This Video is from the Youtube channel: “Keep on Growin’ with Mike VanDuzee”.
Make sure to watch the end to see how much plastic is being used today in a lot of agriculture around the world. Join me as we try to put a small dent in plastic use and maybe revolutionize the hydroponics industry…or at least home hobby hydroponics.
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Awesome! I’m trying to get the plastic out of my yard/garden as much as possible too. It’s hard at times, but every little bit helps. All gardeners before us lived without it, so we can surely learn to use less at the very least. Keep up the great work. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year and thank you very much!
Wow. What an amazing journey you are about to embark. I will be watching and learning.
Thank you very much!
So recently read an article about how drinking bottled water from plastic is putting more plastics in our body and bloodstream. They mentioned how they took standard brands that were purchased at Walmart and after the tests they found plastics are leaching into the water at a higher level than known. If this is true I would be curious to know if plastics that we use for gardening do the same? I feel aside from being better for the planet if using glass or other forms of material would also be better for our health. I realize what is being discussed is on a microscopic level and negative impacts may take decades to show up… but if growing produce without using plastics is a way to have even better food to improve our quality of life…why would be not do this? Curious if anyone knows more about this topic and would be willing to share…I just want to learn and understand more and if I’m not understanding properly or am flat out wrong would love know more either way. Good luck on this new chapter you are undertaking looking forward to learning more from you ~ cheers
Thank you very much. I pretty much feel the same. I mean, couldn’t hurt right? I remember once when they said not to leave the water bottles in the sun where they get hot then I drove up to a gas station that had a whole pallet sitting in front of the store right in the sun. We are excited about giving this a go, been heavy on my mind for a while. Have an awesome night.
There are a large amount of plastics that release chemicals similar to human hormones.
Being warning my kids since they were young that plastic means poison or rubbish. Nothing built from plastic or concrete lasts, not like the things our ancestors built
Good luck brother!
You have been super helpful in my journey to start growing. I have used a couple of your ideas and they have been game changers. I wouldn’t want to go without them 🙏
That’s awesome, happy for you!
It will be an interesting journey for sure. 😊
Do you believe you will be able to produce the same quality and quantity of food and what do you think the cost difference (ROI) will be as you embark on this new path.
You are thinking waaaayyyyy ahead of me, lol. First thing is finding some things that work then go from there.
Amazing invitation to more children at heart with creative minds to find better ways to grow healthy food… Hurray to all 🎉 I’m sure something huge is coming up soon!!!
Thank you! I will try my best!
I grow my plants hydroponically in glass I am curious to see what you start doing I hate dirt/soil it makes the fruit flies nest that is why I started hydroponics growing and glass jars were just what I had that I used ❤😁✌🏼
Awesome Gina! Way to go!
Oh Mike I get what your saying but… what about us who can’t afford to make the move to glass or whatever comes next. I love what you do because you think outside the box and make things affordable for us to try and grow our own food. What happens to us now !
I guess just follow your old videos.
I have 7 YEARS of videos, lol. This has been bugging me for 5 years, got to do it sometime. I will still aim for cheap and easy though. I won’t forget you all.
I also filmed enough through the last 7 years to make videos for 10 years to come. Don’t worry.
Thats a big challenge bro. Plastics do so much cheaply and effectively for us.
Re -using an old plastic food container will always be job #1 for me
True, true. But you already have that knowledge in your brain. I think why don’t I explore more, it will help even more people. The past does not change.
@@KeepOnGrowin you’re a Legend!
You could try bamboo. Some bamboo is 4″ in diameter. Knock out the centers and it will work like pvc pipe.
That’s a great idea, I would love it but a 6′ piece is like a hundred bucks, lol. If someone wants to send me a bunch I would build a lovely hydro garden!
