Yes, the birds 🐦 do get upset, when they see you covering the blueberries. LOL They make a much different sound, plus they watch you do it.

I just purchased all my items at Home Depot, got my huge netting from Amazon, let’s see how it will work. Birds are going nuts in my yard. Maybe cause they see blueberries 🫐

I just did my cage if pvc and bought the netting on Amazon. Perfection

Great system I build the same one 30 years ago. Only one thing was an issue was the changing of the water... I ended up building an screw on hose and would hook it up to the same pump and pump out the old water.

This is an excellent way to start, I fully recommend using the pots like he did. It makes it easier to remove and add new plants to the tub without stressing the others.

Very helpful. Thank you

No parts list in description?

I get about 10-15 gallons a day, I made a video about it.

Good

Do you take the structure down for the winter? If not, how does it fare during the winter?

Thanks, for the video! You could also just fill the tub with hydroton, rather than using the individual pots. That would, of course, use more hydroton, but it would also give you greater growing space and allow you to plant an herb garden, for example, where you have several different things growing all at once.

and it's pure (don't drink it tho). wish more people did this. I have done it for 10 years and have never had to use tap water for my many outside plants. Probably 1,000s of gallons by now.

"how to burn prodiict before it's heated to burnt"....

6:34 Did you accidentally say the drain and fill wrong? I thought the low on was the drain.

The netting is such a pain, that I don't want to mess with it at all once I've got it set up and tied down. I built a structure similar to yours, but I built it to where there are two separate PVC "cubes" that meet in the middle, to form one long rectangle when placed side by side. To access the garden, you simply slide or flip one piece (or both) of the cube away from the garden. When done, slide the cubes back in place to enclose everything. This gives you easier access to everything and you don't have to deal with untying and retying netting every time you need access.

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Very nice and simple set up. The large bin you are using for your reservoir should be a high quality plastic (Rubbermaid) and not one of the cheaper off-brands. I find they are too brittle and wear out too quickly, especially when exposed to UV from the sun or grow lights. The nutrient mixture needs to be changed about every week, so having the plants directly on top is a bit of an inconvenience. If you could elevate and support the mixing tray, then use hoses to connect the two. That way you can slide out the water when it's changing time. Hell, you could even get a moving dolly to make it easier (Harbor Freight has them cheap). If you look on craigslist, you can often find a cheap Bontanicare or other grow tray for about $30, which has steeper walls and channeling in the bottom, so that all the water fully drains out.

Do you put the net pots inside the regular pots?

Can i use any other water pump?

Check InpliX handbook if you want to make it cheaper and better.

You can build it yourself too. I made it 2 weeks ago thanks to inplix website.

Should use half inch to pump in and 3/4 out. Put drain in high part of tray

All of my best eco tools I made with inplix.

thanks rcmagoo! very informative

Excellent job!

ever do a follow up of it running? how often do u flood and drain? I've got a little system but don't no how often I should flood n drain.

Very nice set up an vid i wanted to see it run tho anyway i think ima do one of these for shure as i have the items to set up jus need the concrete tray an fill an drain kit thats it. Thanks for the info.

Great video! You should just skip buying the pots and use the extra money on more hydroton (expanded clay rocks) and fill the entire tray up with hydroton instead of using the pots..the roots don't need to be kept separate from each other, and this will give them 3x the space to grow in

Good video ....Where did you buy the fill and drain kit ?

The issue with hydroponics is you must shop for "plant food" or nutrients and supplements that are costly.

Hydroton. pronounced Hydro ton. Not hydrotin

very good video was thinking of doing one of these in the next couple runs for my peppers

I wouldn't have the tray directly laterally parallel to the reservoir because once your plants are in the tray, you would have to disassemble the whole top in order to change out the reservoir. Off setting the top tray so that they are perpendicular would be better but ultimately I would not have the table on the reservoir at all

What kind of yield would one expect from 6 pots?

The downside of hydroponics is you have to shop for "plant food" or nutrition and supplements that are expensive.

Now maybe I will get to have some blueberries this year too... I didnt have a net and lost almost all of mine last year... Thanks!

How does the water drain completely? The water fills nicely, but only seems to drain down to below the blue netting on the drain tube, and then it just sits there. Any suggestions as to why that may be and how to fix it? Aside from drilling another hole and putting in a slow drain cap? Thanks for the plans. It's a very nice set up and you explained it perfectly so even someone like me, who gets lost and can't find their way around in a Home Depot can build it effortlessly.

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He used a black tub algae doesnt form as quick on black as to white, in some cases algae isnt bad if you grow organic but you never want to let algae build up.

Today is my first day looking into doing one of these. In some other how-to video's I've watched, they claim that you shouldn't expose the water to sunlight so that algae doesn't grow. This method doesn't follow that advice. Why is it ok here and not in other methods?

This type of setup doesn't need an air pump. The plants get their air when there is no water in the tray.

In my experience the pump can fill it faster then it can drain. The pump may be bad. The most likely cause is that the hose is kinked. Test the pump without the hose connected.

No air pump?

@rcmagoo I built this setup and use a 264GPH pump. Upon test run, it took almost 45 min. to fill and 1.75 hours to drain... That is WAY too long to promote healthy growth. Do you have any info on why that would happen? Thanks!