by Rama Dennett
Question? One hole, two holes or why not get ride of the top all together?
12:18 am in Completed Window Farms, Education, posts with pitcures!, Projects in Process, questions, Seeking Advice by Rama Dennett
I have a very nice window farm. I built it with two holes on either side of the bottle to allow 2 plants to grow out each side. This has been working very well and my plants are taking over my window, yay! As I was trimming some dead leaves I started wondering, why have holes at all? Why not just get rid of the top of the bottle all together? The wire support with alligator clips keeps each bottle in perfect place so there is no need for structural support, right? The bottom of one bottle to the growing area inside the next a short tube makes sure the drip gets into the right spot and doesn’t splash. So why not give the plants much more room and get rid of the top of the bottle all together. Has anyone done this? I think I will try and will give you all some updates with what happens…..Here are some pictures of my farm cause I like to show it off and a link to my youtube video…..Thanks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf2jW05TEwU
You mean, like this
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http://our.windowfarms.org/members/vedette/activity/19074/
and like this, I used wine bottles, and bunched them into threes to make a triangular planter platform, but same thought!
http://anuttahwindowfarm.blogspot.com/
Using these instructions ( http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-hanging-potted-plant-rope-holder-ki/ ) I made a hanging potted plant rope and used small plant pots. It was running flawlessly until suddenly everything died and I had no idea why…… I’m usually good with plants but this was my first try at hydroponics. I bought hydro plant food but may have been stingy a bit. Either way, they died pretty quickly after a good initial run.