It gets waterlogged. it expands and gets soft and microbes turn gelatinous gooey mess inside there even with constant cleaning. Don’t ask me how I know this. All of those lovely bamboo water fountains are coated with plastic or silicone on the inside. On the short term and if you had a whole bamboo forest in your backyard to use anytime you wanted… It’s the perfect medium for whatever you wanna do because you can just replace it constantly and very easily. But in USA, where you have to pay an arm and a leg for one of those big bamboos… nope nope nope! They also dry rot very easy in the sun and become warped and cracked.. leaking any contents on the inside out. Sorry!
That is awesome Mike, sometimes you have to challenge yourself, step outside the box. Or else we get too comfortable and it just seems too easy at times
Right on Ryan! I can not stand being in the comfort zone, it bores me. Thanks much!
Wow! Can’t wait to see what you come up with. Also curious about your new use for your downspouts.
me too.
Thank you. I couldn’t waste them.
Thank you for this. I’m just getting started on my hydroponic journey and really want to not use plastics- so far I’m reading- bamboo, clay, glass, metal. That’s a good start!!
Yes, all that and trying to still keep it easy and affordable. Challenging but worthwhile.
What about glass jars from the grocery store repurposed by drilling a couple of holes in each side and connecting them all with silicone tubing so it’s one circular unit of individual jars that can circulate the plant food by a transfer pump or two added to the circle. Not only could you make it as big around as you wanted, but you could add more smaller circles on the interior and when you turn on a pump, it draws from one side and spits out the other side and all the jars are connected with their attached silicone tubing so the suction would literally draw all of the liquid consistently in a circle as long as the pump is running. Bigger jars need bigger pumps, smaller jars need smaller pumps. There are some very nifty 1 gallon jar deals on Amazon if you want to buy new. on YouTube, there is a helpful video of how to drill a hole in a glass jar without breaking it and I saved it somewhere but I can’t find it now so you’d have to do a search. Good luck!
Thank you, I will be considering that moving forward. Never drilled in glass so it will be something new.
I do DWC in gallon (deli size) huge pickle jars. Works great! Except, I do 3d print a lid which has the perfect holes I need for air hose, drain siphon/filling hose, heater power (i keep my house very cold in the winter), and of course the center hole for the plant itself. Been growing habenaros, jalapenos, and tomatoes indoors like this for a while. The jar never breaks down and I love eating a pickle every week so I can “earn” my next plant container lol. I dont see how you can go fully plastic-free though— even the original pickle jar lid is metal but coating in a rubbery plastic on the bottom to help it seal. If you drill any holes through this top then it will just rust with the salty water bubbling up on it. Not ideal. Wood would grow mold. Stone would be basically impossible to fashion. Maybe we need some glass lids?!
Keep thinking and keep an open mind. If we think there is “no way”, then we are right. The only failure is not trying. Your set up sounds awesome!
Love the willingness to learn and grow 🙌 Can’t wait to watch this process.
Thank you, much appreciated!
Just found your channel a week ago and have seed starting – yeps – all you brother! … cannot wait to see what the next phase to this journey is! Thanks for the inspiration!
Thank you, this will be exciting!
What I find so delightful about Mike is the creativity, practicality, simplicity, ease of use and productivity of his ingenious systems, all with the goal of getting people involved in growing some of their own food. He’s a treasure and a true humanitarian, always learning and growing and making it fun to experiment with new ideas. It looks like an exciting new year!
Trying to remember how my sister made the planters when she did her science fair exhibit of hydroponics. Almost seems like she used test tubes or beakers. (It was the early 60’s so plastic wasn’t the norm. BTW she won because most had never heard of hydroponics so it was super innovative for the time). Love how you think outside the box. I grow in hard but haven’t figured a way to automate without plastic
Thank you! That’s awesome! I have some chemistry equipment to fool with at some point.
I have longed to see this for years. Less dependancy on polluting, difficulty of recycling and how oil based products are causing conflict and have high cost and supply problems in many parts of the world, and especially the consideration that these days we are realising about the dangers of microplastic particles.
Last year I grew garlic in holes cut in sides of a plastic bottle. If I could figure out how to cut the holes I would use a glass one !
More power to your elbow, Mike, on the non plastic march !