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Never Water Again! Gravity Fed, Auto Watering System for Potted Plants

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Hoocho shows how to build a Gravity Fed, Auto Watering, Hydroponic System for Potted Plants
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@Scrambles7 Год назад

Ladies and gentlemen! The man, the myth, the legend! BIG DOG! He's at it again. My brain may explode from all the information you supply! Keep it up

@prndownload Год назад

Something I always recommend when discussing Autopot is that you reference the "autopot copies" webpage and what it actually means. People outside of Australia are not buying official autopots or accessories despite believing so as the UK distributor stole the product and even the name from the Australian inventor then re-manufactured it. I'd include the URL to the "autopot copies" page but comment might get blocked so you'd have to google it. I don't think people internationally should be supporting them and in most cases they aren't even aware.

@Mach1Greeble Год назад

wow

@Ryanrulesok Год назад

I mean if the copies work and aren't damaging the environment or dangerous, I will still buy them, especially if the copies are waay cheaper than the original as they are charging the premium

@darlenefraser3022 Год назад

@@Ryanrulesok Same here. What they did might suck but now, it is what it is.

@sheep.herder Год назад

@@Ryanrulesok they aren't cheaper + you should be supporting australian workers which the copies don't!

@michael-masi-2021 Год назад

Blah blah blah. I'm about to take a set to China and get them copied, and actually sell them for a realistic price.

@MuffFlux Год назад

Man, you are pumping these videos out! Great to see!

@michelleroxy21 Год назад

pumping water in, pumping videos out

@Anna-ww4pv Месяц назад

I love how the two dogs act like kids taking a ride in dad’s tractor!

@NickAPartlow2024 Год назад

I've been learning from you since you've started and it's is life saving for me to get better and growing my " 🍅" since my mother was diagnosed with vocal cord cancer , so thank you

@rafaelo4945 Год назад

You are an absolute legend. Understandable, replicable, helpful. Thank you for the inspiration - and thank you for the passion about the smart valves, you made me appreciate them too

@JoeParkerAndThePower Год назад

Definitely share your love for that funky float system. Love it when 21C engineering/science/design solves a centuries-old problem using no power, passive tech and low maintenance

@perotross Год назад

Ha, loved the dogs getting a ride in the garden cart! Love the self watering system! Great job!

@leannekenyoung Год назад

I know me too I 😂so much seeing him drive the dogs around in the cart like he did! It was soooo funny!! ❤️🥰🙏🏻🇨🇦

@hightechfarmers Год назад

Grats on the weight loss Hoocho. You look much healthier and bet you feel much better too.

@jlynch877 Год назад

Spectacular! The demonstrations and time you took to make the videos are very much appreciated.

@MattGarver Год назад

One of your better videos. Enjoyed the many different ideas and camera angles. Can tell how much work you put into shooting and editing.

@jamesriddle2301 Год назад

You communicate your designs very well.

@surronzak8154 7 месяцев назад

Man, you the guy I was looking for Xp sub, that explanation of the auto valve was the most complete I ever heard

@dennisshoemaker2789 Год назад

Man I love your videos. You have big brain ideas that you share with the simplest of explanations. Great video! Thank you for sharing your adventures with us.

@morrydeed Год назад

Been using the autopot system for a few years! Jim Fah is a legend! I love it! Easy af

@ivareskesner2019 Год назад

I envy you your space. But I look on the bright side. My limited space has motivated me to build the best sealed, Co² supplemented, climate and humidity controlled RDWC system ever seen 😁👍🏻

@ulrichwessmann8465 Год назад

Very happy to see your channel growing. Great tips from a great guy! Keep it up big man!

@MichaelSmithAU Год назад

Another great video Hoocho !!! I'm running quite a few AutoPots and the only thing I'd add is to ensure you clean them every month or so and have a good filter to remove any crap from your solution. On a couple of occasions (not too often to piss me off, but enough to be annoying) I've had the AutoPot jam and gone into the greenhouse to find it flooding the floor as the mechanism jammed on. A good filter and the occasional clean and I'm not having that problem anymore.

