Hydroponic Strawberries
This Video is from the Youtube channel: “Homegrown Passion”.
This is our biggest hydroponic strawberry crop yet. There are lots of Katy’s growing tips in this video. We have tried them in the NFT system, but found they are much easier in buckets. We talk about what it was like growing them in the main greenhouse. Then I got a couple things done in there before heading out to the high tunnel. Doug was also out side working on the strawberry support system. We have 100 buckets and 500 plants. The extra strawberry plants went into hanging baskets.
your camera work and editing is perfect. What a great operation you and your family have.
Oh thank you so much! This makes me happy since I spend a lot of time editting. Have a great weekend!
I have heard that about hydroponic fruit. Some say it is bland. I grew a hydroponic cherry tomato in my AeroGarden and the tomatoes tasted just like tomatoes. I haven’t tried any other fruit. But I grow a lot of lettuce in my AeroGarden and it tastes great. No dirt or bugs either!
Yes thank you! That’s why we love hydroponics. I’m looking forward to showing the ripe strawberries and how red they are in the middle.
As always a great show that teaches how to grow your own crops. I have had their produce and it is wonderful. Please stop at their farm market if you can.
Excellent video I’m watching while I fetch water to filter through for a nutrient change … this is one of your best vids !! Great energy and practical advice makes for info I can hold on to !! Y’all are the best. . So inspiring ! What nutrients do ya’ll use ? Or from ” scratch ” ? Or is that a trade secret? Thanks!
Thank you very much! I really appreciate this…I tend to spend a lot of time editting. We are giving the strawberries the leafy crop nutrients from the main greenhouse right now, but we are working on getting the emitter system set up and they will have their own nutrients. We are still deciding which to use, but I will put it in a video once we decide. Hope you have a great weekend!
Great set up! Will be great to see how the strawberrys come out!
Devon…have you looked into vertical hydroponic towers for strawberries? Isn’t it a lot of vertical height waste for such short plants compared with tall growing plants like tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, etc? Even with the planters you have now, you might be able to create at least a two tier system with sufficient gap between each tier to prevent shading. Please ask your “evil genius” dad to try building a small scale two tier system in a corner. If it works, you can replicate throughout the greenhouse next season. No offense to Dad…a nice compliment, that’s all! 😁 😁 Good luck!
As always, you guys are doing an awesome job with your farm! Love it! Learning a lot, and hope to start a small farm one day! Thank you for sharing all of your knowledge! 😀
I really enjoy your channel, its very informative and I love the whole family thing. Please can you keep the information and progress of the strawberries growing. I’ve had a few hydroponic ideas flowing to grow strawberries where I live in Denmark, our problem is temperature and the shortness of the summer. Keep the channel going it’s a wealth of valuable information.
I have been growing various kinds of vegetables hydroponically for about 3 years now. I started with peppers, tomatoes, and lettuce. They all tasted great, full of flavor. I have since grown spinach, basil, stevia and green beans. I have even just started trying to grow zucchini (I just got some flowers in the last week so nothing has set yet). I think when people say hydroponic vegetables taste bland, they may be referring to things they are buying in the grocery store. Foods that were still picked green and only ripened up in the back of a truck several hundreds or more miles from the grocery store. Love your channel, thanks for all the great information!
Great family. Hoping you guys really do well.
Great update on HP strawberry’s looking forward to seeing your progress through the year! Nice Job!
Hi Devon. We just discovered your channel as we are doing research on Hydroponics. Strawberries are looking so tempting….
We were wondering how often do you run the heat in the greenhouse for the leafy greens. We are in Southern Ontario, so climate is very similar. With double poly greenhouse, we are trying to figure out how cold its gets inside winter time and how often do you need to run the heaters. Any info would be appreciated.
Again, loving you channel.
Make sure you keep your tunnel under 85 degrees with day-neutrals, or you’ll see blossoms but fruit won’t set. Fertilize routinely with P/K when you are blooming. Hit them with a more concentrated N and a humic April/May. I helped to develop some now patented day neutral varieties when I was at MSU. I grow one of them now commercially on a plasticulture system. The variety I grow out-performs and out-flavors both Albion and Seascape. I have berries May-July and August-October. If you ever want runners I’m in Michigan and can help to work out royalties with university and get your farm going with some.
We are located in central Michigan and have been growing hydro strawberries vertically for several years now. We would be very interested in the new varieties available to us.
How long have you guys been doing this project? It looks amazing and it’s brave thing to do
i love that you all work as a team, each with their own skill sets. much love!
Thanks for sharing your experiences. I find your commentary to be very thoughtful. It is inspiring that your family has been so successful in this enterprise. I hope you continue to learn and fine tune your farming.
I really have positive envy for you. Whilst I do not think that life is in any way easy with what you do, your family definitely made the right decision to go with hydro farming.
I only wish that I could afford land in the UK to do something similar. Regardless, I have a small setup in my garage that keeps me busy when not at work.
Keep up the good work.
I love your hydroponic system.
What’s the likelihood of switching the systems materials from petrol based plastic, to a sustainable material? Such as Hemp?
I think the reason why people think that hydroponic grown produce is flavorless, is because hydroponic tomatoes for instance, when I see them in the store, most of the time they are trucked in from afar: like from Canada (I live in South West Missouri). So the tomatoes are picked green so they will survive the journey, which causes them not to have the taste as a tomato that is picked at maturity.
It also depends on the kind of tomato u grow, i live in the Netherlands and because of our climate all the commercialy grown tomato’s are grown in hydroponic greenhouses. Farmers in co-operation with Wageningen university of agricultural research have bred tomato plants that only need 4 liters of water to produce 1kg of tomato’s (around 1.05 gallon for around 2.2 pounds of tomato). Ironically our tomato’s taste quite watery, which besides the selective breeding comes from the fact that our tomato’s unlike for example Italian and Spanish ones get way less sunlight. Although i kinda like the more watery taste in salads, it’s horrible in sauces or soup in which you would really want that strong tomato flavour.
That’s funny because I live in Canada and feel like all our “fresh” veggies are trucked in from the U.S. and are green on the truck and ripen in the dark. But I can tell you I absolutely LOVE growing my own food in hydroponics which I’m doing in a very small apartment and it’s incredible the quantity of food that you can actually grow hydroponically and I can tell you that the taste is beyond anything that I had ever imagined soooo amazingly good!! The tomatoes are the absolute best I’ve ever tasted and I leave them to ripen fully on the plant and only pick them when I need them.
@Leanne KenYoung You should make an youtube channel, show us how to grow veggie in our apartments. I would love to grow some stuff, but I don’t have a clue on how to do it indoors.
They are talking about the ones the hot houses grow with no flavor … Some people use plain water I think
Any chance you could do a quick follow up video on the strawberry progress?
You and your family do a great work. Love family work together. Like your explanation that nutrition is the key for high qualified strawberries as ones grown in the soil. It’s informative, thanks. Keep going.
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@Homegrown Passion Could you share your feeding formula? Also what do you do to prevent root rot when you buy plants whose roots have been packed in soil? Do you treat them in some way before placing them in your hydroponics containers? I washed all the soil off mine and they did well for about 2 weeks and then developed root rot and all leaves died. I want to start a new batch but want to make sure that I set them up for success before transferring into my containers.