A Hydroponic System for Root Vegetables!
This Video is from the Youtube channel: “Hoocho”.
Hoocho builds a hydroponic system for root vegetables, as well as a hydroponic orchid for citrus…
At the end we look at updates for most of the other system builds.
All the 3D printable parts are available on the Hoocho Patreon:
Time Stamps:
00:00 – Foreword
00:30 – Intro
00:50 – Building the Hydroponic Root Vegetable System
03:25 – Building the Hydroponic Orchid
05:00 – Replanting/Planting Hydroponic Fruit Trees
12:05 – New 3D Printable Design
13:30 – Hydroponic Potatoes
14:28 – Greenhouse Updates
17:30 – RGGS Res Discussion
19:47 – Dutch Bucket Res Discussion
22:30 – Hydroponic Wasabi Update
24:10 – Planting Hydroponic Root Vegetables
Hoochos explores the worlds of Hydroponics, Aquaponics, Permaculture, Homesteading, Fermentation, Technology Vanlife and DIY Builds to look at the world through a larger lens that can incorporate the best of everything into a rich and rewarding lifestyle.
Through self sufficiency we can reduce consumption and increase our hyperlocal household production.
Happy Hydroponicing!
Big fan of yours !! Hope one day, i can set up my own hydroponic farm! 🙂
He’s preaching pure ignorance you’re not supposed to do Hydroponics outside also you’re not supposed to recirculate the water without a fertroller and a pH controller
can’t wait to see the root veggie updates! Would you consider planting blueberries? and would grow bags work with the rain gutter system? 🙏🙏🙏
I’ve got about 15 Grow bags ready to go, and a design to help them wick 😊
@Hoocho 🙌🙌🙌
Considering that I grow root veggies in a constant flood and drain bed, I cannot see how you will fail in the rain gutter system. Be interesting to see what comes out. Beetroot and onion does extremely well in flood and drain.
Also I would steal that rain gutter idea for citrus if I didn’t already have amazing soil here to grow in, I am actually moving my hydroponic system during the next few weeks to plant citrus there instead lol
Ah a nice and long video! I wish I would not live in an apartment so I might have a bit more space to do some growing. I do have an amazingly large 50cm x 50cm area that I will do something with. Probably a wicking lettuce system just for the winter.
I just set up a few new containers in a twist of this system and planted onion, carrot, turnips, and leeks. In spring the turnips and radishes did amazing! Thanks for keeping these videos about it going!
Can’t wait to see the citrus fruiting 👍
Love you ideas and systems!!! Long time follower! Can’t wait too i get my own land and have a similar set up!!!
Exited about the last comment. Love to see a combined one.
I see you have got some advice about the spraying. I use 5ml neem oil and 3ml dishwashing liquid in 1L water and spray once a week. This is more to stop them coming then killing them. But eventually they will die and you will be free of them.
This is inspiring. Great dedication and love for plants is super cool imo.
Thank you H!
I grow spring onions in my NFT. I just plant the ones I buy from the supermarket straight into the NFT and it works perfectly.
I gotta tip for u. Check both ends of the wick system. The end of the pipe that isn’t getting refreshed when top up happens may be higher.
Hey Hoocho, I’m curious about these wicking beds you’re using for the trees and the root veggies. Are you hooking these all up to the same res? Also, are you flushing and cycling the drainpipe wicking beds weekly/fornightly? If so, do you find the plants are having any problems with a lack of dissolved oxygen? The fruit trees in the nursery pots should be fine, because they have aeration holes built in, but the veggies in those huge buckets with only the mesh pots in the bottom, wouldn’t really have much of a source of airflow in to the root base if the pipe isn’t flooding and draining regularly, or running like a constant-flow NFT. How did the radishes and stuff go in those giant tubs?
I’m an aquaponics guy, and I’m incredibly lazy/labour-efficient, so the more that I can automate and the less manual monitoring of EC&pH levels that I can do, the better. I like having one spot to check the stats for the system, though with about 10 of these 3meter pipes, using standing water on a float valve, I’d go crazy checking the consumption of nutrients, pH in all of them, and manual draining every week.
Edit: What are you using for the taps on the end of the pipe? I’m going mad trying to find something to adapt a 90mm round drainpipe to a 20mm BSP so I can drain it using a hose, 19mm irrigation pipe or 20mm PVC piping back to the res.
I absolutely love this idea, and I am going to show my husband first thing in the morning and get him to watch a couple of your videos. I think I have seen this method before on one or two of Larry Hall’s videos before he passed away a couple of years ago and I think this method would work really well for us. Last year I bought a bunch of grow bags and had some problems with nutrients being washed out from all the rain we sometimes get. So this year I decided to use a watering from beneath method that I saw on a channel called Grow Abundance that is self-fed from a 50-gal bin which I am hoping to capture rainwater into. I am really getting excited about this growing season with all of these wonderful ideas that I am going to be trying. Thank you so very much for all you teach us about your methods, I am really learning quite a bit from you. Many Blessings to you always and many thanks for all you do.
I’m wondering if Moringa tree’s would grow well hydroponic ? They don’t require much water at all though.
Hey Hoocho,
Can or do you have a build out of your reservoir tank showing how you have the refill floats ECT.
That would be awesome information for me I’m having issues keeping them topped up
Thank you for all your work
Awesome as usual wish we had as much sun here in NY but keep up the videos people don’t understand the importance of these learning Gems!
it’s been a year since you released this video and I’m curious how the citrus is doing as they usually don’t like to have wet feet. Any issue with them getting too much water?
I like your videos. I’m going to give it a go. Start small. Just lettuce. But I did want to try radishes. Anything new on growing those?
Your video’s are pretty informative for a beginner like I am. Cocoa? I’ll look that up. I do spinach and lettuce (kratky(?)) in my bathroom and am thinking of branching out and using our 1100 sq ft daylight basement for my “garden.” I love being “retired!”
Curious as to whether the wasabi survived? I’ve been considering it myself.