@leannekenyoung Год назад

I was thinking about that as the main issue especially with doing all of my growing indoors! It would be a huge mess!! I wonder if the nutrients themselves with the salts etc could cause a clogging issue?? I’m always afraid of those auto waterers.

@sl1cer Год назад

Yesssss more Hoocho vids! The Autopot smart valve is an incredible design, hopefully they can drop the price a little in future $33+ per pot is difficult to scale.

@kalancosta7650 Год назад

For home use you could probably 3d print it as it’s not that complex (genius for sure but simple)

@magnumxlpi Год назад

@kalancosta7650 so buy all the equipment to 3d print stuff instead of paying for pots? Lol

@33vegastar Год назад

i found out that air pot are way better for hydro systems outside , as plant grow a lot more, roots grow a lot too and you don't to end up with few inch of roots at the bottom always in water

@chazdenross7230 Год назад

Taking the dogs for a ride in the cart made the video even better.

@jockrot-fixit719 Год назад

I'm really happy with the video and the information you are sharing. This is a project worth doing. Very professional. Now all you need is some Dwarves to pick the fruit

@onametaquest Год назад

These are brilliant! I have just started my venture into the world of hydrophonics. It's been a lot of fun! It is amazing how many parts you can design and fabricate for this if you own a decent 3D printer. I built myself a little test setup in my closet to play around with different nutrient levels and growth methods and the 3D printer has been key in being able to do that. Also, to the people who want to automate things but are not coders, Using Chat-GPT, You can write simple python scripts and use basic relay circuits to setup a WIDE array of control systems. The one I am currently playing with is atmospheric sensing, since this setup is in a closet I want to know the values of CO2 and other particulates in the air, that way I can also play with those values eventually too. The one thing I have been playing around with on paper myself is fruit trees. After seeing this video, I now know where I need to start. Cheers and keep up the great work!

@droydi 4 месяца назад

Very cool idea about overloading the system, hope to see it in the channel as I explore it.

@goodcitizen4587 Год назад

Very cool! Design improvements would include a top to keep out rainwater.

@c0bnut Год назад

Very nice system. To improve water retention and root health I would recommend painting the pots white to reflect as much heat away from the roots as possible.

@tenthousandwaves Год назад

@RN G The pots are already black. Painting them white won’t allow light to go through

@tenthousandwaves Год назад

Sorry, I get what you’re saying now. It’s about the heat, not the light 👍🏻

@williamdyer3999 3 месяца назад

Also paint increases the life of the pot. Especially here in full sun of Arizona.

@RebuildandRenovate 4 месяца назад

21:40 a better idea for the auto drain would be to drill a small hole up to the level desired, so if it goes over it will automatically pour out 🙏

@markfarrelly925 Год назад

Really nice, love your ideas and also that you include other ideas. Love the background bush and that you always seem to have something growing. You bring a little bit of Australia to a cold northern German village. And make an old Australian a little homesick.

@joesephrodrigues Год назад

aw yea, orchard hydro! By far the type of content I'm interested in the most

@rory88smit Год назад

wow great man! One more step to me wanting to start my own farm XD

@OrganicGreens Год назад

Use organic dry amendments in the soil and you don't even need to add fertilizer to the water. I wont do anything other than sub irrigated planters or drippers in pots anymore. It's just to easy it doesn't make sense to garden any other way. I dont mix fertilizer and I only hand water for a week or two when I transplant. Sub irrigated planters in particular are so efficient with water it makes hydroponics look kinda silly. I use wicking planters specifically like an earthbox brand only I build my own.

@timpage5021 Год назад

Agreed. I used Earth boxes a few times but I’m using Growteck SIP buckets. So damn simple and effective. And they still allow for air pruning like in fabric pots. Organic dry amendments and a microbe inoculation like Recharge and good to go. Plain filtered tap the whole way.

