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So I have always thought that growing something Hydroponically would be rather nifty, so when I ran across this PDF http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/HG-44.pdf
I just had to give it a go.
This was a method for Growing Hydroponic Cucumbers in a Plastic Trash Container. How could I not try that out!
So I collected my growing medium, some peat and perlite from the local garden shop, and stuffed it into my makeshift ‘forestry tube’ (I could never find a place online to buy a forestry tube) –> Forestry tubes can be bought in small quantities from dpl**ha*waii@*aol.com (remove the *’s) which is a small hydroponic outlet in Hilo.
My forestry tube was cannibalized from a root viewer toy thingy http://explo.stores.yahoo.net/roviga.html which I drilled some holes into.
I then cut a hole in the lid and stuck the tube through. (I had let the seed germinate inside where it was warm)
Next I needed to locate a source of Chem-Gro® 10-8-22, with much searching I finally found some at http://www.hydro-gardens.com/10822.htm
So I measured out the chemicals, and then dumped them swirling into the trash can.
After that I closed it up and then just watched it grow!
After a month or two I had a cucumber!
So, then I ate it.
And this is what the end result of the root growth turned out to be.
I like all of your pictures
Awesome! How did it taste? I think my kids would enjoy this.
Great experiment! I am surprised how many you got to grow and how small the roots are.
I stumbled on this page after searching endlessly for a forestry tube.
Like you I wanted to experiment on the hydrophonic cucumber of that Hawaiin pdf.
Pls. email me details of how to go about making a homemade forestry tube. Do you think I could make one out of pvc pipe? Thanks
I think you could create a forestry tube out of PVC. From what I can from the pictures of forestry tubes http://www.greenharvest.com.au/tools/propagation_supplies_prod.html
they are somewhat tapered plastic boxes. So I would take some PVC, maybe put an end cap on it somehow and then drill a bunch of 1/4 holes in the bottom and sides and see if it works
Hi! Forest tubes look an awful lot like the plastic bouquet holders (like the cemetery kind) that you can get at a Dollar Tree. Just an observation that needs to be experiment ed wtih…
I stumbled upon your site while looking for grow lights to use for an indoor version of this same project. I think if you try this again in the summer you’ll get a lot more cukes…they require lots of warmth, which is why I want to try this project indoors this winter. Thanks for posting this.