How to Build a Simple Aeroponics System
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ค. 2024
- Green Our Planet's Hydroponics Program Manager Taylor Quiram shows you everything you need to know about constructing your own aeroponics system with basic materials.
SKIP TO WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
I. Aeroponics System overview
0:13
II. Materials list
1:26
III. Building manifold
3:27
IV. Preparing lid
13:39
V. Adding misters
14:48
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Schools use the hydroponics systems to learn more about STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) as well as about nutrition and alternative growing methods.
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Loved the video but was so glad u finally learned how to add at about 16 minutes or so. And love tht u tore the labels off the fat max I'm a carpenter and it was killing me to see u move ur tape every time
Great job 👏 excellent work 🤝
great video!!
I’m doing this Today. Thanks for the step by step.
did you do it :)
original build + links to list of parts / results: th-cam.com/video/_ewOsgoGQL4/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for the video. It was very informative and helps to realize it's not so difficult. Also this seems fantastic allowing the plants much more oxygen. Do you guys have a build for a tower aeroponics?
Two tips. Have the plumbing higher in the sump and make the nozzles spray down. No liquid mess.
i was just going to ask that; seemed to make sense spraying down because it's still a mist.
why make the plumbing higher? is it because you're pointing down now and need more room?
thank you
greatest video ever was gonna do hydroponics but the informative nature of this video compelled me to do aeroponics good work and thank you so so much for being so helpful. Fucking legend🙏
I was thinking about using a pvc cap as the sprinkler cause it's been hard to find the jet sprays by drilling 1/16 drill bit holes with each direction they need to go do you think that would work
Great video! I would love to pick your brain about a system I want to set up in a tiny home. Rather than a self-contained system, I want to use a single barrel of water & nutrients to feed several (shorter) bins of plants. Trying to figure out the best pump and timer. Also, how do you start the seedlings? Thanks!
I've had best luck germinating the seeds using a small hydroponics system.
I also used a pod tray with a vented cover using rockwool and distilled water with a little bit of nutrients in it.
Look into the Kratky method hydroponics - they eliminate the need for a pump, so grid-down, no problem.
Where did you purchase you pump? That the only I’m not certain about purchasing, until I have further details.
Can you provide link for purchasing those products from Amazon?
Which timer do you recommend?
Great content, thank you. Could you please give details on how you fit the sprinkles without having leaks? The drill bit was threaded? did you use silicone or teflon? link to buy the sprinklers online?
any suggestion at all
nice
Doesn't the water drip out from under the lid? I'd suggest pointing the nozzles down or better yet finding a way to place the lid withing the sides of the tub.
would it be possible to get a complete list of all the materials? Thank you :)
PLEASE!!! It's just the extra tiny misters that I can't find. I can' only find 4mm ones.
Try a irrigation supply store near you!
You also could use a drill to drill the hole!
@@Saljen then, just drill a 4mm hole, … it ain’t that hard, …
@@johnosman8971 It's the mister part that I'm asking about smarty pants.
For a 80 Liters gallon can I use wich pump?
Cool
Using that size pump are you having any problems with your nutrient solution getting too hot
How come an accumulator isnt being used?
Would that type of plastic be good to use though? Is it food grade plastic? Is there any worry of chemical leach?
Using pvc is fine
@@carrottoponcrak Not too sure about the storage containers being food grade plastic though.
I'll be using an external pump for mine for many different reasons , I reccomend everyone else do the same thing , th sprayers are up way to high
What is the material of the surface lid?
How did you connect the pvc with the pump?
It pushes onto the pump
wouldnt it have been easier to just measure the interior of the tub then just build it on the desk? then just sit it in the tub when its done
how do you smoke the plant before you grow it my dude?
What size pump are you using?
He said 400 gallons per hour pump
Can you recommend a missting nozzle pack similar that is used in the video?
They are sprayers not misting nozzles. Misting nozzles create mist :)
@@atomizer2665 Step 5 Adding misters.... newb
@@jamesj8007
I`ve been in thhe aero game for a long time, i know the difference between misters and sprayers and step 5 is definitely sprayers :)
@@atomizer2665 Would you recommend sprayers over misters? I worry deposits would clog misters easier with Florida water.
@@jamesj8007
I use misters because they allow me to control and optimise almost every aspect of the nutrient delivery in terms of the amount of moisture the plants get and the elemental content of the nutrient. They also save me from the chore of doing daily ph/ec checks, top ups and dumping reservoirs. It sounds like you have similar tapwater to mine, hard as hell with a high carbonate content. I dont use it for growing because it would cost me a small fortune in nitric acid to tame the ph and still be far from optimal.
where can i purchase a systemlike this to learn with
He built his.
