How to create a hydroponic heaven | Wow to | Gardening Australia
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- Even if you don’t have the luxury of a large backyard you can still grow plenty of your own fresh produce using hydroponics.
Brian Bullock is a home gardener who has set up a simple but highly effect hydroponics system in his driveway and it produces more than enough food to feed his household.
“Hydroponics is essentially growing food plants in nutrient-rich water, with no need for soil,” explains Brian.
The plants sit in a growing medium - he prefers expanded clay balls but you can use scoria, perlite or even gravel - in different containers, and a nutrient-rich water solution flows over their roots, supplying them with all they need to grow. Brian blends different solutions to suit different plants, but the clever recycling system means it needs only 20% of the water an in-ground vegetable bed would use. The system avoids any soil-borne pests and diseases, there is no digging or weeding, no fertiliser loss or run off, and Brian reckons the plant growth is also quicker.
Brian is a qualified horticulturist and greenskeeper, so had a head start in setting up this hydroponics system, but he happily shares his knowledge online, and his set-up is a simple, low-cost arrangement that features lots of recycled pallets, plastic buckets and tins.
As well as the Dutch Bucket system that circulates nutrient-rich water through a series of pipes and buckets, Brian also uses a passive, single-container “Kratky” method in the cooler months (when the water is less likely to stagnate).
04:10 THE KRATKY METHOD
What you need:
A 20L bucket with lid
A slotted pot
Growing medium
Water
Nutrients
Plants
What you do:
1. Drill/cut the lid, creating a hole large enough to place and hold a net pot.
2. Fill the reservoir with water and nutrient mix and place the net pot with growing media and plant into the drilled lid. Having the lid in place supports the pot and stops mosquitoes from breeding in the water. The roots should be just touching the water, and not fully submerged.
3. As the plant roots grow, the water level in the bucket decreases. Brian suggests topping this up as required, watering through the net pot at the top.
4. Brian also drills a ‘drain hole’ in the side of his buckets. “This stops root rot, it means that the roots are accessing the water and nutrients, but aren’t submerged.”
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My husband works with aquaculture (betta fish mainly) and our dream is to put up an aquaponic system! For now, we've been using our fish water to give our garden a good and nutritious drink!
Really interested in hydroponic gardening and honestly Brian was the first person I’ve seen actually explain it well! I also didn’t know using that method in summer can be tricky so great to know!
Great video!
Thank you Brandon , yes kratky is not my preferred method of hydroponic growing in summer as the nutrient solution goes stale and runs out of oxygen then becoming anaerobic which encourages root rot and plant death. Dutch buckets are much preferred, the nutrient solution moving through the pump and through the pipes and plants keeps the oxygen levels up. I can grow all year round outdoor here in Perth.
What a great segment. I learnt so much.
Thank you Aaron Parker.
The adventage hidroponic planet very good my friend.
Thank you.
If this tickled your fancy, there's a great channel from Queensland called Hoocho. All kinds of methods, all kinds of vegies and how to's.
Thanks, will check it out
Extra bonus is no fungus gnats! :)
Great show people 💯💯💯 stay strong 💪💪💪😊😊😊 Les from Perth
Very impressive small space gardening. (Kratky method is a water and feed once though. No top ups.)
For longer time crops refilling is required, I know Professor B A Kratky does it.
@@hydroponicsbybrianbullock2488 Did you ever live in Brisbane? I had a childhood friend with your name.
McDowall Manor no, my brother was there for a bit, I’ve visited Brisbane.
@@hydroponicsbybrianbullock2488 Then I will just say, you do very good work. I played a bit with Kratky. I still do aquaponics. (I also love the way your daughter is so proud of you - congrats mate!)
McDowall Manor thank you, I do a bit of aquaponics too. Thank you I’m very proud of Bella and all my family, they have been a fantastic support during my hydroponic journey.
Great 👍 👌
More please
yep. just for veggies :)
Might go back and watch some Hoocho's vids.
Do you mind me asking what nutrients you use? Love your video. Thanks.
I use Strawberry Perfect hydroponic nutrient.
Where do i can buy that small stones
Where are you ?
Where can I buy in australia
How can we make our own fertilizer? In this vivid era I am not sure whether you are able to ship out of Australia.
There are many recipes available if you search, look up the Hoagland solution on wiki. It is a standard hydroponic formula. I employed a scientist to design my fertiliser.
Para todo usa la misma concentración de nutrientes, mide en ec o ppm ? Cuánto aproximadamente? Gracias
Yes I use the same nutrient, mostly the same EC 1.8-2.2
Tomatoes and chillies like a little higher EC. pH 5.8-6.2
What's the difference between this and normal gardening? I have a water well, I pump the water, I water the plants, water sink to water well...
The difference is that you can do this where you don’t have a patch of soil , like a balcony , rooftop or driveway wall .
@@splashpit Or you destroy soil because of your stupidity. With this amount of money, you could make desert bloom.
@@olomad6722 an desert is such because it is arid devoid of water and usually sand that can’t grow much of anything .
Hydroponic systems use less water and fertiliser than soil gardening as the water and nutrients are enclosed within the system rather than leaching away into the surrounding soil.
@@hydroponicsbybrianbullock2488 You can make subsoil irrigation. "made in israel: agriculture" here you have an example of how to use water from swamps to irrigate dessert. Another example is swales and permaculture (Geoff Lawton,). John D. Liu the next example. Probleme is not water consumption but stupid soil management. How much water do you need to produce plastic?
Does the title supposed to say "how to" not "Wow too" I'm to Wigh to tell.
What size pump is required please? Absolutely amazing job!
I am using 1000 litre per hour submersible pond pumps.
Can you recommend a grow light for a small scale indoor hydroponic system which is available in Australia. I have a blue red light which does not seem to be working. What should I look for?
I recently bought a Vivarspectra 600 LED light from eBay. $93.00 delivered. I am having good results in seed raising with this light.
I tried and failed ... my guess is that the water was too hot ... how to cool it?
Larger reservoir or insulate your reservoir or your could bury it if all else fails you could add a aquarium chiller
this is cool my only concern is your feeding one plant and water drops to the next plant but you can transfer infections from using the same water to the next its like somebody spiting in cup and you drink that cup and you pee it out and feed that pee to the next person
Not at all. The system is a closed recirculating loop, there’s no spitting in the garden.
You must be a newbie quick TH-cam search will learn you that it's perfectly fine and this does not ever occur whatsoever
You can’t beat soil grown veges for taste
Not everyone has space to plant and grow food in their backyards
JW 1991 yeh that’s true. I would definitely be using hydro if I was poor on space
its more about picking ripe and fresh
I've had many compliments on the freshness and taste of my vegetables, and others growing by these methods concur.
Brian Bullock I found them to be less tomato tasting than the soil ones. Maybe it had something to do with the nutrients they were using?
is anyone here for gardening class?
@Unrulyzaza cool :)
what should be good on chemical based nutrients and often radioactive phosphorus.
. nothing its more else disgusting. you must flush the correls with so many much better used water. then your depency on those nuttrients and of course energy for the pumps.... just for lpretty lazy ones with little understanding of plants.