Since we've received quite a few questions on how to build and run this system, we created a FREE build guide on our website. Enjoy! www.simplegreenshydroponics.com

6:03 time stamp is when he talked about the system.

I have been considering doing hydroponics for a couple of years and this set up is perfect, exactly what I was looking for.

You really changed alot for me and my friends, we learned alot how to make a difference with very little effort and alot of fun. Thx!

For adding nutrients, see "dosing pump". We use them a lot in aquariums to add nutrients. It should work fine in a system like this to deliver a prescribed dose of nutrient on a fixed schedule.

Can’t thank you enough for sharing this, it’s enlightening and inspiring!! Your web site is very helpful, too!

That was an excellent overview! And amazing quality on the produce. I'm about to start this with a Kratky system next week. This was great to watch. Thanks for sharing!

I'm just so amazed by the fact the plants can get so luscious in with such small roots 😍

I have consulted some information with a friend of mine and we concluded that it may would be a good idea to connect those PVC tubes in parallel as well, including a valve on each one, so you could periodically close the valve and disconnect that PVC tube, if necessary.

Great video and nice setup! That is a respectable yield from 10sqft! I’ve setup many systems very similar to yours and have been running numerous botanical and agricultural experiments for the last few years. I chuckled at the creative use of hair curlers...that is definitely the first time I have seen that lol. For a cost effective replacement of the curlers you can use either neoprene foam or a 2mil+ thick outdoor trash bag (thin black trash bags won’t block enough light, must be thick outdoor bags) cut into little squares, one bag easily creates several dozen little squares. Another thing I learned is that some plants simply do not grow well with others (mint, pepper, strawberries). The primary reason for this is the nutrient consumption and nutrient dependencies. Different plants will swing the PH wildly during morning and night and consume different nutrients at various rates, causing an unbalance. Frequent nutrient solution changes would assist in this scenario or alternatively low nutrient dosing. If you really want to boost your growth rate and yield add some Rhizoblast (or any chlorella algae product) starting from seedling in half the recommended dose, but be warned, this will greatly increase root density as well. Can’t wait to see the future yields, subscribed!

This video is oddly comforting

Awesome system. I have been successful with the Kratky system with greens. The full spectrum adjustable led lights, a basic nutrient solution, and a little basic KZfaqr knowledge and everyone can do this. What is becoming very expensive to buy at the grocery store can be offset with a compact space system. Just started experimenting with peppers with an air stone and a larger nutrient container and I had a few small peppers. Your system is the next step up. Happy green plants, you definitely got things right.

This is the first video I watch on hydroponic farming, I can’t wait to set one up in the future !!

Great job 👏 👍 👌 You've given me confidence to try to do this 💯💯💯 Thank you for sharing with the world ❤️🙏

What an amazing setup!! Thank you for sharing!

Great attitude and beautiful plants. Thanks for the encouragement. Your plants look great!!!

Thank you for this video. I just set up a system and your video is extremely encouraging. I appreciate all of your information. Nothing like growing food for your family. Can’t wait to watch your other videos!

Very nicely explained. You made it sound very practical and realistic. I might give it a go. Will check out the tutorial as well. Thanks for taking the time.

This is pretty neat. We started an outdoor square foot garden but I might need to do one of these

This is GREAT! I bought a butter lettuce a few years back and didn't plant it in the ground but it had seeds that flew around my yard and a few years in a row especially in the winter I would pull up a bunch, and take it inside and have a salad. I don't see them this time. I'll keep looking. It's kind of weird of how it did that though.

The hair curler killed me😂. I was like is that what I think it is??? Yes, it is

Awesome video! I'm thinking about doing this this weekend

I have an old but simple solution for changing the water level inside of the rails, just think of putting a brick inside of a toilet tank to raise the water level. Raise the level by filling a pvc pipe with sad, capping both ends and then installing in the main 4" pipe. The amount of rise in the water should be adjustable, the longer and heavier the pipe, the more the water level is raised.

I'm really digging this set up. Great stuff!

Thank you. Excellent, excellent presentation (minus the little dual sound problem).

Great Job!!!! Just subscribed... You should be proud of yourself, you just gave a family food independence!

You appear to be doing really well with the system you have.

This is amazing! I have a 60-pod and 9-pod system but would love to eventually get your level. Good job!

