Hi this is Peter Stanley
I'm going to make a new
low pressure aeroponics system
I made one last year and
It worked really well but there's some improvements I can make
One, I think I over complicated it
also I didn't have much of a reservoir
so I was running out of nutrients and I didn't have an easy way to change the nutrients
and everything I did kind of disturbed the roots so
I'm going to switch to a two bucket system
so the plant will go in the lid
and
I'll drill a center hole
basically the
main bucket's going to have holes drilled around it and in the bottom
there'll be a center hole
in the very bottom
that the submersible pump will attach through
and the spray manifold will connect
to that from the inside
and then this will
sink down inside the outer bucket
which will have the nutrient solution that'll come up through the holes
and so
everything will be self contained in the top bucket so I won't have to mess with the roots
and if I want to change the nutrients I just lift it out
and put it in another bucket that has fresh nutrients
so
I've cut
the parts that I need and I'll put the
these in the description
this is a 396 gallon per hour submersible pump
and
probably overkill for this maybe but
they're relatively cheap, I think this one's like
22.00 but I found another
brand that looks identical, I think it was Apollo Horticulture
for like 10.00
I'll put links in the description
I'm using 1/2 inch PVC
and this is a 1/2 inch threaded adapter
that screws in
and
it fits a 1/2 inch
pipe on the other side
and I don't remember what it's called exactly but I'll put that in the description
I've got a tiny piece of
1/2 inch wedged in here, I can't get it out
so basically
two 1/2 inch couplers
two caps
two 3 inch pieces
three
7/8 inch one 1 inch pieces
t-adapter
and two
there not elbows but they're kind of like
I don't know if it's 45 degree but it's like
looks like either 30 or 45 degree
so I'll kind of dry fit these together
I'm going to cement the part
that attaches
in here so they won't come off
but the rest will just be dry fitted
and also
for drilling the holes in the bucket I'm using an 11/16 inch
and a 1/4 inch
and in the previous design I
I did a
I used a tap
to thread these in with
and
I found that you, well I saw this on
a site selling these
11/64 inch drill bit
is, drill that and
these will kind of just wedge in there
and they're not going to come out
so that's another step that simplifies
and I'll show you what
I can't think of that
brad point, that's the type of drill bit
I've got a set of these, but
you could buy just one
so it's a 11/64 inch brad point bit
and I'm going to show
how to do that but I'm going to
go ahead and drill all these
come back, that way it'll save some time
showing you this
and
let me go ahead and dry fit it together
so this would be
coupler
coming from the bottom
the 1 inch piece
these are the parts that are going to cement together
this is going to go through the hole of the bucket
in the bottom
this would go on the other side
wedged down and
the spray manifold will build on top of that
so I'll put
a little piece there
tee adapter
there
3 inch pieces on the ends
so
this will be
inside the bucket
I need to push these a little tighter
it does fit once it's put together right
so I'm going to drill
a hole here
here and here
I don't know. I'll decide when I'm drilling. I think I'm going to put
three, maybe four that'll be pointing up
and I might put
some on the corners pointing down for when the roots grow down
but the more nozzles you put, the less pressure
you have, that's my only concern. But this should be ok
these will be
pointing out like that
here and here, maybe at the center
there and possibly
some on the corners
so anyway, I'll drill these and come back to that
and
what I'm going to do now is
go ahead and drill holes in my bucket
so I want to do a
hole in the very bottom for my
pump and I don't
have the exact
bit, to make a perfect hole for the half inch
pvc, I need a
bit a little bit larger but
I'm going to just use what I've got, and I'm going to take a knife and open it up.
