Indoor Hydroponic Strawberries: Lots of Berries!!

We recently started growing strawberries in our DIY indoor hydroponic system! We had a few challenges at first but the plants are producing a lot of berries for us now! In this video we go into detail on how we planted and grew the strawberries. When researching this ourselves it was hard to find much information on how to grow strawberries indoors. Hope you find it helpful!

Check out our website for more information on how to build and indoor hydroponic system just like ours!

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[SimpleGreensHydroponics]

I've learned a lot about growing strawberries since I made this video! To try and answer a lot of potential questions, I created a free guide of how to build a hydroponic system for strawberries:

[FarmerQ]

I love how far you've come with the Strawberries hydroponically!

[mregis]

I was planning to plant strawberries using bato bucket system, but now I've decided to use my hydroponic system for that. Thanks for the tips :)

[vhnguyen]

I dont understand why ppl thumb down on such a good detailed video and SIMPLE method that works super great! Keep doing this excellent job!

[brandonrose]

I saw an article on the NC State website that explained strawberry flowers may need a little help self pollinating in order to avoid small or malformed fruit. I figured I'd pass on the tip since you've shared so many with all of us.

[alfredoramirez-uwub]

Good video. And yes. I’m growing them for my daughter too

[lesliekendall]

My first attempt was started 2 days ago with strawberries over/in my goldfish aquarium. We'll see how it goes. Thanks for the video. Liked and subbed.

[lifewantstolive]

Thanks for posting. I have a hydroponic system and wanted to try strawberries. You have given me hope that I can do this too!

[CaitlynGrad]

Thank you for posting. I started growing strawberries this year outside and it was my first time ever getting an lots of strawberries. I think I found the perfect place for them to grow. I want to start growing strawberries indoors or when it’s winter. I was also inspired to try growing indoors because we had so many rain this past month a lot of my strawberry plants got sick. I’m excited to start growing strawberries inside

[valeriesmith]

Thank you so much for your help. I'm planning to grow strawberries hydroponically.

[diychef]

Thanks mate! Just got my system working, similar to yours, round pipes 4", just 2 x 2 meters now but will expand later on, thinking of 3" pipes then for strawberrys and maybe some herbs.. So much fun, got alot going on now, pak choi, alot of different sallats, strawberrys... Also started 2 kratkys.. Video will come when i got some more to show.. :D

[fernandamora]

Wow, I loved your video. I don't find videos with such useful information like yours. Thank you. Greetings from Mexico.

[FloridaSalon]

I want to see the baby picking strawberries. That's wonderful you let her snack as she likes in your grow room.. Good dad.

[robg]

The weird shape is from improper pollination. You gotta shake those flowers a bit or use a qtip. I know they are "Self pollinating" But thats gotta be done when doing them indoors. Not from flower to flower but just each one on its own. Gotta spread that love. Great video

[Metqa]

Thank you for showing from start to harvest.

[jaysilence]

Browning of the tips of leaves can be an indicator for potassium deficiency. But since you are so high with your nutrient levels that is somewhat unlikely. Still, flowering and fruit bearing plants tend to require higher levels of potassium and phosphorous, so you could consider shifting the balance a slight bit into the fruity territory.
But be aware that while over fertilizing is not an issue with most of the nutrients, this is actually possible with too much phosphorous. Yield drops, with too much P.
1000 ppm is really quite high. Half of that or less should be sufficient.

[LittleGardenSK]

Great success with the strawberries! I'm just getting my hydroponics going indoors for the winter and never thought about trying strawberries. Might have to add to my list! Subscribed!

[villanuevaruth]

Wow, this video making me buy a rooted strawberry that having a start from seeds, I did have seeds to germinate but waited for nothing. So I guess i just buy one that is live plants instead. Thank you and God bless

[sandorszabo]

Malformed berries are the sign of incomplete pollination. Bring some bees there, or pollinate flowers with a soft brush.

[MrMooCow]

Thanks!! I was looking around and some scientific papers studied EC levels at 1.5 as being optimum, while you said you're using 0.8.
I ended up trying 1.5 EC by adding table salt...like they suggested in the paper. And it nearly killed all 30 strawberry plants, leaving only the crown barely alive with all the leaves dead. Had to flush the system start again with just the surviving crown :( 600-800ppm seems to be the correct range.