Growing Zucchinis, Peppers, Cucumbers, Tomatoes & More Indoors

Growing Zucchinis, Peppers, Cucumbers, Tomatoes & More Indoors - Week 11

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2 жыл бұрын

Here's an update on the plants growing in my (work in progress) automated garden. Most are week 10-11 from seed. I've achieved some small victories and made an equal number of mistakes along the way so far, but getting things figured out and dialed in is half the fun of gardening for me. Check out my other videos to see more about the system.
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@KnorrAquatics Жыл бұрын

I’m using Zucchini and cucumbers to feed my aquarium fish!! Thank you so much

@TheSingingTrumpet 2 жыл бұрын

As a Studied Horticulture Engineer i have to say that your plants overall Look really healthy. My Tipp for the growing medium of the cucumbers would be to only use Perlite. Cucubers need a lot of water but the roots also need a lot of oxigen. Perlite drains really nice so salts and other unused components of the nutrient solution will be washed out and it also keeps a lot of oxigen for the roots. With a better drainage of your growing medium also comes better control of your actual ec and ph in the medium. You can even reuse it when you are done, you just have to boil it for sterilisation. when you keep watering this huge amount of medium which you are using the ec level in the coco soil will rise dramaticly without drainage. You could also try watering with clear water for some time so the plants have time to suck up the nutrients. I have to thank you for all of your tutorials on how to use the raspberry pi in home gardening applications!

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks for your insight! interesting idea regarding running straight perlite.

@MilestoneGarden306 2 жыл бұрын

All looking good pretty sweet. Fried zuc is really good, can batter it up. Edema is usually an issue for me when I over water and air flow. I'm trying to force myself to put watering off an extra day after soil drys out.

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah battered zucc would be delicious, wouldn't it. I'll see if I can give that plant a longer break between feedings maybe. Airflow is pretty good in that tent with 2 of those fans.

@tanyarodrigues9808 Жыл бұрын

@@LEDGardener You could try adding hydrogen peroxide diluted with water! Plants love the extra Oxygen! when i do my watering, i just add a little to my can and give it to all my plants, or you can spray the leaves in place of a pesticide if you are growing organically :)

@angekfire 2 жыл бұрын

Zucchini works great in fritters and pakoras, and zucchini bread is also always great.

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Dang, pakoras are a great idea.

@thoughtteaanna6052 Жыл бұрын

Zucchini tempura

@MattGarver 2 жыл бұрын

Socrates for the win over Roxynante, and taking note since I am always looking for better cucumber varieties. Those are a challenge indoors. The exposed grow media seems a little damp and may encourage unwanted pests over time. Your plants are looking great. Appreciate you sharing your results so far.

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Matt! What's your cuke of choice? I have a fan that blows over the surface of both to try and keep air moving and dry it quicker. Usually when I'm in there getting footage they've just been fed. Hopefully as the roots develop, they're able to dry the coco out quicker.

@MattGarver 2 жыл бұрын

@@LEDGardener I have grown many cucumber varieties, with most outdoors. Old heirlooms to exotics like poona kheera cucumber. My personal favorites are both gynoecious (all female flowers) and parthenocarpic (setting without pollination). Diva is an older standby. Sweet Success is an enormous plant with large cucumbers. I am searching for something to grow indoors. Both Little Leaf for pickles, and Picolino F1 for snackers are where I am heading this year.

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

@@MattGarver Awesome! I wasn't sure how gynoecious would work so I opted for 2 parthenocarpic varieties this round. Sweet Success looks nice.

@MattGarver 2 жыл бұрын

@@LEDGardener It's a beast, with 15' vines and huge leaves. Nice thing about cukes is cloning. I tip cloned Persian beit alpha outdoors and had the clone rooted and popping cukes in less than a month.

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's pretty damn quick.

@Badg0r 3 ай бұрын

Are you going to make the weekly video's?

@easternpa2 4 ай бұрын

lol pickle hammock.. that can't be any worse of a search term than "banana basket".. can it?

@MarkSheppard72 2 жыл бұрын

In those big pots once every couple days should be fine.

