga you won’t have a problem. My daughter like buying small fish & watching them grow. We started at 3 inches; it was 6 inches.
Appreciate you! Who cares about what the critics say. If they don't like it they don't have to watch the channel. Keep upthe great work.
Question Mike, how long do the seedling roots have to be to reach the liquid when sideways? They do have to touch the nutrients, right?
Yes, they do have to touch the water.
Now I know what to do with my kitty litter pails.
Awesome!! They "say" that 2023 is going to be "The Year of the Garden"!!
I have an indoor tomato. I clipped some branches off and have rooted them in water. Do you have experience with this. What are my options with those rooted branches? How to feed if I keep them in water? I have been using Kelp, fish emulsion, bioplasma homeopathic.
Talk to a local bar/restaurant that sells burgers. A lot of time they get pickles in 5 gallon buckets and most of the time they just throw them out. I’m getting them for free from right now!
Nice!!
Everytime I watch your videos I'm inspired. Still 5ft of snow up here, but downspouts I bought from you are wonderful til we can grow volume outside. Can't wait to try out this bucket system. Thank you💖
Thank you! You have been around a while. I am glad I could help.
I've been looking int9 this for some time as I live on a 3rd floor in a smallish apartment, I will source some buckets n try this thanks!😁✌️
I really want to commercialize my farming with this set-up! Omo! This update mad me makachi!🤝
I think if you were to take all the thrown out deli buckets and repurpose them to make these and ship them to hungry homes and countries you could end world hunger! Smart man!
Hydroponic system seemed expensive with all the equipment and all. You showed us it's not the case. Thank you. ❤
You are the MAN! next add wifi?
Best setup for poor mans hydroponics
NEW to your videos... Very Impressed...
Thank you so much for sharing all your great knowledge...
Thank you and welcome!
how come you choose the keep each buck separate and you didnt use the the system with the drilled holes on the lids where the water pump feeds thru the top ? im curious if there was something wrong with that method
This is much easier, no pump. I like easy
So i bought 10 black placematts from the dollartree right? Well today Ive decided to install them with zip ties across the top. Ill post a video later on. Just poke a few holes through the brim of the bucket and placematt, and Bob's your uncle.
What are you using beside water to provide nutrients to the plant
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This is so awesome. I’ve seen so many with pvc pipe but it’s so complicated. This is great
You inspire and create an online experience where you wanna learn more and try. Thats my experience since finding your channel today. Gotta feeling you gonna change our families self sufficiency world. Thank you for inspiring us 😃 😊 even us over the other side of the pond 🇬🇧
Just a update>>> This system is awesome for me and my temporary living arrangement. I have 3 5gal, and 2 3.5 gal. I was able to get a early start here in Alaska. I have them set in a window with afternoon sunlight, on a waist-high dresser. I bought a air pump with 4 ports because of the visit to a hydroponic store for the grow mix. Over paid them, but i also got a ppm meter and a Ph kit. I am learning. The plants love this! Unfortunately my cat does too. If these end up outside I will be worrying about moose. This was such a God-lead mission I can not say thank you enough!
That's awesome! Things like this make me happy. Keep it up and have fun.
Ok, you’re literally talking directly to me right now. I just did a search on this idea cause it’s always something I wanted to try. Yep, I wanna grow tomatoes but I don’t want another tried out and failed hobby so I hear what you’re telling me. FOLLOW THE STEPS. I get it, I need to learn first. I’m going to check out this course you mentioned. Im willing to try the slower but learned path.
I think my hesitancy to try has been because I don’t believe I can and when I fail, I won’t want to do it anymore.
I’m moving in a few weeks to an active volcano and you really cannot garden in-ground there. Even raised beds are hard for most plants that didn’t evolve in that environment or aren’t pioneer plants. The ecosystem is still in its infancy (only 700,000 years old and still growing). I’m hoping vertical will be successful. Precipitation average is 17 days a month, every month, and high is 70+ and low is 50+ (+/- 5 degrees winter to summer). 4000 feet elevation. Lots of sulfur in the air. 1.4 miles from an open pit of lava.
Think vertical growing will be a thing I can do?
Update: on lesson one and you mention this Kratky method and it’s from UH.
How cool that I found this video and course. I’m a biology teacher on Maui moving to Kilauea on the Big Island in 3 weeks to teach over there and I just happened to find this video which lead to the course. 😊 I’m excited to learn this method!
Awesome! You really get it! Take your time, have fun and learn along the way. Vertical gardening is a great way to go!
@@paigeherrin29 That's serendipity right there! I love hearing about Hawaii, my mom was born on the Big Island.
Hello, hello 👋🏽👋🏽 first time here it's 9/10/23 I am so very excited over what ur doing here. I've been trying to find yr Solution or Mixture that You've been Speaking about. I'm a elderly senior. Live in an apartment don't have grown space to grow nothing! 😢 I have done a little something in the past. I do have 3 buckets from home Depot that I collect rain water in. Right now! Only using it for plants. Once a month very small income. & growing my own Veggies would be a Greatttttt!!!! Help. May' GOD bless 🙏🏽 u for sharing. Please!!!! Help me find the Mixture that ur using.Question ❓ are home depot buckets safe??.
