I just set up a few new containers in a twist of this system and planted onion, carrot, turnips, and leeks. In spring the turnips and radishes did amazing! Thanks for keeping these videos about it going!
I absolutely love this idea, and I am going to show my husband first thing in the morning and get him to watch a couple of your videos. I think I have seen this method before on one or two of Larry Hall's videos before he passed away a couple of years ago and I think this method would work really well for us. Last year I bought a bunch of grow bags and had some problems with nutrients being washed out from all the rain we sometimes get. So this year I decided to use a watering from beneath method that I saw on a channel called Grow Abundance that is self-fed from a 50-gal bin which I am hoping to capture rainwater into. I am really getting excited about this growing season with all of these wonderful ideas that I am going to be trying. Thank you so very much for all you teach us about your methods, I am really learning quite a bit from you. Many Blessings to you always and many thanks for all you do.
it's been a year since you released this video and I'm curious how the citrus is doing as they usually don't like to have wet feet. Any issue with them getting too much water?
Mate, once again you’ve taught me so much Pyrethrum spraying. I had bad white fly on all my greens in my kratkey buckets and was drenching and lost everything I knew it must of been that and I gave up. I’m going to start again now just need to work out how to control the bugs on my plants outside. Love your shows and your efforts over the years. Thankyou mate.
Oh wow, cheers rob! I’ll have to do something about that. It’s a steep learning curve trying to differentiate the beneficials from the baddies and I don’t want to nuke on a whim. Really dig your channel BTW I’ll be looking into trying my hand at an Aquaponics system in the future and would love to do a crossover/collab, pick your brain if that’s something that interests you. I’m based in South east Queensland also.
He's preaching pure ignorance you're not supposed to do Hydroponics outside also you're not supposed to recirculate the water without a fertroller and a pH controller
A few notes A. I noticed you had your big tank feed the gutters .however with a faulty float it will drain the entire supply. If you have a sub reservoir you can use it to supply the gutter systems and use the main supply to feed the reservoir. In this way , daily you can turn on the main feeder to fill the smaller sub reservoir and avoid losing the entire reservoir of expensive fertilizer mix.
Considering that I grow root veggies in a constant flood and drain bed, I cannot see how you will fail in the rain gutter system. Be interesting to see what comes out. Beetroot and onion does extremely well in flood and drain. Also I would steal that rain gutter idea for citrus if I didn't already have amazing soil here to grow in, I am actually moving my hydroponic system during the next few weeks to plant citrus there instead lol
when growing ginger make sure if you break the root that you let it dry out to form a skin . I would have left the top of the root stick out where the shoots emerge from. I have been leaving the root in a 3 litre milk container that I cut out with some water on my window sill until it develops fine roots and green shoot formation on top. Planted in Hydroponics today. Potatoes - leave a potato on window sill and plant the plant that grows off the potato. This avoids the seed potato rotting in hydroponics.
Exited about the last comment. Love to see a combined one. I see you have got some advice about the spraying. I use 5ml neem oil and 3ml dishwashing liquid in 1L water and spray once a week. This is more to stop them coming then killing them. But eventually they will die and you will be free of them.
Better than pyrethrum: neem oil. Spray it in the evening and the beneficial insects will be unaffected, as they're active in the daylight. Bonus: neem acts as a plant food. Now I have a question, and apologies if I just missed it: what keeps the coir/perlite mix from trickling into the gutters? I've done a wicking system before (faux Earth Boxes), but there weren't many holes and those were covered with weed cloth. Even then, we got some spill-through.
Im guessing the EC and PH stays constant in the RG system because its not actually the plant that is taking the water out. The wicking effect just takes what ever is in the reservoir. This is why i love these passive systems way less maintenace and my opinion less wasted nutrient solutions.
Fantastic observation, I have noticed once the roots take over the res (as with some of the pumpkins I’ve had in system) they do start stripping the nutrient. So this stands to reason.
