Failing at Deep Water Culture Hydroponic Tomatoes

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  • @stambo1983
    @stambo1983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I think ventilation and some pruning would've made a massive difference, it works with "lavender" apparently.

    • @moqo
      @moqo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Ah the old “lavender”…

    • @ivareskesner2019
      @ivareskesner2019 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      _’Lavender’_ behaves like a charm…until it goes into flower. Then it’s like a pregnant woman. Everything hurts and you have to keep up with figuring out what makes it happy.

    • @crowned.king.immortal
      @crowned.king.immortal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      also it was crowded and the vines needed support, try 2 instead of 4 and prune the armpit suckers

    • @toastiesburned9929
      @toastiesburned9929 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I don't know what he expected to happen... No ventilation? Was he trying to fail? C'mon man, you ought to know better. Even in soil you can't do that...

    • @renjithvincent2133
      @renjithvincent2133 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I've struggling to find good 'lavender' seeds in Melbourne lately.

  • @Jonno2020
    @Jonno2020 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The control water level bucket with a float valve is a good thing, it keeps the optimum water level in all the buckets. The problems occur with the PH and nutrients. One needs a good circulation flow throughout the system, i.e. with wider pipes between the buckets. Small pipes like 13mm will stagnate from lack of flow and build up pathogens over time. Use wide pipes with a water pump to circulate fluid around the system.

  • @orveahava
    @orveahava 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Back to basics. I've done rookie mistakes with leaking nft pipes. Still struggling with this.

  • @francescopaparella4887
    @francescopaparella4887 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The initial growth was prodigious! (And even later it was going and going...). Do you mind sharing what was the pH and EC of the buckets and of the external reservoir?
    Thanks for the video!

  • @_hazplants
    @_hazplants 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    A great way to produce two tomatoes. Exactly what I was looking for. ✌️

    • @juanm555
      @juanm555 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      My go to video when I am making a recipe that calls for 2 tomatoes but I only have 1. get the seeds, follow video, continue recipe. EZ

  • @coalinga63
    @coalinga63 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I love seeing the fails as mush as I enjoy the successes. Keep up the good work

  • @LithiumLogica
    @LithiumLogica 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head with the statement that it needed ventilation. That's what caused the issue with the roots, with the mold, and you also didn't pollenate the flowers. They're sort of self-pollenating, but you have to give the flowers a little rustle or use a brush or something to pollenate them. I've found just shaking the bush a little bit by tapping the main stem lightly enough to shake the bush was enough.
    They also need lots of water, which is why it got so humid. I had an issue with my first big batch of tomatoes... they made my apartment into a jungle. Had to get a dehumidifier to bring that down a bit. They also got pollen everywhere.
    Really like your channel, though, and it's cool seeing all the different projects you try. Sorry this one turned out a biohazard. I felt bad for you having to clean all that mess up.

  • @lippedgerm
    @lippedgerm 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This had to be on purpose surely, was very interesting to watch the plants grow so much at night they really stretch

  • @beausmumau
    @beausmumau 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Consider purchasing a combination hygrometer/thermometer, so you can keep an eye on both the humidity and the temperature inside the tent. Fan inside the tent for air circulation and pollination, and exhaust fan to extract excess heat and humidity would also help. Thanks for the video, it also provided information about the setup that I was looking to find.

  • @MsSAinyourFace
    @MsSAinyourFace 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You had me very concerned at the start when you said it was a fail. I have been growing tomatoes in the pot in pot in pot system under a light and in a room with much success. Plenty ventilation in that room though and I help pollination with an electric toothbrush. So. Many. Tomatoes. Also dont discredit the lack of CO2 replenishment. Thanks for failing so we dont have to!

    • @Hoocho
      @Hoocho  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'd love to see some pics if you've got any, flick them up on the subreddit or FB

    • @MsSAinyourFace
      @MsSAinyourFace 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Hoocho will head on over to the subreddit!

    • @anelehhydro2214
      @anelehhydro2214 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Hoocho th-cam.com/video/SLE1ItBBAjA/w-d-xo.html

  • @ivorgreenplant
    @ivorgreenplant 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    did you do it all wrong just to show us or did you not look in ya tent for like a month or 2 ..

  • @chrisl7608
    @chrisl7608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Lol. Deep water culture? More like deep aeroponics culture air roots like a rainforest. If you can defeat the mold, ...

    • @atomizer2665
      @atomizer2665 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      They look like typical dwc roots to me, genuine aeroponic roots are completely different.

    • @danielmonteiro8074
      @danielmonteiro8074 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Use Hydrogen Peroxide in your water solution. It helps prevent a number of things

  • @risingequinox3093
    @risingequinox3093 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Should be titled "when nothing is done right, what do you expect." Hopefully he got his tie straight without breaking the mirror.

