Hello Windowfarms.org.

I recently built my own little system after stumbling upon your website. I found the instructions fairly easy. Sourcing the materials was easy as well.

I went a bit crazy and decided to do some peppers and tomatoes. Pollinating the tomatoes has been a little bit of an issue, but it’s coming along.

The rate of growth is amazing really.

I haven’t used any netted pots. I just use 3 liter soda bottles that I cut and filled with Hydroton medium. I’m using Pure Blend Pro Grow for nutes. I used a bread container to act as my reservoir. I read a bit before I put this all together and figured a container that was ‘deep’ would help the airlift situation. Worked flawlessly the first time.

My tomatoes are flowering as well as my pepper plants. I’ve got some nice yellow and white flowers.

Here are a few pics.

Sorry about the picture quality. I am pleased with it. It’s a bit of an ugly setup, but for a first attempt (all put together in less than an hour) it’s not so bad. I can definitely make cosmetic changes and what not, but this is fine for now. I had to actually trim back the herbs in the lower container as they got a bit out of hand.

I’m very happy that I stumbled upon your site. I walked into my local Home Depot looking for netted pots and couldn’t find them, so I had to ask an employee. He asked me what it was for, and I whipped out the little print out of the 3 plant airlift system. We must have talked about it for a good 20 mins and he was very interested in doing it himself.

So…thanks!

All in all I think it cost me around $60 or so. The most expensive items are/were the Hydroton (got a big bag), the nutrients and the air pump.