@lizardking5002 Год назад

Just add inline taps to your trays so u can just open the gate for draining. Great videos buddy.

@CMZneu Год назад

15:05 Ok... basically a bell syphon, don't get me wrong it's pretty neat but let's not get carried away haha.

@aGood250 8 месяцев назад

Interesting. I like this idea. Not difficult to make something like this with things you find around the hime

@Tonia.lynn2411 Год назад

This is genius!! You should Patton it. I’m curious now now how I can use this in a raised bed. And then connect them all together!

@sheep.herder Год назад

always support out Aussie products if you can - hoocho + autopot = 👍

@d_d6569 Год назад

Great vid. They look brilliant, I’m really interested in seeing the results. A very practical, and, if needed, are also portable. Love it

@oplavevski Год назад

Was trying to print 4 and 6 mm adapters, 90% of them leaked, that's just pushing the limits of FDM, and this was with waterproof settings, 0.1 layer height, 120% flow

@barbarastefani254 Год назад

Thank you for the advice on the auto pot totally awesome can’t thank you enough

@chrisraftis6794 Год назад

Absolutely loving the videos!

@micgalovic Год назад

Good to see a video from you

@jaycweingardt11 Год назад

Check out 'John Guest' fittings, push to connect and quick disconnect.

@hatless-cluncky-capsize 26 дней назад

You inspire me to have a bigger garden. Im loving the content of your videos and the ways you solve the problems and push the boundaries of what can be done. I have 4-5 citrus trees that I bring indoors in the winter time. Im very tempted to do this sort of system for mine. Do the trees have any major issues when transitioning to the new medium? I know the roots can be VERY finicky.

@finnostergard1397 Год назад

Very good idea.

@thehydrosource Год назад

Hey hoocho, I’m a hydroponics distributor. We make lots of products out of plastic and metal. If you ever need higher volumes of produces like the bato buckets lmk. We can mass produce them for you. I’d estimate the bato buckets being about a buck or two.

@brianshaw2914 Год назад

gotta love the 14 paRT connectors....

@geoffsorensen1084 Год назад

Another great video. Love that you support the real AutoPot... Where did you get the fabric pot covers?

@joeabad5908 Год назад

Simply Awesome... Thank you for a very informative content.. Godbless you more.

@dmo848 3 месяца назад

Zip ties work wonders on pipes that are small

@blackphoenix3249 8 месяцев назад

This was awesome!! I'm trying to find those boxes😍

@giuseppebonatici7169 10 месяцев назад

you should have tried an external fitting for the hose adapter, you have 6-7mm ID (that you can make as thick as you want, to ensure mechanical integrity) with one or two o ring to make the seal (I have tried internal barbs but they tend to leak somehow). or coat the thing in epoxy that also should work to some extent.

@barbarastefani254 Год назад

Thank you for teaching us this

@jlynch877 Год назад

I noticed that you have felt-like covers on your pots. Can you tell us about them?

@emilethesnaar6604 Год назад

Remove the shoulder on the barb, so that you can insert it deaper into the green pipe. Then add a blob of silicone. Which wil seal it and add somr strength to the reducer.

@TaYeRu Год назад

Don’t those black containers cause the roots and the nutrient solution to overheat and cause damage?

@lilsangarden Год назад

It's not lazy it's called energy efficiency 😊

@wayne8113 Год назад

Thanks Hoocho

@sikawing7716 Год назад

Bottom feeding with nutrient solution, will generally lead to nutrient salt buildup in the medium. Depending on the strength or EC of solution. Having the base tray elevated, (eg concrete paver featured) with removable bung plug in bottom tray, will allow for periodic top flushing. This would also clean the scoria of nutrient buildup also. Half or quarter strength nutrient solution should be used to flushed. I think it has to do with cationic exchange. (Hoocho would explain that better) Use an EC meter to check your run off, you generally only want to flush the medium back to the original strength of solution you are using. I’m not sure if a bell siphon would clean the scoria ( in base tray) of nutrient salt buildup as well but would work if base tray was empty. Your thoughts on Nutrient salt buildup, in the medium, caused by bottom feeding, Hoocho?

