tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75201500198575381032011-11-27T18:15:23.602-05:00Welcome to my website! I will be adding new videos and blog posts as time allows. Keep checking back. This website will help you design and build you own inexpensive home made hydroponics systems. I have many hydroponic systems for you to grow your own home grown fruits and vegetables. Please enjoy yourself searching my blog to find a hydroponic system you can build yourself. These videos are also available on my You Tube Channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/HydroponicsFriendHydroponicsFriendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05533716420873394521noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7520150019857538103.post-24848063357137740352011-01-03T01:10:00.000-05:002011-01-03T01:10:22.180-05:00

I keep seeing more and more videos on You Tube and writings in blogs about preparing for some type of Armageddon. With the way things are going I can see why some people are really getting concerned. If you really think about it, most of us rely heavily on our local grocery store. If society broke down for what ever reason could you feed you and your family for a year, a month, a week? I not

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Happy New Years everyone! Here's to 2011 being the best year yet. :) As you know I am getting ready for a new project. I want to make an indoor hydroponic herb garden. I'm thinking of making it a NFT (Nutrient Film Technique) type system. My main reason is I want to design a new NFT system because I think it will be a lot of fun. The second reason is from what I've read it is an excellent system

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If you've never tried fresh herbs in your cooking you don't know what your missing. Like a lot of people I have several small jars of dried herbs on my counter next to the stove. I never really understood the big deal or the expense of fresh herbs in cooking. When I first got into hydroponics I was looking for plants that not only grew quickly but were also useful. Unlike peppers and tomato

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I will continue my short series of answering questions. A subscriber asked how can he go about sprouting seeds for his home built hydroponic systems. Here is my answer.  I like to sprout the seeds in paper towels because that's what works for me. I started using this method after reading this was the way many people test the germination rate of their seeds. It's pretty much a guaranteed way of

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This Hydroponics Hobbyist wants to know if he can use river rocks in his hydroponic system. Below is where I answer his question along with my opinions about other hydroponic media. I have used pea gravel just to experiment with but I don't see why river rock wouldn't work just as well but let me explain the purpose of the media. I like the clay balls "Hydroton" because of a few important

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This question is from a guy who has been having trouble with his bubble cloner system. I have tested and proven you can successfully grow clones of your favorite plants with nothing but water. No chemicals or Hydroponic Fertilizer is necessary for the cloning process. The issue he seems to be having is his water quality. His first problem is he used tap water which may be harming his cuttings.  

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Sorry I haven't posted anything on here in a while. I haven't made any new Hydroponic videos lately but I have answered many questions recently. I'm guessing if someone has a question maybe other people have similar questions. Over the next few days I will be posting the advice from these communications in the hopes it will also help others. In other news I hope to start a new series of video

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By following these instructions you can build your own Bubble Cloner for next to nothing using parts that most people throw away. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. If you wish to check out a professional Clone Machine I've provided a link for you. It's called the EZ Clone Machine - 120

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I had a subscriber on You Tube ask me a pretty straight forward question. He basically asked, why build build the Percolator when a bubbleponics system would be so much easier? Couldn't you just put a hole in the lid without the PVC pipe and add an air stone? This in part was my response.   If you wanted to build a bubbleponics type system you would not need the PVC tube at all. Yes you could

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This video contains instructions for building your own Top Drip Bucket Hydroponic System using a 5 Gallon Bucket, a Mesh Pot Bucket Lid, and the GH Farm Kit. This kit was intended to be used for the General Hydroponics Water Farm System. I knew with a little modification I could build my own system and save a few dollars. The Pumping Column is an "Air Lift Pump". It uses air bubbles instead

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http://www.hydroponicsfriend.comThis is my first submission for Sure To Grow's You Tube contest Show Some Love, and I WON!!!Going from Hydroponics to soil you can see the roots growing right through the STG Cube.Going from Soil to Hydroponics, even after a couple weeks the surface of the STG Cube is still white and clean.This video was made mostly with out takes and extra footage from my other

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http://HydroponicsFriend.comWhat do you do with your old plastic coffee can. Build a mini Hydroponics system of course.A Hydroponics system built into a coffee can that sounds like a percolator while it's running, how funny is that? The piece of air tube going into the home made lift pump is from a small aquarium air pump. The tube comming out of the side goes right into the center of the net pot

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http://HydroponicsFriend.com I hope this video will show how and encourage people to build their own Ebb and Flow Hydroponics System. This is a fun hobby for me and I believe other people would enjoy it too if they knew how easy and relatively inexpensive it can be. Why an Animated Version? It allows me to show the inner workings of how this Ebb and Flow system works. I suspect this is something

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http://HydroponicsFriend.comThese are some pictures I found on an old picture CD of my first Square Foot Garden. My intention when I first started making videos was to do videos on SFG and Hydroponics. So far, because of bad weather and lack of funds I haven't done much of anything about Square Foot Gardening. No excuses, I promised you SFG videos and you shall have them! Check out my other

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http://HydroponicsFriend.comThis is my second update 12 days after Update #1. My homemade Hydroponics system is working extremely well. I am very happy with the results. So far its a great success. The pepper plants are showing slight damage, either from cold or more likely over watering. Starting seeds in the Jiffy Pots was a total failure. I believe the salad container was sealed too tightly.

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http://HydroponicsFriend.comThis is how I transplant sprouts into Sure To Grow cubes. It is very much like rockwool and other growing media.Once the sprout is "transplanted" it can be inserted into whatevertype of hydroponic system you may be using. In my case, the cilantro seeds would not sprout in the cube.Other seeds I used in the cubes took right off no problem.Sprouting seeds in a paper

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http://HydroponicsFriend.comThis is just a simple update from my first video.I set up a little corner in the laundry room for a work area.I use a plastic four shelf unit and had to remove the top shelfso there would be enough room to suspend a grow light.As you can see you don't need an entire room or buildingto get started. You can grow into that later. (Pun Intended).You may also notice I

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http://HydroponicsFriend.comThis is my first attempt at building my own Hydroponics growing system. So far it works great! I chose the Ebb and Flow because It appeared to be one of the simplest to build. This is constructed mostly of things I had around the house. A used laundry detergent bucket, well washed of course. A Ziploc disposable food container. Aquarium air pump. Tabletop fountain water

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http://HydroponicsFriend.comThis is an introduction video of a series about my experiments having to do with Square Foot Gardening and Hydroponics. I haven't even considered going back to typical row gardening after discovering the ease of Mel Bartholomew's Square Foot Gardening Method. Have a look for your self at. http://www.squarefootgardening.com/Hydroponics is something new to me. I've read

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