Hydroponic Gardening and More with Brent
So, it’s a done deal now. Yes, you can grow potatoes hydroponically. In this episode, I take two buckets of potatoes that had died back and revealed the contents for all of you. Check out how it turned out.
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
How is this hydroponic?
That's soil.
That looks like a field potato bro not 100% though first thing that came to my mind my grandfather used to grow potatoes back in the day remember my dad trying it he wasn't a gardener he knew his potatoes though👌👌👌 those look nice
Question what's the net cup for?
Do you know what is hydroponic?
That's how they can come from the store.
Do you have a link too a before video that shows how you set this up for growing? Good job!
Potato blister?
Brent……we do not yet grow potatoes yet in our fogponics setup……but I have seen and talked to people who grow potatoes using fog. You can harvest at any time what you need and then let the remaining potatoes keep growing. I can't wait to grow my own!!!
Please do one with Cannabis. Pretty please
How in the hell is this hydroponics? Fail!
Potato vines die when the potatoes are ready to harvest
Potatoes like it cold not hot
Those are Russett Burbanks. They have a rough netted skin on them. I grow them every year because they grow BIG. They're also the ones they grow for the fast food industry. That's a pretty good haul for one plant.
Just started my gardening life this summer. Stupid question, what is the little net cup for and where does it go?
Really cool
Get this question a bunch! Not growing in soil, but rather rice hulls. The main makeup of my medium is aged rice hulls. I then mix 25% or so with parboiled rice hulls for aeration and a loose mix. No secret! You can alternatively use peat with perlite or my favorite mix of old 3:2:1 of peat:pine bark fines:perlite. All so easy and yep, often used in hydroponics especially drip systems like dutch buckets or bato buckets. All the best.
I would like to commend you. Your patience in explaining the same answer over and over again deserves a reward! I've just started my research on Hydroponic growing; planning on starting slow with some easy veggies and branching out from there. Thank you for your great videos and other links as well. Grow on!
I've thought about using hydroton and a dwc type system to grow potatoes and apply the principles of the potatoe tower. Start short and add hydroton as the plant grows.
So….. where are the roots and seed potatoe? Looks like you put a bag of store bought potatoes in dirt, then dumped them as a harvest reveal.
never tried this thanks for sharing : )
Those "cracks" in the skin are called russetting, hence the name Russet potatoes 😀 I hear it also referred to as "netting". Some varieties of apples are russetted also, and russet can also refer to the brown coloring. I tried to actually find a definition of russet, or russetting, and am having a tough time finding one as it applies to potatoes, although I found it used like this:
"AC STAMPEDE RUSSET (TAXV675-27)
– Tubers are "oblong; russetted brown skin; shallow eyes, intermediate in number, evenly distributed; not prominent eyebrows; white flesh…. "
http://web.archive.org/web/20120915131646/http://potatoes.wsu.edu/varieties/russets.htm
I had that same skin on my russets last year, I showed them to my father who was a perishable inspector for 50+ years and when he saw them he knew they were russets right off and said they were fine.
compost bin my ass you threw that shit everywhere hahaha