@dhirajjaiswal7687 Год назад

you are a genius

@OGRadGrow Год назад

Great setup 👍🏾

@davisadamj1975 Год назад

Enjoyed the video. Really like your channel. I'm getting ready to build an aquaponic greenhouse and I have been looking for ideas on growing a few small fruit trees. That's a really clean setup with the Autopot. For printing the small irrigation line adapters I think you're right about the .4 nozzle. I've printed some self watering containers and I wound up having to use a .4 nozzle and a .13 layer height. Not sure what slicer you use, but I also found that increasing the wall count to 3 or 4 in Cura helped make things water tight. You might also consider printing them on their side to put the layer lines perpendicular to the forces they will encounter getting knocked around. Should make the tips less likely to break off.

@Eric-kz2rt Год назад

Instead of having to empty after overflowing from rain just drill holes in the reservoir right above the level u set the float valve

@StefanRogin 9 месяцев назад

Nice, would love to see how small you could go with the systhem. Love the ideea of non-electric long running system.

@ivareskesner2019 Год назад

Hydroponicers unite..that's right. It's a word. I promise...

@barbarastefani254 Год назад

Wow like this message

@Invisiblehand123 Год назад

I am absolutely addicted to your channel. I understand you are located in Australia. How do you deal with temperature when growing leafy vegetables/salad? How do you keep stuff from bolting? Do you use bolting resistant varieties? Have you found that lowering the water temperature helps? I would love an answer or a video from you. Temperature control is something people tend to gloss over when thinking about hydroponic systems. Important topic especially when doing it outdoors. If you already did a video on this, I apologize. I have not gone through all of you content yet.

@Hoocho Год назад

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@Ich8in 3 месяца назад

try to print it with hard TPU (95up), that sticks to itself like honey and seals like nothing else printed

@JaySmith-ce6zm Год назад

Hello friend. Instead of you having too turn on the water too engage Bell Syphon,. Could you have your timer kick on for just long enough to engage the Bell Syphon and then kick back off. Say perhaps 2 or 3 minutes, depending on evaporation and root's feeding. ???

@nextmoreinc Год назад

So wheres the Burning bush at!! healing for the soul cant have a full garden without it

@doogiehowser78 Год назад

ive been using auto pots for over a year now indoors and have found they don't dry out enough between cycles and have occasionally caused root rot , whether the auto pots were the sole cause or part cause ive changed to the blumat system which has eliminated the problem and also seems to be a more natural way of watering from the top instead of from the bottom , Ill keep my 12 auto pots for growing trees or berries outside though , because it is an ingenious invention nonetheless , thanks for the great videos

@doogiehowser78 Год назад

@Canna Denfour20 ok , the blumats are adjustable to drip more but I think I know what you mean about underwatering because the carrots are the moisture sensors and would only sense the immediate area around them , but ive got my fingers crossed that they will be successful for my application which is one plant , one carrot per pot , so far so good

@MichaelHarman-au Год назад

Another awesome solution Hoocho ! What material are you using as the covers on the pots ?

@TheDIYer Год назад

instead of a fdm u could use a sla printet it'll give u waterproof parts

@chuckschillingvideos 11 месяцев назад

One thing you're not mentioning is that floats will inevitably get stuck when you are least prepared for it.

@belikartu6532 Год назад

I think it's easier and simple using "Timer Watery Machine"

@tinievillarico2770 Год назад

Thank you for sharing

@mindlessfactoryrec Год назад

Thanks so much!

