Excellent tutorial. I’m happy that you left the part in where you had to modify your design for the pump tube because you needed that space for the light fixtures. That’ll help people because they may need to modify the design to fit the shelf/components they have. And I hope you’re feeling good as well.

Another excellent tutorial! It still makes me smile when you are unexpectedly impressed with your designs. Thanks for sharing all of the mistakes and corrections with us.

One of the best hydroponic resource channels on the net, hands down! Thanks for all you do and share with us!

Hands down the best diy system I’ve seen and I been looking for a good while.

Absolutely awesome. Once again a great idea, excellently presented and explained.

Great tutorial! We just finished our hydroponics setup thanks to your video and can't wait to watch our greens grow :) No more pulling grass and weeds from the veggie gardens. Thanks Hoocho. A big fan in Brisbane

Love the 'learn as you go' of this video

Crazy Good setup. Can't wait to see the results

Oh my god I quite literally have been trying to figure this out on my own

Super keen to see how this goes longer term mate with a full grow. I wish we had all the same end piece options for the 100x50 downpipe as that in this setup would but the ultimate indoor setup! Once I see the outcome of your grow I may make one of these to give it a go anyway

Thank you for explaining and showing how you build your projects. I am new to Hydroponic and getting ready to set up a system to grow tomatoes and cucumbers this summer. I am located in the state of Oklahoma USA. By the time I watch all your videos I should be able to convert your metric measurements to inches and feet. Until the next video!!

Another awesome build, thanks for sharing mate.

Love it!

I realy love your dwc system!! I am a inndoor grower!! And i follow you on KZfaq all the time!!

Dope..... I love this channel! I just did some lettuce in a Kratky under an SF600

I love that you show your fabrication on the fly.

Very cool! Thank you! Very demystifying.

Truly sorry, I've been sick and haven't been able to see my number 1 online. This was great mate, great job BIG DOG!!

Nice set up. The lamps look great for veg.

Awesome! will try it for shure!!

That size works perfectly, just rotate the Res 90 degrees and then it'll fit underneath, while still being able to be removed and cleaned 👍

Great content. Thanks for sharing!

Nice one man simple an effective

Great work :) I'd be curious to see the difference between growing the plants in this system vs the nft in the greenhouse to see if the grow differs in any way.

love your videos!

👍 I been planning making a similar system after seeing your propagation shelf video using the Bunnings led lights, but I'm going to run the lights vertically on the out side hence giving more room to play with, and fitting shelving better.🥃 Can't wait for video on grow, and comparing the two.

Always educational. 👍

awesome!

primo vid, def gonna give this a go

This is badass hoocho, looking to recreate this do you use anything to seal the pvc or do they just snug seal due to not being under pressure

beauty setup

Interesting video. Like!

Thanks Hoocho

Ey man, you are all I want to be !!! I love how you explain, all your projects your baldness, how I wish I make a 10% you what you are building!!! Let's start!!!

Great idea and suggestions. It is great to see how to use local items to produce food. Do you grow your lettuce to term then pull, or just take cuts and leave to reproduce? Wondering benefits of each.

Awesome setup! Have you found any issues with the cotton wool breaking down and causing blockages at all?

Great video. I could make an NFT system but I don’t wanna😏. To save myself time and frustration, I’m just going to buy one and use your great cotton ball method.

thanks for the vid

Great video.

Great solution. I'm thinking about extending my 100mm PVC NFT system with it. BTW: I'm curious that you put the float valve at the same end of the res as the pump. Wouldn't you want to have the fresh water inlet to be as far away as possible, along with the return inlet, to give it a chance to mix in the res before it gets pumped into the NFT?

I'm going to award you with Nobel prise brilliant

Exelent video.

Great video. How come you did alternate slopes on left to right and right to left on each level? Would that work as well?

Hey mate, as always great video. Question are you using the pinnacle or Montgomery shelves?

With your out door lettuce grow you mention that thy are doing well do to cool water flow through the nft , would this also slow bolting ? Is it more root temp or something else that is more the driving factor in bolting. Thank you

