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Home Hydroponic Farm: Hundreds of Pounds of Produce in 10 Sq Ft!
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- Опубликовано: 17 июл 2020
- We've created a FREE tutorial for building an indoor home hydroponic system similar to what we have in the video. Find it on our site at www.simplegree...
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A full tour of the hydroponic systems we use to grow lettuce, herbs, strawberries and other produce right in our home! This method is simple, low-cost and takes very little space - something anyone can do! These systems are built using items that can be easily purchased online and requires only basic tools and DIY skills.
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Since we've received quite a few questions on how to build and run this system, we created a FREE build guide on our website. Enjoy!
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I've loved this vid for years & wanted to do this build the whole time but never actually have
I've linked it to so many people too
I just finally went to start everything today & saw your guide too, which is awesome
But the item you use as the main piece, the fence sleeve thing.. gosh that is so hard to find in Australia, there isn't really much like it
If you can buy those items in bulk cheap you could probably just get your own shop set up to sell everything needed in kits, tbh I probably would just do that if the price is reasonable with shipping considered
Everything costs so much in Australia because of shipping
but I had a good look for a few hours today to try find something similar & I can't. I will likely just buy from the US but it's something like $130 for me if I do that
Are there any other good alternatives you can think of? I was hoping to stick to the 4x4x50 sizing since you have the spacing marked out in the guide for me to follow with ease
I have been considering doing hydroponics for a couple of years and this set up is perfect, exactly what I was looking for.
You could start with a basic Kratky system grown in a cup. No need for expensive equipment. The principles stay the same and it’s a stepping stone.
6:03 time stamp is when he talked about the system.
God among men. Thank you
omg thank you
Mark BSB is a true hero
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For adding nutrients, see "dosing pump". We use them a lot in aquariums to add nutrients. It should work fine in a system like this to deliver a prescribed dose of nutrient on a fixed schedule.
@Family van Rensburg power of a dosing pump doesn't really matter. It's just a rotating wheel that works a peristaltic pump to push liquid through a tube.
This video is oddly comforting
Nawl bra. This needs to be tome stamped. My Gooooood he talks so long and slow. Answers please we have lives to live. Do all that extra talking after you give relevant information. Explain the system then have fun
@@SevenFromTheSins watch on 1.75 speed and quityergriping
Dude was triggered lol
Is all the green.
Lol
You really changed alot for me and my friends, we learned alot how to make a difference with very little effort and alot of fun. Thx!
I'm just so amazed by the fact the plants can get so luscious in with such small roots 😍
Roots develope larger in nutrient poor soil
Actually, I have grown many plants, for decades, including cannabis in hydroponics stems, and the roots get very long, I have to cut most of the roots off to transplant them to coco-coir. I have had four-inch clones with 16-inch roots. It depends on genetics and nutrients.
Great video and nice setup! That is a respectable yield from 10sqft! I’ve setup many systems very similar to yours and have been running numerous botanical and agricultural experiments for the last few years. I chuckled at the creative use of hair curlers...that is definitely the first time I have seen that lol. For a cost effective replacement of the curlers you can use either neoprene foam or a 2mil+ thick outdoor trash bag (thin black trash bags won’t block enough light, must be thick outdoor bags) cut into little squares, one bag easily creates several dozen little squares. Another thing I learned is that some plants simply do not grow well with others (mint, pepper, strawberries). The primary reason for this is the nutrient consumption and nutrient dependencies. Different plants will swing the PH wildly during morning and night and consume different nutrients at various rates, causing an unbalance. Frequent nutrient solution changes would assist in this scenario or alternatively low nutrient dosing. If you really want to boost your growth rate and yield add some Rhizoblast (or any chlorella algae product) starting from seedling in half the recommended dose, but be warned, this will greatly increase root density as well. Can’t wait to see the future yields, subscribed!
Anyone have a parts list for this setup. I like fact that the width isn't very wide and could work in the kitchen area well.
I have consulted some information with a friend of mine and we concluded that it may would be a good idea to connect those PVC tubes in parallel as well, including a valve on each one, so you could periodically close the valve and disconnect that PVC tube, if necessary.
Can’t thank you enough for sharing this, it’s enlightening and inspiring!! Your web site is very helpful, too!
here is an idea that may have been posted already but I am not reading through 200 comments.
to take up the space in your 2" cups cut up a heavy duty black garbage bag into 4" X 4" pieces with a hole in the centre big enough for you to squeeze the seed plugs into. (like a square donut with a round hole in the middle)
this will act like un umbrella to cut off the light getting into your tubes causing algae blooms in your tubes and on your roots & also stopping extra evaporation from escaping.
hope you find this useful !
these can also be used over and over again & they would be very easy to clean. hair curlers are not a food safe alternative.
