Growroom Grow Light Stand | Build Your Own Homemade Stand

These grow light stand are easily make from inexpensive PVC tubing that can be bought from all hardware stores. Many folk choose to start their seeds off indoors, just to get that extra few weeks or even months head start on the growing season, and like me either just don?t want to be hanging grow light from their ceiling, nor really want to buy a really expensive grow room light stand, so here?s a inexpensive and simple, lightweight design that you?ll be able to take down then no longer needed.

And if you feel that you?d like your growing light stands to be that little extra sturdy then you can always supplement the PVC piping and connectors with copper water pipe and connectors instead.

For the purposes of this homemade howto build your own grow light stands, we?ll presume that building a light stand for three, three-foot fluorescent and that you want your grow light stand to be two feet off the floor.

Grow Light Stand Parts list

? 12x T Piece PVC connectors

? 4x Right Angle PVC connector

? 6 meters of 22mm PVC tubing

All theses PVC parts above are normally used for over-flows for bathroom piping.

? 1

First off cut eight two inch sections of 22mm tubing, then with four of them place a T piece connector on top of each one.

? 2

Now place the other four two inch pipes on top of the T pieces that you?ve just connected..And also your four remaining T piece connectors place them on top of the two inch pieces of tubing.

So what your left with is a two-inch 22mm tubing, with a T piece, with another two inch 22mm tubing with a T piece on top of that.

? 3

Now cut four two foot sections and place them on top of the T piece that you?ve just fitted in number three above with one right angle on top of each one, then put your last four two inch pieces on the end of your right angles, you now have all four led ready to fit.

Put pop your last four T pieces onto the ends of them 2inch pieces, with the center three foots to connect both legs together.

You should now have the grow light stand, standing on all four legs.

? 4

All that?s left is to cut the top 22mm PVC tubing and fit, so cut two three foots and two four foots and attach and decide how many fluorescent grow light fittings you?d like.

? Tips

? Purchase all your PVC parts, right angle elbows, T pieces and lengths from the same manufacturer, to ensure a good tight fit for your grow light stand.

? Measure twice and cut once and use a hacksaw to cut with.

? This homemade grow light stand how to plan is easily adapted, just adjust the side pieces to suit your grow light stands needs.

? If your wanting a larger light stand, you can use copper water piping instead ?the same parts are also available as the PVC parts, or just use a copper water pipe for the part of the frame that you fluorescent grow lights hang off.

? Any parts that you feel don?t fit well together, simply swap with another one, its more than likely that will fix the problem and if not then wrap some vinyl insulation tap round the tubing ends before fitting.

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How To Build Your Own Hydroponics System Setup

So you?d like to build your own hydroponics system setup then, well that?s great because you?ve come to just the right place.

Building your own hydro garden?s been happily taking place for at least a couple of thousand years ?with-out DIY/home department stores? which makes things a whole lot easier.

? So How Easy Is ?easy.?

Home growing hydro gardening systems can easily be built at home, even if your not that DIY minded. Simple hydro can be as simple as coca-cola bottle some hydro nutrients and an air pump.

Or

Look really complicated, like my hydroponic drip system that in the video, believe it or not it too is just PVC pot ?an old for sale sign? a bit of tubing, and an aquatic air pump. Yet it?s not let me down ?not once? this year. As you can see from them small pic?s, I?ve grow aubergines, strawberries, tomatoes, and spinach for my little guinea-pigs.

? The not ?quite? so easy Home Built System

Compared to the drip hydro above, my aeroponic unit is a little trickier to build ?but not a lot more? just a little.

Because Aeroponics use pond-water-pumps, pumping water about ?under pressure? there?s always a chance that water being flung ?everywhere? so attention needs to be paid to sealing PVC connection properly, that being said, other than a little more cost, it?s still pretty easy to build an aeroponic systems from scratch.

? Greenhouse Hydroponic Gardening

Nutrient Film Techniques use for growing lots and lots of plants at once, if you?ve bought a supermarket tomato recently then the chances are, it was grown in a greenhouse using NFT hydroponics.

Simply by using roof guttering, PVC tubing, shelving supports, container, hydro pump and of course some hydro nutrients ?not forgetting the couple of hours to build and setup of course.? There?s variation on this grow setup, my one in the photo, I?ve built vertically, but can just as easily be built horizontally too.

So Why Build Your Own Hydroponics System

Simply put growing with hydroponics ?can increase? plant yield/crop, in size and weight, also plants can be grown much closer together, but also grow faster ?much faster?.

Also

Hydroponics is by far more environmentally friendly too, plant?s use much less water ?you? waist less water, as plant?s grown hydroponically only use what?s need, ?like soil grown plants? but with hydro, the water that?s not used is simply drained back to the plants water reservoir, then re-used on the following watering interval.

