Comments on: Experiments

By: Walt

Walt — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:43:28 +0000

Mark,
Use a 2″ hole saw, found at any hardware store. This is the type you attach to a drill. The net pot has a lip and fits perfectly into the hole without falling through.

Walt

By: M Mcneill

M Mcneill — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:02:20 +0000

How did you secure your net pot to the lid of trash container?
Thank You

Mark

By: Walt

Walt — Sun, 01 May 2011 01:49:01 +0000

You should use one plant per 32 gallon container. 2″ net pots can be used instead of forestry tubes if you use a flat lid. Long forestry tubes are used if your lid is domed, requiring a longer tube to reach the water. If your plant is healthy, the roots will fill the trash container. Your plant should also provide cukes the same as if grown in the ground.

I also grow eggplant, beans, green onions, bell peppers, basil, tomatoes, and lettuce in non-circulating hydroponic containers.

By: Walt

Walt — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:04:07 +0000

Karen,
I’m a teacher in Hawaii. My students constructed a greenhouse that is used for hydroponics. This is not my area of expertise, so my students and I learn at the same time. I use the ctahr website for reference.

I can tell you this. You can use 2″ net pots with growing medium for cukes, one plant per 32 gallon trash can. You need a forestry tube, or something similar if you use a domed lid. You need the extra length of a tube to reach the water. A net pot is long enough to reach the water with a flat lid like the one pictured above (rubbermaid brute). We use the flat lid.

If grown disease free, the roots of one plant of cucumbers will fill the entire trash container! It will eventually suck all the water in the container, hopefully by then you will have reached the end of the cukes life.

We also grow tomatoes, bell peppers, beans, lettuce, green onions, basil, eggplant, all hydroponically, using a non-circulating method.

You can email me for more info. hilosun on hot mail

By: karen

karen — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:03:49 +0000

how many plants or seeds did u use??
i used this medium to start seeds. all my cuke seeds started. I have about a dozen plants.

By: karen

karen — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:01:35 +0000

i was thinking of using pvc too. what did u wind up coming up with?

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:46:26 +0000

This looks like a good experiment to try. I will try this during the summer when it gets hot. I live in North Florida. Mellerbeck how long did you let cucumbers grow? Was it enough time to use all of the nutrients and water? I am going to try the PVC pipe. Will write later and let you know how my experiment turns out. I will be using the same nutrients. If it goes well I will probably try another vegetable like squash or tomatoes.

By: Alexa Smith

Alexa Smith — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:00:09 +0000

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.

By: sue

sue — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:13:40 +0000

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…

By: mellerbeck

mellerbeck — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:31:19 +0000

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