@@Hoocho Interesting! I was going to say though that you were doing your measurements near the float valve where you would expect levels to be the same as in the reservoir. What are the levels like at the opposite end of the channel? I would expect a change over the length of the channel as the plants take what they need. However the wicking point above may account for little or no change over length of channel. :-)
@@ianbrown9578 theoretically due to diffusion generally EC will not vary across the channel. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion But it’s an interesting idea and I can test it practically in an upcoming episode.
Ah a nice and long video! I wish I would not live in an apartment so I might have a bit more space to do some growing. I do have an amazingly large 50cm x 50cm area that I will do something with. Probably a wicking lettuce system just for the winter.
One little thing for the float-cover: when it's condensig during the night: the condensing water will run down the cover and ubder the edges outside. Of you woiluld just add a little lid near the cutted outline of your pipe, the water will drop down inside the pipe. Just an idea...
Hey Hoocho, I'm curious about these wicking beds you're using for the trees and the root veggies. Are you hooking these all up to the same res? Also, are you flushing and cycling the drainpipe wicking beds weekly/fornightly? If so, do you find the plants are having any problems with a lack of dissolved oxygen? The fruit trees in the nursery pots should be fine, because they have aeration holes built in, but the veggies in those huge buckets with only the mesh pots in the bottom, wouldn't really have much of a source of airflow in to the root base if the pipe isn't flooding and draining regularly, or running like a constant-flow NFT. How did the radishes and stuff go in those giant tubs? I'm an aquaponics guy, and I'm incredibly lazy/labour-efficient, so the more that I can automate and the less manual monitoring of EC&pH levels that I can do, the better. I like having one spot to check the stats for the system, though with about 10 of these 3meter pipes, using standing water on a float valve, I'd go crazy checking the consumption of nutrients, pH in all of them, and manual draining every week. Edit: What are you using for the taps on the end of the pipe? I'm going mad trying to find something to adapt a 90mm round drainpipe to a 20mm BSP so I can drain it using a hose, 19mm irrigation pipe or 20mm PVC piping back to the res.
Hi I’m really confused. I thought hydroponic growing was without the use of soil. Just nutrient/water based growing. Can you explain the differences please. Thanks
I'm amazed that you recirculate Your solution when nobody else does that in the industry and must have a fur troller and a pH controller you must have all kinds of pH fluctuation
hey... so smart flow volts.. love your machine to measure tu ph.. and Ec.. can you tell me the brand so I can look up the prices.. Thanks sport! thanks for sharing.. so inspiring!
I enjoy your videos and am wondering what is the screen/shade cloth you use in your greenhouse? Most that I see at greenhouse suppliers is black. I prefer white.
Hey Hoocho, Can or do you have a build out of your reservoir tank showing how you have the refill floats ECT. That would be awesome information for me I'm having issues keeping them topped up Thank you for all your work
Where do you get the buckets you're using for the root vegetables? Been looking for something with more give to it. And the rectangular base for the water flow?
I've been watching vids to see what would be more efficient (both in productivity and cost) and it seems like Hydro would cost 50x more than than the product received.
Your video's are pretty informative for a beginner like I am. Cocoa? I'll look that up. I do spinach and lettuce (kratky(?)) in my bathroom and am thinking of branching out and using our 1100 sq ft daylight basement for my "garden." I love being "retired!"
I feel like I must have missed something since I can’t see anyone else having asked you hooch.. what’s stopping your nutrient solution from draining out all the holes around the sides of those planters?
What water tank connector do you use that goes through the tank? I have got the maze one going into a black bin, but find that the tap part that you turn leaks under the pressure. Bin is 60l and mazes tank it is for is 100L so didn’t expect it to leak!
Hi hooch. Where are you getting your rain down pipes from. Bunnings have them but asking in case there is a better deal out there..thx doug from lismore nsw
I grow using a system a lot like this and haven't had any issues with plants that have large root masses. I'm not doing full on trees, but am thinking about some dwarf fruit plants.
Have had flood and drain beds with tomatoes, chillies etc. The root masses prevent water movement by mid season and by the time I pulled them out in autumn there was a lot of rot in and around the core. I feel it would only be worse for citrus and trees that stay alive for much longer.
