A quick aero build

Very Easy Homemade Aeroponics System

My biggest problem with homemade aeroponics systems, as you probably already know by now, has always been the clogging spray emitters. Somebody really had their thinking caps on when they came up with this design here. All you need is a 5 gallon bucket, an aquarium water pump, and some old garden hose or tubing.

The pump is submersed in a few inches of nutrient solution. The tubing (or hose) has several 1/16 inch holes drilled into it. The tubing is positioned to coil around the container from bottom to top, and is plugged at the end. You can see from the photo how the roots will be getting good coverage with the nutrient solution. A 200 gph aquarium pump works well for this.


The lid of the bucket will usually be cut to accomodate a 3 or 4 inch netted pot, either filled with expanded clay pellets or containing a rockwool block. Plants may need to be hand watered until the roots begin to hang. The biggest disadvantage to this homemade aeroponics system is the small nutrient reservoir. The smaller the reservoir, the more quickly the solution will become unhealthy for the plants.

To learn more about maintaining the nutrients in ANY hydroponic gardening system, read these hydroponic feeding tips, or get started on the right path with my organic hydroponics feeding tips, which happen to be one of the easiest feeding plans ever.
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Nice write up.. thanks for the info FF!

Nice one, FF

The great part about using a piece of punctured hosepipe is that if the holes do start to get clogged, you can just lop off another chunk of scrap hose and you're back on the road. Clever design.

THANK YOU so much i was gonna build a hydro but im just gonna build one of thes with a big resevoir and 2 or 3 plants.

pretty cool fletch.
Do you just cap off the end of the hose distil to the pump.

How long do you keep the pump on a day for?

yup just buy an cap at homedepot or fold it ove r and wire it off leakage wont matter.leave the pump on 24/7

Can I add this to FAQ?

Use the same basic design as shown above but cut the bottom of the first bucket completly out (the bucket the roots are intended to hang in). Then dependent upon personal prefrence (how big you want your resevoir) attach another watertight container below it. Any type of rubbermaid product works just pick what size you want. For the bucket, wrap the inside as shown above but with a longer section of hose to allow the pump to be fully submerged in the resevoir. Simple!

now that takes care of the clogged nozzle problems.......simple!

I had thought about this before but never pursued it...nice to see it in action.


-potlike

how loud is the pump?

The pump is almost silent you just might hear the sound of water as it trickles back into the res water

I just thought why not have a bigger container to set the pump in for res and have main bucket drain into it.
Truly a genius idea.

I have seen units mad where you stack 2 tubes but I have also seen alot of issues with them for leaks and clogs plus the extra maintainence and extra nutes to have the bigger side res but you can do it I just find it more trouble then its worth plus takes up twice the amount of room.Can work if you wan to rundual pumps with many tubs and a lrge outside res like 100 gallons or more

I guess I won't be purchasing some overpriced system


When I saw this in the FAQ I thought the rest of the pages of the tutorial were missing. lol. But nope. This is pretty self explanatory!

hope all enjoy. i have posted 3 total aero unit builds to suit your needs and size check them all out

I've never done a hydro grow before but this makes it so easy i;ve got to try it.. may just get me freak yielder and see how much a can get off one plant.. the root system could be potentialy enormous!