I agree with how prolific lettuce is in hydroponic systems. I have an aerogarden and even in that small space, I have a hydroponic butter lettuce that I bought a few months ago, and I'm able to just tear the leaves off as I need them, and they grow back as quickly, if not quicker, than I need them. I love your system, though. I might have to upgrade

Great job guy .... you are marvelous with that hydroponic mini garden ... 100 thumbs up bro !

Thanks for sharing. Kind of gives me a thumbs up for my ebb and flow system in the round pipe system. I guess hydroponics is up to the farmer how they want to set up.

This is great thanks for sharing your setup. Looks fun might give it a try.

You have a beautiful set up I think. And the hair curler idea is brilliant. I literally have like a hundred of those things I don’t use at all and your creativity with them blew my mind lol

Love how you specify what types of lettuce you are growing….

Nice setup, thanks for sharing it!

I built this system exactly as directed here, right down to the seeds (cause I wanted someone else to blame if it didn't work). It works great. Haven't bought lettuce since the first head matured. Now it's time to clean the whole system, but that means I have to remove every plant in every stage of development so I can break the system down. Any tips on this? All I can think of is to build another pair of rails to "transplant" to.

Subscribed! Very intricate and elaborate setup and love how clean it is!

At 2 min 30 seconds you talk about the kale spreading out too much. However if you would harvest leaves consistently there would only be 4 to 6 leaves at the top and it would be less horizontal and more vertical. Hope that helps.

Wonderful work! Thanks for sharing

here is an idea that may have been posted already but I am not reading through 200 comments. to take up the space in your 2" cups cut up a heavy duty black garbage bag into 4" X 4" pieces with a hole in the centre big enough for you to squeeze the seed plugs into. (like a square donut with a round hole in the middle) this will act like un umbrella to cut off the light getting into your tubes causing algae blooms in your tubes and on your roots & also stopping extra evaporation from escaping. hope you find this useful ! these can also be used over and over again & they would be very easy to clean. hair curlers are not a food safe alternative.

Nice website, checked it out. Making my list to see if i have enough funds to build it. Good thing is i already have some LED lights.

It looks beautiful, they're so green.. Never knew plants can grow even without sunlight.

This is really neat!!

This is the best set up for my house

Hello, Simple Green Hydroponics! It's very nice from your side to share knowledge with the rest. I could advice you to create parallel small water loops for each nutrition ingredient plus one more for a filtering system. It may sound difficult, but please trust me, if you achieve to create it well, then you will be able to automatize the whole system, in order to make it more efficient.

That's a really cool system. Very inspirational.

Thanks for the knowledge sharing. So informatifly. Good job... 👍👍👍👏👏

This is very sharp and very inspiring thank you

Very nice system and well thought out. I have been growing Kratky Method for the past 7 years and we do get quite a harvest. Your plants look happy and healthy. Recently I made a vertical hydroponic garden. In that, I tried strawberries and it just simply wasn't worth the time. I also grew spinach in the same system and that did well until it bolted. I think letuce will grow best in the vertical system and won't clog things up because they have a small root system. I mostly grow Portuguese Kale, Swiss Chard, and Collard Greens; but it does take up a lot of root space and air space, but the greens are exceptional. I have been using my spent nutrients in my yard and the plants seem to love it.

THIS ...is an AweSome setup

Looks great, love this.

Great video! Love your Explanation !!

The sound of your voice has a pallet of the fact on my frazzle nerves. The information is clear concise and red in an Oso something I’ve never seen before perhaps the American English I go out with?

I am currently growing using DFT Method, but I should give it a try. Thanks.

thanx for the info. your video was encouraging.

Just found your channel and subbed. Great video with lots of great information. I'm hoping to get started growing inside using hydroponics. I'll start small with lettuce and grow from there. Thanks for sharing your setup and experience. 👍🏻

I am in awwww. I have no idea how to do this but you make me want to try :)

When I was doing hydroponics outdoors, I had a lot of algae growth too and i found out that grapeseed extract would bust the algae but not harm my other plants. It was a powder supplement i got from a fitness store

Fantastic job. Good looking produce.

Awesome and helpful video. Thank you!

The green sets off an atmosphere.

Thanks. So you change the water weekly , adding new nutrients by powder or liquid into the water? Which pump do you use and where is the pump situated, and is it on a timing mechanism? Do you have blueprint plans for your setup? I’m new to this but keen to emulate your setup, many thanks !