Cool system, but it's more self watering than hydroponics. Why not just plant in your soil and drip irrigate your nutients? What are the benefits you are getting? Also, it's an orchard, not an orchid.
I can't get this system to work. No matter what i try. Seems there are just too many bacterial spores in the air which cause root rot. Every single time..
I'm confused. All of these plants are shown growing in pots of what basically looks like dirt. He refers to his dirt with fancy terminology, but it's still dirt, not water. I thought hydroponic gardens were supposed to be growing in water with added nutrients.
@@Hoocho I'm confused how you can call it hydroponic when you're clearly growing the plants in dirt. To me form what little I've learned so far, the whole point of hydroponic is to make the plants grow in water. So this video is discouraging, because I don't want to bother with dirt.
@@heard3879 there is no soil. It’s a hydroponic soilless grow media that contains no nutrition. The nutrients are delivered by the hydroponic solution.
I just set up a few new containers in a twist of this system and planted onion, carrot, turnips, and leeks. In spring the turnips and radishes did amazing! Thanks for keeping these videos about it going!
I absolutely love this idea, and I am going to show my husband first thing in the morning and get him to watch a couple of your videos. I think I have seen this method before on one or two of Larry Hall's videos before he passed away a couple of years ago and I think this method would work really well for us. Last year I bought a bunch of grow bags and had some problems with nutrients being washed out from all the rain we sometimes get. So this year I decided to use a watering from beneath method that I saw on a channel called Grow Abundance that is self-fed from a 50-gal bin which I am hoping to capture rainwater into. I am really getting excited about this growing season with all of these wonderful ideas that I am going to be trying. Thank you so very much for all you teach us about your methods, I am really learning quite a bit from you. Many Blessings to you always and many thanks for all you do.
it's been a year since you released this video and I'm curious how the citrus is doing as they usually don't like to have wet feet. Any issue with them getting too much water?
Mate, once again you’ve taught me so much
Pyrethrum spraying. I had bad white fly on all my greens in my kratkey buckets and was drenching and lost everything
I knew it must of been that and I gave up. I’m going to start again now just need to work out how to control the bugs on my plants outside. Love your shows and your efforts over the years.
Thankyou mate.
thanks for this part mate (Dutch Bucket Res Discussion), made nutrients/water so much clearer in my head, cheers
Awesome as usual wish we had as much sun here in NY but keep up the videos people don't understand the importance of these learning Gems!
This is inspiring. Great dedication and love for plants is super cool imo.
Thank you H!
Great, I am glad that I found one video showing everything, thanx mate
Can’t wait to see the citrus fruiting 👍
Hey mate. Some of those ladybugs are the 28 spot buggers. Will eat potato, eggplant & cucurbit leaves.
Oh wow, cheers rob! I’ll have to do something about that.
It’s a steep learning curve trying to differentiate the beneficials from the baddies and I don’t want to nuke on a whim.
Really dig your channel BTW
I’ll be looking into trying my hand at an Aquaponics system in the future and would love to do a crossover/collab, pick your brain if that’s something that interests you.
I’m based in South east Queensland also.
@@Hoocho I'm looking forward to this episode
Please accept Sir Hoochos offer :-)
@@Hoocho We might be able to arrange something methinks. 👍😁 Are you on the north side?
@@RobsAquaponics Yeah mate, I’m up in Gympie area.
Found your videos today, watched a few, will be watching more of them!
Came across your page 2 months ago. And I’m hooked. Thanks for the motivation and inspiration 🦾🦾🦾🚀🚀🚀
Love you ideas and systems!!! Long time follower! Can't wait too i get my own land and have a similar set up!!!
Hi great show , I use an old electric cement mixer to mix my soil mixes. just throw in what you want and turn it on . I also use it for cement
I'm hip, wish I had a mixer !!
Big fan of yours !! Hope one day, i can set up my own hydroponic farm! :)
He's preaching pure ignorance you're not supposed to do Hydroponics outside also you're not supposed to recirculate the water without a fertroller and a pH controller
A few notes
A. I noticed you had your big tank feed the gutters .however with a faulty float it will drain the entire supply. If you have a sub reservoir you can use it to supply the gutter systems and use the main supply to feed the reservoir. In this way , daily you can turn on the main feeder to fill the smaller sub reservoir and avoid losing the entire reservoir of expensive fertilizer mix.
