Our Hydroponic Window Farm - 4th Week Update and 3rd Tower - 20100412

[nickm6882]

Are you Air Lifting the water to the tops of your towers I want to try this with my strawberry plants and looks like your having good luck with you towers so I may just try this thanks for the video good info I might Add

And I personly would black out your nutrient tanks so you don't get that alge growth just a little FYI

[wilhat]

ih i think the white salt in the water the idea is great i am thinking of trying it

[ryn76]

I think 18 hours on 6 off is good for foliage. Correct me if I am wrong people. Also make sure you lights are mostly 6500k in frequency. That is the really bright white rather than the soft white. You might mix in a bit of soft white just for balance.

[mysterywriter4kids]

Your Window farm looks great! I'm going to make a windowfarm soon. Won't the eggplant be too heavy on your tower when it it full grown?

Are those Magic beans? :) will you climb the stalk? :) is your name Jack? :)

You have given me ideas for my own system. thanks.

[brenthoser99]

Hah... I read for ten seconds and yea, its been said all ready :D . Hope you took the advice.

[brenthoser99]

I just popped in because I was looking for personal deep water culture hydroponics for lettuces, but One quick thing I wanted to suggest, if not already. Put some heavy cardboard or whatnot over your water reservoirs as it will help impede algae by blocking light. Looks nice, nice lil farm there. .

[Berntsen89]

Wouldn’t it be enough with the light from the sun/outside if the plant is standing in a window?

[audrey131313]

Hi ! Im going to make a window farm , I just wana know where do i get the plants ...its winter where I live . Do i start them from seed ?

[silox2000]

@audrey131313 You can pick them up at your local nursery or sometimes hardware store. The latter may be seasonal. I would suggest starting from seed because A) it makes finding a started plant a moot point B). A lot lower chance of importing diseases or bugs into your garden.

I shutdown the window farm for now because I was overrun with aphids that I brought in from one of the starter plants and wasn't having much success getting rid of them organically. I will be starting this again soon

[wrusst]

How did the harvest fair?

[Dooobs]

Hey mate, firstly nice setup.

I'm building one myself at the moment.

Anyways, about the lighting in there. You should really be running 18 hours on, 6 off. This simulates the long days of summer for vegetative growth.

Also, you should perhaps also think about running a pipe from the bottom of each bottle right under the surface of the hydroton pebbles of the next cup. Ideally you don't want the pebbles at the top being hit by light because you will get alge! = Bad!

Thanks and GL!

[adowns87]

And I forgot to add, since this is your first time experimenting with this sort of drip irrigation technology you probably have learned a lot from it and might not regret the experience. But do you think it is too much work as far as figuring out what to do with all of the plants since each grow at different rates and the sizes of each of them might not be the same. You seem to have to move them around a lot. Also, there doesn't seem to be a lot of room or space for the leaves to rest on.

[adowns87]

wow, I'm really impressed by what you've done. I was actually trying to get my boyfriend to go out with me to buy supplies today to start one of these. But he chickened out. We live in an apartment as well and our lease is going to be up in November of this year.