Hydroponic Watermelon - Only 96 Watts of Light! 

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In Alaska we just grow them outdoors during the summer lmao. They can get enormous!

@@JonathanSladkoTV the point is year round.....

I would suspect that such "luxury produce" would only be grown after a colony is very well established and have an energy surplus. However, lighting technology may get even more efficient by then. People in the 1980s didn't see LEDs as we know them today coming. It's shocking to me how much light comes from LEDs. I grew up around incandescent bulbs. I grew up thinking 100 watts was not enough light. 100 watts of LED is blinding lol.

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Standard dose. No nutrient adjustments. 16 hours light

Yeah, my grandpa would wait until the stem came off easily from the melon. Those melons were delicious.

Typical is 16 hours. I don’t think melon plants care about the day length. Flowering issues is usually an age thing or nutrient mix tying.

Eddie Sanchez no and that would take a substantial amount more effort, but I will be attempting that in the future.

Dylanrockin basement temperatures stayed around 72 and the pump wasn’t that powerful. Less heat build up

Cherdie Mae it was probably 18/6 or 17/7.

Both edible if I remember correctly.

@@GrowingAnswers thanks for the fast answer :)

Sure but the male flower would shrivel up anyways so it doesn’t really matter

Hydroponics cannot grow anything without nutrients “fertilizer.”

hardly noticeable. You can google kilowatt calculators to figure out how much it would cost you.

1000 watts is one KW. Electricity is measured in KWH. A lot depends on the price you pay for kwh. Example I run two 300w led for 16hr a day so .6kwh. Take the hrs a day times your kwh. So im running 9.6 kwh per day time 30 days gives me 288kwh per month. Now take that a multiply by the price of your electricity.(in my case .10 per kwn) 288 x .10 = 28.80 a month to run my lights

Penelope Carr more light, heat, and pollination. You could also use a q-tip. Probably a nutrient adjustment is the biggest thing for fruit set. I had plenty of babies, but many did not set.

Thank you. I've seen someone grow baby watermelons outside with aquaponics, and I've been wanting to try with the Kratky method, but you sold me on the aeroponics.

I would not do kratky for melons. For plants like that there really needs to be good circulation or oxygenation.

@@GrowingAnswers of course the best way to find out would be a Kratky VS DWC melons video done by a generous RU-vidr. Cough. Or you know, Kratky VS DWC VS proper high pressure aeroponics with very precise water droplet size, of which would be entirely unrealistic for anyone to attempt with a household budget. Jeb Gardner did Kratky pumpkins and besides the horrible disease and death they worked out pretty good. You could also try mychorrizae and beneficial microbes for some more variables in other non-melon, or even melon-related videos.

Yes

thats sort of hard to tally. I mean, the aeroponic set up was under $30, but that does not include the net pot, rockwool, nutrients, clay pebbles, lights, power usage ect. I had all the physical stuff already.

@@GrowingAnswers Looking at that list, your growing media for each plant was likely under a few dollars per plant I'm guessing. The lights I am unsure of but its difficult to calculate a cost on something that can be reused dozens and dozens of times.

I don’t remember, but it’s usually 2-3 months

@@GrowingAnswers thank you for the quick response. i watched your video a couple months ago, then i planted a sugar baby melon in front of a kitchen window with a 128watt light. It looks like its finally starting to flower.

Constant. I didn’t have any problems with roots in the pump.

Growing Answers I’m moving a krakty pepper into your setup. Would starting the pump constantly be fine or slowly working up to constant?

FellHard2day for this test I think it was 16

1 to 2 times a week depending

Earumamaadu yeah, but that’s not really the point.

Mikael it’s $8.40 electric cost start to finish.

BetterYouBetterWorld V I think I addressed that at the end of the video.

@@GrowingAnswers nice wow, try it in winter maybe? i am now

That wasn’t really the point. But I did that a few month ago in my more recent video.

@@GrowingAnswers I understand what you're point was. I was just stating a fact for the other folks. Also, I'm sure you know this. But them sugar baby watermelon don't get to big, even when growing outside. I grow those sugar baby watermelons, along with 2 other kinds every season. Those little watermelons sure are sweet. Their the sweetest out off the 3 I grow. That was a neat idea you had when you built your little hydro/areo ponic system. I've been growing with LPA (Low pressure areo) for 10 years now. And it is so easy. You just need to know what are the best things that you can grow that way. I built 4 systems that I grow with all year, indoors of course. Each system consists of 2, ten site grow chambers with 1 reservoir. Each system measure 3'x3' and I use 1, 3'x3' LED light over each system. Anyway best of luck.