THEY SAID I COULDN’T GROW LIKE THIS, I DID IT SO YOU CAN TOO

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If you want to grow some of your own produce and you don't have the time, energy, or money to do it, try this. If you don't have a big yard, try this. You can go vertical like these towers, and if you don't wanna spend about a thousand dollars on the commercial ones, you can make some of your own with a few five gallon buckets.

The cool thing is these buckets are not connected. So you don't need all the fancy pumps and filters to get the water flowing. Each bucket is its own separate unit. Now things have already begun to ripen up on here and we've been harvesting off of it, picking some tomatoes, all kinds of peppers, cucumbers, squash, and lots of leafy greens.

And these right here are some of the sweetest cherry tomatoes I've ever tasted, and they're growing in this. I know that might freak some people out. But believe it or not, I'm growing with algae and you can see right here, it's not a trick. All of this stuff is growing with algae in the buckets. You don't have to do this.

I'm just showing you what's possible. See, a lot of people get turned off because a lot of people are on the internet saying You have to do this and you have to do that. You have to paint your buckets, you have to cover it. Algae's going to use all of your nutrients. Throw off your ec, mess up your pH. And some people just think it's plain gross.

Me. I think it's part of nature now. I don't think this is the best way to do things. If you can use pumps and filters and aeration and want to go through all that mess, have at it. But I wanna show the people who don't have the time, energy, and money to do that, that it's still possible to grow some of your own food.

So with the exception of the leafy greens. All of these were grown from transplants, and we just planted everything into these five gallon buckets. I just drilled a few two inch holes in each bucket and placed the plant in it. Some of my buckets have three holes, some have just two. I don't wanna put too many big plants into a bucket.

I'll be refilling it all the time, and I put a hole in the back so that I can refill. I'll show you that in a little while. Then all we do is just fill it up with nutrient solution. I've got videos on that on my channel, and if we don't plant on the hole in the back, we can always peek inside and see what's happening.

You can see the roots if they're actually touching the nutrient solution, and you can tell what level you're at if you need to add more. Now, all the pool noodles they're doing are just holding the plants in place. It's not a grow medium. Most hydroponics starts in some kind of medium. I. Like Rockwell or Cocoa Pete in these towers, all it's doing is holding the plant.

Now I'm using these white buckets because their food grade says it on the side and people are asking, do you have to do that? To me, that's a personal choice. I also have some blue buckets, which some consider food grade by the recycling number that's on it, and some people don't. The darker blue buckets cut down on algae, so everyone's just gotta decide for themself which ones they want to use.

After you plant them out, come back and check the next day. If they're drooping like this could be because they fell down and the roots lifted up out of the nutrient solution. So what I do is just use simple bamboo steaks, stab them into the ground and just clip the plants to them. So if you see a plant drooping like this, you can peek inside the hole and see what's going on.