Carrots in 12-inch Autopot Hydrotray - yield was 1.5 kg after 4 months from sowing of seeds. The question is - is it worth it? Well justified in the second half of this video clip.

What Autopot Technology can do is amazing. Now we can even grow mushrooms with Autopot System. View this video on our first attempt with mushroom growing.

Zuchinni in Autopot Single 12-inch Hydrotray. Three plants to a pot in the open subject to the elements of weather - rain, sun and hail. It took only minutes to set up the Autopot units.

Aristolochia in Full Bloom
                 Monday, 1 March 2010

Aristolochia gigantica - a rare flowering plant grown under cover in Melbourne. Some of the Aristolochia genus are food plants of large birdwing butterflies such as the Rajah Brookes found in Borneo.

            This video clip shows a really good crop of Galangal Ginger grown in Autopot 12-inch single Hydrotray.

          This video clip shows harvesting a crop of Snowpeas in 8 units of Autopot hanging baskets mounted on a wooden post.

     A good crop of white radish grown in a Single 12-inch Hydrotray in potting mix.

    Video clip on harvesting garlic grown in an Autopot 8-pot extension kit. Common garlic was bought from the Supermarket and we planted 9 cloves per pot (10inch) evenly spaced.  The growing medium used was a good quality potting mix. The growing units were left exposed to direct full sunlight between being planted in June 2008 (winter) and harvested in November 2008 (late spring).

    We are delighted to share with you an excellent method of controlling pests without the use of toxic chemicals. The idea of using soapy water is not new, but the technique of application is new. The spray bottle as seen in the video is ideal. 
    We found the soapy fluid "Spree dishwashing liquid" sold in supermarkets the most suitable because:-
    - it is very effective in getting rid of common pests, white flies in particular
    - it is completely safe to humans and fish
    - it is also 100% non-phytotoxic even on sensitive crops like cucumbers
    - it is inexpensive.

      We have just harvested our crop of potatoes grown in 6 units of the Autopot Hydrotray 12" pots. Since planting about 3 months ago, they have been left in the open on our concrete pavement and basically we did not have to do anything except to make casual checks to make sure that the equipment was working properly. 
         We posted this video clip to show the outcome of the harvest and how the growing medium was recycled for the next crop - sweet potatoes - which was planted soon after. 

     This video clip shows our preferred way of planting vegetable seedlings to a Hydrotray Single 12-inch pot. In this case, the growing medium was a good quality potting mix. 
     A slow release fertilizer (Osmocote) was gradually added and mixed into the potting mix while preparing the planting hole. This will give the newly planted seedlings a head start as they have immediate access to the nutrients.  Without the Osmocote application, the seedlings will take some time (a week or two) before their roots can reach the irrigated nutrients at the bottom of the pot. 

    This is an interesting video clip which features the use of broken bricks as the growing medium for Sweet Melon commercial production in Malaysia. The broken bricks the size of golf balls, may appear to be too coarse as a growing medium but suprisinglyk, it certainly did work and very well too. 
    At the moment there are well over a quarter million units of Autopots all over Malaysia producing only Sweet Melons which are harvested 65 days from planting.

     This slide-show illustrates how we prefer to plant our window boxes. Instead of the usual one seedling per pot, we put several seedlings in a propagating rockwool cube (up to 10)  per pot. The main advantage is that you get to pick your crop much earlier and get a better harvest.  Do the same with seedlings in punnets purchased from a nursery. Plant several seedlings (4 or more) per pot. Note  - you do not need to wash the roots even though the seedlings were established in potting mix or soil.