How to Grow Cucumbers in Barrels without Soil
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- Hydroponics isn't always a complicated process. Check out these super easy to build cucumber barrels.
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I been doing this for awhile it work great but I have a wood stove in my green house and I keep the temperature 80 to 100 degrees, I am putting barrel out side once it warm up that way no grass pulling and cucumbers grow better in barrel then in ground, I will half to stop rain from getting into barrel , you can grow anything in these barrel, Great video Thanks for sharing.
Keep up the great work. Our planet needs people like you!
Thanks to you and Leon for the tubs. I've converted all my flower pots to the self wicking system and they've never looked healthier. You guys are awesome!
Tried this on our small patio using empty cat litter buckets with great results. Wish I had more space to try with barrels. Also, we have lived in Pensacola the past 12 years. Thanks for promoting our area.
Great video Daniel. I did some Kratky experiments a few years ago in my basement. I could not believe the results. I did a few different types of peppers, cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes, kale, and a few other types of greens. I've never produced more food in any type of garden. It was fantastic. Your video has given me the inspiration to do it again. Thanks
No sun?
@@debcambria665 Florescent daylight bulbs
We have 24 wicking tubs and they are awesome .
Thank you Daniel God bless you and your family
This technique is such good, I will use it. I am a senior citizen and will use this method always.
I use the Master Blend like you are showing and as a weekly feed for my plants too. It is some great stuff, and you can grow in 55 gallon drums or 1 gallon tubs. I use 2 grams Master Blend/ 2 grams Calcium Nitrate / 1 gram of Epson Salt. Remember Like Leon said only feed you plants on the days you eat. - Jeff
Great video. Can’t wait to see if there is a difference in taste. Just a tip on cutting into plastic with a hole saw. Run it in reverse & it makes a smoother hole. I saw it on another channel. Just thought I’d pass it along. Love & Hugs from Ft. Worth, Texas
Yes MHP Gardener was our hero also. We learned and did a lot of stuff thst he did also including the hydroponics. Wish he was still doing videos.
I'm growing cucumbers in plastic full size trash cans, same as the barrels, maybe shipped as barrels around here are like $25 each. It's first of July, grew initially in little dirt balls then under lights in cups with foam, grew like crazy, then in the trash can the leaves are giant and they love the water. I'm hustling to make trellises to hang them from. Really works.
I'm giving this method a try this year also. I have tomato plants and pepper plants and celery. So far so good! If these plants work out goood, i'll be trying whole lot of different veggies next year with this method.
Wow. It's phenomenal how healthy the foliage looks on those cucumber plants. Very curious about the taste of the finish produce compared to soil grown. Please keep us updated on this experiment.
Thank you! I want to try this too! What a great way to grow veggies for people that are always on the go. Just plant and harvest. Have a great day and enjoy the Beautiful weather.
Amazing ur good I am studying farming for two years now n am learning fast with u gays making everything much simple
I'd love to see a comparison of planting the same thing at the same time in ground, self wicking tubs, and hydroponic. That would be interesting to see the results.
I should try this out. It would probably prevent vine borers from destroying my squash/cucumber plants. Good stuff, stay safe man!
I work for a fertilizer company so I can get free fertilizer and we have an over abundance of unused 5 gal buckets. I'm going to try this in the 5 gal buckets. I love this !
its enough , u may have to water it once a week to replace water loss
MHP Gardener is back making videos! Thank you for the great video. I have a lot of those blue barrels so I think I need to try this method this year.
Good morning
Daniel & Houdson I must try this. I love Leon channel. As always be blessed & Enjoy this beautiful day.
*Felicca Sampson ... **#Houston*
I agree with you Daniel. It’s good to try new methods of growing and fun to experiment. It will be good to see the comparison between the soil planted harvest.
Just ordered the fertilizers. Already have two of the food grade barrels! Can’t wait. My daughter in law absolutely devours cucumbers.
Where do you buy barrels
Hi! So nice to see you've been growing plants thru hydroponics, it's really more convenient than planting direct on the ground. I hope soon you'll try to grow plants vertically, so they won't crawl downwards.
Good luck on your future projects, Sir! It's really a joy watching the videos you produce!
I LOVED watching MHP gardener. 💜 The 1st TH-cam channel I ever subscribed to.
love hydroponics, glad to see someone finally talk about then in the community. thanks.
Hi Daniel and Houston! It's a great day to garden today!
Great video Daniel.. I had no idea your could grow food like that. Thanks for the tips.. I'm going to try this. Thank u so much. I live in the city were not allowed to have gardens and I hate that.
