Indoor Garden Pictures

Cross Hair · 07-05-2009, 10:36 PM

As you have probably seen with my outdoor garden pictures the weather and issues have wreaked havoc... it will be ok and I will still have a bountiful harvest but, when you control everything indoors you get awesome results and grow anytime of year you want. This hydroponic system I built myself out of buckets, drip lines, fish tank air pump and small water pump. It is totally easy, runs on timers and I never have to pull weeds!

The light is probably the biggest expense, I am currently running a metal hallide but will be switching to a high pressure sodium switchable if I ever get any extra money!

This fall/winter I will be building a system out of PVC that I plan on growing strawberries in the PVC tubing.

Its a fun hobby thats actually pretty low maintenance and has very tasty benefits! LOL

Those are pepper plants that were started about a month later than the pepper plants that are 1/4 that size in the garden. The leaves are dark green and wonderfully healthy plants that are already producing bell peppers and the garden plants are just now starting to bloom. One of the attached pics is of the root system growing directly into the grow solution!

chesterwin · 07-05-2009, 10:56 PM

Now that's totally cool!!!!!!!!!

Cross Hair · 07-06-2009, 12:49 AM

Theres some more photos of the indoor garden. The empty large spot I am putting a tomato plant in... if I ever get around to starting a new one or using a cutting from one of my outdoor mater plants to make a clone from. I had an extra pic so I put Spike the wonder dawg on it... mess with my peppers and you'll have to answer to him LOL!

If anybody wants to try to build one of these, just let me know and I would be glad to give ya' the plans and specs for free. You can build a cheap one that uses flourescent bulbs (cheap) to grow low light stuff like lettuce and spinach. You can also use a well lit window to grow plants this way. In essence the plants grow faster & healthier since all of their energy is spent just growing the plant and fruits or flowers because you give it everything it needs pumped directly to its lazy roots that dont have to fight to get through the soil and collect its nutrients by dissolving the nutrients from the soil.

larmus · 07-06-2009, 01:07 AM

cross hair... thanks for the pics of your garden inside and outside! they are looking very good, makes me want to get one going... someday maybe once we get our own place i think though... lookin good!

chesterwin · 07-06-2009, 01:09 AM

I stay so busy with work and keeping the house maintained the garden is luxury time. Can you splice, or splint, or whatever the terminology is, tomatoes? One of my grandfathers came up with a variety of tomatoe he considered the best. He always laid them out on paper grocery bags at the end of the season to let them dry so he would have seed for the next year. He used to also pull them, even if green, just before the first frost. He wrapped the green ones individually in newspaper and kept them on the side porch. My grandmother would unwrap a few each day and place them on the windowsill to ripen. We would often have, what I consider, fresh tomatoes at Christmas dinner. They were better than the ones from the store but not like fresh off the vine.

NRAJOE · 07-06-2009, 01:21 AM

So wheres the cannabis?

SwedeSteve · 07-06-2009, 05:47 PM

Looks pretty good !! Maybe I should do something like that during the winters up here !!

jerry · 07-06-2009, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by NRAJOE

So wheres the cannabis?

Only in Ohio Joe, only in Ohio

Cross Hair · 07-06-2009, 10:10 PM

Chester - That setup is really almost no maintenance after you build it. It is more work for outside gardens. You never have to water, never pull weeds and can sustain itself for weeks with no interaction. When the plants are little you dont change the grow solution but maybe every three weeks, now that mine are big and blooming I simply pull the hose from the pump, put another hose on and pump it into a bucket, then use that water to water my other plants or dump it if you don't have any. Honestly thats all I do is mix the grow solution which comes with directions just like a recipe into a bucket of water right out of my tap and then adjust the PH, pour into the growing buckets and turn the pump back on. The light is on a timer. Its a lazy hobby once its built and running! You can have tomatos year round. I am thinking of building a single bucket system and growing just a tomato in that. Since it never has a season, most tomatos will just keep growing and producing indoors, I have a buddy who has one that is 8 years old and full of tomatos!

Larmus - with the indoor garden, it doesnt take up a whole lot of room and can move with you!

NRA Joe - sorry I pull weeds not grow them LOL... Actually the dope growers have kind of put a bad name on hydroponics since it makes the weed so much stronger and faster to grow... but it can do the same good stuff for your veggies!

Swede - if I lived as far north as you do, I would probably just do all my gardening inside! You guys have a pretty short growing season.

