Will be moving back to Perth soon, so stoked to see such amazing produce all year round. Very comforting to know hydroponics works well in Perths out doors
@@hydroponicsbybrianbullock2488 You previously suggested I needed to give them more light while they started growing. So I did. Now it's blistering hot, but I have a good spot for them for light with shade. Going out of town soon, so I have to get them into a big tank. They are in my nursery gutters to grow roots until then. I'm trying to grow some celery in clay pebbles like you are doing. That is going well.
Thanks for the update Brian, everything looking lush. Little confused about the strawberries - those flood and drain tables are not running and you’re watering by hand? Why is that? There are holes in the underside of the plastic rock wool sausages? Thanks mate
Yes exactly, I did have the flood and drain tables mechanised, but really if they only need a drink once a week, manual irrigation works fine. Yes there are holes underneath the rockwool slabs. I’ll do an irrigation video.
@@hydroponicsbybrianbullock2488 thanks for the response. So for your flood and drain tables, it looks like you don't use the expensive plastic flood and drain tubs, its just a box made from coreflute? Everything is just bent into shape with no cuts? Thanks again
@@haydo1990 the large flood and drain with the carrots is a 2.4 x 1m pre-made one that was given to me. The others are core-fluted plastic lined with panda film. Way less cost.
@@hydroponicsbybrianbullock2488 Ah i see, thanks for that - seems like the way to go. Those commercially available ones are outrageous cost for what they are. Can i ask why you planted the strwberries into the rockwool rather than straight into the gravel?
@@haydo1990 I saw some hydroponic strawberries in a commercial farm grown in rockwool slabs so I thought I’d give it a try. I’ve grown hydroponic strawberries in an aquaponic flood and drain system. The bed flooded every hour for 15 minutes on a timer and the strawberries grew fantastically for two years. But I reckon the strawberries will grow better in hydroponics due to the perfect fertiliser. Strawberries will grow fine in a gravel flood and drain system, (same system as the carrots).
