The Hydroponic House Plant Experiments

[@thomassmith5829]

Hey mate, I'm a long time watcher of your videos, I have used your videos to develop hydroponic systems to clone and grow the very plants you are experimenting on in the video, a few hints I have managed to come up with through experimentation of my own. 1. Lighting. I have a cloning shelf setup based on your own shelving setups with the tri colour ledvance panels, after months of trial and error I settled on having to place a layer of 90% shade between the light and the top of the plants, being aroids that start out on jungle floors, starting out they don't require a lot of light, and when they have no roots the really don't require a lot of energy, so they less they have to photosynthesise the better, too much light led to a lot of leaf drop, i don't have a par meter, but the meter I have was reading at around the 100 foot candles and that seems to be the happy point for me and my plants. 2. The cloner. Again through a lot of trial and error, I have found a method that seems to work great for me to get the fastest turnaround, originally I used to fill my cloner high enough so that my cutting would have its new node under the water, and although it worked, by accident I found that they actually begin to root faster if the node actually stays above the water in the humid air, the nodes create aerial roots in the wild after all, a little way to demonstrate this to yourself, is to do some cuttings with 2 nodes on them rather than the 1, you will see for yourself which nodes grow the quickest, also, I use smaller tubs for my cloners, some 8l green tubs from ikea, they fit the salon humidity domes perfectly and I use those 200mm long blue airstones, the bubbles the oxygenated water creates is more evenly spread so I get a more consistent root striking, I also only use 1/4 strength of my nutes (growth technology foliage focus) I can generally get any aroid plant fully rooted in around 10 - 14 days using setups you developed in your videos, so I figured I'd share what I can and return the favour seeing as you helped me so much with your vids.

[@AndrewTann]

Hooked on house plants. Prepare to have every sunny spot inside taken up with a plant in 4-6 months. It's a fun hobby. Sing out if you want some cuttings and I'll send you some.

[@oscararguijojr.4979]

please 😢

[@goodi1638]

Lavender cuttings in a propergater I have roots in two weeks I use the cloning solution in my propergator

[@CatHamster-wf5xs]

Nice 1 Mr Hoocho. Very interesting, there is certainly lots of potential there for lots of healthy plants.

[@michellecolledge2355]

Brilliant video! Thank you. Keep them coming.

[@wayne8113]

Thanks Hoocho 👍

[@megaflux7144]

looking forward to seeing your tissue culture hacks.

[@theoneandonlytoml]

Your editing and film production has gotten so good! Mic quality is nice as well. Keep it up 😄

[@FGM013]

Interesting. I tend to be a lazy grower. I take cuttings from my pothos, monstera and tradescantia and stick them in my collection of empty (but very fancy with the artistic labels intact) wine bottles filled with ordinary water. I have five, full pothos that started from one original plant. I haven’t gotten around to actually potting the monsteras and tradescantias yet. I’ve been taking cuttings from my cuttings and filled more bottles.

[@yipmabaruya1148]

Good morning from PAPUA NEW GUINEA.

[@quietspacearts]

similar to my monsterra oblique, i cut tubas near nodes and planted in low dos nutrients in lots perlite deep in the perlite and omg got loads roots within a week then after a month loads healthy leaves, 2 months on still in perlite and slightly more nutrients and bam loads laves and foot tall per plant well happy, i used an old aquarium and near window with propagation lid on top to create nice atmosphere for it, like a terranium, wahoooo

[@Suchtzocker]

really looking forward to the tissue culture video

[@DarthPenguin1000]

Have you tried using biochar or zeolite as a growing medium? You might have to charge both with nutrients prior, but it's not too dissimilar to buffering coco. Biochar especially would be great for people that live in areas where they don't have access to other mediums.

[@MultiSoftE]

I love growing in coco indoors, much less chance of pesky gnats.

[@juderyan1284]

Hey just a heads up. I tried to get that Pinegro cocopeat at Bunnings and they said it is a deleted line. Not sure if anywhere else sells it, but night pay to stock up if you still can. Nothing available locally where I am.