Most bought compost?s are made up of ?peat? from peat bogs, that takes thousands of years to layer into an ecosystem, which are quickly despairing as it?s being used in compost mixes, as little as 6% is now left in nature reserves.

As that?s not a good reason to take up hydroponic gardening, then there?s another very good reason.

By the time soil and peat?s been mixed, nutrients added and then transported ?probably half way round the world? by diesel truck have a huge cost to our environment, so who wouldn?t change to hydroponics.

Feel free to make yourself at home and have a browse about, and hopefully you?ll glean some useful information while your at it, and hopefully you?ll feel more able to build your own hydroponics system from scratch.

 

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Build A Homemade Co2 Generator Cheaply

Homemade Co2 generators can be great for small-scale co2 generation, used from fish tanks to greenhouse and grow room co2 enrichment, at the bottom of the page there?s a step by step guide to Homemade Co2 Generators.

This co2 generator was cobbled together for just a few pence and works as well as any shop bought bio co2 generator.

In Holland co2 from a power station?s being pumped to over 500 commercial greenhouse, which is absorbed buy the plants, with a massive 30% increase in plant growth where before natural gas would have been burnt to produce useful amounts of Co2

. Monster Sized Plants

If you?ve visited any forums lately then that you?ll most probably find is folk saying that co2 enrichment doesn?t make any deferents after they?ve splashed out on a co2 generator.

In most cases folk keep their extractor fan running, which simply extract any co2 that?s being injected back out, but with a simple segment timer set to run for 10min?s a couple of times a day ?just before co2 injected? will leave co2 that?s injected alone for plants to absorb.

. Homemade Co2 Generator Uses

Yeast Co2 generators are only affective for very small grow rooms, like p.c grow-box or maybe a small closet grow room, as these yeast co2 generators only produce small amount of Co2.

. Can you Use Co2 generators At Night Time

Plants only Absorb Co2 in day-light hour, then at night time plant absorb oxygen, so producing Co2 at night is a complete waist of time folks.

Using homemade Co2 generators at night won?t hurt your plants, partially if you use your extractor fan at night to extract the unwanted Co2 that?s being produced.

. Benefits of Homemade Yeast Co2 Generators

Besides being very cheap, homemade yeast generator don?t produce excessive heat, as no natural gas is burnt in the process.

. Homemade Co2 Generator Materials

Two-litre bottle ?coca cola type bottle.?

One Spare bottle top ?you?ll see why.?

One funnel ?so things don?t get to messy.?

Aquarium Air feed line.

Silicon sealant ?the stuff that?s used in kitchens and bathrooms.?

Drill Bit and a drill ?drill bit should be a little smaller than your tubing.?

. Step One

What you want to make is a hole in your two litre bottle top with that drill bit ? just a little smaller than the air-line you?ve bought? but if that sounds like to much trouble then just push a pair of sharp scissors, ?just don?t come crying to me when you?ve impaled your-self on those scissors.? . Step Two

Now pull the air-line-tubing through the hole in the cap ?about an inch will do, just as long as its above the water line.? Then seal in place with your silicon sealant, you?ll need to leave the cap to dry over night before using it.

P.s try an not get any silicon sealant on the thread of your bottle cap, as it a real sod to remove.

. Step Three ?only for using with a fish tank.?

Cut your air-line about four inches away from the bottle top and plumb in that one way valve ? make very sure the arrow that?s on the one-way-valve is pointing away from the bottle top, otherwise you?ll be building yeast time bomb.?

. Step Four

Ok this is the fun part I forgot to take any picture, but its easy enough, all your doing is mixing some ingredients up ?just like a recipe.?

First fill up your Co2 bottle to half way with warm water, but not to hot as you?ll kill the yeast ?one litre.?

Now add two cups of sugar.

With that spare bottle top, fit on top and shake until most of that sugar is dissolved ? this may take a while.?

After that sugar is dissolved, fill the rest of the bottle up with cold water.

Pop in a tablespoon of baker yeast and also the pinch of baking soda also, and give another shake.

Take the spare top off and screw on your now dry bottle top with the tubing sticking out, and make sure the water level is still below the tubing.

. Step Five

Now place the tubing from which your Co2 will come from into your mini grow room and wait, yes wait, the yeast may take up three days before the yeast starts to react with the sugar.

. How Long Will My Co2 generator Last ?.

Well the more yeast you add the faster your Co2 generator will produce, but will also deplete faster.

The more Sugar you add the longer your Co2 generator will produce Co2 for,but will produce Co2 slower.

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