07-05-2009, 10:36 PM	#1
Cross Hair Long Tail Squirrel Hunter Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Central Illinois... Middle of Nowhere Posts: 1,305	Indoor Garden Pictures As you have probably seen with my outdoor garden pictures the weather and issues have wreaked havoc... it will be ok and I will still have a bountiful harvest but, when you control everything indoors you get awesome results and grow anytime of year you want. This hydroponic system I built myself out of buckets, drip lines, fish tank air pump and small water pump. It is totally easy, runs on timers and I never have to pull weeds! The light is probably the biggest expense, I am currently running a metal hallide but will be switching to a high pressure sodium switchable if I ever get any extra money! This fall/winter I will be building a system out of PVC that I plan on growing strawberries in the PVC tubing. Its a fun hobby thats actually pretty low maintenance and has very tasty benefits! LOL Those are pepper plants that were started about a month later than the pepper plants that are 1/4 that size in the garden. The leaves are dark green and wonderfully healthy plants that are already producing bell peppers and the garden plants are just now starting to bloom. One of the attached pics is of the root system growing directly into the grow solution! Attached Thumbnails __________________ *Most of my life I've spent hunting,... the rest of it I've just wasted*

07-06-2009, 12:49 AM	#3
Cross Hair Long Tail Squirrel Hunter Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Central Illinois... Middle of Nowhere Posts: 1,305	More indoor garden pics Theres some more photos of the indoor garden. The empty large spot I am putting a tomato plant in... if I ever get around to starting a new one or using a cutting from one of my outdoor mater plants to make a clone from. I had an extra pic so I put Spike the wonder dawg on it... mess with my peppers and you'll have to answer to him LOL! If anybody wants to try to build one of these, just let me know and I would be glad to give ya' the plans and specs for free. You can build a cheap one that uses flourescent bulbs (cheap) to grow low light stuff like lettuce and spinach. You can also use a well lit window to grow plants this way. In essence the plants grow faster & healthier since all of their energy is spent just growing the plant and fruits or flowers because you give it everything it needs pumped directly to its lazy roots that dont have to fight to get through the soil and collect its nutrients by dissolving the nutrients from the soil. __________________ *Most of my life I've spent hunting,... the rest of it I've just wasted*

07-06-2009, 01:07 AM	#4
larmus Domestic Engineer Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: arizona Posts: 3,159 Images: 6	cross hair... thanks for the pics of your garden inside and outside! they are looking very good, makes me want to get one going... someday maybe once we get our own place i think though... lookin good! __________________ Lawrence Home Defense: .45 and a Shovel...

07-06-2009, 01:21 AM	#6
NRAJOE Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Toledo,OH Posts: 19,737 Images: 3	So wheres the cannabis? __________________ U.S. Army 1976-1979 237th Combat Engineers Heilbronn, Germany

07-06-2009, 05:47 PM	#7
SwedeSteve Suspected Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Anchortown, Alaska Posts: 23,549 Images: 1	Looks pretty good !! Maybe I should do something like that during the winters up here !! __________________ Thank God we don't get as much Government as we pay for! -Will Rogers

07-05-2009, 10:56 PM	#2
chesterwin Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 515	Now that's totally cool!!!!!!!!!

07-06-2009, 01:09 AM	#5
chesterwin Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 515	I stay so busy with work and keeping the house maintained the garden is luxury time. Can you splice, or splint, or whatever the terminology is, tomatoes? One of my grandfathers came up with a variety of tomatoe he considered the best. He always laid them out on paper grocery bags at the end of the season to let them dry so he would have seed for the next year. He used to also pull them, even if green, just before the first frost. He wrapped the green ones individually in newspaper and kept them on the side porch. My grandmother would unwrap a few each day and place them on the windowsill to ripen. We would often have, what I consider, fresh tomatoes at Christmas dinner. They were better than the ones from the store but not like fresh off the vine.

07-06-2009, 10:10 PM	#9
Cross Hair Long Tail Squirrel Hunter Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Central Illinois... Middle of Nowhere Posts: 1,305	Chester - That setup is really almost no maintenance after you build it. It is more work for outside gardens. You never have to water, never pull weeds and can sustain itself for weeks with no interaction. When the plants are little you dont change the grow solution but maybe every three weeks, now that mine are big and blooming I simply pull the hose from the pump, put another hose on and pump it into a bucket, then use that water to water my other plants or dump it if you don't have any. Honestly thats all I do is mix the grow solution which comes with directions just like a recipe into a bucket of water right out of my tap and then adjust the PH, pour into the growing buckets and turn the pump back on. The light is on a timer. Its a lazy hobby once its built and running! You can have tomatos year round. I am thinking of building a single bucket system and growing just a tomato in that. Since it never has a season, most tomatos will just keep growing and producing indoors, I have a buddy who has one that is 8 years old and full of tomatos! Larmus - with the indoor garden, it doesnt take up a whole lot of room and can move with you! NRA Joe - sorry I pull weeds not grow them LOL... Actually the dope growers have kind of put a bad name on hydroponics since it makes the weed so much stronger and faster to grow... but it can do the same good stuff for your veggies! Swede - if I lived as far north as you do, I would probably just do all my gardening inside! You guys have a pretty short growing season. __________________ *Most of my life I've spent hunting,... the rest of it I've just wasted*