WHAT... THAT IS INSANE
Thank you for all of your work and effort in sharing these wonderful non-traditional growing methods.
Gonna have to try this ..thanks for the education..recently discovered your channel and we cant get enough.
Hey Daniel! Just wanted to say happy 99,000! Quite the feat indeed. You will be at 100k in no time at all and knocking on Dutch's door. Tell Bear and Houston we said hello from Ohio.
Hi from Romania! Thank you for that usefull video!
I liked mhp gardener too. After he and the girl you tuber got together they both stopped making videos. Always wondered what happened with them.
Anyway love the video. I love experimenting with the garden. Keeps it fun.
me too MHP was one of the best anyone know why he stopped?
First time doing this method 5 dozens off one plant thank you so much
Love it! Leon's amazing! We think it's great that you can grow in any method you want in the greenhouse. You've worked hard to get there. 👍😊
I love to watch this videos cause cause his aplane step by step and I learn a lot from Mr. Daniel and I love see all his Family get in to it special the little kids😁... me encanta mirar los vídeos de Este Señor Daniel porque explica paso a paso todo y también incluye a sus pequeñitos y toda su familia lo cual es bueno Felizidades y siga adelante 😀
tried it - it works!! When the cukes get to be about 6 inches we harvest them. Two problems. 1) we put the barrel where it got maximum sun, this resulted in wilted leaves and slowed down production. 2) what do we do with all these cukes? They keep on coming. We give some away, eat lots of salads. Next year we'll put the barrel where it won't get full sun and thinking about converting a rain barrel to use for tomatoes. THANKS ARMS FAMILY!!
Ive had some cucumbers planted in the ground for a month now and they arent doing well. im going to give this a try now. especially since cucmbers do love water
🏆very cool Daniel 👍. Something new too try. I've got 12 wicking tubs growing now. Now going to try this. Loving no weeds!!! Great video darlin. As always God bless and take care🏆🇺🇸
Got two barrels from Leon, I’m gonna try this with one. Cool! Thanks!
I sure did enjoy this video. I'm growing cucumbers for the first time this year. I think I saw them growing on a trellis on Roots and Refuge's channel last year, and I'm trying that. I wouldn't mind having several methods next year, though. We're gonna need lots more cucumbers, since my son-in-law wants to make pickles.
Looks like a good way to grow. We’ll have to try it. Thanks 👍👍👍
I been meaning to try master blend for years just never got around to it . MHP Gardener was one of my favorite TH-camrs as well .
what happened to him his channel was great!!!
@@damonejohnson6098 from what I heard he just didn't want to do it anymore . His videos still get a bunch of views years later . I still check to see if he has put anything new up .
@@AaricHale yea me too I go & watch all the time I hope all is well with him & he comes back great content. Good luck Growing😉
@@damonejohnson6098 Thank you , I hope have a good growing season as well !
Look forward to seeing how cucumbers🥒 turn out! Interesting!💕
With me getting older (66) I can't do a garden like I used to. I am extremely interested in this type of gardening. You mentioned some kind of trellis, how about using concrete reinforcing mesh. It's cost-effective comes in big sheets and you can cut it to go half way around the barrel, therefore you can get to both sides of it for harvesting..just a thought. Lol
I did a Kratky lettuce system a few years ago based on MPH Gardner info. It was great. One thing I learned:
Your container must be large enough to last the growing life of the plant. If the water and nutrient solition run low and you refill it the plants will drown. This is because as the water level drops, the roots in the water get exposed to air and change so that they can take in air. This is the essence of a Kratky system. If you suddenly put them underwater and keep them there the plant dies like it would in a flood. For this reason I love the use of the 50 gallon barrel. One other point is water temperature plays a role. If it gets too hot some plants wont do well. On the other hand the plant may live longer in the fall because the water will warm in the sun faster than soil would.
Thanks for this informative video. I have grown hydroponically and it is a high energy user so this is a nice option.