FANTASTIC BUILD!! Is VERY similar to mine although I have my reservoir at the end of the rack and my shelving unit has one additional shelf with a light above which I use for germinating new seedlings. I absolutely can’t wait to see your time lapse with this system! I’ve been growing in one very similar for over 4 years now and my family absolutely LOVES it!! I grow so many different kinds of lettuce and white stem tat-soi and basil. I use it to give my tomato seedlings a start until they get to be a certain size and then I transition them to their own larger tote box to continue growing with of course stronger nutrients. This is absolutely fab! And anyone can do this without the need of any special 3D printing. The only thing I’m wondering about is the 6 manifold split, how easy it is to get and how prone to clogging would it be? What you could have done instead was to start at the top of the first channel and have the water run zig zag between the first pipe to the second pipe on the same shelf and then instead of it returning to the reservoir have it flow next into the pipes below and tilt them in the opposite direction and the tilt can be very slight hardly any at all and water will continue to flow through the path of least resistance. And then at the end of the second shelf pipe have it flow into the third shelf of piping and then that last pipe has the return into the reservoir. There are enough nutrients in the water that when it starts at the top and flow through each pipe each plant will still get what it needs to thrive. It doesn’t require that each pipe has fresh from the reservoir because it’s a recirculating system anyway. Make sense? Also I know you prefer those lights but you can also purchase lights that have one power source and are daisy chained together and that way it’s a lot less power boxes to worry about just one for three lights or even four lights. Monios T5 or T8 warm white lights are perfect and come in 4Ft or 2ft lengths depending on the size of your shelving unit. My unit is 3 ft wide so they stick out 6 inches on each end which is fine because I keep my reservoir off to one end of the shelving unit it makes it accessible for replacing the bottom of the tote with a clean whole new bottom and the only thing I need to do is to stop the pump and pull it out and give it a good scrub and clean the filter area and then pop it back in and the system continues running beautifully. I keep the extra bottom tote box for that and then I can clean it out at my leisure without feeling rushed to get everything back up and running. I live in Canada and I am growing lettuce 365 days a year with my DIY NFT system and it’s absolutely amazing how easy this is to do! I encourage everyone who lives in an apartment to setup a system like this it requires such a small amount of your time or energy and such a small space to grow a lot of food! Each of my pipes have 9 holes and I have the 6 pipes as well so 54 heads of lettuce I can grow at one time but instead of doing that I tend to grow tat-soi in a couple of pipes and I stagger my lettuce growing so I always have new plants entering when one is finished. The hardest part is not germinating too many seedlings at once and then having no where to put them! Lol! So we are building a second entire rack because lettuce in Canada is absurdly expensive right now and we will be able to help out our family and friends! We tend to take cuttings every 7-10 days all around the outside of the plant and leave the Center need growth so nothing gets overly large and that way the lettuce continues to produce for at least two months and as long as it doesn’t get too hot or too much light it doesn’t bolt. It’s been sensational and I absolutely am in love with growing like this. Thank you for your design I sure hope it encourages many others to give it a try! It’s ridiculously easy!! I will be using your video of an example of what can be done. The only change I may make is adding some reducers at the ends of each pipe before it turns into the next pipe and in that way each pipe will always have a certain amount of water in its pipe in case of a power failure. That’s what we’ve done and it’s worked well. It also means that the pipes you use to connect between each reducer is significantly smaller. So not as bulky and it doesn’t require the use of the small black tubing which could be prone to plugging with debris. One way around that would be to put cheesecloth or a paint bag around your pump and then it won’t allow any debris into the pump.

Awesome build, where do you get the manifold from? I'm unable to find one in my area (Switzerland) 😞 Any other ideas to distribute from the pump?

I really wish I had one of those par sensors.

Hey quick question, how much water do the rain gutter grow systems use? I’m sure it’s plant and container dependent but do you have a ballpark figure?

Where can I obtain the hinged container used as the sump? If you are going to say Bunnings please provide a link as I can only find fixed lids on their online store.

Great video, I am going to try this here in Utah and let you know how it goes. Will this work for all types of lettuce? Will the spacing between plants be enough? One other question, what is the gallons per hour that the black manifold for the six lines distributes?

I’m not sure if it matters but you’ll have water backed up in that very bottom 90 going into your rez until it pushes back that original slope of 1 inch every 3 feet so you’ll likely have one inch of water in that 90 degree elbow all the time.

i'm looking for 3 way port manifold that connects to a 16mm PVC pipe like yours, also building an NFT system. The water pump that you have is in AU and I'm in the US therefore I'm using an amazon one. I also wanted to ask if 15mm PVC pipe and BSP fittings are compatible with most water pumps?

Would 8mm tubing work instead of 4mm?? Having trouble finding a 4mm manifold…. Thanks!

When you noticed the manifold I hoped you would have realized it would have been better to have zigzagging slopes so that you only needed one water inlet and one water return. Other than that it is a great build.

How often will you change the water in this indoor system please? Would it be different outdoor NFT?

Where are those small metal leg wood top workbenches from?

What is the name of spectrum sensor that you using?

How good does the studio lighting look inside the shed!

I'm having a hard time finding a rack that works here in Canada... I wonder if there would be any downsides to just using the pipes structurally? So that they're both carrying water as well as bearing all the weight. Would it make it harder to maintain, for example?

is there a reason you didnt zigzag the pipe between the levels so you don't need the manifold?

Hi, you forgot to get yourself some freshly made home brewed beer!

