r/Hydroponics

Eh estado viendo que sin eso, las plantas mueren

So I can grow chillies in kratky with flowing water (not sure if this has a specific name) efficiently and more comfortably, I chose Floplast black square guttering, big box as reservoir with a lid which has a filling nozzle, a lot of DIY, 3D print designing and printing, wooden frame, all custom made to fit.

I added a Sonoff water leak detector (attached magnets for easy removal for battery change) which tells me when I have to add 2L of new water with nutrients.

The guttering has a little stop, so the lower roots sit in water while there is still waterflow and the plants can make air roots. Right now they're all still small but once they grow, they will be held in place with pool noodle since I found that most convenient.

Pump and lights are adjustable and monitored and controlled through home assistant. Same with water temperature.

I am so proud and so happy.

Thank you all for the comments and suggestions in my last post!

Edit: The typo in the title I made makes me laugh xD I can't edit titles, can I?

The stretch finally slowed and the tent is packed wall to wall now. Frost is already creeping out onto the fan leaves this early, which is looking like a really good sign for resin production later in flower.

Running 5 plants in the Spider Farmer DWC and they’re drinking heavy a gal every day. Lollipopped hard underneath to push energy into the tops and improve airflow. Light is maxed out to the ceiling and the canopy is still reaching for more.

Genetics:
Gizzard Punch
(Wizard Punch x Blissful Wizard) x Girl Scout Glue (GSC x Gorilla Glue)

Starting to get that greasy look already. Curious to see how hard these stack over the next 3 weeks.

Curious what you guys think this canopy is gonna yield dry?

So ich habe mein ersten dwc pot und darin eine 15 Tage alte BPP RF3.. die ersten 10 Tage hab ich mit organischen Zusätzen gearbeitet Rhizotonic und Cannazym und nur Probleme gehabt.

Alle 2/3 Tage musste ich das Wasser tauschen, weil sich Algen und glibber gebildet hat.. bin dann umgestiegen und hab den rotz weggelassen und gebe jetzt alle 2/3 Tage 12%h2o2 hinzu 1ml/L
Und bis jetzt läuft es aufjedenfall besser.

Aus irgendeinem Grund hat sich gestern die hauptwurzel verabschiedet und die Pflanze ist, wie ich finde zu klein für Tag 15.

Auf dem Foto die lange hellbraune Wurzel..
als ich heute in den Eimer geguckt habe schwomm sie dort rum.

Wassertemperatur ist bei 20/21 grad
EC 0,88
PH 5,7~

Von der Pflanzen Explosion die ich erwartet habe ist leider noch nicht soviel zu sehen 😅
Und für Tag 15 find ich sie ziemlich mickrig..

Hat jemand einen Rat ?

After successfully starting my outdoor heritage tomatoes in this tabletop garden this spring I cleaned it all out and started nine Pinocchio Rouge micro dwarf tomatoes to keep indoors. I germinated them in a glass tray between sheets of paper towel and they all sprouted within 2-3 days. On the fifth day I transferred them into pucks. One of them grew quickly from there but the others took a week to even show seed leaves above the puck. Of the nine, one clearly died off and that single tall one is thriving, but the rest are struggling to progress even after several weeks and seem stuck. The seeds were purchased in April and are from 2025.

The light cycle is 16/8 and the pump cycle is 3 minutes every 30 during the "day" and 2 minutes every 60 at "night". Temps are running around 25C. This is a pretty good garden with a larger and brighter than average light head and I've successfully grown a variety of vegetables the past couple of years. I have all three spectra turned on... white, red, and blue.

Can anyone suggest why only one seedling is doing well? Anything I can do to recover the others?

Been using fert•i•lome triple action with pyrethrins every other day for about a week and it just looks worse. I have some predatory mites on the way too. Any saving or scrap it?

Can anyone take a look at these and tell me if I am doing things right.
My ph is around 6. EC is 1400 ( but there is some dirt in the pipes as well - is the ec high because of this? ) i have lettuce, basil, strawberries in the system - they look to be growing but they don’t appear to be really lively. Any guidance would help thanks.

