Indoor farming recommendations for my solar powered bunker vault

[42OhmsPA]

Oh for soil based the cocoa coir is the way to go. It's impressive how much a brick expands.
I'd mix that in with some good soil from FoxFarm and a bit of Perlite. Plants love it.

 

[Supervstech]

I wonder if a decent above ground pool pump and sand filter would be the way to go circulating all this.

I see them all the time at habitat for humanity re stores

 

[42OhmsPA]

I wonder if a decent above ground pool pump and sand filter would be the way to go circulating all this.

I see them all the time at habitat for humanity re stores

For a huge system I don't see why it wouldn't work.
I was using a cheap amazon pump when I bought a recirculating DWC bucket system.
I'd skip the sand filter, that's the roots job.

 

[BarracudaBob]

Danner™ Aqua-Mag Magnetic Drive are rebuildable and unless you drop them they will out live you. This one is probably to powerful. Ran on my marine aquariums for years then moved it to the hydroponic garden. Soak it in acid to clean it off or replace the impeller. The large body is just a 60hz coil.

(I fixed the link)

 

[Recovering EE]

I put this in for having pure water for filling 100's of gallons of fish tanks. Plants seem to love the water from it too

Amazon.com

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Actually has a nice spring/well water taste to it.

For $234 its hard to beat and you forget its there other than the clean water it makes.

You won't want an alkaline boost for plant watering. Plants do better at nute uptake in slightly acidic water.

 

[BarracudaBob]

Perfect test system for Will

VEVOR Hydroponic Growing System with Grow Light
https://a.co/d/94zXQbd

 

[BarracudaBob]

I woke up and felt like some tater salad...

 

[BarracudaBob]

For a test starter this one isn't to bad either. good to test the idea may say screw it after first two tries.

Amazon.com

 

[WorldwideDave]

Cleaning up these comments please stay on topic

I am pretty ignorant to the hydro and aquaponic space. Planning to build a large indoor farm and/or jungle in my bunker vault.

Are there indoor farm modules I can mount on my wall and hook up easily?

What requires the least maintance to fulfill the needs of the plants.

I really do not want to waste water. I'm in the desert and if the grid were to go down, water would become very scarce.

Put an aquaponic system be the easiest? I want to be able to not touch it for a month and come back with food ready.

Word instead of these water systems should I just plant some potatoes on a wall mount planter and run water lines to each one? Those can produce a lot of food.

the humidity/moisture inside bunker would get a bit funky I would think. I believe you have a mini-split...does it have a 'dry' mode for humidity removal? that will be one heck of a load.
Also not sure why I thought this, but weren't you thinking of moving to southern washington for a while? Maybe bought some land already? Didn't expect you to remain in the dessert long term.

 

[Will Prowse]

the humidity/moisture inside bunker would get a bit funky I would think. I believe you have a mini-split...does it have a 'dry' mode for humidity removal? that will be one heck of a load.
Also not sure why I thought this, but weren't you thinking of moving to southern washington for a while? Maybe bought some land already? Didn't expect you to remain in the dessert long term.

Yes. Two of them already installed and running. Very true.

 

[Will Prowse]

the humidity/moisture inside bunker would get a bit funky I would think. I believe you have a mini-split...does it have a 'dry' mode for humidity removal? that will be one heck of a load.
Also not sure why I thought this, but weren't you thinking of moving to southern washington for a while? Maybe bought some land already? Didn't expect you to remain in the dessert long term.

No I would never ever move there. I said in one video that I was going to buy a property for Bitcoin mining next to a hydroelectric dam. I would never in a million years live in Washington State. Haha

No plans right now. I don't want to buy more property though. The properties I have in Utah already pain in the butt.

 

[Brucey]

Was going to say going from Arizona sun to Washington overcast you'd be on suicide watch pronto.

 

[BarracudaBob]

The influx of cryptocurrency miners into Central Washington's Columbia Basin, drawn by cheap hydroelectric power from the region's dams, has significantly impacted the local power grid and economy. Chelan County, for example, charges miners roughly triple what it charges residents for electricity.

 

[Will Prowse]

The influx of cryptocurrency miners into Central Washington's Columbia Basin, drawn by cheap hydroelectric power from the region's dams, has significantly impacted the local power grid and economy.

Then make more power lol they can make a ton of money from it. Sounds like they are mismanaged

 

[BarracudaBob]

Then make more power lol they can make a ton of money from it. Sounds like they are mismanaged

Greed, saw an opportunity and they took it.

 

[DPC]

Then make more power lol they can make a ton of money from it. Sounds like they are mismanaged

Its like generating power to run casinos...
At the end of the day all you have is flashing lights stippers and empty wallets.

 

[Brucey]

Then make more power lol they can make a ton of money from it. Sounds like they are mismanaged

Here's the cutting edge:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/12/23-year-old-texans-made-4-million-mining-bitcoin-off-flared-natural-gas.html

 

[WorldwideDave]

No plans right now. I don't want to buy more property though. The properties I have in Utah already pain in the butt.

Whats up with those properties? I invest a lot in real estate, not bitcoin or securities. Feel free to DM if you prefer, know you are busy.

 

[BarracudaBob]

Here's the cutting edge:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/12/23-year-old-texans-made-4-million-mining-bitcoin-off-flared-natural-gas.html

"Their company, Giga, places a shipping container full of thousands of bitcoin miners on an oil well, diverts the natural gas into generators, which convert the gas into electricity that is then used to power the miners."

WOW, not you have to admit that was pretty clever. Now if they only grew potatoes and kale it wouldn't be off topic

Good story though..

 

[WorldwideDave]

Here's the cutting edge:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/12/23-year-old-texans-made-4-million-mining-bitcoin-off-flared-natural-gas.html

first time hearing of them. Or Riot. Or their 3 facilities. Fascinating.

 

[NC_hydro]

I am pretty ignorant to the hydro and aquaponic space. Planning to build a large indoor farm and/or jungle in my bunker vault.

Are there indoor farm modules I can mount on my wall and hook up easily?

What requires the least maintance to fulfill the needs of the plants.

I really do not want to waste water. I'm in the desert and if the grid were to go down, water would become very scarce.

Put an aquaponic system be the easiest? I want to be able to not touch it for a month and come back with food ready.

Word instead of these water systems should I just plant some potatoes on a wall mount planter and run water lines to each one? Those can produce a lot of food.

There was a self contained egg shaped pod looking thing I saw at CES this year. Can't remember the name of the company. Seemed like it was potentially somewhat automated.

 

[BarracudaBob]

Grow some gourmet shrooms

 

[BarracudaBob]

end of days when money, bitcoin, and basic supplies are hard to find or lost there value.

Food and entertainment will rule. Since Will doesn't drink he would be the perfect supplyer

 

[Recovering EE]

Grow some gourmet shrooms

Does "Gourmet" mean you see chevrons in color, rather than in monochrome?

 

[BarracudaBob]

Does "Gourmet" mean you see chevrons in color, rather than in monochrome?

It was for the Squids (long arms of the law) after all they checked out my parsley