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This Trellis Setup Will Double Our Melon Harvest!

This Video is from the Youtube channel: “Homegrown Passion”. 

Today I’m transplanting our personal-size hydroponic melons into grow bags and moving them under our cattle-panel trellis system between the greenhouse and the strawberry high tunnel.

These little melon plants started in Vego seed-starting trays, and now they’re moving into their summer setup where they’ll be fed from our Dosatron nutrient system with drip emitters going right to each plant. I’ll show you how I fill the grow bags, transplant the melons, top them with vermiculite, place them under the trellis, check the drip emitters, and get everything ready for the vines to start climbing.

Hydroponics isn’t just lettuce and herbs — you can grow beautiful melons this way too. These are personal-size melons that climb really well, and later in the season we’ll support the fruit with melon sling bags as they hang from the cattle-panel trellis.

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0:00 Planting hydroponic melons
0:36 Filling 3-gallon grow bags
1:20 Melon seedlings from Vego trays
2:05 Why melons grow well hydroponically
2:50 Cattle-panel melon trellis setup
3:45 Topping grow bags with vermiculite
5:05 Moving the plants outside
6:10 Loofah plants mixed in
7:05 Perlite and vermiculite supply tip
8:00 Two weeks after transplanting
8:45 Feeding melons from the Dosatron system
9:30 Training vines and supporting fruit
10:25 Why personal-size melons are great
11:15 Using the greenhouse wagon
12:10 Placing melons under the trellis
13:25 Adding marigolds for aphid pressure
14:10 Weather conditions for transplanting
15:00 Melon clips and vine training
15:45 Dosatron zones and nutrient settings
16:40 Setting drip emitters near the root zone
18:00 Checking for clogged emitters
19:10 Why drip irrigation saves time
20:00 Final setup and wrap-up