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Please give us a complete tutorial about cost and inside of tower (all parts shown on camera inside parts especially ) connection including electricity and nutrition liquid details
I would love to know all this too🤩
Look it up lots of people do it not only him
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Seem a bit of jump from planting seeds on something flat to harvesting the results from something columnar. I guess there must be a few extra steps in between.
I mean it’s pretty clear…each one of those seeds goes into a hole in the tower
@Preston Phillips The man was showing the steps. He skipped that step. It would be nice to see it.
@Craftybaker no he was demonstrating his propagation strategy, listen again
@Big D
But after the propagation, whats the next step?
Its empty food !!! Crops need soil (fungi, bacteria)!!!!
He’s talking about growing lettuce hydroponically. Not something else. Like you are.
@el stinko if you ever tried any vegetables grown with this method you know what he is sayin. These are taste like water and the nutrition level is about half, but more like quarter compare to a regular growth plant.
@el stinko weed is best grown in hydro If it is what you talking about
Less nutrients compared to the one grown in soil.
Plants grown aeroponically have 100% availability of oxygen at the root level enhancing their ability to absorb nutrients. As a result, whether talking about nutrient density, antioxidant levels, or flavonoid levels where crops rank as high as the best ever tested with soil farming. Increase in nutrient density, flavonoids, and antioxidant levels also translates in superior taste and vegetables with the appropriate texture and water content!
@Agrotonomy Juliet seems to be correct. could you point out some peer reviewed studies with those claims. I can’t seem to find any studies done on the columnar styles in the past two decades, only sponsored studies which we all know are just thinly veiled sponsorships. The rest of the data was done on systems that are nothing like this and have processes that are far more time and cost intensive than what you’ve displayed.
@Agrotonomy such a lie. I like how you tried it though. Make the lie sound like it’s educational by adding some bio words. You tried it. Still a LIE…!!!😂😂😂😂
Oh, now you’re gunna feel the wrath! ROTFL!!
You can just give it whatever nutrients it needs like fertiliser. Otherwise shouldn’t they show deficiency? His plants look fine.
I like to know the nutrient level of those lettuces.
None in my view, that is why there is growth in the sale of multi vitamins resulting from lack of nutrients in the present day agricultural produce especially iodine leading to thyroid issues
That was my guess, nothing is better grown than in a live, healthy and rich soil.
@Xainfinen : Excellent point. That explains why we’re eating more vegetables than ever, but we’re still nutrient deficient. Because this is how they’re cultivating vegetables these days.
Do you rotate the columns for even sunlight exposure?
If you arrange the towers from north to south, every side of the tower will get sufficient distribution of light.
This is absolutely amazing 👏
Thank you so much.
Amazing…. Imagine if everyone had these❤
what i am wondering about is the nutritional content of it.
Same
Plants that are grown aeroponically receive an unobstructed supply of oxygen at the root level, which enhances their nutrient absorption capacity. Consequently, these crops have exceptional nutrient density, antioxidant, and flavonoid levels compared to soil-grown crops. These elevated levels of nutrients result in vegetables with an improved flavor, texture, and water content.
How does it go from rock wool square to vertical in planters?
Like he said. You just water it twice a day..
… and they jump onto the pillar when they’re feeling bold enough?
Our planting process begins with seeds that are placed in agricultural rock wool (made from basaltic rock). These seeds are watered until they germinate and develop into seedlings, which usually takes 2 to 3 weeks. After this, the seedlings are moved to an aeroponic tower, where they receive water enriched with an ionic mineral nutrient solution that provides all the necessary minerals and trace elements for plant growth. This solution is delivered through a submersible pump located in the bottom reservoir.
Delicious
I tried this for a year. What i learnt.
1)yes it does require less area more yield.
2)you need 24/7 electric supply.
3)it should have a specific range of fertilizer in the water or might die due to low/high concentrations.
4)needs a constant check every 2 days.
5)water levels need to be constant. Or the conc of fertilizer might increase with evaporation.
6)water flow should pretty much be constant.
7) oxygen content of water is important.
8)checks on fungal growth.
9)if living in a hot climate better have a green house or a green net covering.
10)controlling the plant nutrition is difficult without automation if not they usually lack core minerals that u get from soil.
11)very low tolerance to weather change.
12)they need long exposure of sunlight (but a cooler climate) to grow fast.
Ouch. That is one big investment.
How expensive were the fertilizers and how often did they have to be replenished? Could the grow nectar be sourced from a homestead environment or are they manufactured?
Also basalt substrate in not regenerative.
@F McDirmid here in India 1kg of iron oxide was rs200, 1kg NPK was rs53 and calcium chloride salts 1kg was RS 100. For every 10lts of water i need a combined fertilizer of 10gms per month. I did a small set up for 50plants and it costed me rs8000. I wouldn’t say it’s expensive but it was not worth the effort.
Also if the power goes off or the motor stops working for a day. They just wilt in 24hrs.
“water twice a day” almost literally illegal in half the US rn
And fully legal in the rest… point, please? Food is kinda vital to living…
This guy was wrong, you don’t need much water for vertical farming. Depending on what you are growing, you can use 90% less water and use coconut shavings to help store water for the roots.
