Ebb & Flow Hydroponics ( AirCube Explained)

Ebb & Flow hydroponics offers easy, almost automatic plant care. Gardener Scott shows and explains how ebb & flow hydroponics works using the Aircube hydroponics system. (Video #435)
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[@eliandkate]

This is really cool. This is going to be a really interesting season to watch. Going to be great to see you get to grips with it and what you grow.

[@jimriley9697]

Looking good! I used to use those blurple lights, but got tired of not being able to see my plants properly to diagnose problems. Since then I've learned that green is important to healthy plant growth, not just the blue and red. Dr. Bruce Bugby with Utah State, does a lot of great videos on plant lighting if you ever want to do a deep dive.

[@GardenerScott]

That's a good point. I do turn those lights have periodically to see the progress and shade of green and add supplemental white light. I have a video where I discuss the importance of green light.

[@heidiclark6612]

Wow! There is a lot to consider for this type of gardening. Hydroponics have always intrigued me. I have a couple books on Aquaponics. Thank you for this video.

[@davemoore743]

Watched many videos on ebb and flow. Just bought the same system and ready to go. Great job on explaining the system…. Test, review and test again b4 getting the plants in. Thx Scott

[@debbiethompson9853]

Looking forward to the next video Scott

[@michaeldeaner8848]

Great job at explaining everything! Best video I have found, thank you for your time and information! My order is on the way!!

[@barbarayorkwoodside3716]

Way cool! Looking forward to seeing how it works.

[@stevefromthegarden1135]

Nice Scott. Ebb and flow should work very well with peppers. I don't know about tomatoes since I think they need more light. My guess is that you will grow a dwarf cherry tomato in this system. I'm interested to see how quickly the plants grow and start fruiting. My hydroponic lettuce is ready for harvest in 30 to 35 days.

[@ecologytoday]

Thanks for another great video. I am hoping to dabble in hydroponics as well.

[@sejalpatel2422]

Hello, v. Good info.

[@langbehnwilliam]

Would love to chat with you.... I'm grabbing the air cube next week... Pointers to make my sucky skills better would be nice, I'm in a dry area as well and the air cube was my solution that I am going to to remedy my thumb lacking the green, and to automate everything to the tee.... I started going crazy routes being an electronic engineer and the R & D for this along with no experience in the field of botany is too much haha

[@jimriley9697]

Okay, I went and watched your green light video.... lol now I'm laughing at myself for posting that comment! Well said sir well said.

[@chrisjefferson264]

Cool....I think I can make that myself

[@concentratedmindset820]

With the coco coir and perlite mix what schedule did you end up finding to work without over saturation and allow proper draining. Wondering what schedule how many times a day? Thanks

[@GardenerScott]

I currently doing four 15-minute cycles a day, six hours apart, and it's working well.

[@jeannamcgregor9967]

It's my understanding that a healthy soil microbiome actually changes and improves the nutritional content of the food grown. Could you use homemade compost mixed into the growing medium? Would the microbes survive?

[@GardenerScott]

You can use homemade compost. If you don't sterilize the mix the microbes will be alive.

[@Just___me_]

You could use an organic medium with all the nutrients incorporated and just use the ebb and flow to water the plants.

[@zakkrueck2362]

hi gardener Scott, this isn't a hydroponics question but i bought 12 steel raised beds and was going to have the local landscape company deliver several yards of compost. but then i thought that maybe that is not right. maybe i should do 50% topsoil and 50% compost or something. maybe it would be too much of a good thing? what do you say GS?

[@GardenerScott]

I prefer mixing native soil with organic matter like compost when filling beds. For a new bed I try to get at least 25% compost and other organic materials. You may not need 50%. Here's how I did my metal beds: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2Ockot-d6d9kK8

[@zakkrueck2362]

@@GardenerScott thank you!

[@tranthiduyen615]

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[@ecologytoday]

(translated) "Hello friends greetings from Vietnam "

[@ecologytoday]

Hello ! We have missed you in the Monday Livestreams. (translated) Xin chào ! Chúng tôi đã nhớ bạn trong buổi Phát trực tiếp Thứ Hai.

[@sivasubramanian6079]

Good morning, one of my friend is asking me to send compost coir pith in compressed manner. The material travelling time will be 30 days by sea. Here I want to know that, can we dry the compost coir pith and compress it for easy carrying.

[@GardenerScott]

You can dry coir after it's been hydrated but compressing it becomes more difficult unless you have the right equipment. Because so many sources offer compressed coir at affordable prices, I don't know if it would be worth doing yourself.

[@sivasubramanian6079]

​@@GardenerScott Thank you, I have coir brequette making machine. I have doubt in my mind , that the living organ in the compost material will die or not when we dry in Sun light.

[@johnmercurio1473]

howd you straighten out the tubes??!

[@GardenerScott]

I laid them out with weights. They still have a bit of a curve.

[@StormCaller5]

I've been wanting to get involved with aquaponics. Right now I'm in a small apartment and can't do any growing. Dream aquaponics would be a small pond, grow tables and a small waterfall. All in an environmentally controlled grow area. Whether inside or in a greenhouse. Haven't bothered to work out any details yet, since I can't do it here.

[@Just___me_]

An aquarium with a small lettuce or herb garden would be an easy way to start.

[@sivasubramanian6079]

Can we grow plants directly in coir pith compost without amending in soil?

[@GardenerScott]

You can. Coir holds a lot of moisture and may not drain as well by itself.

[@sivasubramanian6079]

Ok. Thank you

[@tirusew]

I thought we didn’t need soil for hydroponics. I thought the water from reservoirs will have all the nutrients the plant need. Well, need to learn more about it but not close doing that method to grow plants.

[@GardenerScott]

There are other types of hydroponics that don't use soil.

[@OrenK266]

too bad you dont ship to Europe!