Hydroponic Gardening and More with Brent
This is a continuation of the potatoes I have growing in my FAWN system. I had 9 containers grow Rooster and Red Norland potatoes. These potatoes were dying back. Well 2 were for sure. I ended up getting a good deal of potatoes, but it took 3 pots to do it. If I can get this much out of one pot, I’ll have reached where I want to be. Enjoy the potato reveal! Potatoes were greenhouse grown in what’s known as a modified hydroponic dutch bucket system using rice hulls as the medium and Masterblend as the nutrient.
WHAT IS HYDROPONIC? FOR THOSE DOUBTING. The purest form is “Water Culture” where plants grow directly in a solution that provides the nutrients they need. However, there are tons of media used as well. Most use media as a carrier of the solution and to support the plant offering stability to the roots. The media is most often sterile and can include ANYTHING such as the rice hulls I use in this video, peat, perlite, rocks, pebbles, sand, grow stones, hydroton, coco coir, rockwool, gravel, sawdust, or just about anything you can imagine. It can also include mats such as hemp, fiber, wood, etc. If one is to grow root crops hydroponically, it is essential to grow in a favorable grow media because they don’t grow in water well at all. I pinned this because people keep saying, “This isn’t hydroponics”, and for those who say it, please do some research, hydroponics is a rich environment NOT restricted to perceptions of the few. Don’t take my word for it. Google “Hydroponic Grow Media” and read up on for yourself. Also, do a search in YouTube for “Hydroponic Drip Systems.” After reading a little on both, this video may make more sense. Always here to answer questions: c3voyage@gmail.com
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Hydroponic Gardening & More with Brent
WHAT IS HYDROPONIC? FOR THOSE DOUBTING. The purest form is "Water Culture" where plants grow directly in a solution that provides the nutrients they need. However, there are tons of media used as well. Most use media as a carrier of the solution and to support the plant offering stability to the roots. The media is most often sterile and can include ANYTHING such as the rice hulls I use in this video, peat, perlite, rocks, pebbles, sand, grow stones, hydroton, coco coir, rockwool, gravel, sawdust, or just about anything you can imagine. It can also include mats such as hemp, fiber, wood, etc. If one is to grow root crops hydroponically, it is essential to grow in a favorable grow media because they don't grow in water well at all. I pinned this because people keep saying, "This isn't hydroponics", and for those who say it, please do some research, hydroponics is a rich environment NOT restricted to perceptions of the few. Don't take my word for it. Google "Hydroponic Grow Media" and read up on for yourself. Also, do a search in YouTube for "Hydroponic Drip Systems." After reading a little on both, this video may make more sense. Always here to answer questions: c3voyage@gmail.com
I couldn't believe some of the comments here rejecting this method as NOT hydroponics. For the nay sayers…Coco, as with clay pebbles, perlite and rockwool (or combinations) are the predominant substrates used in hydroponic growing both commercial and hobby growers, as well as cannibis. These substrates hold the plant in place giving it stability and is generally referred to as passive hydroponics. root vegetables are commercially grown this way in bato/Dutch buckets. I read an article that stated nearly all vegetables, including potatoes, beets, carrots, parsnips, etc in the Netherlands are hydroponically grown within poly tunnels. In fact using these substrates the growing methods are identical to growing in soil. So hydroponics is more about the nutrient flow and not about the medium or lack of it. But Brent I think recirculating would be easier and far cheaper than drain to waste. Just my two cents.
No cure?
How are these hydroponic?
Did you have to do any hilling with the hydro set up as the plant progressed? I know they do hilling in soil. In outdoor soil grows it has various benefits to fight off frost and pest. I'm running a Coco ebb and flow recirculating system. Running potatoes for the first time. Just had my seedlings pop. Was wondering if I plant lower and hill or just plant low and let it grow? Thanks! Love your set up! So inspiring!!!!