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, once the plants are bigger and better-fitted to the 3 gallon pots, I'll get back to more frequent fertigation. I've watered the hell out of pots this big in the past but the plants were much bigger and I jumped the gun on these cukes.

@nathantron 2 жыл бұрын

OK. I'm calling it. Pickling video coming soon. (Plz do) lol

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

I just can’t keep secrets from you guys

@nathantron 2 жыл бұрын

@@LEDGardener lol, when I mentioned it on the other video. I kinda felt like you would. Haha. Have fun!

@kekeandrei6773 Жыл бұрын

About your problem under the chili pepper, it might be a fungus, I had this problem this year when I put this in a grow tent in the room, but not having any vent inside, they develop this white fungus until I decided to let all day the grow tent door open, and the fungus died and the plant continue to grow.

@Marco9K 2 жыл бұрын

Nice to see the progress of your growth, what EC do you have in your NFT? I just started mine up and I have a mint that is growing like crazy with pH 6.5 and EC 1.5. I thought EC wouldn't matter as much in the NFT but my basil and lettuce aren't doing nearly as well as the mint (got to remove it when I get new lettuce seedlings going). I usually make sure I have good air circulation around peppers and that helps with edema, if that doesn't help I let them dry up a bit. :) Also, for cucumbers I usually grow Beit Alpha, a smaller but very tasty variety that produces a lot when happy, but I've never grown them indoors though.

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Marco, thanks for your insight. My EC for the NFT system is 1.3 right now. I target a much lower pH though - currently 5.8. The Socrates cukes I'm growing seem to be a Beit Alpha type. I tried my first one yesterday and it was sooo good.

@FarFromEngineering 2 жыл бұрын

A rigid lattice will be easier with cucumbers. Also, probably not overwatering them, cucumbers drink a lot, and I mean a lot.

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

You're right - the net is sagging a bit already but I think it'll get me through this grow. If not overwatering, I'm not sure what my problem would be. Based on what I've read, 1.5 EC seems somewhat conservative for cucumbers, so I don't think it's burn from the nutes. The coco is buffered and I feed 1 mL/L of calmag each res change (RO water). Any ideas?

@juliebuzz10 Жыл бұрын

Is the room that you are growing in heated? In a closed or draft free area?

@salasdergroe2293 Жыл бұрын

Hey, so first of all i love the projekt. And I‘m realy courious if let alone the initial cost to set every thing up, is it profitable or do you atleast Cover the electricity bill with the amount you harvest compared to normal store prices? Also could be a cool video idea Keep up the great work would love to have such a system in the future aswell. :)

@Kubisaw 2 жыл бұрын

Would you sell your Arduino PCB within Canada? Looking to start a much more scaled down version

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

I don't intend to sell any in the near future just because of all the red tape that goes along with it. I'll be posting the schematic though so people can build theirs, or maybe the community can help me come up with a revamped design that uses as many surface-mount components as possible. This way it could be ordered in a mostly-assembled state from the PCB manufacturer.

@jonnflores8345 2 жыл бұрын

Are the plants self pollinating? Or are you having to help with that?

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Both varieties of cucumbers are parthenocarpic and self-pollinate. I usually just shake the pepper and tomato flowers. The zucchini tent is windy enough that it pollinates just fine on its own it seems.

@jonnflores8345 2 жыл бұрын

@@LEDGardener ...that's awesome. Thanks for the quick reply

@alkhashtee 2 жыл бұрын

Great job Rayan, and also you can just eat it raw.

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I've never tried raw zucchini. I'll report back with my findings.

@DeathbyKillerBong 2 жыл бұрын

capsicums are just prone to edema, without very careful watering, humidity control and airflow they just get a lot of it, some more than others.

@LEDGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Must be the case. I'm struggling to control humidity because my basement gets cold during lights-off periods. When it dips down to 16 degrees, I get a pretty nasty humidity spike despite running the fans full tilt. I could heat the tent as a last resort to get me by until it warms up here but I'd really like to avoid that if I can.