Harvesting Hydroponic Potatoes & Updates

[@happyg8059]

*_WOOOOW!!! VERY SMART GARDENING STYLE, WOOOOOWW!!!!, HOOCHO, You are teaching me to be patient with plants,we will not get tired of watching this video, PLEASE DON'T STOP GARDENING, continue like this, GO GO GO GOOOOOOOOOO!!!_*

[@GladRags]

Wtf

[@CampfireRachael]

@@GladRags let the man be excited lol

[@leonacollet4051]

I do like your music choices during the timelapse segments.

[@jesperandersen9841]

A thing I would love to see on your website is some kind of comparison between the different systems (pros and cons) and what type of plants you see best fit for each of the systems.

[@RobsAquaponics]

Really impressive growth on the trees Hoocho. 👍 How do you think the fabric grow bags would go instead of the strainer bags? Great looking spuds mate. Hope my aqua ones do as well. What camera are you using if you don't mind me asking? Cheers mate. 🍻

[@Camboprime]

Considering you and Hoocho are neighbours (by youtube standards)...I think a collaboration is nessisary.

[@Hoocho]

I just use my iPhone 12 Pro The camera is mint. I get audio by routing a rode go lapel through the lightning port and filming with an app called movie pro. Airdrop it all to my Mac and edit on Davinci Resolve. I’ve actually bought Bunnings out of grow bags, I’ve got 30 or so and I rekon they’d work great. Next video I’m going to use them, just ironing out the kinks. @Cam Exciting things to come! Watch this space.

[@stambo1983]

Congrats on the sponsorships mate, you deserve it.

[@Hoocho]

Cheers mate, it’ll allow me to drop back hours at work and produce more content!

[@accidentallyfasting5768]

Amazing idea with incredible results! I'm definitely going to try this out. Man, you are really the channel that keeps on giving.

[@sstro9777]

When I pull my dutch bucket paint liners I let them dry in the sun for about three days. Residual roots dry up, shake the liner a few times, roots fly away and you have basically a new liner again. Nice job!

[@SunshineJull]

Speaking as a horticulture professional, thanks for the macadamia facts that I did not know. My mind is so blown. I also had the (obvious) epiphany that I could hook up my lemon tree to my hydroponic system, so thanks for that as well.

[@tonykennedy9811]

What a great episode! 🙌 can’t wait to get started here in Arizona 👍

[@growindoors365]

This is wonderful! Just found the channel, subscribed! I need time to really take a deep dive into everything you have going on, Bravo mate.

[@miasacreative1561]

I’m a South Aussie and I’m really enjoying your videos ♥️🌿 It’s always nice to find fellow Aussies to watch ♥️🌿 Just In case you don’t know as it’s better safe then sorry. Macadamia nuts are toxic to dogs, so for their safety I would net the macadamias to catch any nuts so your dogs can’t get them.

[@Philmoon69]

Mice love them too .... So be aware ... I used to park my car next to one .. a mouse got in and ate wiring in my car so it no longer worked ..... car was immaculate inside etc. Just the mice eat the dropped nuts like crazy

[@allanmac6562]

Incredibly informative - just love the way you are trying all sorts of methods - got me hooked!!

[@henrik.norberg]

Why not add a float hight indicator for safty?

[@raynabelle9397]

Every time you post I get so happy cause I keep thinking ‘I’ll get the do this one day!’ Can’t wait to have the space!!!!(and time to set it up hahaha)

[@Holodomor4.0]

Well done Mitch! You’ve come so far mate! The website is simply master class! Universities and agricultural colleges should be utilising your website!

[@barbarastefani254]

I wish I did this to my greenhouse definitely gotta think about it everything suffered so much from lack of water thank you for this video

[@grahambate3384]

Hey mate gr8 set up, in your video you said the only thing you need now for greenhouses to buy is the fertilizer. If you set up a biogas system you get free gas and byproduct of fertilizer. Cheers

[@foleyflipa12345]

Awesome work Where can I get the same shirt as your wearing. I checked the links you left but those 2 places don't have the same design

[@Hoocho]

Teespring is the place I buy my shirts from, there should be one on there that is identical. It will look like the back design, and when you flip it it has the left chest logo on the front.

