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Vine Crops in Dutch Buckets
When vine crop production is the goal, CropKing recommends the use of the Dutch Bucket or Bato Bucket
system. This type of system is an investment in the future of your business, every aspect of the growing system is the highest quality and built to last. Unlike other throw away, cheap systems you will get many years of use from this system. The Bato bucket offers quality as well as security when growing your high value crops, each bucket is formed with a small reservoir to avoid drowning or starving your plants, and since they are made from high quality UV resistant plastic and reuse the same bucket for years to come.
One of the most versatile and simple systems to use in the greenhouse. This system allows for great flexibility in layout and in the variety of plants that can be grown in them - tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, squash, pole beans and eggplant to name a few.
The Buckets hold the media in which the plants grow and they can be positioned to provide the plant spacing required for the crop being grown. CropKing uses perlite filled buckets. Each bucket has a bottom reservoir providing nutrients to the plants between feedings. Excess nutrient solution is conducted away from the plants via the drain line that all the buckets sit on.
Fertilizer solution is delivered to the buckets through the injection system, a feed line, emitters, emitter lines and stabilizer stakes. An iGrow computer is used to activate the delivery system on a desired schedule.

Valuable Aspects:
Hydroponics saves water, does not waste land, more production in less acreage and can be pesticide free.
• No Soilborne Disease
• Uses up to 1/10 of the water used in field produce
• Extended growing season
How Hydroponics Produces a Premium Crop:
• The controlled environment
• High grade nutrients and precise control of the nutrient feed ratios
• Vine ripening
• The lack of herbicides and pesticides

Hydroponic tomatoes have great flavor because they are vine ripened and locally grown....
Locally grown:
Most small growers sell their produce within 150 miles radius of their greenhouse to provide the community with freshest product.

CropKing has many different sizes Dutch Bucket systems. Complete commercial packages are available in sizes ranging from 30'x128' to multi-bay gutter connect greenhouses.
Please choose a size below for pricing and items included in the greenhouse package.
| Hydroponic Vine Crops | ||
| Bay Dimensions | Crop Capacity Tomato |
Crop Capacity Cucumber |
| 30' x 128' Freestanding unit | 870 plants | 435 plants |
| 2-Bay gutter connect 44' x 128' |
1,440 plants | 720 plants |
| 4-Bay gutter connect 88' x 128' |
2,880 plants | 1,440 plants |
| 6-Bay gutter connect 132' x 128' |
4,320 plants | 2,160 plants |
| 8-Bay gutter connect 176' x 128' |
5,760 plants | 2,880 plants |
| 16-Bay gutter connect 352' x 128' |
11,520 plants | 5,760 plants |
Component and pricing sheet is available in one document, that can be printed using Adobe PDF format. Click Here (238 KB)
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More Information
Tomatoes in Perlite
Dan Brentlinger explains the use of perlite in the production of hydroponic produce.
You may want to consider coming to one of our Hydroponic Grower's Workshops to learn how to grow hydroponic produce. The cost of the workshop is fully refundable from the purchase price of one of the above packages!