Those roots are trippy looking. 👍 once i get my to my new home (gonna find it first) i will start planning the garden. 👍
Fantastic. If you have more barrels like this in the hope-house they will even out the temperature difference between night and day in the Autumn too, resulting in you lengthen your growing season :)
I have enjoy this vlog 👍never knew you could do that with cucumbers,,I got to try this👍Great Vlog as Always 👍😊🤗
Good video on this. Never knew about this. I always seem to learn stuff on your channel.... Take care and God bless you
This is a great way to grow without WEEDS! I do not have any extra time for weeding nor will the wife help so win win. Thank you
Great info Daniel. I'm growing my herbs in self wicking pots, I scaled down the size of the pots so we'll see how that goes, thanks to yours and Leon's videos. I may try this 🙂looks fun and the "no work" part is tempting. Great video. Thanks for all the ideas.
no weeding is a huge plus!!! Also, you can do that in a garage or somewhere warm to allow you year round growing (with some sort of light source of course). Good stuff, thanks!
I bet you could but I haven’t tried it yet
Thanks for sharing, Daniel, I think I'm going to try that for next year's project, I enjoy watching your videos on stuff like this, have a wonderful day, God Bless
Loved watching MHPGardener and his dutch bucket tomato trees and giant watermelons.
Great educational vlog!! Thanks Daniel.🤗😊🙂👍
Great video. Thanks for the info. I have been gardening my whole life. Mostly straw bales the last 6 years. However, I am thinking about trying hydroponics. BTW, my son's name is Houston also. He is 24 now, but he had curly blonde hair like your Houston when he was that age.
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That was a great video ! Very interesting ! I would've never believed you could grow cucumbers in water. !! 👍 👍 😎
The Masterblend calculator (per link) lets you calculate for lettuce or tomatoes. I'm going to guess that tomatoes is the choice to pick for cucumbers because you need more for fruiting? For a 50 gallon drum, the ratio is 120 grams x 120 grams x 60 grams (epsom).
Thank you for sharing this method. I have seen one done in a storage rectangular tote. Have a great day.
Everything looks great on the garden!!!! Very cool on all the different was to grow how many times will you have to fill the barrels? Or not at all?
Just in case you didn't know yet, MHPGardener is back.
First learned about MasterBlend from MHPGardener. A Master Blend kit like the one shown in this video goes a long way!
The Arms videos are so wonderful!
The barrels work great! I'm doin' it and it is awesome!
Way cool! are ya gonna wrap the vines around the barrel? wrap a piece of junk fence around that barrel. Hi Houston. What a wonderful childhood memory. You and Dad growin all kinds of stuff, all different ways. Yeah I could do trash cans those barrels get pricey round here. Thanks for the info.
Really inspiring and Wonderful Video !! Well Done Mate !!
So cool! Thank you for trying this and sharing this with us!
Looks promising and doable. Thanks for sharing 🤗
Daniel, I have grown a few different things in hydro and aerogarden.
They grow great.
My problem is even herbs take on a taste of the fertilizer that is bitter and yucky.
Not sure how to explain the taste lol.
Nice nice looking veggie and herbs but taste like disappointment lol.
I'm excited to see if this blend of fertilizer does this.
Can't wait for an update when you have cucumbers.
I think if any thing is going to take on that taste it will be cucumbers since they are what 90% water.
Hope that doesn't discourage you or anyone else it just the experience I had.
I used 3 different fertilizer and it didnt matter. So looking forward to seeing how this turns out.
Hugs
You need to throw what your going to harvest in a nutrient free system for a week or two to leech out the fertilizers...
@@shizzhizz1234 so I should start it with just water for 2 weeks then add The fertilizer what fertilizer do you use
What other things did you try in the barrels...I am still trying to get mine rinsed out
Donna, & Becca, Hi --- I've been watching the videos of
Hollis, & Nancy for doing potatoes in 5 gallon buckets.
Hollis said to make sure your buckets are food related like
frosting from a bakery(or a bakery inside a store like Food Lion, or Kroger),or a restaurant
that would have pickles that came in them --- not some-thing like wood glue that one person told about his buckets,
that would seep in your plants like maybe your fertilizer came in your bucket to the store. To clarify, I ad-libbed the stores --- Hollis didn't
specify any stores. I hope my
in-put helped. Lynda
You're not tasting the nutrients.
Great idea; around Illinois those containers are priced pretty high, I’ll have to keep my eye out for next summer. 🌱🥒🥒🌱
MHP gardener was a great channel, too bad he stopped making videos.
Great idea very creative
Good morning Daniel. Excellent video. I was wondering if it might be possible to cut additional holes in the top and put in more then 2 plants? Seems like a lot of water to be limited to only 2. :) Have a Blessed Day!
Very interesting and detailed video. Thanks for sharing.
That was a great video clip you dun there it was good to see it and that's a good way off growing 👍👍
LOL Houston running in to give a shout out one cute little man. Thanks for sharing love this now would the barrels need to be that big?
you can use tote box & small containers with lid too. adjust water /fertliser as required
Awesome. I will try it thanks for posting
Nature is so amazing! God made everything so perfect!
