by Richard May
New WindowFarmer from Costa Rica
6:10 pm in Completed Window Farms, International, posts with pitcures! by Richard May
Hi everybody!
I’m new so I thought I’d share my window farm with you. Down here we don’t have the same brand of water as recommended so I substituted with 1 liter bottles (Alpina by Coca-Cola). They are just barely the right size to hold 3.5in net cups so I added some paper clips to help hold the nets in place, those are the colored wires you see. They’re also shorter so I can add more bottles to the column. I’m currently at 5 bottles.
After playing around with the plumbing I’m getting about 100ml of water every 5 minutes. I run the pump for 5 minutes every three hours. It seems to get the substrate good and wet without drying out in between. I’m watching the garden to see if I can reduce the number of waterings.
Anyhow, I’m happy to have found this niche on the web!
See you around!
that looks beatiful! goodluck
Thanks @thedude108!
Good job. My only recommendation might be to move the lights slightly away from the plants. When the lights are on the plants will grow toward the light. They dry out and burn quickly if they touch the bulb surface.
Thanks @hardwarejunkie. The lights are farther than they look in the pictures, they’re a good 35cm or so away. But you’re right, and I’ll move the lights back if I see the plants growing towards them.
Hello Richard. These look neat. I am starting my own window farm. Just quick question were in CR did you find the clay pellets and the net cups? I live in san Pedro.
Pura Vida Esteban!
I found the clay pellets at Costa Rica Hydroponics (http://costaricahydroponics.com). They’ve got a shop 800 meters east of Forum I on the Autopista Del Sol. The net cups I had to get online at Amazon.com.
Thanks Richard. I will look into it.