Our Hydroponic Window Farm - 1st Week Update and 2nd Vertical Tower Built w/ New Plants - 20100330

After the 1st week update on our 1st vertical plant tower and showing the 2nd vertical tower of our hydroponic window farm that we just put plants in. Our hydroponic window farm is located in our apartment sliding glass door area somewhere in Texas :) We are very excited to see how our hydroponic window farm turns out and learn from our experiences. We want to use our knowledge we gain from this to setup a much larger aquaponics setup(aquaculture + hydroponics) down the road when we move into a house. For more information on window farms, please visit http://www.windowfarms.org/.

Please see our first video for a better description of the materials used to build our hydroponic window farm.

Changes we made to improve the system:
- Made wooden dowels holding plant containers stand without being attached to the reserviors via L brackets used for mounting shelves to a wall and hooks driven into the end of each wooden dowel to 'hook' to the end of the L bracket. The weight of the hydroponic plant container structure rests on the bottom of the wooden dowel and the hook/L bracket assembly on the top simply prevents it from tipping.
- Modified the size of the holes in the caps of the water bottles(didn't mention this in the video). Some people don't use the caps that came with the bottles, but I do with a small hole cut out in the middle of each to streamline the flow of the water and to help keep it from splashing out of the containers.
- Changed out all of the water from city tap water(contains chlorine, flouride, PH imbalanced and other chemicals) to Reverse Osmosis(RO) water from a local source. PH was perfect right out of the container and contains no chemicals. Plants are doing better than ever and are growing very big in a short period of time. Water qualtiy makes ALL of the difference(that and enough light) along with the right nutrients in the right amounts.

Plants on 1st vertical tower(far left) from top to bottom - planted on 20100321:
1. Butterleaf Lettuce
2. Green Beans
3. Strawberries
4. Jalapenos

Plants on 2nd vertical tower(middle or right) from top to bottom - planted on 20100330:
1. Brussel Sprouts
2. Cauliflower
3. Broccoli
4. Eggplant

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[krisk7]

Nice job! Keep it up!

[calskin]

@rrey0456 instructions are windowfarms...dot...org

[rrey0456]

Hey man great job, is it at all possible for you to make a tutorial please your setup is great and I would like to make my own also if you do would you be kind enough to shoot some video from the outside I live in an apartment and I'm worried about people outside and it drawing so much attention. A reply would be welcomed either way great job man.