[@mariamerigold]

YEESS houseplants 😈 my current propagation obsession is tradescantia, they grow ridiculously fast!

[@Hoocho]

I’ll have to get some for the collection obsession

[@juliemcgugan1244]

I used these plants in my 250 gal aquarium. I used an isolation box, stuck to the glass below the output spray bar coming from the filter canister filter. I stacked squares of filter foam lengthwise and put the cuttings in between them. I did not put the stems too low down, or they’d rot, so I had to pack the foam squares pretty tight in the box, in order for the stems of the cuttings to be held tight, but out of the water. I also left any roots on each cutting, so they would help anchor the cutting in place. Some stems rotted, if they were below the surface where the water waited to drain. The roots never rotted, so I would try placing the cuttings in the propagation pucks so that they are being held by the root, not the stem. Make sure that the stem is a I e the surface of the puck, so that no water splashes up from below on it. They are very hardy, when kept dry. The plant roots will grow right down into the water, if they not even touch the water to begin with, they will soon grow enough to do so and feed. Each cutting will grow many more roots and the cutting itself grow for feet above the planting medium. My plants grew up out of the aquarium and across my bedroom curtain rail! The roots grew down into the deep gravel bed of the aquarium and the female fish began using it as a nursery to give birth to their fry, as it was dense and protected. Every month, I’d cut the plants back and give away cuttings to my friends. 3 years and I never did another water change or cleaned out my canister filter. The nitrate, nitrite and ammonia all measured 0 & 10 ppm in the first year, with every water quality test I did. It only got better, over time; 0 ppm for anything, every week! My aquarium always had the lid closed with lights on, during the day and it was very humid, so I don’t think it was because you had a dome on. I think it was most likely because the stems got too wet, inside those pucks and they rotted. With this plant, less water is more. They thrive on neglect but rot with too much water near the base of the stem.

[@joelshepherd1687]

Not enough humidity for the cuttings in clonex

[@InvestIQ0000]

In my country, nitrate is very costly, can i use amonium sulfate with probiotics instead

[@hannahhayes4days]

Have you used diatomaceous earth in any of your grows? Just curious, because the silica benefits and pest control benefits sound appealing to me. But I'm not sure where to start, and there's not a whole lot of research with DE and hydroponics. Love your videos!

[@Hoocho]

Hey Hannah. My understanding of diatomaceous earth is that it’s tiny glass skeletons left behind by dead diatoms. Glass is inert so I can’t see a reason why you couldn’t use it. Just make sure you use a food grade one if you plan on eating the plants. I’ll order some and trial it hahah

[@StumpyTales]

Curious how much PAR the plants in the cloning device under the Spider Farmer light were getting, compared to the shelf unit ones.

[@Hoocho]

They were getting 100 par, it’s in the video before I do the light tests. But it’s easy to miss.

[@_hazplants]

Even though some nodes had small roots, these are quite ineffective for some days after transplantation. For a while, a cutting has to live with the water it already has in its tissue. Unfortunately you removed the internodes below the nodes which acted as a reserve otherwise. Usually, that is no big deal under low par exposure. But photosynthesis is a passive process in which water is chemically consumed. So, a high par situation with low water reserve triggers the cutting to reduce the surface for photosynthesis to reduce water consumption and prevent the future apex from drying out.

[@Hoocho]

Great insight thanks!

[@backyardmedicine]

Hi, I think the ones in the cloner didn't work because you covered them with the dome. Usually when you use a cloner system like that you don't need to cover them

[@StumpyTales]

Yeah - would be interesting to know the RH inside that dome. Maybe it was just too much for them to handle above 'ground'. Home-made cloning device is next on my project list so I'm very keen to access data.

[@sammaimas155]

These Syngoniums let loose in your garden can proliferate to the point of being an out of control weed. Even Glyphosate won't kill it easily....

[@davidmoore7303]

Can't let my wife see this the house will be taken over

[@jamieweston4495]

Mate, We put cutting of Devils Ivy into my fish tank in my BBQ area, Now it has climbed all over the rafters. Some lengths are over 10mts long.