  • @OldFartGrows
    @OldFartGrows 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Bruh, when the shit hit the fan, that you don't have, put an ozone generator in the tent for 24 hrs, then soak everything with 3-5% H2O2 prior to moving anything out of the tent.
    Then bathe tent in 22 nm UVC light, spray again, mop up, repeat. You should be ok after that. If you pull plants 1st the spores will get everywhere. I grew mmj professionally, if we had a tent like that, we would throw it away. Tip of the month: you can never have too much ventilation (but I guess you know that already) BTW- I totally respect your willingness to share failures mate.

  • @m.b.boyack2228
    @m.b.boyack2228 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    For the benefit of new indoor gardeners, having NO Ventilation (O2 & CO2) equates to NO Food and/or NO Light, the tripod of life. One environmental factor is as imperative as the other and without the monitored and controlled presence of all three seriously attempting any indoor garden grow is a total waste of the other resources used in addition to time, regardless of the grow system employed, hydroponic or organic, or the cultivar grown.

  • @justziptieit8428
    @justziptieit8428 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Never been real successful with DWC myself. They always go like gangbusters for about a month and then end up fighting lack of 02 in the res, or root fungus. NC summers don't lead well to outdoors DWC i guess. I am looking forward to seeing how my wicking rain gutter grow system works out this year. Made a few changes to some found files to mimic some of your ideas. Also setting up some dutch buckets systems inplace of some raised beds that never produced much.

    • @lukewelsh6518
      @lukewelsh6518 ปีที่แล้ว

      DWC worked good in my shed in NC

  • @theloftbird9659
    @theloftbird9659 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    More than just ventilating the air. Try exchanging the air filtering it before it comes in, a variety of veg that doesn't grow that big, user friendly fungicide before it becomes an issue, humidity gauge, if all that doesn't keep it down then maybe a de-hu. Had the same issue and found these helpful

  • @bloodsweatnbass8918
    @bloodsweatnbass8918 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is super confusing on how all that growth good or bad with just one tomatoes ?

  • @Hookstergram
    @Hookstergram 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    can suggest any Australian made lighting companies? If any exists.. Cheers

  • @keetajo4437
    @keetajo4437 ปีที่แล้ว

    Inline fan and clip fan along with trimming them so they all can get light. But wow yes fans fans fans.

  • @SEWFARDOWNUNDER
    @SEWFARDOWNUNDER 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    got mold poisoning just watching . LOL

  • @herban_garden
    @herban_garden 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I “liked” this… but I hate it so much. 😎

  • @Alphasig336
    @Alphasig336 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just open the tent and inspect grown tent weekly.

  • @pedclarkemobile
    @pedclarkemobile ปีที่แล้ว

    Think about how many litres of water are transpired through the plants each day, multiply by 1000 and that's the volume of water vapour entering the tent each day. Without adequate ventilation it's guaranteed to incubate molds, fungi and pests.

  • @TheGrowZone
    @TheGrowZone 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent video, and man did they reach for that LED! Please consider making an in depth ventilation solutions video, would be nice to hear your thoughts. I just run an little 10 cm USB fan (facing up) in the top hole of my 80x80, and seems to shift enough air for my Pepper. Hope the clean went ok!

  • @brucemenzies6006
    @brucemenzies6006 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Try taking the laterals off

  • @Gary-uy9mr
    @Gary-uy9mr ปีที่แล้ว

    What's the song??? It's got a great beat.

  • @xclusivegrower
    @xclusivegrower 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Way to crowded in there. One plant would've been way more awesome. Still a good video though thank you! 👍👍👍

  • @ivareskesner2019
    @ivareskesner2019 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for putting this up, mate. I see you had already made a dwc vid. A proper Dr. Herbal Frankenstein 😂 An experiment to see what will happen if you just leave the poor bastards alone and uncared for. Look on the bright side. You got two green tomatoes out of it 😂

  • @ryanrohauer5940
    @ryanrohauer5940 ปีที่แล้ว

    my guess is mold before i get to the end im at about 5:30 i dont see much of anything for air circ or ventilation. WPM or molds. plus being so desnse with out defoliation

  • @jeffreydheere4737
    @jeffreydheere4737 ปีที่แล้ว

    How big was that grow tent? When you were in it to disinfect it, you seemed to have plenty of room around you. I'm thinking 5x5? If so, those plants were massive.