[@karlotto8925]

Happy Hydroponicing.. I love it

[@xperyskop2475]

Check sunsynk inverters they automatically switch/keep power on selected circuit if you have enough sun to run it. They work good with batteries too

[@IAMGiftbearer]

This is my first year growing potatoes. I'm doing them in a cardboard box with worm castings, native soil and lots of leaves sitting up on a wooden spool. They are flowering right now. I added some bone meal just the other day. Are potatoes like other vegetables in that they don't produce until the flowers fall off? I see lots of conflicting videos from people about when is best to harvest them. Some say to harvest them after the foliage starts dying, and some say various times earlier.

[@gregeberhardt1711]

Hey mate, love the channel. Just starting out with all this myself, quick question, with the Dutch buckets how much water do you lose to evaporation/transpiration with the plants? I seem to lose quite a lot with no obvious leeks anywhere…..

[@NickAPartlow2024]

Thanks hoocho

[@cher-amirose7109]

Is there a link to the hydroponic supplier for the clips (tomatoes)? Love your channel. Thank you for quality content (even though the greenhouse is way over my head). I'm just starting with plastic storage containers indoors for starters. I grew microgreens and started seeds for the garden indoors in soil. And I will NEVER do that again. It's taken me months to get rid of the knats.

[@sujiro0001]

heya tnx for your vids, you honestly are getting me started into hydrophonics, just wanted to ask what grow medium did you use for the potatoes ?

[@karlotto8925]

You could add a simple floating level indicator to the RGGS, so you will notice the lack of waterlevel with a glance

[@johorgan4369]

great episode

[@PeterBretz-k8s]

What's the music, brother? Love the 7/8 jam...

[@henrik.norberg]

Hoocho, if you split the videos in multiple videos with distinct subjects I think you will get more views and it will be easier for new viewers to view your old videos.

[@Dracokong007]

I would like to know more about rooted vegetables any soil or just coconut mix or both

[@dorianmccarthy7602]

I was thinking that the algae growth that blocked your float valve filter might have grown due to the light leakage through the nylon threaded exposed section of the float vale outside your printed covered area.

[@lorenawilliams4229]

Where did you get the covers for your trees?

[@BenDover-wm7wf]

You may have already mentioned in a previous video , but: what climate are you in? Tropical, subtropical, temperate, etc. Do you ever have freeze warnings?

[@Hoocho]

Subtropical, we don’t freeze

[@benjaminshuetrim9874]

Is the music your own material Hoocho?

[@fleaniswerkhardt4647]

!@18:00 - did you put the cleaned filter back in - or leave it out entirely? Also - where do you buy those brown plant clips and how much do they cost?

[@Hoocho]

I put it back in, activevista.com.au

[@danj285]

@Hoocho could we get a review of you ec/ppm meter, looks handy having long external probes for those reservoir's that are hard to reach/ look at with an ec pen. price, where to buy, accuracy, how to recalibrate etc cheers

[@kareneverling5860]

What can't you do?! The solar! Great episode. My Ginger took forever to get started by the way. Most people would have thrown it away, but I'm co dependant when it comes to plants. 😂

[@snuffoutrouge5109]

Karen , how long did the ginger take to get roots and a shoot ? . I have just put the ginger in a tray of water yesterday.

[@Dracokong007]

Also what does some of abbreviations mean am new to this

[@kobywiebe4124]

What is the potato growing medium? Love the idea. Good job in the videos.

[@Hoocho]

Coco perlite

[@robertod3226]

Can you make a chart showing the best and worst hydroponics technique to use for each type of plant.?

[@doughnuta]

All my grows seem to take forever for less than I see in these videos, I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I have proper EC, air pumping, and light. How do you grow such huge plants??