Interesting – your FAWN hybrid system. I'd like to add the FAWN system to my hydro greenhouse. The flow to waste is very attractive feature along with adopting Larry's gutter concept. I'm not seeing any videos on how you grow in that system only harvests. do you have a video on how you grew potatoes in your FAWN system? I would think you'd need to stack a couple buckets on each other to achieve proper growth of the stolons and eventually the tubers themselves. Please put up a video that shows how you planted and grew the potatoes. Thanks.
About the same number of potatoes i got in a soil grow in a bucket of similar size, but yours are bigger!
Hi, do you re-use growing media after harvesting the potatoes?
Hydroponic????? Yes no yes nope. As I see it not realy Hrydroponics.
What us hydroponic about this? I must be blond.
I'm wondering how long from seed to harvest with wick coir hydroponic potatoes like you have done here 🙂
this is amazing
How long to is the growth time before you can harvest?
Pretty amazing dude!
Hey stupid farmer, what is hydroponic method?
They look good
That's drip irrigation not hydroponics.
I wish there was info on the setup, soil in the bucket, nutrients, etc.
This is not Hydroponic. I think this guy don't know what Hydroponic means.
Am I missing something? they look like you grew them in dirt outside with natural light / lifecycle. how is that hydroponic?
where did you get the seed for the potatoes. Did those varieties work well for you?
May I ask what's the point of calling this "Hyrdroponics potatoes"???
How many plants did u put in a pot ??
Great man
Is this method considered hydroponics. No sarcasm I’m ignorant when it comes to this so I’m just curious.
You have a pound of dirt on them,wash before you weight
I thought it's hydroponic?
I have been debating Potato because the yield in every single video I watch is not that good.. .2-3-4- seeds does not seem to matter I think the most I have seen is about 15 tots out of 1 pot…. the yield is low, the value is low but I mean… we always have a dozen that go bad b4 we eat them so might as well plant them I guess…
Can you elaborate on your grow medium "mix" a little further for you potato buckets?
1) You mention rice hulls… is the grow medium 100% or is there "other" medium in with it?
2) Would you use this same "grow medium" for other veg plants, like beets, carrots, turnips..?
3) Do you re use the grow medium or do you have to discard to compost pile?
Nice video – thanks
Not a bad harvest!
Looks like alot of dirt to be hydroponics
Do you have any idea about hydroponic ?
A 5 lb bag of potatoes is 1.47 a lot easier and cheaper to buy a bag of potatoes. Seed potatoes are 6.00 for ten of them. I am a gardener i plant potatoes that have started to grow chits on them from my refrigerator. Now thats fun.
Just thinking after reading some comments, I wonder if you put a layer of rock wool chunks in the bottom then seed potatoes the some more rockwool on top….. Any thoughts?
They needed more time to size up. The tops should be totally dried. Nice taters though.
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Where do you get rice hulls?
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But the nutrition…
Nice dude! Even weighed it
Not too shabby. I have a raised potato bed and a 60 gallon trash can with several layers of potatoes to see how that works. So far the container plants look every bit as good or better than the raised bed. If the container produces at all decently, next year I'll cut holes in the sides at different levels to allow the plants to grow outside the container and make it easier to plant additional layers.
Do you have a plan to try and improve ? I would guess that your nutrient solution and frequency of feeds or duration, might have some impact. From my experience of growing in soil in containers, watering and consistency is the element that affects the size and yield the most and secondary is fertilizing or no fertilizer if the soil is good. Of course good seed potatoes helps to. Cheers. 🙂
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Love red potatoes. I wish my potato harvest will be something like yours and you have more to go:-)
Looks like a good amount for a bucket. They looked great once they were cleaned up. Great job!
Those suckers sure are pretty when they're cleaned up. Harvesting those potatoes is a little like unwrapping Christmas presents.
Well done Brent. I know you are going to improve. Have a great evening my friend. Best wishes Bob.
Hey Brent. the potatoes look good. do you think maybe the container size is holding them back?