Making your own hydroponic garden is relatively easy. There are several different kinds of hydroponic setups, but for a first-time hydroponics gardener, a drip system is best because of its simplicity and ease of maintenance.
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Difficulty:
Moderately Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need
Dutch bucket hydroponics leach tray and components
Soak the rockwool bricks in water overnight. Taking this first step will keep the bricks moist enough to soften hardened-off cuttings or seeds. You will also not need to water the bricks for about three days to a week if you make sure to soak the rockwool bricks.
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The next day, place the bricks in the tray. Cut the 1/2-inch length of the tubing so that it is long enough to reach from the bucket to the end of the tray. Fold the end of the tube over itself and keep it down with the tape to cut off water flow.
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Place joists into the large tube to correspond with the number of bricks. Cut the small tubing and put one onto each joist and a basket drip into the end of each tube. Each basket drip will bring the water to each plant.
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Plant your cuttings or seeds into each brick. Put one drip into the corner of every brick.
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Attach the end of the large tube to the pump and place the pump into the bucket. Fill the bucket with water and plug in the pump. Your setup is ready for growing.
Tips & Warnings
You will need to add food to your water eventually to make sure your plants get fed. This food will pick up where the rockwool leaves off once the water and the plants have absorbed the nutrients. Rockwool is made from superheated spun volcanic rock and is full of vitamins that plants usually have to seek out in the ground.
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