Commercial Hydroponic Growing, Systems and Supplies

This is a work in progress and I will add follow-ups to this video as the basil plants grow larger!

As winter will soon be upon us, I am experimenting with the wonderful world of hydroponics so I can have some fresh veggies during the off season, ON THE CHEAP!

Hydroponics is a lot simpler than it first seems. Liquid nutrients deliver regular and consistent food to the plants on a timed schedule and therefore producing an ideal growing situation for bigger and faster fruit production than soil! Also because there is no soil, the system runs cleaner and much smaller pots can be used as we are only need to accommodate space for the roots and some media (rock wool and hydro pellets) for support.

This ebb and flow system is inspired by a few instructables from instructables.com, but modified so that the root cup is removable.

All that is needed is:
-Hydroponic cup
-A rock wool plug
-Clay pellets for added substrate
-Aquarium air pump
-Air tubing
-Air tubing relief valve
-Inverted water bottle, with bottom cut off, sized for the Hydro pot
-Plastic cup to hold water bottle
-Power drill to drill holes in the bottle caps

During winter, this set up will need an artificial light source, but this was a trial filmed in July 2009, so there is sufficient sun intensity and duration in the window sill for now!

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What you’re looking at here is a 3.5 gallon bucket, a 10 inch net pot, a single air pump, a pack of rock wool, some air tubing, an air pump and your hydroton. What we have here is everything you need to do a simple, one-piece hydroponic, deep water culture unit.

A base deep water culture system starts out easy and simple like this: You have a 3.5 gallon bucket, a nice little net pot that holds the hydroton, a piece of rockwool to wick-up the water, and underneath is an airstone to get the water nutrients bubbling up to the plant.

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Here we have a 70 liter airpump. This will power the airstone that bubbles the water and nutrients up to meet the rock wool and the medium, pulling up water and oxygen for the rooting system. Today we have a 70 liter high-output active aqua airpump. This one can power up to eight buckets. We have it going on three today. The roots grow down into the water, then are fed with nutrients via the airpump. The nutrients uptake through the root system that are being constantly misted at the bottom. When a younger plant is started, you are required to have more water in the reservoir to hit the rockwool and create a wicking activity and bring water and nutrients to the plant. As the plant grows a little bit larger, you get the luxury for the roots growing down into the water and you can have a slightly lower reservoir, but you still want a good bubble-up to make sure your medium stays nice and moist.

These products are very easy to maintain on a daily and weekly basis. Its very easy to follow and get done. All you have to do is lift the top of the bucket off, which seals nice and tight on here. You remove the plant and set it in another bucket. Once you do that, all you have to do is change the water, add new nutrients, set the plant back into the bucket, and you get back to growing again. If you would like to do more, you can upgrade your airpump, and add them in a line. You get some more buckets, some more tops, larger airpump and you can get many of these in a series and have more plants growing. What I do recommend is having an already rooted clone or a plant out of seedling stage to place into a pot. As you can see, we have a very lovely deep water culture system here in the store, producing us a nice wide variety of tomatoes.

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I hope this video will show how and encourage people to build their own Ebb and Flow Hydroponics System. This is a fun hobby for me and I believe other people would enjoy it too if they knew how easy and relatively inexpensive it can be. Why an Animated Version? It allows me to show the inner workings of how this Ebb and Flow system works. I suspect this is something a person who has never seen one in action would want to see. It will also take some of the mystery out of it. This shows how simple a Hydroponics system can be. It also allows me to show variations without having to build several systems. And finally, I wanted to do an animated video and try out the Narration feature of Windows Movie Maker.

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What do you do with your old plastic coffee can. Build a mini Hydroponics system of course. A Hydroponics system built into a coffee can that sounds like a percolator while it’s running, how funny is that?

The piece of air tube going into the home made lift pump is from a small aquarium air pump. The tube comming out of the side goes right into the center of the net pot. The solution splashes onto the Hydroton right next to the plant stem but not directly at it. Build one of your own. It’s a lot of fun!

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