That appears to be droplets and not mist. Would fewer nozzles create an actual mist?
nope
Could anyone give me a rough idea of how much it would cost to make this setup
Just made one very similar for ~$100 with enough leftover parts to make a second one for about $40.
@@KeepsIReele
For around the same money you could have one that produces real mist
Why don't you use an ultrasonic mist maker instead? That'd be way cheaper in contrast.
Ultrasonic mist can be difficult to use with nutrient mixtures as they get clogged very easily.
@@rubenzikarsky5195 this basically. also they generate heat, which is terrible for roots, and when they generate mist a lot of nutrients turn solid (hence the clogging) and the plants don't get the exact amount of food you planned for them.
Its good but you didn't show if its working by starting the water flow in the misters.
Followed all the measurements and it didn't line up???
You were supposed to follow the maysurements
When he starts to drill the nozzle holes I'm literally screaming at the screen "It's upside down!! You're drilling the wrong side!!"
lol
the "right side" is determined by the single opposable piece in the middle that connects to the pump, and it wouldn't have been easy drilling into it while balancing it on that single point.
Pretty sure he meant to do it that way. It's not like he cemented them prior to drilling. Otherwise, as @gibbsboroturtle said, you're not gonna sit there and try to balance while drilling. Spin the pipe back after drilling.
@@stankaus or you just rotate each pipe as the don't have glue.
Hi ! alright ? I've always made clones in a conventional way, for years I have 100% effectiveness in cloning in soil. But I made my own ez cloner machine, and I'm going to try to learn this technique with this machine... do you leave the water pump on 24hrs?
It should be on a timer
That moment off camera when he realized he drilled the holes for the micro irrigation misters on the bottom. Oh well flip the t-neck for the center riser and pretend it never happened.
😅😅😅
Instead of nutrient water can’t we use water from a fish tank just like aquaponic
I would try it:
Split the water output from your fishtank filter (keep some running directly to fishtank),
run it through 2 decanters, even if you got through the fishtank filter already (decanter res: intermediate reservoir for the fine particles to seat at the bottom, must be breathing make one hole on top cover and insect proof it!), the first one will be agited, you need to 2, that's a way to filter and you can see what's depositing, all that would clump the next filter real quick,
fine filter the intake (fine mesh), + uv sterialise (to be sure, but maybe experiment without it and use beneficial microflore harmless to fish) before running it to root chamber sprinkler.
redirect root chamber run off to fish tank. And have an overflow run-off to fishtank on the last decanter reservoir.
Have to keep the last filter super clean to avoid it clumping, either hard debris, or fine food/substrat for molds and bacteria to use grip/feed onto and then clump.
Every rooms/reservoir need to be in dark to avoid algae and whatnot + block access against insects invasion.
@@jamesthiel5721 thank you for the detailed reply.
2 inch hole saw, 11 / 64 drill bit and a drill
This is a sprinklerponic/dwc hybrid.
Its an aeroponic, the plants are suspended on air and misters or sprinklers mist water onto their roots
@@keletsobaboneng5170
If you look at the video 20 seconds in you wont see any mist. Sprinklers dont create mist. Aeroponics is not about spraying water at the roots or even misting the roots directly.Aeroponic roots dont get wet at any point, they are kept constantly damp. Soaked roots result in a hydroponic root structure, the roots head straight for the floor in a column and pile up on the floor. Genuine aeroponic roots have a unique structure that cant be mistaken for any other kind.. The system in the video isnt capable of producing a genuine aeroponic root structure that is responsible for all of the benefits associated with aeroponics. th-cam.com/video/l1Rmm9JvPfY/w-d-xo.html
@@keletsobaboneng5170 But: What I know is we need/the plants need much less nutrients in true aeroponics (HPA and AAA), but with sprinklers it's more suspended-hydro, the NUT factor might not be that important if the roots aren't true aeroponic roots. it's not true hydro roots either, so I call it surpended-hydro (if the resevoir is in the rootchamber) :-P it's all in the roots that's right!
lid going to leak
May-surements
no matter which way you build this system eventually the nozzles will clog up, i tried different water pumps different tubes different nozzles and it really is a headache.
growing on soil is easier
This is hydroponics with extra steps, not aeroponics. pressure is not high enough to atomize the (hydroponics) nutrients finely enough to benefit from an aeroponics setup. It's a good NFT style setup
I don't know if any of you noticed.
But this guy didn't answer anybody's questions.
And never did another video showing his results with this system.
I bet he ran into problems.
First thing you never want your pump in your grow chambers.
Then his on run time is way way way to long.
Especially with his roots already hanging in his warm nutrient solution.
Your nutrient solution temperature shouldn't get over 75 degrees.
65 to 70 degrees works best.
