DIY | How To Build Your Own Hydroponics System.

Even if you don't have space in your garden for a veggie patch, this hydroponics DIY will have vegetables growing on a balcony or veranda. Follow Kevin as he explains all the steps. With a few hand tools and materials from your local Builders, you can build your own to grow your own.

[mariaanfb]

a shopping list would have been awesome!

[bingbing]

Ideas like this in our overpriced world are great appreciated.

[TheSingingCelebrant]

By a country Mile - this is the best video of its kind out there. Thank you so much and agree with others, a list of items needed would be fantastic

[bullbandit]

For people asking for a shopping list, here's what you'll need:

1. Store-bought trestle (wooden frame)
2. Four 1-meter lengths of 110mm PVC pipe
3. Eight gutter brackets
4. Packet of 5x25mm wood screws
5. Three 2-meter lengths of 110mm PVC pipe (to be cut into four 1-meter pieces)
6. Nine 110mm PVC end caps
7. One 110mm PVC T-piece
8. Length of 20mm electrical conduit piping
9. Six 20mm 90-degree bends
10. Six 20mm male screw adapters
11. PVC weld (glue)
12. Clear tubing (for pump connection)
13. Submersible water feature pump (400 liters per hour, 0.9 meters head)
14. Nutrifeed hydroponic fertilizer

Tools mentioned:
1. Drill driver with Phillips bit
2. Tape measure
3. Pencil
4. Spirit level
5. Hacksaw
6. 64mm hole saw (for drill)
7. Small piece of sandpaper
8. Utility knife
9. 19mm spade bit (for drill)
10. Pipe cutters

Optional:
- Paint and primer (if you want to treat the wooden trestle)
- Vacuum cleaner (for cleanup)

[andrewsutcliffe]

hi Kevin would be nice to have a shopping list added description, video is well done thou

[dumpling]

Advisable to get food safe, non toxic UPVC tubing (not PVC) which is unplasticised PVC. Also use aquarium grade silicon glue to seal pipes as is non toxic.

[dontbanmebrodontbanme]

This is a great build, but there's important information afterwards that you've left out. My guess is you're going to run this a quasi dutch bucket/aeroponics setup, where the water is pumped to the plants periodically and they stay in net cups (which we see, for example, at 9:29. You could easily run it as NFT, but again, the plants are in net cups. For those that aren't familiar with hydroponics, the building of the system is only the first step and you should include a follow up video showing it actually being used.

[GigDave]

Thanks a span Kevin. Material, measurements and tools, to be used well explained.

[mpf_agundipsht]

if you wanted more oxygen saturation in your water allow the return line to break the water surface in the main tank. Also if the public doesn't know, you're using a #4 possidrive bit on your cordless drill for the wood screws

[howeswar]

I will definitely buy.
Please add shopping list.

[Fusion_Tranquility_Meditation]

Awesome instructional video! Thank you!
Couple questions:
Could the entire length of 110mm pipes have been used for a bigger system?
Also, how did you calculate the system capacity?..
Thanks again

[daviddelgado]

Really nice and attractive design. I would copy this but make a change to the water levels, they are a little high, I would move those drain ports as low as possible to not keep so much stagnant water in the tubes, more like a true spec NFT, keyword "Film"

[daviderlank]

it is a nice starter setup but root rot will be an issue, the water should drain through the system when the pump is off and for that, there would need to be a bigger reservoir with the pump on a timer.

[johnvandemark]

Nice video no need for fall in the large pvc pipe water will still flow and hold water either way

[lifeofnisab]

Why doesn't builders sell projects as it is? Like package the projects ready to assemble please 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[klla]

I'm concerned about root rot. Even when the pump is off the tubes are still going to be pretty full, roots soaked 24/7. Does it ever drain?

[DebPainchaud]

If you use a solar pump how would you keep the water from draining out at night

[warrenforest]

Can you connect this without gluing? This strikes me as something that will need to be cleaned every now and again

[thekidsta]

You need a bigger water reservoir with head space in case of a power outage. In your design, water will spill everywhere if there is loss of power.

[FeMofokeng]

😂😂😂 4:41 Your wife doesn't have a problem with the mess, it's the clean up she doesn't enjoy.