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4:48 am in Completed Window Farms, Featured Post, Getting Started, How-Tos, made from scratch (without a kit), Nutrients, Nutrition, Plants, Seeking Advice, Water flow by kristopher margett
morning all,
i’ve finished my window farm (see video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TvAkpSl1pE&feature=plcp ) and it’s working a treat, i’ve planted some micro tomatoes in each of the pots and a small black truffle tomato plant at the top, which i don’t hold out hope for to be honest.
the question is am i doing something wrong? i left a couple of tomato seeds growing in soil and they seem to be doing infinitely better than my hydroponic ones. i’ve got the system timed so it turns on every half an hour and i’ve put nutrients in the water. should i have put the shoots in some kind of growing medium rather than just surrounding them with clay pebbles?
also the airpump goes mental sometimes and bubbles in the reservoir rather than up the tube, i’ve managed to wrap florists tape around the tube and a small rock to weigh it down but it’s as if there is too much water in the tube and it spits it out at the top rather than slowly dripping it out.
any advice is more than welcome, thank you for your time in advance
regards
Kris
windowfarmer
Kris-
Once per half hour is too much water for your plants probably.
Also, we can’t see enough about how you have your air tube installed to help you troubleshoot. Please provide some additional images or video so we can see how you have it set up in there.
Finally, please type troubleshooting into the Google search bar to find guidance and to see all of the other tricks folks have tried when the get the air blowback issue. This is a common problem and generally has to do with the specific way you set up your intake/
Best of luck!
-Britta
Hi Britta, i’ve set the airpump to go on for 30 minutes then off for an hour and a half so that should work a little. here’s a picture of the tubes in the reservoir http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/1554/img1312z.jpg . i’ve weighed the tube down but the airpump with a stone but the airpump pushes too much water up the tube and spits it out at the top. also because there’s a lot of water in the tube it’s as if the airpump isn’t powerful enough and sometimes it just bubbles out of the bottom. i don’t know why because when i first put it together it worked fine.