[@Holodomor4.0]

Ps re the battery box/solar generator for when the power goes out. Ask your electrician to install a changeover switch in your switch board and then a caravan plug inside your home where it’s nice and cool and you can just have a battery box/solar generator plugged in ready to go and all you have to do is flick the changeover switch to generator and your whole house etc runs off it. No running around with extension leads etc

[@Bob.Middleton]

What variety of potatoes are you growing? Potatoes, just like tomatoes, are determinate or indeterminate. Early potatoes (70 to 90 days) are determinant and only grow in a single layer at or below the seed potato. Indeterminate (late potatoes, about 130 days) can also grow on the stem above the seed potato.

[@Hoocho]

Pretty sure these are Cherokee red

[@TassieDIY]

Hey mate Having a field day on your videos at the moment, I was just wondering what sort of nutrient solution you used for the potatoes and the root veggie garden? As I’m looking to do something like this when my green house is finished Cheers

[@paulbennetto1487]

Looks great! Get any problems with mozzies in the grow house? That IBC for the NFT could cause issues I guess.

[@Hoocho]

Mozzies don’t like moving water, the rggs systems sometimes have larvae, but the float guards keep them out.

[@reviewstrials6785]

Please elaborate on your watering schedule for the fruit trees? Curious what they prefer.

[@snuffoutrouge5109]

The rain gutters under the fruit trees have two holes 30 cm apart under the fruit tree and a small strainer pot filled with choir sticks out under the fruit tree pot. The gutter fills up from gravity flow via a float opening up the nutrient hose. The trees are wicking up the nutrient as it needs it. Hoocho's video labelled A hyroponics system for root vegetables explains this setup fully on the fruit trees.

[@1Pratzo1]

How often does it rain in your region?

[@insanecomicdude]

Oh man. For the self contained greenhouse, you could try switching to using compost tea instead of hydroponic nutrient. If you made compost from stuff grown in the greenhouse and added solar, you could have a completely self contained greenhouse. That would be so cool!

[@tonysmith3414]

Where do I get your nutrients mate

[@varanasihydroponics4641]

What is nutrients farmula sir please share

[@dimaur3697]

why you need to put the pot on top of plank, not on the soil directly ?

[@DeltaTrade82]

Great 👍

[@DeltaTrade82]

Good.. #myhydroponics

[@mgrdigimarketing3035]

Yes the bad ladybug are called a Monoleptus beetle. Not actually related, but definitely destructive. (spelling no doubt wrong)

[@Leeyouno]

I would love to collect rain water but I live in between two oil refineries and a paper mill factory.

[@Duermeahora]

Dancing potatoes, the show.

[@jakoblarok]

Yeah, I grow in Japan (trad soil) but those f'n beetles that look like ladybugs are the friggin worst. I've found that the best way to tell the difference, aside from the color/pattern is to look at the thorax. Ladybugs (ladybirds) have a nice, defined, sexy black thorax. The knockoffs look as much like melon--pan as they do a proper ladybug. The larvae are similar, but different, too. LB larvae are black-ish; but these pricks' babies have a yellow or green tint, and lots of black hairs. They seem to like both potatoes and tomatoes if their cycle lines up (here, late-spring to mid-summer). The adults and larvae can be managed with picking and BT respectively, but you've gotta stay on top of them.

[@jakoblarok]

Oh, and maybe the most important difference is movement. LBs and their babies move around, because they are on the hunt. The pest beetle is usually sitting in place. You can mistake it for dead, because it eats so slowly (but constantly). They die on the leaf (after breeding, I think), so that can add to the confusion. Best to pick and crush anything that isn't moving like a lady bug

[@janaecarter2679.]

Have you thought of doing native plants?

[@Hoocho]

Macadamias are native, but I’m tending towards produce plants. I’ll probably try some native produce plants.

[@pperrinuk]

Maybe worth having a small wicking container at the start of a run, just so you get early warning of problems(!).

