I have a question for you... This spring and summer while researching which plants to grow, where to put them, container size, sun exposure, etc. I learned how some plants grown together are beneficial to each other while others are harmful. An example is how tomatoes grown with basil can actually change and enhance the flavor of the tomatoes. Is this also true for a hydroponic/aeroponic environment such as a tower or nft system? In the same respect, I learned that some plants deplete some nutrients while other plants add those nutrients back. I cannot remember the specific plants or plant combinations, but I wonder does that also happen in the hydroponic/aeroponic environment? I also learned that there are plants that, if grown too close to some others will actually kill them. Again, I don't remember the exact plants or plant combinations where this occurs, but does it happen in a multi-plant system or plants growing in the same tent?

Hi Chad, I've watched the video many times and have been looking everywhere for the instructions to print out. The one link was a 404, and I couldn't find it on your webpage. Is it possible to still get the instructions and list of what I need so I can print it and refer to it while I'm building it? I would be ever so grateful! Thanks for all you're doing!

I've been reviewing the material on nutrients and the same question keeps popping up. It has to do with the EC levels and testing. EC meters measure the overall quantity but I wonder if, other than sending a sample to a lab for testing, is there any way to find out the quantity of specific elements/nutrients at any given moment? For example, some plants are gobbling up one nutrient while only sipping on another, the overall quantity measurement will show the number of particulates in relation to the amount of water, but it doesn't indicate the absence of the nutrient being gobbled and the abundance of the nutrient being sipped. When you add your top-up solution, how can you know that you aren't exacerbating the level of the nutrient still in abundance while at the same time starving the level of the nutrient being gobbled? I don't know if my words correctly portray the picture I have in my head. Picture a bowl of Skittles and each color represents a nutrient. The nutrient solution contains a ratio of colors equal to the proportion overall. Say you add 100 Skittles total. If the plants eat all of the red ones but only a few green ones, when you top off the reservoir you are going to add a solution of water and nutrients to fill the reservoir to 100% full meaning 100 Skittles total in the same proportion as the original setting. Only now there is an incorrect ratio of red to green even though there are still 100 Skittles total. We can see the problem in the bowl of Skittles, but how can we know there is a problem in our reservoir and exactly what the problem is?🤔🧐 Nevermind whether or not there are some garbage particulates that snuck in like the brown ones that sometimes show up!🤯Or do plants simply take in everything by the handful without regard for what it is?

Can you grow lettuce type vegetables with flowering in the same tower?

I just finished watching and reading about indoor gardening and the use of grow tents. It all makes perfect sense, to a point. IF I'm understanding the information correctly, all of the plants in the tent at any given time must be at the same growth stage...same nutrient, light, temperature, humidity, air movement etc. requirements for all of the plants to flourish for maximum harvest potential. Logic follows then that multiple tents are required to accommodate 1) plants at a different growth stage...seedlings vs fruiting, and 2) plants requiring different environments...light wavelength and/or duration, temperature and humidity variations, and 3) plants with different lifespans and life cycles. Would this be correct reasoning? If I am correct so far, my question then is: would each tent in turn require a complete and separate set of humidifiers, dehumidifiers, air coolers and heaters, CO2 regulators, exhaust systems, etc. or can one set control and regulate the conditions for multiple tents?