Do NFT irrigation tubes ever slow with buildup? If so, could you design and print a tiny paddle or self emptying cup thingy, to fit inside the returns, which would give a visual idea of the current flow in a tube? This would be my lazy way of finding a nutrient tube that will need cleaning soon. (Or is it so simple to pull out and check each tube that this isn't worth the effort?)

Shouldn't you throw in a filter before the micropiping? They often block for me.

Nice man! That's a really good idea with the manifold. I don't know why I didn't think of it since I watched a lot of your videos before embarking on my own build. I have a 2in pipe 39 head setup, but it's got one hose that's brings it up to the top and drains to the next level ext all on down. I've noticed that as the lettuce matures, it's harder to keep the flow right all the way down for an NFT due to root buildup, it seems, so in a lot of water running thru the pipes. Next build, I think I'm going to move to square pipes and the manifold. The current setup just works so well I haven't wanted to spend the money as I just recouped the setup costs, 4 month ROI ain't bad!!! Root have only become a problem twice, where I woke up to about 3 liters on the floor. Fyi cilantro is not a good idea in such a small pipe, the roots on that thing!!!

That is a bold move putting lights under each of your channels. Careful your root mass doesnt flood those bad boys and wreck that whole setup!

Hi love your videos. So for that DIY system you need 3 of those SF600 spider farms?? Thats 139.99 x 4... YIKES any advice?

Question: I'm using an old fish tank for a reservoir. Would it hurt to have a plecostomus sucker fish in the tank to control algae? Meaning, will the plant nutrients harm the fish? Thanks!

link for the splitter

Very nice I bet strawberries 🍓 would work well in it.

wow amazing! is the cotton food safe?

Is it possible to grow using normal fertilizer, please inform me

Nice, but I'd worry about chemicals leaching out of the DWV pipe. It's not certified for potable water, could have much higher cadmium or lead levels than PVC-U or C-PVC?

Do you really need a grade to it? Seems like even level the water would run over into the junction

Some nft systems you build you use 1/2” tubing, why?

Good one!! Can someone tell me the proper name of that multi flow part? can't find it anywhere

Fantastic vid! Thanks for doing this. I can’t seem to find the sf600 lights - only the sf300. Would the sf300 work just as well? Thanks again!

That kegland pump is ridiculously cheap compared to the ones you can get at the big hammer shop.

Lol, very nice 👍

I’ve never been able too grow anything from seeds lol😂😂😂😂

Is this better than elfsys?

I like very much the simplicity of the system, very nice job, I hope it will perform great, this would be very cheap and productive system to build. I did a quick simulation (I live in France), the 3 lights (16h/day) + the pump (24h/day) would cost around 0,60€ per day electric bill. In our area we find good quality lettuce around 1,30€. Harvesting of lettuce being around 45 days, the price per lettuce with this system will be around 1€ per head. So, in my location and for my use case, this would not worth it. I think I should take advantage of the sunlight, like putting this system in a greenhouse or near the window inside. Keep up the good work and let me know what you think 😉

What is the diametre of this pipie plz?

Hiya, when is the update coming?

Started working on my own hydroponic greenhouse (Dallas, Texas) after watching your videos (very similar setup to yours). How do you deal with freezing temperatures???

Señor Hoocho, while watching your videos contemplating a NFT setup, I have wondered down the rabbit hole of food grade plastics while trying to source stock material for NFT channels. Is this a topic you have addressed before on your channel? Many thanks!

hey Mr. Hoocho waht happend to the wasabi?? very nice content by the way!!

I always get a big kick out of watching your presentations and builds. But the cost of this system to grow a little lettuce boggles the mind unless it's for commercials purposes, and then it's too small. I gave up on NFT systems 25 years ago because of the inherent pitfalls. Give me my Kratky in 3 or 5 totes for all the lettuce I need.

I did something very similar, and my pump is not pumping water up to the higher shelves. Do you know what might be the problem?

Cut slots into the rim so the legs hold firmly along the sides, drill holes and zip tying the self to the sides if necessary, the tub should be heavy enough if it's full of water? Or in my case, fish!

Hey mate, just checking on your affiliate stuff (I need filament) - your link comes up with an error page on eBay.

Do you think it would be possible to build a shelf like this..with the cotton-ball lettuce ...but with a kraky method?

not sure good idea to have lights underneath the pipes incase of accidental leakage etc although love the design in general

Ah the good old montgomery bunnings tubs.

What about glue tho?

The light isnt the only thing thats Hung. Hoocho is packing xx

Is this system economical? Is it possible to achieve a financial return from this system?

👍🏽👍🏽

You guys eat a lot of salad! I have a small store bought micro garden, and I have radishes growing above the water ! Question I want to start a larger system The local grow place says to use sunblaster 48" , t5 He said it's better than led ? And less expensive Thoughts?

How often you you water plants in this set up when it is full of plants? And for how long?!?!!???