Cropking 24 Plants Bato Dutch Bucket Hydroponics System with Pump

Bato Dutch bucket hydroponic cultivation systems are used to grow large, long term plants with respect to growth to fruiting maturity. The top fed culture Bato buckets can be linked to be a  recirculating system that conserves nutrients or drain to waste hydroponics set up that hinders nutrient attenuation. Dutch buckets hydroponics allow for larger spacing between plants from the get go or as they grow, making the method suitable for dense fruiting plants, vegetative vines and bushes. In case of a pest or disease the individual Bato bucket containing the affected plant can be removed from the configuration and more Dutch buckets can be added to the hydroponic growing arrangement when scaling up. Bato buckets are ideal for aquaponics where aquatic organisms like fish and crustaceans are bred in aquaculture dedicated farming spaces and the water used to contribute to plant growth in a relayed hydroponics structure.

1. Set up the Bato Dutch buckets on a flat surface with the feed drip irrigation line supplying the roots with nutrition from above and the gravity draining pipe at the bottom.
2. Fill the culture solution reservoir with water enriched with pH controlled dissolved nutrients.
3. Fill each Dutch bucket with a substrate of your choice.
4. Connect the pump to power and turn on.
5. Plant your plants in the growing medium or suspend via mesh pots through the lid.
6. Regularly test the water for nutrient depletion and pH amendments until harvest time. Replenish nutrients as needed and top up water to counter evaporation.
7. Add support for your plants as they grow denser vegetation.
8. You may use various nutrient concentration combinations adapted to different stages of plant growth cycle; leafing, flowering and fruiting.
9. Cultivate high value crops for several years in the wear enduring Bato buckets.

Product specifications:

• Bato buckets with elbows and two planting hole covers. x 24
• Manufactured from UV resistant high quality plastic for durability subsisting repeated use under long hours of artificial light.
• Little Giant 1900 GPH, 1/8 HP, 115 V, 230 W, 2 A dual discharge corrosion resistant submersible water pump with up to 20 ft pumping capacity. x 1
• 100 gal nutrient solution reservoir tank. x 1
• Digital timer to schedule automatic intermittent irrigation cycle. x 1
• Perlite growing medium included.
• The Dutch buckets are top fed by a drip nutritive solution emitter.
• Two included siphon elbows keep about 2 in of enriched water at the bottom of each Dutch bucket at all times to keep the planting medium from drying out and to prevent plant water stress in between feeding irrigation cycles.
• PVC cleaner, primer and cement are included.
• Complete feed and drain plumbing.
• Easy to assemble.
• Length x Width x Height of one Bato bucket: 12 in x 10 in x 9 in.
• Length x Width x Height of the whole assembly: 20 ft x 6.5 ft x 2.1 ft.
• Made in the U.S.A.

*Setting up the Bato bucket in the configuration shown in the pictures makes it a drain to waste system. To make it into a recirculating system either place the nutrient solution reservoir at a lower level from the buckets or raise the buckets 25 in higher than the tank and adjust the included plumbing.

Use Bato Dutch bucket hydroponics to grow vining commercially important fruit and vegetable food crops with dense foliage like tomatoes, cucumbers, squash varieties, peas, beans, melons and grapes, bushy nutrient demanding plants like pepper varieties, eggplants and blueberries, flower farming for the floral industry such as gerberas, zinnias, roses, carnations, freesia, anthurium, chrysanthemum, petunia, poinsettias  and snapdragons.