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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Build a Simple T5 Fluorescent DWC System

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

I get a lot of questions on exactly how to build a DWC system, so I figured I'd run through a build that costs ~$400 and will produce tons of fresh veggies, herbs, and more! Learn More: Simple T5 Fluorescent Deep Water Culture Starter System Keep growing, Kevin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Welcome back to another episode of the Epic Gardening podcast. My name's Kevin. We are talking today about a hydroponic system build. So this will be a guide on exactly what to buy and do if you want to

0:17.0

set up a system similar to the one I'm going to lay out. So this is a system that's

0:20.8

built off of the deep water culture system for growing plants.

0:25.0

So if you don't know what that is, I have so many different resources for that.

0:29.0

There's a video on my YouTube channel, there's an article on my site,

0:32.0

there's even a podcast episode about it.

0:34.0

So if you don't know what deep water culture is, definitely look at those, so you know what

0:37.4

it is before you listen to the rest of this.

0:40.0

But this is a system that's built off of again deep water culture and a T5 fluorescent setup

0:46.0

so this is a system for you if you want to grow one or two plants indoors you want an

0:51.7

easy system that without a lot of moving parts, you don't want to invest

0:55.8

a lot of money. This system is not for you if you want to grow more than two plants, if you want

1:01.5

to achieve maximum yields, or if you want like top of the line

1:04.8

gear, top of the line results. Again, this is a beginner sort of starter system. I designed it so it comes in

1:11.1

at under $500 for people who want to just get their feet wet with

1:16.0

indoor growing. So I've split the shopping list into three parts. You've got your

1:20.4

growing environment stuff, what you need to grow well, you've got your growing environment stuff, what you need to grow well.

1:24.0

You've got your lighting, and then you've got your nutrients and pH equipment.

1:28.0

So the first thing, growing environment, what do we need?

1:31.0

Well, you're going to need a grow tent of some kind unless you have a dedicated

1:36.2

room, but I still would recommend a grow tent because you have full control over that environment.

1:41.5

I always recommend if money is no object a gorilla grow tent personally

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