Rain Gutter Hydroponic System

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Rain gutter hydroponic system. This instructable outlines the construction of an indoor hydroponic system which is a design project by a team of four first year engineering science students from university of toronto. And by that i mean well they are all dead big gardening fail. Hydroponics allows us to grow food year round despite our cold climate. Check out rain gutter grow system magazine by larry hall see lots od cutting edge container gardening http flip it fzi8uk also our face book rain gutter gr.

It uses the nft technique to grow plants in pvc gutters. When you start you will need to measure out how tall your pump will need to be then build the framework to surround it. Just about any type of gutter will work for your homemade hydroponics system. See more ideas about grow system rain gutters gutter.

The system works by pumping water from a fish tank set on the ground up into the topmost gutter. The water flows through each gutter in this manner until it drains from the bottom gutter back into the fish tank. To do this you will need. Instead of using soil the root system is supported by an inert medium such as vermiculite rock wool peat moss or clay pellets.

The system is conceptual and experimental and has not been tested in actual use. Dec 17 2019 this board is all about rain gutter grow systems developed originally by larry hall. Square line rain gutter 6x end caps 3x gutter running outlet 1x small pond pump 2 meters pond pump tubing timber for framework large plastic container and gutter leaf guard. They are unlikely to have sharp edges that can cut you and they never rust.

Vinyl gutters are easy to work with. By definition hydroponics is a method of growing plants in a nutrient rich water solution. I ve been feeling an urgency to get this blog post update out because i have been seeing ridiculous growing traffic on our strawberry planting in rain gutters post and i think we should let you all know that growing strawberry plants in rain gutters hasn t turned out so well for us.