⁣These usually sell for about $500 a piece, found some used for $125 each. They just needed to be pressure washed, scrubbed, sanitized with peroxide, install new spray emmitters and some new neoprene collars. Overall with the extras pieces it comes out to $140 a piece and they function like new.

Oklahoma’s wind and rain will tear the roofs apart here. We learned that 6mm poly isnt enough and you'll need reinforced 10mm poly to withstand the elements. Some we win some we learn.

Flushing the lines with water and 34% food grade peroxide before we put in the plants. Depending on the weather we may install a chiller to keep the water between 65-68 Fahrenheit.

After sanitizing the buckets and pipes we now have to reinstall the gromets, drain and return pipes.

We redrilled the holes to allow the net baskets to fit snuggly, this will allow the system to hold the plants better when they get bigger.

Clones in the aeroponics machines. After taking cuttings from the mother plants they'll stay in here for roughly 10-14 days or until roots are 6" inches long then we transplant them into the NFT System.

Cleaning and getting the NFT system ready for the new plants.

We put this insulation on to help reflect sunlight and to protect the wood from water. The cons are when its 100 plus outside it can be like a solar oven in there. The solution next year is to put in a retractable shade net.

After every harvest the hydropnics system which includes the buckets, lids, pipes, gromets and hydroton needs to be disassembled, washed, sterilized with 34% food grade peroxide and put back together. Some say growing in soil is much simpler and I would agree however there are benefits with growing in hydro such as computers to help maintain PH and EC, plants grow & finish faster, flushing can be done in 3 days vs 2 weeks in soil, saves water & nutrients since the system recirculates.

The downside is you need to make sure everything is working properly, if pumps fail, power goes out, you may not have much time before the plants spiral downwards.

A quick walk through of last summer before our conversion to hydroponics.

Instead of using poisions to get rid of aphids and spidermmites, why not use beneficial insects to control them.

This translates to cleaner medicine and food.