Brilliant setup!

This is exciting. I’m in the process of setting up an aquaponics system with about 100 sq feet of space for plants built over a koi and tilapia pond. I’m building my system in the Andes Mountains directly on the equator at 2400 meters elevation, so a perpetual springlike climate where both cool weather plants like lettuce and chard thrive, but sub-tropical plants like avocados, custard apples, and citrus also thrive. My plan is to half cover the pond with a greenhouse, growing peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, etc… inside the greenhouse and lettuce, broccoli, fava beens, etc… in the exposed area.

Seems like you could use circular paper cut with a hole in the center and slits radiating from the center to block the light like they do on some of the commercial systems.

This is outstanding!

This is exactly what I'm trying to have (provide constant supply of greens to my family) in our small space (and other challenges, mainly the heat because of our tropical climate)... But I'm using Kratky. Got inspired more because of your video

The strawberries are a vine, they grow up on stuff and keep it together not separated.

Congratulations! This is something many people wish for but simply keep dreaming.

i feel like strawberries are pretty inefficient for growing under light, but im impressed by the system for sure! i'd like to set something like this up for kale, i think i would never need to buy it again and would be able to make my smoothies forever and ever

Great video thank you!

I forgot to give you another idea. Have you tried to move the air vertically, instead of horizontally?

Pillars work well for strawberries, and a few other crops.

Nice set up

Your doing good work son. Keep up the good work.

I used to run an NFT but switched to dutch bucket indoors, although I've debated setting up another strawberry tower in NFT.

I think I might give something like this a go next year. I grew some cucumbers in a 100l tote that looks suspiciously like yours using the Kratky method outside and they were great. I'm adding in an air pump and airstones this year to try and to try and improve the yield even more. I'm thinking of another 100l tote to act as a reservoir and then build a frame like yours on top of it. Maybe I'll pop the tote on a board with wheels so I can wheel it out for maintenance but still have a small footprint. I could probably hide it behind some sort of wooden cover to help make it prettier too.

Спасибо мужик это выглядит интересно и просто :) Надо попробовать сделать нечто подобное!

That is so amazing if you literally bought the parts for that and stockpiled them up in your garage you could sell that that is just an amazing design if you could just fit all that into a plastic tub and ship it to someone's dore

No dig gardner here; you hydroponics folks are MONSTERS! Joking aside, impressive setup. Looks good

Amazing video. Thank you so much!

Really great to see such a small and efficient system. Will check the site for your build. THANK YOU

your plants look super healthy

Great stuff! Why does the water level need to be lower for the more mature plants on the back row (in the square-tube setup)?

very informative and clear. liked

Great video!

super informative video - thank you for sharing

thanks for the vid. Amazing job!

it looks amazing!!!

With strawberries you may want to have them in their own system. They like a 19-19-19 NPK which is a bit strong for lettuces and the like

Wow looks so amazing. I'm considering buying a hydrophonic system and looking for morr info. How often does the pipes need to be cleaned from bacteria or algae? What type of food nutrition did you use?

super nice greens there, and is it easy and can you grow them in high rise apartments using LED lights

We just finished building our system based upon the specs given on the website and are very happy with the result. Question: Does anyone else's system sound like a long, continual drag on a water bong? (sorry, there is no better way to describe it.) There's no air being pumped in with the water, it's seems to be the flow between the inlet and the exchanges between each rail that is causing the sound.

I get mine at tomorrowseeds on Etsy, I’m experimenting with salad bowl lettuce and Jericho lettuce.

I really think hydroponics is the future of all farming

Im not a lettuce person I just grow peppers but damn if this isnt some nice looking lettuce. This guy has his Nutrient and system dialed in 110%

LoL I find it funny how most gardeners on KZfaq don't understand sq/ft. They will have a 5x5 garden and say it's 5sq/ft....but really it's 25sq/ft. It's nice to see you actually understand basic math haha. Though in total you have 20sq/ft...

Thanks! Question....what formula and ingredients are required for growing solution?

Unbelievable! Thanks for sharing.

Tank you for the whole video, very useful. One question though since here you were just beginning to experiment with LEDs... Red and blue lights or more of a white flat spectrum for the leafy growth phase of lettuce? I have begun using blue and red but it seems on lettuce it induces growth of the stem..