If you force some heavy duty garbage into the hole it's gonna rock. Just shake it about, non-stop. You'll thank me later.
or just tape the exposed edges from inside... then add the rock wool with the seedling. seems that should work as well
Awesome system. I have been successful with the Kratky system with greens. The full spectrum adjustable led lights, a basic nutrient solution, and a little basic RUclipsr knowledge and everyone can do this. What is becoming very expensive to buy at the grocery store can be offset with a compact space system. Just started experimenting with peppers with an air stone and a larger nutrient container and I had a few small peppers. Your system is the next step up. Happy green plants, you definitely got things right.
At 2 min 30 seconds you talk about the kale spreading out too much. However if you would harvest leaves consistently there would only be 4 to 6 leaves at the top and it would be less horizontal and more vertical. Hope that helps.
Thank you. Excellent, excellent presentation (minus the little dual sound problem).
I caught that to. I thought i had another tab open.
Yeah sorry about that... we made a mistake with our editing program.
Thank you for this video. I just set up a system and your video is extremely encouraging. I appreciate all of your information. Nothing like growing food for your family. Can’t wait to watch your other videos!
When I was doing hydroponics outdoors, I had a lot of algae growth too and i found out that grapeseed extract would bust the algae but not harm my other plants. It was a powder supplement i got from a fitness store
Great attitude and beautiful plants. Thanks for the encouragement. Your plants look great!!!
The hair curler killed me😂. I was like is that what I think it is??? Yes, it is
I have an old but simple solution for changing the water level inside of the rails, just think of putting a brick inside of a toilet tank to raise the water level. Raise the level by filling a pvc pipe with sad, capping both ends and then installing in the main 4" pipe. The amount of rise in the water should be adjustable, the longer and heavier the pipe, the more the water level is raised.
The idea sounds neat for a fill and drain set up but a single small pump in your water reservoir should be efficient enough to move the water throughout the pipes.
That was an excellent overview! And amazing quality on the produce. I'm about to start this with a Kratky system next week. This was great to watch. Thanks for sharing!
This is exciting. I’m in the process of setting up an aquaponics system with about 100 sq feet of space for plants built over a koi and tilapia pond. I’m building my system in the Andes Mountains directly on the equator at 2400 meters elevation, so a perpetual springlike climate where both cool weather plants like lettuce and chard thrive, but sub-tropical plants like avocados, custard apples, and citrus also thrive. My plan is to half cover the pond with a greenhouse, growing peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, etc… inside the greenhouse and lettuce, broccoli, fava beens, etc… in the exposed area.
This is exactly what I'm trying to have (provide constant supply of greens to my family) in our small space (and other challenges, mainly the heat because of our tropical climate)... But I'm using Kratky. Got inspired more because of your video
Skip the Kratky and just go straight to DWC. Air pumps use insignificant power for significant increase in yield.
Kratky has its place, off-grid or far removed from a power source.
@@kaydog890 Kratky method has more benefits than just less power -- simplicity is more accessible to many people than DWC is.
@@AyNay246 Yep this! Kratky got me started cause all it was a tote with a hole in it with some water, Hydronics mix, some clay pebbles and a net pot. That cost me like £30 in the end and I got the best cucumbers ever! It would have cost me more to have gotten a big pot and the soil to fill it and I probably would have had a worse yield too. This year I'm gonna try the same setup but with the addition of an air pump. I'm lucky that my patio is behind my garage so I can just run an air tube out the garage to the patio super easy.
Kratky is perfect for lettuce/leafy greens. DWC for flowering/fruiting plants.
@@hokie0072 gonna grow my daffodils in DWC now >:)
Great Job!!!! Just subscribed... You should be proud of yourself, you just gave a family food independence!
What an amazing setup!! Thank you for sharing!
Great job 👏 👍 👌
You've given me confidence to try to do this 💯💯💯
Thank you for sharing with the world ❤️🙏
Nice website, checked it out. Making my list to see if i have enough funds to build it. Good thing is i already have some LED lights.
They need to be grow lights, not regular lights
@@EvertGuzman I want
This is amazing! I have a 60-pod and 9-pod system but would love to eventually get your level. Good job!
The sound of your voice has a pallet of the fact on my frazzle nerves. The information is clear concise and red in an Oso something I’ve never seen before perhaps the American English I go out with?
LoL I find it funny how most gardeners on RUclips don't understand sq/ft. They will have a 5x5 garden and say it's 5sq/ft....but really it's 25sq/ft. It's nice to see you actually understand basic math haha. Though in total you have 20sq/ft...