[@edward8563]

I like you too do barry plant

[@brianrollins3245]

New subscriber from Rob, what do you do with all your produce?

[@Hoocho]

I give most of it away. The stuff we can’t eat.

[@rjaquaponics9266]

No Mice? I had potatoes that got infected with mice families

[@henrik.norberg]

Hoocho, check out aeroponics potatoes, that is so cool!

[@GregoryCarrier]

It is very cool. As I understand, the misting system clogs easily, making it more difficult or intensive to operate.

[@mylifehows7047]

What's your wyze camera timing set to? 1 per hour?

[@Hoocho]

Every 10 mins, it’s overkill but allows me to play with the frame rate in videos

[@honeybadger6127]

have you considered designing and 3d printing your own clips?

[@Hoocho]

I have thought to that, I think it would be too brittle, but I haven’t tried it yet.

[@honeybadger6127]

@@Hoocho - consider using PETG instead of PLA.. it's a bit more flexible and holds up better to UV light... make one which is thicker than the ones you purchase at the store.. I would shoot for 5mm thick on the circle and hinged portion... I've had a lot of luck using PETG for hinges on my chicken tractor which is outside all the time.

[@Hoocho]

@@honeybadger6127I only use PETG

[@omegaofgaia]

If you like the kind of music you put into this video, you should check out "Scale the Summit"

[@haydenm9613]

Fucken champion!!! Can't wait too have my own land and copy your ideas 🤣🍻🍻

[@ianbrown9578]

Very interesting! I have read and seen videos that there are 2 types of potatoes, determinate and indeterminate. Indeterminate will grow potatoes up its stem, determinate will not. But. Here is the kicker! Indeterminate will only grow potatoes up the stem for the first 150mm (6 inches) or so. Therefore hilling any higher than that is pointless. (Potato Towers are therefore pointless.) You seemed to prove this out in the plant you pulled showing potatoes at roughly that point up the stem so thank you! However there is significant debate about this 150mm limit. I suppose there is always going to be a freak plant that does better in a potato tower. But I'm yet to see absolute proof that "Single Plant all the way Up" potato towers work. One youtuber believes some people are planting new seed potatoes every time the tower is topped up! Here is his video, kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpKyk36OqJusf5I But he puts the upper limit at 50mm (2 inches) up the stem which you clearly show is not true. I'm looking forward to seeing you harvest this crop and how much tuber development you get up the stem! Thanks again! :-)

[@Bony0369]

High tech

[@ramoneoliveira5851]

Like

[@jayamilapersson4030]

From an environmental standpoint those clips are still plastic. Im from Sweden and in all my life we have always only used cotton thread or similar sometimes we have used tiny metal thread and bamboo sticks to help the plants. But yes I do understand that those are reusable and I have never tried to grow this much food to be self-sufficient on it.

[@donnalineberry764]

Harvest yield

[@horacypinker5047]

Technically your potatoes are not hydroponic as they continue to grow in the soil, I would more call this system a hybrid, and even venture to call it just an automated capillary irrigation system.

[@Hoocho]

I beg to differ. It is an inert media (coco perlite) that wicks hydroponic nutrient.

[@horacypinker5047]

@@Hoocho Thanks for the explanation, it looked like ordinary soil with perlite.

[@Hoocho]

It wasn’t explained in the video, so it’s my bad, I should’ve made that clear hahaha

[@Philmoon69]

Why would you want to grow the bland tasteless tomatoes the super market grows YUCK get some heirloom varieties growing. while they may not look as good the taste is sure to be stronger

[@Philmoon69]

just my two cents , dont mean to be rude lol

[@adelinawarriner6259]

tomato taste has more to do with how it's grown and picked vs variety

[@sensifarma6711]

That tomato plant has tobacco mosaic disease

[@FeedTheDrip]

This is not hydroponics its dirt with a drip system...

[@Hoocho]

There is no dirt. The media is a coco-perlite, and it wicks hydroponic nutrient from below.