Plastic Free Hydroponics, the journey continues. Using an ancient japanese techniques called shou sugi ban or yakisugi, burned cedar. Wood on houses in Japan used to be preserved like this. Testing to see if we can use it in our hydroponic system.
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The search for natural Hydroponics Hydroponics is an easy way to grow it’s growing plants in a nutrient-rich solution with no soil a lot of people who don’t have the ability time or money for traditional Garden find Hydroponics a great alternative now there’s many ways to do hydroponic gardening most of which
Involves some type of plastic so we’re trying to figure out a more natural way to do it now Hydroponics has been around for thousands of years so I decided to to go back to my roots ancient Japan there’s an old tradition of preserving wood known as shugan or yakas sui which means burn
Cedar so we can get Cedar up at our local hardware store and we figured why not give it a try glass jars are an easyy way to start Hydroponics but I need something to replace my down spouts I’ve grown used to using those over the last 10
Years now we really enjoyed doing this process after years of cutting and heating and melting plastic it was good to feel the sawdust and smell the burning wood now I know a lot of people don’t want to think about wood and hydroponics I mean we’ve all seen rotted wood right but throughout history
Boats were made out of wood shelter wine barrels a lot of things so it’s not impossible it’s just the plastic was easy and affordable so those who want a more natural way it might take a little extra something it might not be as easy and it might cost a little
More but for some people out there that’s worth their peace of mind so if you enjoy Recycling and growing with traditional Hydroponics that’s awesome and when we figure out some other ways for other people to enjoy growing their own food too that will be even better because
Everyone out there needs to be growing some of their own food taking care of themselves their family being a little more self-sufficient helping others inp firing and being the Change Till next time keep on growing
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Happy to see you using the correct term and not the misinterpretation of "shou sugi ban".
This is an excellent idea, thank you Mike! Do you find that the cedar keeps mosquitoes away?
Love this method. May I ask what was it you were brushing on the burnt wood at 2:18 mark?
I love this idea do you oil the wood as well?❤❤❤
Ah, Nihonjin desu! Sho-sugi-ban is called "fire-hardening" in the West, but it's the same process of burning out the excess lignum to leave a very dry, and hard material behind, that is then usually treated with some sort of oil/epoxy. It's great for treating wood that may come in contact with the ground/soil, like the foundation posts on the underside of a deck/building too. There's a guy on YT named @Mr.Chickadee who does Japanese Inspired carpentry and joinery who demonstrates how to use Sho-Suig-Ban on an entire building. Very cool stuff. Also, Fire = Fun! Cheers from N. FL.!
Hey Mike! I just got a pack of 5 gallon bucket lids with four 2 inch net cups on the top of each. I ordered a cheap 20 gallon aquarium bubbler pump to try but it was lost so I gotta get another. I have a LOT of extra nutrients I got during the fertilizer shortage just in case so by April I`m stepping up to about 7 buckets and a small split barrel under the edge of my camper roof and a couple of dual bubblers to see if they help with tomatoes, cucumbers, and small melons of some kind, and next fall I`m doing cabbage in them and moving a couple indoors to try some fruit like Mulberry or Figs, or maybe something tropical. I`m planting a mix of 8 more Brown Turkey & Celeste Figs and at least 4 Dwarf Mulberry trees and I`m trying 2 Pineapple Guava. With some occasional protection from the worst weather and mulching I can grow those in Louisiana I think several feet from my outdoor faucet.
It would be awesome to find a highly productive indoor fruit bush or vine. I`m gonna try potatoes if I can figure out an easy way. If I attach something to the top of a bucket that can hold moist peat moss, l should be able to get four potatoes growing in the four two inch cups and cover them with peat moss and get some to grow, or figure out a way to grow a little patch of nutrient fed carrots.
I don`t get much sunlight in my soil garden in November/December thru March/April to get good growth because of useless pine trees. And I can`t ring them because they`re near power lines and my driveway. I can only grow Florida Broadleaf Mustard greens and very tiny turnips, but thank goodness for those! That`s the only large supply of fresh produce I have in winter. I need a climate/light controlled mini greenhouse.
This is amazing, thanks Mike!
OMG Mike.. I just ordered the 3d printer, and here she goes to the store and get wood now.. Any chance you make a , How to create Yakisugi Hydroponics? How to build one. I'm wondering what was that Oil, and which one. I am invested on this and really like to build one. Again, thanks for keeping my mind busy. Much love to you and your Family 💜
WONDERFUL! 🧡🖤🧡
OMG! I love this idea. After you decided to lose the plastic, I was wondering if there was a way to incorporate wood. After I get my feet wet, this year will be my first time doing hydroponics, I'm surely going to try working with wood. Thank you so much for sharing all your knowledge.
What do you use to make the boards so long-lasting? do you use oil? what kind ?
Thank you.
can one use soya wax to seal wood? or bees wax?
That’s really interesting.
Now if we could just find a way not to ever buy any more consumables from supermarkets, most all of which is packaged in plastic wrap and styrofoam. Since that’s very unlikely it makes getting away from the use of plastic in backyard hydroponics seem about as effective as removing a thimble of water from the ocean.
Seems to me the commercial producers of food products are the folks who need to “be the change.”
Great Idea👍Now there needs to be a way to get rid of bought nutrient solution. I'm not sure if a compost tea would work. Maybe.
Sorry for being "that guy", but… Couldn't the wood be burned without using fossil fuels? It seems like you're replacing one plastic usage with another.
Of course, eventually you need to burn something in the process, but maybe a good old firepit would be better, specially if you cook something tasty while you are at it :p
I’m not sure what you used as a sealer but I was moving some beehives and thought soaking the boards in bees wax would be perfect to try
Appreciate you Mike and your ideas. I look at all the fallen trees around me. I use some for raised bed walls. Eventually they decompose. Been wondering how long it would take me to channel out and plant inside them. Now I see to help hold water i would need to burn inside the chanel. Thank you for the inspiration.
Now that trough is beautiful enough for my kitchen counter! I’m following now.
Looks beautiful. But what was being brushed on to seal the wood? Thank you!
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