@danny34867 Год назад

Here we go 👏

@Len02013 Год назад

For the 3D printed adapter. Instead of making the 4mm male barb part what about make it female, so the tube goes inside it? If required maybe add some silicone for sealing. Anyway, bigger diameter would make it stronger & could make it thicker as well, if need extra strength :)

@johntheawsomeful Год назад

Please do a cool ass time lapse of the trees getting bigger lol

@SelfSufficientSee Год назад

Got an easier way (no hydroponic) where you drape a mop strand through a hole in the side of an old water cistern 20mm above the water level and the water wicks up the strand and into a 13mm hose to a plant at above 1L/day Very simple, totally automatic.

@DanDannyDanielleBob Год назад

To keep your mouth off the siphon, buy a squeeze siphon starter from aquarium store

@adrianherbert9441 9 месяцев назад

Awesome explanation, thanks.. what are the round Matt’s called and where can they be found?

@Pummers38 Год назад

I was wondering how such a large tub was going to go in the tropics with a lot of rain.

@C3Voyage Год назад

Can you explain why you need it to "flood/drain" instead of keeping at a constant level? Also, how far up the pot, towards the soil surface, does the media wick the water? Curious how dry the top portion gets.

@barbarastefani254 Год назад

It’s amazing

@markrodney3783 Год назад

My buddy and I just came across your video and we subscribed. He started building his own hydroponics system. He's very smart and he said to me I like this guy he's smart. Anyway on the subject of the (smart valve) where can he buy them from ? (original inventor) also do they ever built up with water scale or with nutrients that they plug up and what do you do when and if they do? Great videos! Mark from Rochester N.H United States

@87xfute Год назад

Hi Hoocho, 16mins 30secs, in steed of the tee piece, couldn't you just put a 4mm double ended barb fitting straight into the garden hose. Thanks mate. Seeya Rob

@ryanrotten8595 Год назад

So when the summer sun is beating down on those hoses it doesn't get that water so hot that it burns the plants roots. I know when I use a hose from outside the freaking water that comes out of it at first is so hot. You can't touch it

@PatrickLabes Год назад

Love your videos man! How many liters do you think each tree would go through in a week QLD GC region? Just thinking how big of a resoviour I would need to consider

@CriticoolHit Год назад

lol stopping to give the doggos a tractor ride is the most important part of any hydroponic setup. Suggestion: You cut those wooden rings out of 4x4 sheets. Can you not use the parabolic cuts from those to actually make rain covers for the part of the tub filled with stone? Given you cut a circle out the size of the rim of the pot I wouldn't be able to resist using the scrap to make covers for the tubs.

@Hoocho Год назад

Great observation. I was trying to make it as simple as possible, adding an element of skill was why I didn’t ado this.

@CriticoolHit Год назад

@@Hoocho Fair enough and understood. Maybe for a little extra credit and protection from the rain down the line one day. Love the content man. Keep up the great work.

@barbarastefani254 Год назад

Water sound Much better

@hodgeac Год назад

If you want water tight prints you need a resin printer.

@wadahadlan Год назад

give a lazy man a task, and he'll find the optimal way to solve it

@johntheawsomeful Год назад

I wanna do this with coco and a dwarf fig

@hendrik3076 2 месяца назад

How long is the cycle of the auto valve? I realise that it depends on the size of the pot and water container. But how do you make sure it dries enough between high water levels

@thealohamu808 Год назад

How well does the plastic from the 3d printer hold up with the sun and rain exposure? I thought the easy way to remove water from rain....is a turkey baster. Hahaha Thank you for this video.....it was a lot of good information

@Hoocho Год назад

Use PETG and it holds up well, it’s mostly out of the sun with the lid, which is replaced with a small amount of filament.

@walktxrn Год назад

You should try resin printers, AnyCubic is fairly cheap and might solve the issue for you ... but would be UV sensitive :(

@expodemita 4 месяца назад

The pot has holes bellow so the water can go inside?

@jamieweston4495 Год назад

Spewin mate, I really like this system, but cannot get those tubs anywhere. I have been to 7 different Bunnings in North Queensland, While i was on Holidays. Not one had them in stock. Apparently the manufacture has stopped making them at the moment. SUX.