NOTE: THIS IS A JOB! And them veg are going to taste different from soil grown veg!
They will not taste different. Soil just holds nutrients and water for the plant to access. If you have the nutrients and bacteria and fungii they love, you dont need soil to produce the flavors those compounds would have created.
@Cole Kter dude, you are obsessed! Go ahead. Show me your work. I want to see who to laugh at. They do taste different, and if you actually grow these, you know that. 😂
@L the flavor is genetic. Plant biology, much?
@Cole Kter flavour is not purely genetic. For most plants and meats, the intake can change the flavour. A good example is sulfites in winemaking. The type of ground the grapes are grown on can change the flavour profile of the wine.
Same with the lettuce here. Hydroponic farms have nutrients, but the lettuce is still exposed to a different mix than soilgrown. And there are substances in the soil you don’t find in the water here. The lettuce picks them up and it changes the flavour.
@Cole Kter some key minerals and nutrients can’t be supplied by liquid fertilizer so they will taste different and be less nutrient dense
Most people would need a sheltered place like a patio to plant this way. I can imagine these towers are vulnerable to being knocked over by the wind.
What kind of constant gale-force winds do you live in?
@Wayward MIllennial The taller the plant, the more vulnerable they are to wind. Especially stand-alone plants or towers like these. I try to grow one pot of tomatoes every year just for fun and a home grown salad or two and invariably the wind blows that 15″ pot over two or three times – even if I place it so close to the house the leaves touch the siding on one side. Not constant wind. Just windy mid-western days.
I did this when I was living in Maryland 10yrs ago and fungal infections was our biggest problem. Also, the hard water will eventually create problem to the water pump, and the maintenance takes more time for us than we would like to spend on. Another issue no one mention was the add-ons that you have to buy it you want to grow them indoors. We had to buy one those UV light and installed them on our ceilings to give these hydroponic garden the right amount of lights in the winter. We sold ours on the Craigslist a year and a half later, and I feel so relief after getting rid of it. However, this also gives me more appreciation to the farmer’s we buy our produce from.
When it comes to price, the water and electric bills combine per month is still cheaper than buying lettuce weekly at the grocery stores in Maryland. However, the fertilizer, seeds, filter, and maintenance takes up more time and money for us.
To those who wonder how it taste: our Romaine lettuce taste very similar to the ones you get from the store. However, our arugula doesn’t have that kick that you will get from growing in the soil. We didn’t grow tomato because the community we joined said to us that the tomato won’t taste good with just water and fertilizer.
Is a great system to own if you live in a city and want some reasonable greens in the winter. Or if you have a passion towards grow plants.
I worked at a pot farm and we used rock wool. I HATED IT. It was basically fiberglass, it was dusty and itchy, and if it got up your nose you were fucked.
The plants hated it too, they all grew consistently smaller and STUNK.
How was the potency, thc?
@Roxanne Alexander exactly the same with adjusted nutes. Coco coir works good but (unfortunately?) canna does best in rockwoll for some reason. Only ever grew gwkp/cbd though
Whattt??!??! My weed loves to grow in rock wool or we got different types of rock wool compared what we got in the Netherlands but they absolutely love it, i do use it only for the clones though noo seedlings will be put in rock wool
Best method is to soak em in a light feed water at like 5.5-5.7 for like a day. Rockwool is pretty high pH and the clones need some nutrients to really pop, I get roots so long I have to trim em during transplant days…and make sure to wear gloves and dont touch your skin, again, fiberglass
I love how they don’t say how difficult keeping liquid nutrient balance is in a system like this.
The towers are automatically filled up on an as needed basis via a gravity tank. These nutrients are dosed at a 1:300 ratio using a dosing system known as a “dosatron”.
@Agrotonomy You’ve only reinforced OPs point. The fact that you own an expensive piece of equipment to automate the difficult process doesn’t remove the difficulty or cost from the process. It just shows you’ve succeeded in capitalism.
@asluckdespairs lmao yeah. He real quiet about the top comment
@asluckdespairs its a short and this idea could help feed us in the future without continuing to destroy wildlife for farming.
@BooBuKittyPhuk you could just do the same thing with soil. And make a soil tower. Itd be cheaper. Bc you wouldnt have to have electricity running constantly, and you wouldnt have to spend every 2 days checking for fungal growth. And you wont have to purchase as much fertilizer because the soil will already have some. This option is not viable as you need 24/7 electricity running and we cannot have every farm doing that because then thatd make the oil industry need to drill more oil, which is actually more harmful to the wildlife ecosystem than just using soil. You could argue they may use solar panels, but even thats not viable. When a solar panel breaks you cannot fix it you have to replace it. And two, the oil industry will never let that happen.
This just looks like a pretty/fancy, expensive, and modern/chic way to have your own farm. I like it, but I think I’m gonna stick with my good ‘ol flowerbeds.
Nothing beats the perfect nutrients from the soil 🥰
Except this literally does tho😂
Here in Germany we use rockwool for insulation instead of fiberglass. We also use it to grow weed occasionally.