20 square feet of growing space, but in terms of floor space used in his home, it's 10 square feet.
In Oz (metric) we’d say “5 meters square” as in to square but speaking about houses for instance the terminology would be be used correctly and 5msq would sound foolish. Either way, your being harsh mate.
@@mbl209 area is in square, by growing space, you might mean, volume, which is in cubic feet not square feet 🤣
you think you're a genius but you're not 😂
Lol enjoy the video , over smart mathematics professor
No dig gardner here; you hydroponics folks are MONSTERS! Joking aside, impressive setup. Looks good
Congratulations! This is something many people wish for but simply keep dreaming.
Great setup and yield!
I had an issue with pests, so everyone should please be careful bringing in plants grown somewhere else, like a store bought plant to store on your micro green shelf.
I’ve brought in a basil plant that ended up spreading aphids everywhere else… I had to start over :-(
Love your system!
Yes! I've had the same problem in the past, great tip.
Spray soap and water and something else cant remember
This is the best set up for my house
This is the first video I watch on hydroponic farming, I can’t wait to set one up in the future !!
A strong dose of ozone(O³) has residual effects in irrigation water and in hydroponics. Studies have shown that ozone significantly reduces pathogens in these systems. Ozone breaks down into oxygen creating increased root-zone oxygen content and improved plant growth.
I'm really digging this set up. Great stuff!
All you need is a kiddie pool and some foam board. Cut the board to fit the surface area cut holes for the cups and install a circulation pump. way cheaper and a large amount of grow room. Can also be done with totes or any other water proof container.
Good idea
I agree with how prolific lettuce is in hydroponic systems.
I have an aerogarden and even in that small space, I have a hydroponic butter lettuce that I bought a few months ago, and I'm able to just tear the leaves off as I need them, and they grow back as quickly, if not quicker, than I need them.
I love your system, though.
I might have to upgrade
With strawberries you may want to have them in their own system. They like a 19-19-19 NPK which is a bit strong for lettuces and the like
THIS ...is an AweSome setup
You have a beautiful set up I think. And the hair curler idea is brilliant. I literally have like a hundred of those things I don’t use at all and your creativity with them blew my mind lol
Someone else in the replies also suggested the use of slices of pool noodle, which I thought was brilliant :D
I really think hydroponics is the future of all farming
This is GREAT! I bought a butter lettuce a few years back and didn't plant it in the ground but it had seeds that flew around my yard and a few years in a row especially in the winter I would pull up a bunch, and take it inside and have a salad. I don't see them this time. I'll keep looking. It's kind of weird of how it did that though.
That's very normal! Small seeds get blown in the wind. You probably havent seen any more because you pulled them all up before they went to seed again
Just a small suggest for your video editing but at about 9:40 into your video when you start talking over yourself most video editing programs will allowed you to mute or turn down the background volume and then you can speak and add new audio overtop of it without them being at the same volume because it makes it very difficult to understand anything other than that great video and great hydroponics system thanks for sharing your work.🙂👍✌️
Love how you specify what types of lettuce you are growing….
Thanks for sharing. Kind of gives me a thumbs up for my ebb and flow system in the round pipe system. I guess hydroponics is up to the farmer how they want to set up.
Great job guy .... you are marvelous with that hydroponic mini garden ... 100 thumbs up bro !
I see folks commenting that there isn't instruction on building the support structure. Has that been incorporated into the training yet? Should sell the entire kit frankly. I'd buy it!!!
There's lots of different methods to give support to the system (custom built shelves, wire racks, old tables, etc) so at this point I haven't included a tutorial for this support structure.
Use a 2 inch strip of polyester fiber. Very inexpensive and easy to get. Roll up the seed or small plant root in the fiber like a jelly roll and put it in the 2 inch cup. Snug fit and now NO algae problem. Roots grow through the fiber and out the cup. Fiber holds enough water for germination and growing the small plant as roots develop and grow.
pretty good system ever tried aquaponics with it? then you could breed/grow fish, cut the nutrients cost to 0, be able to expand as big as you wanted, could run it indoors or setup the system in your back yard/greenhouse
That is so amazing if you literally bought the parts for that and stockpiled them up in your garage you could sell that that is just an amazing design if you could just fit all that into a plastic tub and ship it to someone's dore
Consider the health benefits from eating more greens as well as the savings in health care costs, trips to the doctor, cost of medications, etc.
Very nicely explained. You made it sound very practical and realistic. I might give it a go. Will check out the tutorial as well. Thanks for taking the time.
That's a really cool system. Very inspirational.