basically I need a hole just big enough for that to fit through
nice tight fit
so this will go on the bottom of that
actually
it'll be this piece
bottom of that
that'll be like that
and then
this would connect
in there, but I need to
put those together to actually
make that work, but
yeah, so that should work
so I've got that
I'm going to go ahead and
also, I need to figure out
how far to drill my holes
let's see
I'll have to have this going through the
center bucket as well
I need to figure that out
let's see
so that's going to go
that far down
so I don't want to drill any holes on the inside that
past here
okay
get that out of the way
alright so I'm going ahead and
drill some holes
going to start with drilling a bunch of big holes
and then I'll go in
do a few smaller holes
see how it looks
I'll take my razor and
trim out all these little pieces too
and also gonna
cut a hole for the
pump cord to come back through
so all of it can stay togehter
and I probably could just
drill a few more holes
to the side and cut them out to make a big enough
hole for the cord to go through
there
probably need to be
on the edge
so that fits in there
so that'll be coming back up
out of the top
that way everything can stay contained within this internal bucket
also
I gonna use a
3 inch net pot
in the lid
so I'll go ahead and drill a
3 inch hole
and I'm also gonna put
a couple 1/4 inch holes
around
so I can zip tie
the basket in there really well
basically what I did
was cut a
roughly mark so I know
where to drill
1/4 inch holes so it'll be outside
this hole
on these
I like to start it slowly
in the forward position and then switch it to reverse
and
this really soft plastic it'll cut through it okay
a lot of times, it seems like it does a cleaner cut
in plastic, I know it's not proper and all
that's how I do it, it seems to work
I learned that watching
I believe it was Khang Starr
and now switch it into reverse
the three inch net put I'll put in there and I'll zip tie it
really tight so the plant won't fall out
I guess one thing I can do
glue my
piece in here
glue it into one of these
put it in here
and
so basically
wedge these together
put through here
so one of these I can go ahead
glue it in
I hope this stuff's still good
you get this as a
when you buy these it always comes together
but it's
one's the primer
and the other is a cement
see
primer and this stuff might not even
be good it's been so long
since I've used it
I probably need to wear gloves too
primer on like that
definitely need to wash my hands
so these are the coated parts where the cement's going to go
this is going to wedge into
this stuff's still good
that in there
so this one wedge that in like that
probably using way too much of that stuff too, I'm not really a
I hardly ever use this stuff
so now I've got
point to put the pump to
and this side will have the spray manifold
okay so what I'm gonna do is
clean up my mess, wash my hands
clean all this stuff
and
install my spray nozzles
and I'll show how I do these
and
get the
get everything ready to do and we'll wrap this up
see
force that in there
and that's not coming out
very easily
it's in there good
okay so I got this cleaned up and
here's the pump
and I need to
put some moisture on these
I noticed this is a little rocky so
I put the suction cups back on
and this is just a
coff lid
kind of stabilize it
and I think it'll stay on there, I just don't have a
I need to wet it
so that's how that, this looks and
I decided to only go with three
sprayers, I don't have any underneath, just three total
so that should
work fine
here's the three inch net pot
and a hole for the power cord
so this would actually
be on here
and the power cord
come through that
so anyway, that's that and
I'm not gonna put the lid on just yet, I want to do a spray ttest
with some water
just to see how that works, I'll show you that
this hydroton or clay pebbles
it's good to
pre wash this which is already
been washed
alright
this is ready to
put under the light now
plug up
alright so
got this all setup
only thing
I'm a little bit worried about
is with the extra height of the bucket
I don't have quite as much head room
got this up
as high as Ican
but
I'm just going to have to figure that out
got a little
fan going
timer for the lights
and I've also got a minute timer
that should run
on five minutes and off five minutes and just cycle back and forth
and the fan is also plugged into that so that'll
coincide with the pump
I've this kind of pump
non stop
and didn't have any problems with it but
I just want to see how it does
so far
it seems to be doing okay
okay so it's been about 2 1/2 months since I
started this and
see how much it has grown
leaves starting to
curl a little bit, it was up
a lot closer to my
my light so I moved it down
here a little bit
I think it was getting too much heat ut
it's got a nice
canopy on it, the
it's got some flowers, I don't think there are any pods just yet
I moved it out of the grow tent
it seemed like it was
wasn't growing quite as fast I think it was
would've actually been a lot
bigger if I put it under this light to begin with
can here it's running now'
I'm gonna
probably plug this up on the porch
for a day or two, let it run outside, see how it does
I think it'll fruit really well if I do that
anyway, let me
unplug this, we'll pull it up and take a look at the roots and everything
it's already grown down
here
I don't wanna pull this out too much, the roots are
kinda wrapped around the
spray down down there
okay so
I think it's =
system is working really well
one thing I did notice
when I was messing around
plant
there's not any support there
and that's not a flaw of the
design as far \as
growing but I need to incorporate supports in this somehow
so I've gotta work on that, I might tape some
pvc
going up around the bucket
I'll figure something out, but it needs that before
or it's gonna fall over
but I'll address that
but anyway, thank you for following this project and
I'll post updates
grow updates
I've shown it off and on but this is
first time I actually put the whole video up
so
I'll keep posting updates throughout the season
and how it does
I think it's going to
take off a lot more when it goes outsdie
but
Yeah anyway, hope you liked that
and thank you for watching
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