My winter indoor hydroponic/late crop grow log.

[DFBrews]

I am going to make this thread my grow log will update at least once week

Updated 9/10/12

I finally have tomatoes and peppers from the garden this year and a side by side comparing them to even vine ripened tomatoes is night and day. my yeilds dropped way down so I had to go to a grow store because the crappy potting soil in my raised bed ran out of CaMg so the tomatoes i have are flowering but not setting fruit. The store was filled with all sorts of hydroponic goodness. picked up the fertilizer i needed and came home the whole night the gears started turning wondering the feasibility of doing a indoor garden over the winter. Spent the greater part of the evening googling researching/obsessing.

I am going to try a deep water culture 5 gallon bucket. one for tomatoes and the other some variety of hot pepper. Deep water culture is basically a bucket with a net pot in the lid that uses a air pump to oxygenate the water that has nutrients in it. I can not afford the light system that i need at the moment so i decided to do a test run spent less than 40 dollars on a little system that will be perfect for starting cuttings and lettuce when i get the big plants going. all parts except the net pot can be bought at the Depot but i bought them all from the grow store to save time.

I am going to start the cuttings in this one and plant them outdoors with a wall of water type thing and than plant some lettuce

lettuce has a fairly low light requirement so i found an old t5 size aquarium ballast this will be the light source for this little one i will need to get a 200 watt high pressure sodium light for the maters and peppers... need some OT first.



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the finished product


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air pump 7.3 l per minute


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bubble bubble bubble


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airstones that need to be attached somehow a wrench suffices for now


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the net pots 2" in size these would be to small for maters but perfect for cuttings which is in there now and lettuce


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