Simple Homemade Hydroponics System for Indoors

A homemade hydroponics system does not have to be complicated or expensive. You can create your own system in a regular glass jar. Here’s how.

Use a large jar like a quart sealer. Cut a piece of fairly thick Styrofoam, about one inch thick, into a circle that will fit the mouth of the jar tightly.

Next cut holes in the Styrofoam disk you just made to fit your plants. You’ll probably be able to fit two or three plants into this system depending on the width of the jar mouth. Make sure the holes are large enough to allow for plant growth.

Your plants need root aeration so cut one more small hole in the disk to fit an aquarium air tube.

Fit an air stone to your air tubing. Run the tube back up through the disk leaving the air stone at the bottom of the jar. Fill the jar with nutrient solution. Fit your Styrofoam disk into the jar.

Now you need to get your plants into the nutrient solution. Simply take your seedlings one by one and hang them through the holes you created for them in the Styrofoam disk. Make sure their roots are dangling into the solution. Now pack some aquarium filter floss around the stems of the plant where they hang through the Styrofoam. Don’t pack too tightly. Use just enough filter floss to hold your seedlings firmly in place.

Everything’s in place? Good. Now you need to inhibit algae growth by blocking light to the nutrient solution and the roots of your plants. Simply wrap the jars with normal kitchen foil and tape it in place.

Now just hook up your air stone to an aquarium pump, provide adequate light and your growing with a homemade hydroponics system.