Considering that I grow root veggies in a constant flood and drain bed, I cannot see how you will fail in the rain gutter system. Be interesting to see what comes out. Beetroot and onion does extremely well in flood and drain.
Also I would steal that rain gutter idea for citrus if I didn't already have amazing soil here to grow in, I am actually moving my hydroponic system during the next few weeks to plant citrus there instead lol
great vid!! congrats on keeping the wasabi alive, its a struggle for me in victoria haha
can't wait to see the root veggie updates! Would you consider planting blueberries? and would grow bags work with the rain gutter system? 🙏🙏🙏
I’ve got about 15 Grow bags ready to go, and a design to help them wick 😊
@@Hoocho 🙌🙌🙌
I gotta tip for u. Check both ends of the wick system. The end of the pipe that isn't getting refreshed when top up happens may be higher.
when growing ginger make sure if you break the root that you let it dry out to form a skin . I would have left the top of the root stick out where the shoots emerge from. I have been leaving the root in a 3 litre milk container that I cut out with some water on my window sill until it develops fine roots and green shoot formation on top. Planted in Hydroponics today. Potatoes - leave a potato on window sill and plant the plant that grows off the potato. This avoids the seed potato rotting in hydroponics.
I grow spring onions in my NFT. I just plant the ones I buy from the supermarket straight into the NFT and it works perfectly.
How much or little water does it take to sustain the plants. I would have to watch more videos. Still have a lot of questions that didn’t get answered
I like your videos. I'm going to give it a go. Start small. Just lettuce. But I did want to try radishes. Anything new on growing those?
Exited about the last comment. Love to see a combined one.
I see you have got some advice about the spraying. I use 5ml neem oil and 3ml dishwashing liquid in 1L water and spray once a week. This is more to stop them coming then killing them. But eventually they will die and you will be free of them.
Great video mate
Thank you, I enjoyed that episode :-)
Great video mate. If I may, please allow me to suggest making a turmeric-cum-water spray as a anti-pest spray. Good luck with your gardening....
Better than pyrethrum: neem oil. Spray it in the evening and the beneficial insects will be unaffected, as they're active in the daylight. Bonus: neem acts as a plant food. Now I have a question, and apologies if I just missed it: what keeps the coir/perlite mix from trickling into the gutters? I've done a wicking system before (faux Earth Boxes), but there weren't many holes and those were covered with weed cloth. Even then, we got some spill-through.
Im guessing the EC and PH stays constant in the RG system because its not actually the plant that is taking the water out. The wicking effect just takes what ever is in the reservoir. This is why i love these passive systems way less maintenace and my opinion less wasted nutrient solutions.
Fantastic observation, I have noticed once the roots take over the res (as with some of the pumpkins I’ve had in system) they do start stripping the nutrient.
So this stands to reason.
@@Hoocho Interesting! I was going to say though that you were doing your measurements near the float valve where you would expect levels to be the same as in the reservoir. What are the levels like at the opposite end of the channel? I would expect a change over the length of the channel as the plants take what they need. However the wicking point above may account for little or no change over length of channel. :-)
@@ianbrown9578 theoretically due to diffusion generally EC will not vary across the channel.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion
But it’s an interesting idea and I can test it practically in an upcoming episode.
@@Hoocho OK! Thanks for that info, much appreciated! :-)
I'm wondering if Moringa tree's would grow well hydroponic ? They don't require much water at all though.
Please use Grow Bags, even if they are in conflict with the Hooch adapter ;-)
Already have purchased 15 with a new design in mind 😊
Ah a nice and long video! I wish I would not live in an apartment so I might have a bit more space to do some growing. I do have an amazingly large 50cm x 50cm area that I will do something with. Probably a wicking lettuce system just for the winter.