My mom did this forty years ago with five gallon buckets and six inch pots.
Gilford, my grandmother...bucket with lid and holes in a margarine tub. Her herbs, plants and flowers on her patio in San Diego.
@@vickijacksonmcgaugh6629 Cool. My mom read about it in Mother Earth News I believe and was doing it in Martinez in the SF bay area. The 5 gallon buckets had to have water added two or three times during the summer. But no weeds!
As someone who tried the kratky method for years I can tell you one of your biggest problems will be dealing with bacteria and or/fungus in the water. Just a little bit will become a HUGE problem later on and I've lost entire pepper plants once they take over the root system. Aeration of the water is a great way to keep bacteria and fungus down while also giving your plants more air to breathe. Yeah it's a pain and costs power but you'll end up with plants 2-4 times the size of just a normal Kratky method.
Thank you for this !!! I've never heard of this ! I think I will try one and see how I do !
What a cool concept.Thanks for sharing Daniel.God Bless
That is an awesome concept. 👍
We also started with mhpgardener! Miss his videos! We start our hydroponic stuff in Grodan Rockwool then add the hydroton around the rockwool for support. I'm really excited to see your cucumbers & try this myself. Where did you get your barrels? Did you do any preventative "clean out" of the barrels prior to adding fertilizer & plants. Are they 55 gal? Do you have to worry about algae growth or temp getting to high in the barrels? Great video!! Thanks!!
When you mixed your fertilizers how did you do after measuring... just poured them in the 55 gallon drum or did you pre-mix them in water and then pour the mix in? And how much did you use the video is kinda confusing to me
Great video Daniel.
Great vid! I copied your exact setup but I don't have a greenhouse so I'm wondering what you used to trellis the vines upward from the barrel? Thanks!
Daniel, I have always wanted to do this where did you get the barrels and the netting pots? Can you grow any vegetables this way. I’d love to come one day to see Leon’s place.
I haven’t tried any other crops. Net lots came from amazon and the barrels came from Leon. Just look on Craigslist and Facebook marketplace for barrels
Always been fascinated by aquaponics. Like tilapia, and the flats filter the water with gravity. Have to pump the water from the stock tanks or kiddie pools to the flats. The pump would be solar powered. Need some land first. Thanks for the information. They make smaller drums. Twenty two gallons I think.
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I like and appreciate how you try new things which permit us viewers to do things which might best fit where we are located and what we have to work with.
I am trying a combo of concepts, a wicking tub which also will air prune. Yet to know if extra prep work is worth it.
Made a wicking tub per your instructions, then about the level of top air holes in bottom reservoir I drilled large holes staggered to top of tub with the bottom of holes being in line with air holes in reservoir. Then lined inside of tub with fabric before adding potting mix. We’ll see.
Daniel your 100k subs plaque is almost in the mail. You just need a few more than 1,400 more subs. Congrats!!!
I like that Idea of the barrels, can a person use a 5 gallon bucket with a lid using the same method.
This is so cool, I subbed and liked . I would think adding a few shovels of real dirt in there as well might give you more nutrients when you harvest your cukes ! Could you use a five gallon bucket? Also right away I thought of putting a big funnel on top to introduce fresh rain water and drilling a little hole at the desired water hight so it would be self regulating the hight of your root water . I've got my garden all in but I might just have to give this a go at least with one little bucket for this year, so cool ! Thanks for sharing!
Good Morning All, I just came across this particular video....very interesting.....can this growing method only be done in a high tunnel?
My set up is aquaponics with koi and goldfish in a IBC tank , I use the same blue barrels you have for my plants but cut them in the middle and put coco balls in it with my plants 🌱🙂
Where to you purchase your 55 gallon blue barrels? Are they reused or new?
@@edinnnva I'm in Australia and there is a few companies that sell them ,you can get used food grade ones which is the better option .. means they are a lot cleaner.. and all you gotta do is just wash them out a little bit
Daniel get that calcium nitrate into an air tight container. If it picks up moisture like high humidity it will set up like a brick. I'm in Kentucky with high humidity and learned that the hard way.
just fold the opening of plastic cover and use clip to shut it
Hi amazing idea, helps with limit watering. Bu is it possible to grow more than 1 plant in each barrel ?
Great video! Tks for sharing this method
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WISHING you a Blessed day. Stay safe !!