Pool noodles, my friend. Just cut them in 1 inch rounds and cut a little chunk out to put in the middle to hold the seedlings. Minimal light getting through and it's a lot cheaper. 2 noodles would probably full both of your trays
Nice set up
Спасибо мужик это выглядит интересно и просто :) Надо попробовать сделать нечто подобное!
Dude, I watched about 50 videos yesterday on this topic and most of them sucked. Yours is the best I have seen so far. I would give you multiple likes if it were possible. How far apart do you recommend for large lettuce? Thanks for taking the time to make this video.
Thanks! 8" is the spacing I use for mature lettuce.
I built this system exactly as directed here, right down to the seeds (cause I wanted someone else to blame if it didn't work). It works great. Haven't bought lettuce since the first head matured. Now it's time to clean the whole system, but that means I have to remove every plant in every stage of development so I can break the system down. Any tips on this? All I can think of is to build another pair of rails to "transplant" to.
Your doing good work son. Keep up the good work.
try led lights ,that are salt water fish tanks. the ones to grow coral. the copy the different sun rays from different parts of the day.even dark for night
Im not a lettuce person I just grow peppers but damn if this isnt some nice looking lettuce. This guy has his Nutrient and system dialed in 110%
Awesome video! I'm thinking about doing this this weekend
This is pretty neat. We started an outdoor square foot garden but I might need to do one of these
The green sets off an atmosphere.
I think I might give something like this a go next year. I grew some cucumbers in a 100l tote that looks suspiciously like yours using the Kratky method outside and they were great. I'm adding in an air pump and airstones this year to try and to try and improve the yield even more. I'm thinking of another 100l tote to act as a reservoir and then build a frame like yours on top of it. Maybe I'll pop the tote on a board with wheels so I can wheel it out for maintenance but still have a small footprint. I could probably hide it behind some sort of wooden cover to help make it prettier too.
You appear to be doing really well with the system you have.
your plants look super healthy
I like the trippy double voices at 9:30
We just finished building our system based upon the specs given on the website and are very happy with the result. Question: Does anyone else's system sound like a long, continual drag on a water bong? (sorry, there is no better way to describe it.) There's no air being pumped in with the water, it's seems to be the flow between the inlet and the exchanges between each rail that is causing the sound.
Unrelated to the sound issue, the only deviation we made in the design was to use a heavy duty metal rack from Sam's Club. We chose that because it was easier than building something, and with lumber prices right now it was cost effective ($90 for a 4 foot wide, 2 foot deep, 72" tall rack), and it has wheels so easy to move around for maintenance. The metal shelves were super easy to attach the lights to as well.
Awesome..very nice..thanks for sharing..I grow electric lettuce..dwc for a few years now..but the price and availability of certain vegetables growing lettuce and other things ..(think the strawberries is grreat idea)..is becoming more and more desirable..thanks for sharing.
Fill the netting pot gaps with coconut shell crumbles.
Fantastic job. Good looking produce.
I am in awwww. I have no idea how to do this but you make me want to try :)
I've built a couple NFT rail systems that have a thin film of nutrient running down the rails. Unfortunately, a 2" netpot will not reach to the bottom of the rail and you either have to have substantial root growth already from a seedling in a netpot or put rockwool directly in to the rail to sit on the bottom in the flow. I like using netpots so that plants are easier to move from one system to another. This hydroponic rail setup, which is deep-water culture and not NFT but in the same form factor looks like it would be the perfect system to get seedlings started and get going for those first couple of weeks. Like you explain at the 12:00 mark, the reason would be that you can drill the drain bulkheads at any level on the side of the fence rail that you want the water level in the rail to stay at. I don't think you could have the water level in one rail higher or lower than the other, that'll take some thought.
eazy grow system for tomatoes looks gorgeous as well. On Kirsten Driksen show. noice.
It looks beautiful, they're so green.. Never knew plants can grow even without sunlight.
There are even some plants that can grow on complete darkness.
They get light from grow lights
@@mechanicallydev4536 - I think you'll find that those are called "mushrooms"...but they aren't even a plant.
Science can't actually figure out wtf they are, lol! They're unique unto themselves!
Great work. What are the dimentions of your system? How many stories? What is the gap between the shelves?
This is outstanding!
This is very sharp and very inspiring thank you
super nice greens there, and is it easy and can you grow them in high rise apartments using LED lights
Brilliant setup!
Make some pesto with your basil. How exciting. Nice set-up and video!
Hello, Simple Green Hydroponics! It's very nice from your side to share knowledge with the rest. I could advice you to create parallel small water loops for each nutrition ingredient plus one more for a filtering system. It may sound difficult, but please trust me, if you achieve to create it well, then you will be able to automatize the whole system, in order to make it more efficient.