One little thing for the float-cover: when it's condensig during the night: the condensing water will run down the cover and ubder the edges outside. Of you woiluld just add a little lid near the cutted outline of your pipe, the water will drop down inside the pipe. Just an idea...
Hey Hoocho, I'm curious about these wicking beds you're using for the trees and the root veggies. Are you hooking these all up to the same res? Also, are you flushing and cycling the drainpipe wicking beds weekly/fornightly? If so, do you find the plants are having any problems with a lack of dissolved oxygen? The fruit trees in the nursery pots should be fine, because they have aeration holes built in, but the veggies in those huge buckets with only the mesh pots in the bottom, wouldn't really have much of a source of airflow in to the root base if the pipe isn't flooding and draining regularly, or running like a constant-flow NFT. How did the radishes and stuff go in those giant tubs?
I'm an aquaponics guy, and I'm incredibly lazy/labour-efficient, so the more that I can automate and the less manual monitoring of EC&pH levels that I can do, the better. I like having one spot to check the stats for the system, though with about 10 of these 3meter pipes, using standing water on a float valve, I'd go crazy checking the consumption of nutrients, pH in all of them, and manual draining every week.
Edit: What are you using for the taps on the end of the pipe? I'm going mad trying to find something to adapt a 90mm round drainpipe to a 20mm BSP so I can drain it using a hose, 19mm irrigation pipe or 20mm PVC piping back to the res.
Hi
I’m really confused. I thought hydroponic growing was without the use of soil. Just nutrient/water based growing. Can you explain the differences please. Thanks
Curious as to whether the wasabi survived? I've been considering it myself.
I'm amazed that you recirculate Your solution when nobody else does that in the industry and must have a fur troller and a pH controller you must have all kinds of pH fluctuation
hey... so smart flow volts.. love your machine to measure tu ph.. and Ec.. can you tell me the brand so I can look up the prices.. Thanks sport! thanks for sharing.. so inspiring!
How about the end caps for an nft to be on a manifold leading to a res vs dumping directly into the ibc or res
I enjoy your videos and am wondering what is the screen/shade cloth you use in your greenhouse? Most that I see at greenhouse suppliers is black. I prefer white.
50% white shade
Can I use duck pond water as my plant nutrient ?
Hey Hoocho,
Can or do you have a build out of your reservoir tank showing how you have the refill floats ECT.
That would be awesome information for me I'm having issues keeping them topped up
Thank you for all your work
Cant wait for the video that lives up to this title search. "Hydroponic potatoes"
What size pots do you use for the citrus trees
Where do you get the buckets you're using for the root vegetables? Been looking for something with more give to it. And the rectangular base for the water flow?
What growing matter are you using? Thank you!
23:45 your holoprojector seems to be malfunctioning.
Ok new to this, but isn't hydrponics planting in water? I've looked up the different types and confused on what this is
Please information: what is the height of the rectangular pipe and what is the level of liquid maintained by the floating valve? Thank you.
How do you get pollination inside your greenhouse?
Good video
What size are the pots you used to transplant in to? They look like totes/baskets from Walmart, but a few look like trashcans
Will a fabric grow bag work in the wicking system?
Talk on nutrient system & formulae using bro. Make series on Hydroponics Nutrients 101 & formulating own solution.
where in Qld r u bro... nice info... new subscriber here... im just getting into hydro gardening... love your set up man, well done..
Hey hoocho could one replace perlite with small gravel like they use on roads?
No, coz they don't hold water or moisture....
I've been watching vids to see what would be more efficient (both in productivity and cost) and it seems like Hydro would cost 50x more than than the product received.
Also you do this in the rain outside and throws off everything in the pH values
Your video's are pretty informative for a beginner like I am. Cocoa? I'll look that up. I do spinach and lettuce (kratky(?)) in my bathroom and am thinking of branching out and using our 1100 sq ft daylight basement for my "garden." I love being "retired!"
6:51, 👌
nice
Any update video?
I feel like I must have missed something since I can’t see anyone else having asked you hooch.. what’s stopping your nutrient solution from draining out all the holes around the sides of those planters?
Waters surface tension/meniscus
hi mate well done. are you researching plastics from the printer . do you trust using it to grow food? i guess u do but what did you find.
