Indoor Hydroponic Strawberry - Day 30 Maintenance, Algae and Plant Growth

2016 Strawberry Grow Playlist:

This will be a series of detailed indoor hydroponic strawberry grows. 2016 will be a big year using multiple methods to grow and experiment with one of man's favorite plants; the strawberry. In this video we observe plant growth and maintenance at day 30. We also begin the detailed lighting schedule to force the plant into future production. It should be a cool experiment. In subsequent videos, we will be observing additional maintenance, nutrient changes and a detailed lighting regimens for long term production. Enjoy video two. For future reference a playlist has been set up specifically for the 2016 Strawberry Grow. Once again, thanks for stopping by and don't forget to come back.

[Metqa]

I know this video is 7 years old, but I have a few questions.
I can see the value of having extra bins ready for a full nutrient reset if needed.
For a large tank like you have, have you considered using a reserve reservoir with a float valve to maintain the mininimum nutrient leevel height once the plants start drinking more? I recall a video, by Dr. Kratky, and he often uses extra containers with nutrient solution at half strength, to feed into his tanks as the plants mature and take in more water. It seems to reduce the need for removing the entire lid with plants in order to check and refill. This seems to work for plants that would drink their tanks dry before their growing season ends. I'm imagining things like tomatoes and other fruiting plants could benefit.

I have enjoyed your detailed strawberry grow series. I've never had luck with strawberries with traditional soil planting, and am considereing trying other methods. I've have lettuces, bok choi, and tomatoes all benefit from passive kratky systems, and would like to branch-out, so to speak, to other plants like chayote and cucumber and some hard to find herbs.

Oh, and thank you for that Dill Video. I live in a college town and after football games, styrofoam containers often become abundantly abandoned. Time to save the landfills and my pockets by reusing!

[prepstepper]

Hey man, I can't find your other updates :(

I find it odd, I found some bare root strawberries today and I also grow using the DWC method. I told my wife at the store I wanted to try and grow them. Came home looked up on YouTube to see if anyone has done it and here I am. I even told my wife I was going to use the decorative rocks from the dollar store lol. No joke. It's so cool I had this same idea then watched this. Thank you for taking the time to make this I'm super stoked. I may do a YouTube series for them. :)

[IAMGiftbearer]

Those look good! Great idea covering that top with aluminum foil! I need to do that with one of my containers. I lost strawberry plants to algae because the top was too light. Yours in the modified container looked better than the others with the light reflected underneath the leaves!

[scubamage]

Can't wait to see the update! I have 25 bare root Ft. Laramie plants coming in a week or two for my first hydroponic grow!

[FesterWerks]

Wow John, those look absolutely fantastic. Nice work! Can't wait to see the berries.

[philiprochon]

Your plants are looking good! I've had a lot of success with the Kratky method for lettuce. I use two gallon buckets in a mini greenhouse. I use black buckets and I've never had had a problem with algae. Good idea with the foil fix though. Best of luck on your strawberry op! I'm interested to see if the lighting manipulation changes the production schedule; makes sense.

[HydroHavenGrow]

I think this is a 2022 plan for me. Hope all is groovy. Smash.

[csmo]

Strawberries are looking good! Im not sure if you know this, but if you ever move up to more intense lighting like MH or HPS, you'll want to be careful with the aluminum foil, it can create hot spots like a magnifying glass and end up burning the plants.

[edithaantopina]

Wow Nice vedio Thanks for sharing. New supporter here. Watching from South Korea

[EricWhiteChooseGodst]

I like the way you think. That is a good idea on the lighting.

[rickswensen]

Just found your channel. Love it!!! Keep the videos coming;)

[JodieMajor]

Dude, you scared me! I thought you were going to offer me candy.

[someguy]

just an idea for replicating the sun cycle, photo resistor and a relay to cut the light on and off for you when the sun comes up and goes down. would eliminate the need to manually keep up with all that! although, it may get weird during storms. lol. though, if it were preciseoutside during the storm, it would lose light anyway. of course, you could always use an RTC (real time clock) with an arduino to control the times rather than relying on sunlight.

[flyfree]

Aluminium foil, excellent work!


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[villanuevaruth]

In some of your video the comments are off, I really want to watch it from the beginning when you started and here I am following months to months though it's been over 4 years to me still new, but I have to watch your video for many times and loving it. I just want to learn how to grow strawberries though that I have grown some veggies but want to do strawberries, I have plant hydro strawberry 1/2 of it are dying maybe becoz to much nutrient. What is the right nutrient for fruiting though? I am using mb, thank you, God bless more fruitful blessing.

[didtheyexpectustotreatthem]

where is the next episode . i am going to start my berries tomorrow ...your info is excellent

[joeblow]

Hey I know I'm kinda late but I think I can help you out. First. Your containers aren't light proof. If you deal them in 10mil or thicker black plastic it will eliminate light leaks and prevent algae which screws up ph. Next if you drape shit plastic over the black the nutrient solution will be cooler and it will slow bacteria grow which screws up ph. I would strongly recommend taking another tote and using an aquarium pump and BLACK vynle tubing to link your totes.. When you're dealing with hydro plants only take out what they want. Which will eventualy lead to an imbalance. And possibly a ph screw up. Since plants can only take in various nutrients only during certain ph ranges a pb problem can become a big headache fast. And a reservoir makes it easier to swap the nutrients reduces the need to clean each individual set up. Instead of cleaning 4 totes a week. U can just change the solution in the reservoir. Next u need to ad an air pump and air stone. Everything above the crown need co2 but everything below needs oxygen. By charging the nutrient solution with oxygen the root growth will increase astronomically and so will the vegetation.

[riverdreamwalker]

Wow man sure like your setup can I steal this idea and if I put air pump and stone in water would that work to stop the algae

[Andy-wzdb]

Thanks for the video very informative. I've been thinking about doing this but kind of scept. wondering how high is my electric bill is going to go.

[melodylyons]

The days get longer in the spring. Id start with a higher nitrogen content for big plants then switch to bloom.