I have one tomato plant in a 5 gallon bucket I am in Kissimmee yes it is hot but the tomato is doing really good I am planning if it gets to be above 90 I will probably take a frozen water bottle and stick it in the solution to cool it down

"We can't feed the world, but maybe we can teach the world how to feed itself" I love that

I recommend growing a determinate variety of tomato plants. That way you can use your method of harvesting all at once and always having another batch growing to replace. The heat in GA has me a bit concerned as well so I am glad you get to try some things out so I can see what works!

Thank you for the idea of painting the buckets! I’m new to this and my apartment porch has direct sunlight for a lot of the day. There is also duct tape that comes in colors, I’m gonna try to cover it in a dark tape like brown so it looks like a hydroponic tree. Thank you for your videos.

Adding a little Hydrogen peroxide will slow down the algae. Also adding Barley straw prevents the growth of algae... got to add it before any algae starts.

Dude thanks. Here in South Africa and my friend has some towers, but they expensive. Love this kratzky tower system. I'm getting some buckets and noodles end of this month. Thanks!

Thanks for the update to the new system.

Thank you for showing us what you found. I am enjoying your videos.

Can't wait to try this experiment

This is an awesome idea. I am in South Dakota so last frost is end of May and I can't wait to try this!

Got my buckets prepared, getting ready to plant some kale. Thanks for sharing all the knowledge you've gained.

Hi Mike! I’ve been experimenting with aspects of this on and off since late last summer, and I thought I’d try something a little different this time. I have two little feverfew plants that I took out of the ground during an unseasonably warm period this winter, and they were sitting in water up until a few weeks ago. So I put one in coir and the other in a glass jar from the recycling, with a pool noodle sealing the top. It got its nutrients mix in the water solution, and the bottle was wrapped in aluminum foil. The same nutrient mix was given to all the plants regardless of growing situation: soil, coir, or pure nutrient mix. Then came an opportunity that took me away from home for a few weeks. I gave the potted plants extra nutrient solution, grabbed a computer and work clothes, and went. Yesterday, the opportunity to take a break to go home and water the plants again came, and what I found was very interesting. Some of the plants were rather wilted. The new plant in the pot of coir was green and bushy (feverfew is particularly forgiving that way, or perhaps it had something to do with the substrate in which it was growing); its’ same-age, same-species counterpart in the bottle of nutrient solution had at least four times the biomass, and had consumed half the solution. This gives me great optimism, as I often get an opportunity to work on a project or just visit other people that I haven’t seen in a while, and can be gone for weeks on end. The project that goes overtime keeps me there longer. It sure is nice to know that if I have the right set up, at least the plants that I enjoy will still be producing when I get home. This will be true for both medicinal plants like the feverfew, which does wonders against migraine and leg cramps, or food or even ornamental plants. This year, this system has already given more freedom with my production then I have any other year. So thank you.

Guessing it’s just the white bucket. The darker colors block out a bit more light. I was going to use white buckets, but now I’ll change that up! Thanks for your video.

Thanks Mike!🌱💜

LOVE IT. DID TOMATOES 1ST

I would paint the white ones to lessen the algae problem

Take starts off the tomato plants in the fall. That's how you can get clones for the next growing season 💥

Mike ....what do we do if we have algae in the bucket and its just getting started???

Mike thank you so much for the videos! I am getting ready to start using your methods. In the five gallon buckets I am trying to figure out where to buy the net buckets and what size. If you have an affiliate I would be glad to buy there, also, what are the round brown balls you use on the tomatoes. Appreciate all your help, and all the info!

Decoupage! Take pieces of colorful paper, fabric, leaves, flowers, etc. and use modge podge or clear acrylic adhesive to paste it to the side of your bucket and you have art garden. Hmm, you could paint or put down sheets of colored paper as a background and paste fake flower petals on top and seal them in. Hmm I wonder if that would work? The only Sunny Space I have in unfortunately in my front yard. Even though my neighborhood is a bit trashy, I like to make sure my front yard is less trashy and more purposefully nice to look at. Since I have a pentagon of tire planters ( someone dumped a bunch of bald tires in my backyard so I turned the into planters with a deer net held up by stakes and cardboard and wheat straw over the 'grass' so it kinda looks like a summoning circle. To top it off I put some Dollar Tree solar lamp torches on top of each pole that glow like fire at night... ahem...) I need to make it look more like I am growing nice plants and less like I am summoning demons. LOL White Buckets look kinda industrial, so I am thinking I might have to Martha Stewart that stuff. Any suggestions are welcome.

Have you done squash and have battled squash bugs/ what to do?

Does anyone ever scuff then paint their buckets? I was thinking black with green, kind of splotchy, would both darken the bucket to block light plus make it less obvious once the greens have grown. Just curious. I haven't started any hydroponics yet but hope to this year.

Maybe it is just the lid that is letting most of the light in - maybe just swap the top white lid for a coloured one?

Mike... I'm going to be starting our "basil garden" in our og style rainspout rails in 3 weeks or so!! All available plugs are growing my "dirt garden" stuff! Wr are soooooo excited for cardinal basil! 🪴 🌱 🌿 🌾

Too cold yet here in U.K. but not a great lover of kale, assuming we can do this with Spinich? Already grow lettuce indoors, will do it outdoors in summer. What is the easiest fruit to grow hydroponically? I really want to try strawberries but wondering how difficult they may be

Could you put the white buckets on the bottoms of the towers only? Would that stop more of the algae growth in those buckets?

wondering how often you have to change the water in the buckets.. thanks!

Is the heating up of the water in the bucket especially in summer an issue (root rot etc)? Any experience, what can I do to prevent without much work in constant relocating the buckets?

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I have some yellow cat litter buckets I plan to do a tower with. I'll get to see if yellow buckets grow algae. 🤔

What water solution do you recommend for vegetables?

And how do you grow vegetables that have an edible root, carrots, beets, onions, parsley?

Snow here between Buffalo and Rochester Ny.

Do ur greens grow all year long? In Florida it gets really hot

What does algae do in hydroponic systems? Does it affect the growth or the taste?

To not waste any nutrients, maybe you could throw something inside of a bucket and that way force water level to go up without adding any extra nutrients? I'm just wondering, haven't tried it myself :D

Do you reuse your pool noodles

Question? Do you add oxygen (with air stones) to the nutrient solution?

Actually the white bucket plants looked a little smaller than the others

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Went to Walmart and got another 4 White Buckets... Someone asked me why so many Buckets... I told them it was YOUR fault... LOL and now I find out... Stores are watching people who BUY Buckets... because there has been a rash of young (not so good people) Putting BUCKETS over People's HEADs... NOT FUNNY... So this last week... I wondered why they were watching me because I have bought so many Buckets this last week... (not cheap either) BTW... Walmart is the cheapest place for Buckets and Top... WHITE BUCKETS...

Get out of my head Maaaaaannnnn.