PETG is the same plastic they use for plastic water bottles 😊
What water tank connector do you use that goes through the tank? I have got the maze one going into a black bin, but find that the tap part that you turn leaks under the pressure. Bin is 60l and mazes tank it is for is 100L so didn’t expect it to leak!
Hi hooch. Where are you getting your rain down pipes from. Bunnings have them but asking in case there is a better deal out there..thx doug from lismore nsw
Bunnings 50x100 icon plastics
@@Hoocho thx hooch.
did you use the blumat for tall single plants or just the normal small ones?
Seems more a wicking bed than hydroponics.
Hay Hoocho what make and where do you get them the EC and PH meter
hannainst.com.au/hi9813-6-portable-ph-ec-tds-temperature-meter-with-cal-check.html
Where do you buy the coco peat and perlite from?
Where do you get your bulk perlite and bulk coco coir?
Which nutrients farmula use sir root crop
What kinda meter is that ? I need one.
Ph for hydroponic is 5.6 to 5.8 your plants can't take up certain nutrients when ph is off tht is why you don't see the e.c/ppm not really fluctuate
What part of Australia? I’m new to your channel
Haha just heard at the end you’re in Queensland! 😅
what soil do you use pkz
Will you string up the capsicums as well?
Yeah I'm in that process now as they are too heavy with fruit
what if we dont have 3D printer, can we purchase items?
What Location in QLD are you
Bro What is Maximum EC given to Turmeric and GINGER ?
Keep those raspberry bushes by themselves and get ready for frequent pruning. Those things are like a bull in a china shop garden wise.
Have you ever considered doing aquaponics?
Or hydroponics?
Wouldn't a flood and drain system be better for trees, considering the root mass?
I grow using a system a lot like this and haven't had any issues with plants that have large root masses. I'm not doing full on trees, but am thinking about some dwarf fruit plants.
It would be harder to implement, I would also be worried about roots interfering in the water flow.
Would be interesting to see though.
Have had flood and drain beds with tomatoes, chillies etc. The root masses prevent water movement by mid season and by the time I pulled them out in autumn there was a lot of rot in and around the core. I feel it would only be worse for citrus and trees that stay alive for much longer.
I need a ph tester like that 🤧
Wow I have one hydroponic lettuce that hasn't died yet lol, this is really interesting :)
How do you keep the ph from.drifting? I found that for.me.ph would always go up in a few days
I don’t really do anything and my ph remains the same.
The only thing I do is preadjust the water.
My water is rainwater.
lemonade trees... lol
cool
You have a lot of money in that stuff.
Hoocho: Look at this cool root vegetable system!
Me: Cool! Maybe I can learn how I can...
Hoocho: This is my 3D printed..
Me: *click* Next video
Onion hsdroponic nutrient formula please give
Cool system, but it's more self watering than hydroponics. Why not just plant in your soil and drip irrigate your nutients? What are the benefits you are getting? Also, it's an orchard, not an orchid.
not thats coir not soil
I like the automated nature of this but I’m not sure I see the real difference between this and conventional methods
I can't get this system to work. No matter what i try. Seems there are just too many bacterial spores in the air which cause root rot. Every single time..
Rain gutter system is the best system. My tomatoes are too big.
I don't do Facebook
Sorry, and the hydroponic feed from too
I'm confused. All of these plants are shown growing in pots of what basically looks like dirt. He refers to his dirt with fancy terminology, but it's still dirt, not water. I thought hydroponic gardens were supposed to be growing in water with added nutrients.
Just because you assert that something is a certain way, does not make it that way.
@@Hoocho That's not an explanation.
@@heard3879 There was no question.
@@Hoocho I'm confused how you can call it hydroponic when you're clearly growing the plants in dirt. To me form what little I've learned so far, the whole point of hydroponic is to make the plants grow in water. So this video is discouraging, because I don't want to bother with dirt.
@@heard3879 there is no soil. It’s a hydroponic soilless grow media that contains no nutrition.
The nutrients are delivered by the hydroponic solution.
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