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Technology to grow Vegetables!... or is that Apples??

Problemchild

More quickies a friend of mine had started blogging about his Hydroponic Garden.

The hydroponics in them selves are very interesting but at the moment largely electronics free.

 

We are hoping to sort out automated dosing of nutrients as well as reporting all the metrics in

typical IOT style but in the mean time here are the the Hydro vids for your enjoyment image.

 

 

Subscribe if you like more of this kind of stuff...Cheers!

  • in reply to shabaz

    Seems to be very popular and loads of vids on Youtube looking from those down the side of his Hydro' vids and the Aquaponics one I put up earlier

  • in reply to DAB

    The book Mark mentions is a very well known text and here Hydroponics is a very popular hobby.

    Production is much higher than say in soil ... more initial fiddling but I think it's more fun and maybe more accessible for folk say if they can't bend or getting on in life as you can build the infrastructure to your own comfortable height!

  • in reply to mcb1

    Yeah the scale of Lettuce production using this system is vast they use a system of continously adding new trays at one end and getting mature lettuce at the other. The toughs are like the size of a football field!!

  • Its used commercially to grow lettuces in NZ on a very large scale.

     

    The Shed magazine publisher is very keen on a home based article using electronic monitoring and control.

    Had everything almost ready and the large Hydroponics supply chain got busted because it was supplying for the wrong crop ..image

     

     

    There is a very good book, which you might need to search for.

         HYDROPONIC GARDENING

         A practical guide to growing plants without soil

         Lon Dalton/Rob Smith

     

         First published 1984 and reprinted 1985

         COBB/HORWOOD PUBLICATIONS

     

    It seems there is a revision 6 around from here.

    http://touchwoodbooks.co.nz/product/415788-APracticalguidetogrowingplantswithoutSoil-9780473092771

     

    I did manage to find an affordable pH probe ... but I'd need to dig out where.

     

    Mark

  • I love watching this kind of stuff. Your man is really good at explaining it all. I had not considered it before, but since watching these videos I too am highly interested to know more!