  • @tdtrecordsmusic
    @tdtrecordsmusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    wooaaa. stuffy in there eh ??!! > to help with mold spores use a normal vacuum. Most have hepa bags. At least it will keep the spores out of ur face.
    lol, a little more humidity in there and u coulda turned the whole thing into a DWG >> deep water grow_tent

  • @abraham0014
    @abraham0014 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m calling code enforcement lol

  • @mikec3820
    @mikec3820 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    i run a old custom automated products "ebb and grow" multi flow system (they are now made by aqua farm and/or hydro farm i think) i have had this C.A.P system for 10-15 yrs. thing is a work horse.

  • @-Tris-
    @-Tris- 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Get a few cheap 120mm PC fans, put them on top of the tent. And use a 5 to 9V Power supply. They have more than enough airflow and are very silent 😉

  • @benthere8051
    @benthere8051 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    What PH and EC did you use for your tomatoes? I HAVE NEVER seen roots growing like that! I would have disinfected the tent with a 1% potassium permanganate solution in a pump-up sprayer. KMnO4 is really an effective fungicide.

  • @thomasswenddal772
    @thomasswenddal772 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've watched this a few times now. With the TH-cam rotation, it must consider it a "Classic" for me at least. A lot to learn from fails as was mentioned below. Ahh,...we loves you Hoocho. Keep on Keepin on!😎💥💥💥

  • @loganladue2
    @loganladue2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Any update to this dwc? I saw the krakey method but never saw an update to this which is what I'm interested in

  • @Lawiah0
    @Lawiah0 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Let me waste your time.

  • @kareneverling5860
    @kareneverling5860 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great experiment. Thanks for sharing, i think it would be fun to do with a youth class!

  • @PlantsR7
    @PlantsR7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Did you ever check ph or only in the beginning?

    • @PlantsR7
      @PlantsR7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Doing something similar rn

  • @Pummers38
    @Pummers38 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can't beat the $1 price of those pots and I like the saucer idea as a lid. I used the same pots last summer for tomatoes in 20lt Kratky buckets with chunky coco mulch as a medium, as I had it on hand.

  • @latriciacagle4873
    @latriciacagle4873 ปีที่แล้ว

    😲

  • @littlenugs9942
    @littlenugs9942 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Like everyone else has said so far an inline fan would make a world of difference as well as an isolating fan inside the tent also try doing 3 instead of 4 plants that will help as well allowing even more air circulation.
    Ty for the video I enjoyed waking to it

  • @stormboy1517
    @stormboy1517 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    the moisture's supposed to be in the buckets mate, not the tent itself lol. classic how not to right there, awesome

  • @pagnedaman3777
    @pagnedaman3777 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    What product is used to disinfect the tent at the end? What's a good product that won't hurt future plants that go in the tent?

  • @roguesource8035
    @roguesource8035 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You messed up wiping your tent with chemicals....

  • @TheEmanus1947
    @TheEmanus1947 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    LOL

  • @bomboclatgardener4490
    @bomboclatgardener4490 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The humidity too high wil damage ur LED lamp

  • @dorianmccarthy7602
    @dorianmccarthy7602 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Holy crap! getting major Dino Crisis 2 flashbacks with this grow. Really wanting to see when you refine this setup. i reckon it'll kickass once its refined.

    • @77Fmydog
      @77Fmydog 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      haha im glad i wasnt the only one

  • @dingdongchingchong8659
    @dingdongchingchong8659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How this guy doesn't get tip burn is beyond me

  • @micksbackyardaquaponics1408
    @micksbackyardaquaponics1408 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    What was the nutrient that you used in the backs there 👍👍

  • @stevef.m.2188
    @stevef.m.2188 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    No ventilation not good Thanks Hoocho

  • @JeffsWig
    @JeffsWig 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was so predictable. Why use electricity for an indoor tomato grow when you can grow them outside as they have next to no monetary value?

    • @JeffsWig
      @JeffsWig 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lickcarpet I see my reply to you was removed. Did it upset you? Boo boo 😭😭😭

    • @atomizer2665
      @atomizer2665 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Its advantageous to start them early indoors ( a couple of months) so they can make full use of the entire outdoor growing season.

  • @mitchellcollier8627
    @mitchellcollier8627 ปีที่แล้ว

    Absolutely crazy

  • @thack2502
    @thack2502 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Someone hook that man up with a exhaust fan !! I'm thinking you must be looking for a new "fan" sponsor to go with that light !!

  • @upside-downguy6513
    @upside-downguy6513 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I would never emulate you wearing a mask

  • @MCConfuz
    @MCConfuz ปีที่แล้ว

    who does the rad music in this and other vids?

  • @chrisharland7900
    @chrisharland7900 ปีที่แล้ว

    Should always pull off any rockwool you can when putting in the buckets to prevent stem root later on.