How Do You Make Homemade Hydroponic Systems?
Building your own water works process is simple and can be fun, in the event you understand how to follow instructions. This type of process would be best used for water loving plants such as lettuce.
Choose the type of process you require to build. Your choices include:
1) Multi Flow. This is a medium cost, difficult-to-build option. It depends on gravity to floodwater plant trays with water and nutrient. You can use a timer and float switch to control water levels. You can grow lots of plants at a time with this process.
2) Water Culture. This is a low cost, easy-to-build option. It ends in your plants being suspended in water by a StyroFoam platform. The water will be filled with a nutrient solution. You can grow 5-6 plants per two gallon water culture process.
3) Ebb and Flow. This is a low-cost, moderately easy-to-build process. Your plant tray is put on top of a reservoir and connected to the reservoir with tubing. A water pump pumps water and nutrients to the plants. Excess liquid is returned to the reservoir for later use. You can grow a fair amount of plants with this process.
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Hydroponic gardening allows you to grow any plants without having to use soil. Using just a substrate and a nutrient solution, plants will grow as healthy as ever with fewer pests leeching nutrients from the plant. Commercial hydroponic systems work well but can be extremely expensive. A homemade hydroponic system is fairly simple to make and maintain and should give you the same results as a commercial system. Cut or drill a hole in the bucket you will be using to hold your plant near the bottom of the bucket. The hole needs to be just big enough to fit your tubing. Stick one end of the dark tubing through the hole. Cover the end of the tube with some fine wire mesh and seal it with the silicon. Point the tube to where it is nearly touching the bottom and seal the inside and outside of the hole you cut with silicon. Cut another hole near the top of the bucket and repeat the steps included in step one. This tube should point slightly downward if possible. Prepare the second bucket in a
