Strawberrys hydroponic upright system suggestions?

[onlychild]

I've always used a bucket system with hydro, and I'm looking to tap the vast knowledge here for something more creative where i can grow Strawberrys upright. Say as high as 8 feet while only using maybe 5 feet width? Any thoughts very appreciated.

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[ehole]

verti-gro or hydrostacker i believe are kinda what you're looking at... my local place carries the hydrostackers and they look pretty neat. plus they're made semi-local to me in fla.

 

[alpine dank]

Try googling "Heath Robinson vertical grows". Prolly cost too much to just grow strawberries with the setups he runs but man are they impressive....83 plants, 46 oz. dried product, *16 sq ft*, single 600w bulb...don't know if "the king of vertical" is sufficient

 

[Bobby Smith]

You probably want something like this - mine's 7' diameter and 6' tall, but you could build one out of 3" PVC (mine's 4") and make it 5' diameter on the number (was actually the prototype I used the blueprints for to build mine).

Pretty simple, just cut some PVC and glue it together - almost no "real" construction skills involved - a third grader could do it.

EDIT: and if you really are growing strawberries (outside, I'd imagine?) than it'd be some pretty easy mods to just make it a straight wall of plant sites.

They pretty much have PVC fittings in every shape and size to make whatever structure you'd want - they're like Legos :)

 

[fyrhazzrd]

I hope you are doing this outside.. I was going to try and grow strawberries indoors this year, but everything I read said it was impossible. Apparently strawberries have to have large swings in temps in order to produce mature fruit. Or at least that is what I have been told, and I also read in in a couple different places on the error nets.