Edit 1: I meant TDS - my meter shows 1400 PPM
Edit 2- Can someone also help me with the light schedule

Edit 3: here’s WhatsApp written on my lights

487.2 nm Wavelength
6300k Blue Spectrum
T8/T5 Type
PPF 2.0-2.2 umol/J

Just wanted to share my first herbs harvest that I grew in my hydroponic system :3 I have a few leaves of lettuce, basil, mint, arugula, and dill. It’s not at all enough for any recipes, but my heart is happy for not killing any of my plants so far ;u;

I’ve got a new basil plant from a cutting that has grown really fast. I’ve got it in a 10-5-14 solution. I would like it to put on buds lower in the stem. Did it just grow too fast? Should I have less nutrients in my next attempt so that it buds lower down? Remove light? Not sure how to slow it down and increase budding.

Does anyone know what this is or is it too early to tell? My wife purchased some seeds on SHEIN because she got tricked by those AI photos of plants with the crazy rainbow looking colors on them lol. I unfortunately had to break the news to her when she showed me the pics that they weren’t real. We were curious so we tried germinating around 40 seeds and this is the only one that sprouted of the entire bunch so we are very excited to know what it is! I’ve included a pic of the seeds. The leaves are starting to get a very faint white fuzz on them. Me and my wife are very new to growing so any help is appreciated.

I have been propagating cuttings from a single $5 Home Depot special I bought about a month ago and these things take off fast.

I used to root in plain water but now I go straight from cutting to a 3” net cup that fits a wide mouth jar. Once I see roots pop through the net cup, it’s time to move the plant to an opaque container.

As for the containers, I hit up Ross, Goodwill, and find a nice container without holes in it.

I designed a 3d print file in Fusion that I just input a few custom parameters in to print a lid for the container that will adapt a 3” net pot. Next up, find some larger 1/2 and 1 gallon containers for “the mother.”

look at them

New to this… have a tower garden flex I got at an estate sale on a whim. So no instructions, and no timer (got one on Amazon. Went with the old school analog dial 15 minute ones because the first digital I got went out.)

It’s got a mix of all manner of stuff. Tomatoes, lettuce, squash, cucumbers, mint, basil, eggplant. Yeah, it’s all different and I’m sure the rules say they all need different nutrients but I’ve grown that mix of stuff side by side in the ground so can’t see why this would be any different.

It’s all growing like mad. Using MegaCrop because it’s way cheaper than the official nutrients and everything I read says it works the same.

Two questions.

How much water should it use per day? I know there’s no real answer because every plant is different. I haven’t measured but will take notes this week when I add. I suppose they take what they take.

Main question:
These roots… they’re gonna be in the pump momentarily. And I’m not sure they won’t clog the drain at the bottom of the tower. Should I trim them? My guess is they’ll just come back… would this be causing more water uptake than I really expected? Not that I’m mad or anything but just trying to decide if this is a problem I should attack.

Hola, podrían darme opiniones de como va mi planta? Es mi primera vez cultivando y quisiera saber si voy bien. Gracias 😊 aclaro que no tengo un lugar con tierra tiene que crecer en maceta si o si 🤦🏻‍♀️

Hi everyone,
My son and I made a hydroponic tower to work on growing some herbs and some strawberries.

I’ve never had a green thumb, my soil is garbage so the combination led me to this hobby.

For some reason no matter how much guidance I follow I can’t seem to get this to grow.

We’ve got some mint in here (one is doing well, one is all but dead). Strawberries (no growth).

I’m trying to follow references on EC but I’m having a hard time with different scales for difffrent references when using the spider farmed meter.

Current readings are:
669ppm
5.87 ph
1331 us/cm (that’s 1.3 EC, right?)
0.06 salt.

Sincere thank you for any advice any of you have.

This is farm more difficult than my old hobby of brewing, but it’s primarily to try to engage with my son and growing/making things