LED Hydroponic - Fogponic VS Aeroponic Day 7

http://www.urbanhydro.org trial using 2 ten site rail systems of my design. Both have an Aeroponic sprayer system on the same timer. However one system has the addition fogponics. I am testing with 20 pepper plants. Two varieties. Jalapenos and Thai hot peppers.

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Science & Technology

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• Fogponic
• Aeroponic
• Hydroponic System
• Peppers
• LED Lights
• Indoor
• Trial
• Test
• Fogponics
• Grow
• Crop
• LED Hydroponic
• LED Grow

[JerryOHsu]

Hey, I've just started getting in interest in hydroponic/aeroponics and I was wondering how cost efficiant it all is compared to buying the food you can grow yourself from a grocery store? What I mean is, after you've bought all the equipment (the pump, the lights, the nutrients etc.) and the amount of electricity needed to power the pump and the lights, is it cheaper, the same, or more expensive to do this in the long run as opposed to just buying the products from a grocery store?

[ProZachJ]

@JerryOHsu Jerry, growing leafy greens an herbs can only be made cost effective under artificial lighting using multilayer production and through significant scale and process improvements. Basically to bring the cost down below grocery store prices you have to grow much more like a commercial producer than a hobby produces. Flowering fruits of any kind are not cost effective. Now that doesnt mean that there aren't benifits of health, taste, free of pesticides ect...

[ProZachJ]

@JerryOHsu As an example I grow basil under artificicial lighting for sale to a local restaraunt....It costs me about $3 per week in electricity and $1 per week in fertilizer and water to grow about $10 worth of basil but to achieve this I have to grow much more basil than I could ever use.

[ProZachJ]

To get cost effective production of flowering fruits you will need to go into backyard or greenhouse hydroponics to take advantage of the free lighting :)

[lovingmygarden]

That's a really cool setup! How many LED lights did you use for that system? I haven't tried using LEDs yet that's why I am really curious to know what results can I get from them. Are they really worth using for hydroponics growing?

[ProZachJ]

@lovingmygarden It all depends on your crop and your budget, but yes LEDs can grow lots of great things. We just got done doing a Roma Tomato grow under LEDS

[mrwilliamwonder]

water culure is better

[bryncomeaux]

@hogo1 you paid $1 for a pepper. but you also had to get an education, buy a car, travel to work everyday, finance a house, pay taxes, and many other associated cost in order to earn that pepper. By growing food a person can live in a housde they built themselves on land they own using power they make. While you may not want to live that way many people will soon have no choice. Besides after the recession what about the next recession and the one after that and the one after. this is retirement

[bryncomeaux]

beating the grocery store price is a pretty low standard. That stuff is devoid of nutrition and rife with toxins. Include the money youll never make because the agricultural business took away your family farm, the cost of global warming and the health care you cant afford that cheap food is actually quit expensive. also the government subsidizes the agribusinesses so the are many cost hidden. Its only to easy to ignore cause were on a budget but freedom isnt free it cost $0.08 per kilowatt!

[hogo1]

lol, all that work to grow fucking peppers



[Opul3nce]

Nice Idea

[teengrower]

throw some weed under thous bitches.. fuck jalapenos buy that shit at the grocery store nigga...