 Welcome to another special edition of the home growers gardening series brought to you by private property and today we're going to be talking about the tower hydroponic system with CAS just to let us know how the system works slightly similar to the NFT hydrosystem that we aired last week but I believe this one is obviously much smaller it's vertical and CAS tower hydroponics so we're definitely seeing a tower in front of us how does this one work as opposed to the NFT hydro 60 pocket system okay so very simply as you've explained it quite well actually so the nice thing about this yeah it's for smaller space okay it's I think it's well suited to somebody that wants to get into hydroponics for the first time yeah that has never experienced it but they know and they've heard lots about it and they want to learn so I would highly recommend that the first time user something like this is spectacular and you can grow almost anything in it there's nothing preventing you from what you can grow because the mere design of it you know but the the size of it is 20 pockets okay so you've got 20 different vegetables that will grow in your herbs and vegetables so you're not restricted so you cannot believe what will come out of this you know and as I said so by makeup of the design so if you look at this you've got all these pockets here you've got 16 pockets all down the side right and then there's more here and the four on the corners so if you look at it and I'm going to try and explain if you see the structure you've got depth in the reservoir okay this is individual depth where the pockets will go so if we take a netcups as an example they're going to basically plonk into the sides of the of this horizontal sorry this vertical tower yeah and these guys will sap up the nutrients from the water but I'll explain how the water gets there firstly but before we get to the water distribution if you look at your pockets that are in the left hand or the right hand corners of this reservoir they are ideal for the the deeper rooting vegetables that grow so for example if you can picture a tomato bush growing now as you've seen with tomatoes the root system is quite aggressive it's got a big big rooting system that loves to take over so you've got depth yeah so if you had a picture that you see this massive root system growing is ideal for tomatoes egg bronze and the like but you can put anything and they have a chili's growing you name it versus on the tower itself but it'll do well so let's get the system coloured up with some crops okay so what are we doing we've got our seedings here we've got our pebbles here we've got our cups as well and we have some of our nutrients so let's say I've just purchased this system where do I start so there's water inside the reservoir and what you're going to do is the nutrients obviously inside there as well okay and we basically then take all our vegetables or herbs yes and these firstly are the nutrients those are the nutrients correct so do you put in one whole bottle inside or is it teaspoons so in your kit that we give you we give you a calibrated bottle okay which has got a lawn marking on it and you only fill to that level and then the rest of water you shake it up and you pour that solution that you would have created from this into the reservoir got it simple as that it is really that easy the trick here in which I highly suggest is that and recommend is that the corner units go at the bigger plants so like here you've got some tomatoes tomatoes and your chilies I would definitely put in the in the corners so your basil can go in there so let's just find your tomatoes and your chilies which is always a fantastic option to put in that's a tomato that is beautiful and the reason why I put them in the corners is that if you remember these guys grow pretty big right that's what you want to do is you want to give them support so you can use alternate structures to give this whole system support and the structure can be either bamboo and you can use string or tape just to hold the bamboo rods in the corners that the plant will grow against that so you want to give it the easiest and the best mechanism of success from the beginning so you need a plan so you got to look at this in gas okay in three months time or two months how is my beautiful tower hard to pony gonna look yeah so the point is putting this guy up there or whatever it is or put your tomato here and it grows like that blocking all of these so that's the challenge here in terms of where you want to get to so here I put like for example there you got aubergine eggplant you want to put that on the top um your beautiful basil can go anywhere your your chilies I'll even put on the side here because there's a bit of space for them to grow on the corner side there then we just start filling up the rest with all the different herbs you take a whole variety of what you have to to display and get this thing set up it's really very simple and as they have little pebbles start falling out the clay pebbles don't stress about it I'm getting worried yeah don't worry about that then we just put them in afterwards so then once we switch this on and you'll see the water will start flowing it'll be remarkable and then what we're going to do is we're going to fill the top here with some clay pebbles and I've still got that extra bag that I kept aside which I'm going to use just to fill up the clay pebbles on the top because remember that is the mechanism that when the water starts to run through that sensor pop it's going to hit these clay pebbles and it's going to break up and it's literally going to rain down on the veg and the herbs that you've got inside here making it rain I like the sound of that yeah yeah and let me tell you people come through and they go ah that is amazing this is like a water feature I mean it's amazing I sit in my house and I hear this water trickling it is so soothing it is really something very special so we've got that we're now going to plug this in and you're going to see something special happen there we go you can hear the water you can hear the water and then if we open that and you have a look inside there you can see the water's already dropping dripping through there so it is actually making it rain that's right you know onto the and that's the ritual nutrients are reading you can see through there how incredible that is absolutely absolutely and that is the magic of a tower hydroponic system well there you have it this is the tower hydroponic system 20 pocket hydroponic system to be exact if you missed this episode you could catch it on our youtube channel and also contact home growers and follow their facebook page because I do know that they give a lot of product information or on what goes around these different growing systems but I really hope that you enjoyed the episode as much as I did thank you so much for watching catch us next time on the 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