"Alison" o.uk wrote in
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Oh cool - at last someone with a hydroponic system. I spent big bucks
last
year on a flood and drain system and was SOOOO disappointed with the
results
that I lost heart and all the buckets of pebbles sit empty of crops. They
are/were outside in the polytunnel to make use of daylight and save on the
artificial provision of 12/18 hrs of light they need but the crops got
*really* heavily infested with greenfly (the leeks), the strawberries
produced 3 berries, and the tomatoes got struck with blight. I am thinking
(have half moved) the system into the basement.

Where is yours located and how do you get on with it?

Well, mine didn't cost big bucks! I have a pickled onion jar (the big one)
with a two holes drilled in the lid. The big hole has a chilli in it and
the small one has an old fish tank pump with an air stone on the end
(salvaged from my old fish tank). The water is a gro-more solution with the
roots dangling in it, the plants just propped up by the hole in the top on
it's bottom leaves. I turn the pump on for a few minutes a day (if I
remember) and change the solution weekly when I feed my other plants into he
garden and greenhouse. It lives on my bedroom window which gets sun
throughout the afternoon.

In total it cost me... NOTHING!

Charlie.


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