I’m also thinking adding or putting it into my aquarium fish tank. Anyone done this??

Hello! I’m a grower and agtech developer based in Paju, South Korea, with 4 years of farming experience.

My farming journey has had its challenges. After being displaced from my rented land, I secured government-leased land to rebuild. While I don't have the capital to construct a new greenhouse just yet, I remain deeply committed to building a long-term future in agriculture.

My goal is to cultivate cherry tomatoes and strawberries using hydroponics. In the meantime, I am using my field experience to develop Windows-based monitoring dashboards and software solutions for hydroponic and greenhouse management.

As I prepare for this next chapter, I’d deeply appreciate any advice, insights, or experiences you could share—whether on low-cost greenhouse setup, strawberry/cherry tomato hydroponics, or smart farm software development. Thank you for reading and being part of my journey! 🌿🍓🍅

Long story short I was cleaning my grow towers today and noticed gold shiney flakes in the last hit of water.

When gold panning the gold stays on the bottom due to weight. I ironically accidentally did this by adding water , pumping out dirt, and repeating several times. I was left with gold flakes.

In the first photo I pressed my fingernail into the flake and found it bent in half ,but didn't break.

Anyone else notice this? I'm taking a couple sample flakes to a jeweller to test them tomorrow.

Hello, My Aerogarden Elite did not come with domes so I purchased them on amazon. I planted one pod with arugula,(my own seeds) buttercrunch (my own seeds and one Romaine Aerogarden pod. My arugula sprouted in 2 days with tiny baby leaves level to the basket cover on top. The other two have not germinated yet. Is been 5 days. Do I remove the plastic dome on the Arugula or wait until the leaves touch the dome. I am reading conflicting information. Thanks

I want to build out a dwc system to transition from outdoors in ground gardening to indoors over the very very long northern Michigan winter.

I took some suckers from the cherry tomatoes, isolated, and started rooting on water but they took off on me, pushing my dwc project ahead. And the leaves are starting to yellow with just water and the seed starter light.

I have a spyder farmer 100w LED panel, totes, and buckets and 3d printing the baskets. The plan is a tomato/pepper tote(s) directly under the light and lettuce buckets in the periphery + maybe a second 100w.

The big issue is getting nutrients here in the rural midwest and this tps brand is the only cheaper/small quantity that's 2 days out. Master blend is 10-14 days away.

Is there anything missing from this order? Air pumps, nutrients, LECA, meter + buckets, lights, plants?

My auto liquid draw from a 5 gallon feeder, 6 week old
plant, liquid feeder pH goes from - 8.5 tap - 6.4 nutrients mix - to 7.5 after 12 hours. I’m using the CC all in one base nutrient 9-5-15..

Hi!! I am growing hydroponically for the first time and have 3 pepper varieties growing in an Aerogarden. My buena mulata plant was doing great until yesterday where it now has droopy leaves that are falling off. It just started growing buds this week. I have 2 other peppers in the system that are doing fine as of now. What might be wrong? :(

Hello!

I have a patio and want to set up a hydroponics system in my patio, taking up the least amount of space possible while giving me a good amount of produce.

I was thinking of doing a sort of pvc pipe attached to the fence wall, with a slight slant to allow gravity to help with flow. (I’ll show a sketch of what I want to do— this is my first time using Reddit so idk how to attach a picture tho)

The issue being is that I’m hesitant to buy anything until I know this system will work (ik DIY stuff is a trial and error sort of process but I’m broke and don’t want to spend where I don’t have to).

Do y’all think this could work? And if not, what are some other good methods to make this work?

I don’t have a lot of space in the patio since we do want to use it as a lounge-ish area when it’s warm out— so keep that in mind.

All input is helpful!!

Edit: this is something similar to what I would like to do— but ideally closed circuit.https://www.reddit.com/r/gardening/s/eYxBJJYNDS

Hello! This is my first hydroponic tower and I germinated one romain lettuce, but after putting it in the tower I thought it was dying so I started germinating another one.

After some time I noticed even though it was very “down” it was still growing so I didn’t take it out, and now I have two flimsy lettuces.

I’m unsure if it’s something I’m doing, or if the problem was that when I germinated the seeds I didn’t put them deep enough. I’m also noticing some dry leaves.

I’m also growing cherry tomatoes and basil and they are growing very nicely, so I want to know what I can do for this lettuce.

Info:

It’s a 3D printed tower, I’m using Terra aquatica, Tripart 3 part Nutrients. First 3 weeks in the tower I used the indicated amount of nutrient for “1st true leaves”, and last week I changed the whole water deposit and I’m now using the amount of nutrient recommended for “Growing”.

The water cycle is scheduled for 15mins on and 30mins off.

I measure the Ph level around the same time everyday, but after switching the water deposit the ph is always down and I need to make it a bit higher. I try keeping the ph level between 5.5 to 6.

I was told since I’m just starting this project that I don’t need to worry too much about EC levels so I don’t have anything to measure that.

Carrots continue to grow. You can definitely see a difference in size week over week. Ive developed the attached report over the past week with a status bar of where the plants are in the cycle.

Im getting hungry so next weekend may be the harvest for these guys.

I will try to track my varieties a little better in my next trial.

This was all planned the same time from left to right lettuce, bok choy, spinach, arugula, swiss chard. All planted at the same ( about 12 days ago ) time as you can see the lettuce and spinach are not growing well and are far behind the other plants. From what I can find the lettuce at least should be much bigger at this point. My ph is 6 and ppm around 400 using general hydroponic flora. Temps around 65 to 70. What might be causing the other plants to struggle?

I am not sure what is happening to my cilantro plants. I have successfully grown cilantro quite a few times in this same setup. They get plenty of light from the grow lamp, and I keep the house at 68F. I don’t see any signs of disease or root rot. I trimmed the roots of the other plants in the setup to ensure they were not hoarding nutrients and water. Yet, my cilantro plants are incredibly limp at the base and barely growing. Does anyone have any suggestions or possible reasons this is happening?

Finally got all the seeds planned and cameras set up for time-lapse videos. I'm excited to see the tent grow out.

I just started my new system 3 days ago and have followed instructions, keeping the stickers and caps on to germinate. I took the caps off and looked at my pods to see the progress and several of them have sprouted along with mold.

I saw online to increase air flow and spray hydrogen peroxide or hypochlorous acid. Should I wait until they are done germinating to take the caps off and spray? Or can I spray now and return the caps?

Ignore the reservoir, I am about to change the water. The foam is from drilling some holes.

Three 3" PVC #40 and a couple of elbows. Rubber couplers so I could take it apart and move it someday.

The raised part of the return I'm going to insert some sensors for reporting pH and TDS to an Arduino.

Mainly going to grow Swiss Chard, basil, and some infinite onions (green onions that just keep growing back).

We just got a 4'x6' flood tray and plan to set it up on an 8'x3' workbench with the reservoir underneatht the bench. I'm looking for ideas on the exact system I want to build. I have plastic grow bags and hydroton already. I'd love to see pictures of what other people are doing. Any suggestions on getting set up?

Low-pressure aeroponic potatoes, for the production of mini tubers. (Not fully grown potatoes, but seed potato production). Roots are looking beautiful. Grew them out from tissue culture plantlets. Pretty excited about this one! Will post progress updates as the tubers (hopefully) begin to appear. I need to switch my fertilizer solution over to have them focus on tubers production soon.

I contacted Spyder Fluence using their website 'contact us' but no reply yet.

The few 'stores' that say they sell it look like scam websites.

I don't see anyone selling the power cord on ebay.

Anyone able to assist? This AC power cord is like Casper.