These systems are really easy to make.
A parts list is kinda hard to give out due to things like.
The size of your grow chambers and how far your reservoir is from your grow chambers.
Use a hose to hook your reservoir to your grow chambers. And for your drain at the bottom of your grow chambers.
They make pvc nipples this.
I've never grown this way from seed. I clone everything.
With little areo cloners I built.
The cloners are the only thing i keep the pump in the grow chambers, because the pump needs to run 24/7. No on off times.
I hope I answered some of your questions for some of you.
Oh for the size of your pump. That depends on the size of your grow chambers.
And how many grow chambers you want to feed at once.
I just use pond pumps.
I use the smallest they make for the cloners.
I can't remember the size i use to feed my two grow chambers. It's not the biggest they make, I think it's the next size down.
Anyway good luck to everyone.
Not all heroes wear capes..... Thank you so much I'm still just having so many issues figuring out a setup
His demo model seems to have rather close spacing. I'm told one of the advantages of the aeroponics system is you can do crops in tighter spacing but for something like lettuce (which he claims to grow in this) that would seem awfully tight....will something like a batch of romaine still work here? I could imagine doing 4 or 6 heads, but 18??
Hi why shouldn't the pump be in the grow chamber? How long should the timer be run for? Also how do you make nutrient solution for this system?
Masure twice, cut onc3
Stolen from "Family Plot" !
This is not a areo system.
This is more of a hydro system.
I've been running LPA ( Low Pressure Areoponics) systems for about 7 year's now.
I've got 4 systems, which consist of 2, 21 site grow chambers with 1 reservoir.
The 2 grow chambers measure 3'x3', this way I can use 1, 3'x3' LED light over each system.
The manifolds sit in the grow chambers.
The pump sits in the reservoir.
Every 20 minutes the pump comes on and sprays the roots in the grow chamber for 10 seconds.
Then the solution drains back into the reservoir.
This way the roots aren't sitting in the solution all the time.
I believe this guy will have problems with this system.
Looks like the ROOT ROT HOTEL..........
its more areo than hydro ;)
@@willviers808
Due to the fact that his pump and solution is in his grow chambers.
It's makes it a hydro system.
Like a flood and drain, but without the drain.
Which is ignorant, because you will run into problems.
Why do you think the hydro systems are flood and drain?
@@assog5737 Doesn't matter where the reservoir is, what matters is where the roots are and how they pick up the nutrient water. You could argue it's hydroponic once the roots hit the solution down below, but if you're just using this to start the plants, it's aeroponics.
@@anotherthing
LOL, it doesn't matter where the reservoir is,
oh ok.
It makes a huge difference where the reservoir is in aeroponics.
True aero doesn't have the reservoir in the grow chamber.
As for cloning with aero.
I have 5 of them.
All the units I built tall enough so the roots don't go down into the water.
The reason the water and pump are in the cloners is because they need to run 24/7.
This is the only way I clone.
With plain water. With 100 percent success rate.
Everytime.
I take 42 clones every 2 weeks.
Start getting roots in 5 days.
They all have roots in 10 days.
I let them go for 17 days.
Then straight to 12/12 in the SOG.
I harvest 1 of my aero systems every 2 weeks.
42 plants.
Been growing this way for over 10 years.
The easiest and fastest way to grow.
Production cost is a thirty second of what it cost in soil. Later.......
ASS OG
Aero System Sea Of Green.
I want to start learning and reading up on aeroponics. Any advice on where and what materials best to start? Thanks in advance
intro: correction : this is not what NASA used in space.. the huge water droplets would clump together real quick! and the solution(reservoir) would float! leaking up to light.
They used AAA compressed air and syphon (bag) to blast a fine mist = way more efficient to spread the solution, and you would want to save water, and not leak it, so only couple sec mist at a time. def not continuous or 15min on/off.
sry: but there already too much fogponic called aeroponics and "cloner" like aero-hydro called nasa aeroponic.
any way that's for people who know only 1/4 of the story, they should at least have it right 🥰
Why would you buy these expensive components and PUT IT INSIDE OF A FREAKING BIN.
Expensive components? I see a $13 pump and some PVC parts
That's hydroponics not aeroponics
Wrong
@@mikesimonds6339 I would call it suspended-hydro to be technical.
On the other hand: a tower where the roots don't reach and bath in the reservoir would be better suited to be called aeroponic.
And it's most definitely not NASA aeroponics. that's wrong by logic.
So two mistakes or what I consider to be two mistakes yeah #1 in this video you did not use PVC cement to permanently seal your PVC connections Because both air and water leakage and reduction in pressure. And lastly how we purchased clear plastic tubs so that I can actually see what's going on inside including the root systems