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@@KeepOnGrowin thk u. Can u tell me IF' Home Depot buckets are safe for Planting in??
@@donnaleonard276 That is a personal choice.
Very inspiring. I have a backyard raised bed garden. I don't have anymore space, so this is ideal. Thank you
thanks for this, been wanting to do hydroponics
I went and bought WHITE 5-Gallon Buckets today...
Now I have the White and Blue... all I need now is the RED...
Nice!!!
It has been two weeks since I could find any. I think everyone is racing me to them and I have 4 Firehouse Subs in the vicinity, lol. Keep me updated on the grow!
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Harbor Freight has Red ones... I'm going there next.
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I think I told you...
I am in the process of moving back to Albuquerque, New Mexico... so I thought since I'm only 5' 4" tall and weight 128 lbs... I could use these 5 gal buckets to pack stuff in, and I can pick that up... and then use them for gardening after I have moved...
"TA-DA"
Making children's chairs out of these are really cute too...
Found you a couple months ago. Just started my own tower this last weekend and everything is so happy and growing upwards. Thank you so much for sharing your information. I know I'm new to it but my daughter in her early 20's is wanting to learn how to grow her own food too. I picked this video to post on because this was the one I found you in. Can't wait to show you some of my results as days come. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much.
Awesome Dave! Can't wait to see!
I've been experimentering with different nutritional solutions. I've had basically no luck whatsoever with the store bought specifically meant for hydroponic growing but, last year I took a LARGISH fish tank, bought about 20 fish, type mostly "goldfish" that "poop" a lot. Rigged up a fish tank water pump that took water from the fish tank, up to the top growing rain gutter like strukturs that held the plants.
I didn't put the tube with the water from the fish tank near the bottom of the rain gutters but, about half way up the side of each gutter, since I didn't want the gutters/plants to ever be without water, if for whatever reason the pump would stop working, power go out etc. Connected the gutter with plants with a hose to the first top one and gravity made the water flow down through the gutter/plants below and so on until I reached the fish tank again and the water went back into the tank.
I also put a few "floating" small plants on the surface of the fish tank and the fish loved swimming through the long roots and ate all the "nutrients" from whatever was in the water that rotated through the system. I realized soon that I really didn't have to feed fish food that much to the fish in the tank but, still did since I figured that whatever they didn't eat, would go through the plants in the gutters and provide extra nutrients to them.
It worked better than I had ever dreamed of. Will be doing the same this year too, with an added system. I had NO filter in the fish tank to remove dirt/poop/impurities, as those somehow disappeared when having gone through the "filter" of the roots of the plants.
Ingenious! good for you! thx for the share~
I have been doing small hydroponic units indoors since last fall. Having fresh greens and herbs on hand all the time has been lovely. Seeing this video, I am now excited that I can set something up on the patio this summer. *puts pool noodles on the shopping list*
That is awesome!
I started going to Jimmy John's for lunch on occasion, and they just give their pickle buckets away. There's not always one there, but I've gotten about 6-7 of them over a few months going twice a week.
Awesome! Thanks!!!
Also, do you think you can put a whole in the lid with a straw that will float and let you know when the water is low? I have been wanting to experiment with this. I would think the straw would float. So if you had the container at the correct level of water, cut the straw off at an inch above, when the straw was down to the lid you would know you needed water. Please let me know if you give this a try anyone.
It is best to maintain the level. I am not a fan of letting it get "low".
I work at a cupcake shop in Lake Mary, Florida. We give buttercream buckets with lids away. We are happy to give them to anyone who needs them. Maybe other bakeries would do the same. I work at Smallcakes Lake Mary.
That is soooo awesome of you guys!
Love your attitude !! You definitely encourage and inspire newbies. Thanks ☀️
Good morning, Mike Don here . I'm finally getting this thing to work ! ! I'm having trouble with light's highth on Microgreens light to high . How high should lights be? I have 3 20 watt LED 6500k IN 2 FT by 4 ft poor grow or no grow . I also have 2000W man did my greens grow dokon radish one tray.
I can get free, food grade plastic buckets from any bakery or deli around town. I can't imagine buying them.
Your local grocery stores would give icing buckets for free. Can't believe Walmart would charge. I'm a grocery store manager we just throw them away.
Love what you do. How often do you have to refill buckets? I’m in Titusville, FL and want to start growing food in my yard, but worried about when I’m out of town. Thank You!
When the plants first start, like the bottom white bucket, over a month. As they get towards maturity, every few days depending on size.
Good day! Should we be concerned about the type of plastic used for hydroponics? Should we buy food grade plastics?
Everyone needs to make their own decision on that.
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@@KeepOnGrowin Thank you for this.
I live in Lakeland Florida, and my backyard gets full sunshine. What's a good time of year to start this project
I’m new to your channel and would love to learn how to start with what you do. Do you have a playlist for complete newbies? Updated: … I just now heard your course mentioned. 😊