Hydroponic Grow Room update - Growing my own winter greens and herbs at home!

Awesome!

You or this person should try spinach and Swiss chard....also easy to grow and just packed with rich nutrients.

I have grown swiss chard many times and I actually have 6 rainbow chard seedlings growing right now!

The government should ban grow rooms immediately. You should only be allowed to get your vegetables from licensed supermarkets. Otherwise uninsured idiots will grow poison mushrooms and be rushed to hospitals increasing health care costs.

i'm growing all kinds of plants inside too, but not with hydroponics.

Do you ever get insect problems with soil plant indoors?

you're serious aren't you?

some, but an occasional shot of neem or insecticidal soap seems to clear it right up.

I haven't had bug problems at home since it is a very controlled environment, but i have run into bug issues in my soil plants at work. Spider mites, and white flys have resisted the insecticidal soap. Does Neem oil work better? I haven't bought it, because of the price of it.

I love watching your videos. Your plants look so yummy

Thanks! I will be putting a video up later this week on cloning basil. I did the footage, I just need to edit and upload it.

neem has worked better for me. i buy the concentrate as it's cheaper that way. i've not gone the hydroponics route because of the water and equipment required mostly. i try to keep things very low tech. and come spring most of what i've got growing will go outside in raised beds. i've got a few perennials that i've started inside just to see how easy they are care for. some of them are inside to get big enough that our dogs are less likely to kill them too. i've got a section of wall with adjustable wire shelving and lights for each shelf. the soil i'm using is from my composter.

now that should be interesting. i've never seen any point in doing that with basil, but it could be fun.

when are you gonna grow the good stuff?

Neem works wonderfully ... it is worth it.

The reason I am cloning basil is that I am taking 80 cloned basil plants to my classroom. The students will plant them in they hydroponic systems at work. They will be sold to the farmers market and local organic stores for fundraising for our classroom. Our batches fetch us between 120.00 to 200ish a week. Some variables are involved on who we are selling to.

i've always liked neem. it doesn't instantly kill insects like poisons though. takes a while to work. that's fine with me, but if ye try neem keep that in mind.

Not into that, just looking for ways to change our world.

very cool. i look forward to seeing the video.

sounds to me like yer on the right track.

lol


OP, thank you for posting this thread. Very encouraging.

Thanks! Hopefully it will be encouraging enough to try your own project.
If inflation ever hits, producing your own food may be important.

got a link for those lights?

The lights in my grow room were purchased at my local hydroponic store. Not all lights are made equal and some ebay ones don't work well at all. They are LED grow lights that are 90 watts each. The cheaper ebay ones use the not so good led lights. Some reputable companies use the higher quality cree lights.


This particular unit is 180watts and should be equivalent to two of my lights.
[link to www.gothamhydroponics.com]

I haven't tried this company, but some people say they work very well. I would try one to start to make sure they work great.

Led's work well because they focus on the spectrum of light that plants like to use for growth.

cool. Thanks

Try one half inch of sand on top of the soil and let the soil dry out a little.

that'll work too. just use a coarse sand. keeps them from laying their eggs in the soil.

Will fine sand work? I think the only type I can buy right now in the Canadian winter is sand for mixing concrete.

I found Neem good, but to get rid of those little black flying things (possible fungus nats) a layer of perlite on top of the soil really mess's with em, cause they can not get to the soil therefore lifecycle stops - for them.

what brand of led grow light are you using?

I am thinking about doing some indoor gardening and was looking at the 300W BloomBoss to cover a 5x6 area.