Nice setup, thanks for sharing it!
could this be competitive with traditional agriculture?
Really great to see such a small and efficient system. Will check the site for your build. THANK YOU
Small yes but not very efficient with lights,pumps,fans,nutrients... the energy cost alone is $30+ lights only. Fans running 24/7 another 5-10$ a month, pumps running 24/7 another 10-15$ a month. You're looking at almost $60 a month to grow some herbs not to forget you still have to drop the initial $150+ just to get the set up.
Best of luck to ya.
@@oldGoatMilk I am not in the USA, also not gonna need lights and fans on my balcony, and the pump is negligible. It is a very efficient use of space though and green fresh food no chemicals all year round? Kids without pesticides? 60$ is not a lot. Prana is the life force of the world, every living thing has it. The closer to harvest you eat anything the more life force you imbibe from it. I am thinking 20 min from cutting a head of lettuce to salad in your mouth? Unbeatable!
@@ArunRaoINDIA I dont think plants can absorb your ""prana"". Im not sure if you're joking with me or what but plants photosynthesize to absorb energy.
@@oldGoatMilk you misunderstand. ITs you absorbing 'prana' from what you eat. that is why fresh food is so important. Frozen food is really bad for you. The fresher the better. Read about prana in texts on yoga. That may give you a better understanding of what I mean. I studied at the University of Yoga in India and learned there.
@@oldGoatMilk Your math is a bit off unless you have extremely high electric costs. Mine is $0.10 per kWh in US. I'm running a 8 rail system currently with about 70 plant sites. Two pumps. Each using 25W. Four LED lights using 19W each. The air pump using 6W. The lights run 12 hours per day. The air pump and water pumps run 24 hours. Now the math:
Air pump: 6W * 24(hours) = 144/1000 = 0.144 kWh * $0.10 = $0.0144 * 30 (days) = $0.432
Lights: 19W *4 = 76W * 12 (hours) = 912/1000 = 0.912kWh * $0.10 = $0.0912 * 30 (days) = $2.736
Water pumps: 25W * 2 = 50W * 24 (hours) = 1,200/1000 = 1.2kWh * $0.10 = $0.12 * 30 (days)= $3.6
$0.432 + $2.736 + $3.6 = $6.768 USD a month. Or roughly $81.21 USD per year.
I struggle to see how you arrived at $60.00 a month. Of course I'm using highly efficient LED lights with targeted light output. But even then, the lights would be about double with fluorescents. The clip on fans being a negligible add on at around 14W. There is entire farms who use this method in green houses with lights and they obviously profit. If it wasn't viable they wouldn't be doing it year after year. There's pros and cons to everything. The con being it's expensive to start up. But there's lots of benefits, such as little to no crop losses, little to no pests, ect.
I am currently growing using DFT Method, but I should give it a try. Thanks.
Merry Christmas
Strawberry need more space. Separate them from lettuce and kale just give them more space and light, and they will be happy and produce more. Excellent work :)
Very nice system and well thought out. I have been growing Kratky Method for the past 7 years and we do get quite a harvest. Your plants look happy and healthy. Recently I made a vertical hydroponic garden. In that, I tried strawberries and it just simply wasn't worth the time. I also grew spinach in the same system and that did well until it bolted. I think letuce will grow best in the vertical system and won't clog things up because they have a small root system. I mostly grow Portuguese Kale, Swiss Chard, and Collard Greens; but it does take up a lot of root space and air space, but the greens are exceptional. I have been using my spent nutrients in my yard and the plants seem to love it.
Love the video, a lot of great information! A little constructive criticism, take some B roll footage and splice it in on top of your commentary, so that the voice doesn’t overlap(happens twice). Keep up the good work, definitely subscribing.
Thanks! Yeah that was an awkward editing glitch, I've gotten a little better at editing since I made this video :)
This video made me hungry! lol looks amazing. I want to grow a salad garden
Great video!
Fantastic system, with only one drawback: the toxic PVC piping and lead-laden tubing. If you can switch to food-grade materials that don’t leach carcinogens via UV light exposure, you’ll have the ultimate hydro setup for small spaces.
thanx for the info. your video was encouraging.
I forgot to give you another idea. Have you tried to move the air vertically, instead of horizontally?
How do you grow different produce in one system? Don't they have different nutrient requirements?
Yes, and you may get slightly better results for a specific plant if you had a separate system for each, but our goal is to keep it simple and we've found a lot of different plants seem to grow well with a good nutrient mixture.
Wonderful work! Thanks for sharing
Amazing video. Thank you so much!