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Some pictures of my Father’s complete automated air-lift system.

This is a repost from the “Minnesota” group, because I posted there before I actually figured out how to make a proper post:
A friend of mine showed me a ”window farm” of hers using no hydroponic equipment at all.
It used just a simple system in which the water wicks up through a porous rope that runs [...]

After problems with not getting enough nutrient to my system (stalling air-lift) I now have the opposite problem, waterlogged plants!
The airlift is providing too much flow and the seedlings are getting too much watering – there cannot be enough air getting to them
After having a good laugh at the prices of interval timer/switch units I [...]

This video was taken more recently on March 30th, 2010:
silox – 1st Week Progress and 2nd Vertical Plant Tower w/ New Plants – March 30th, 2010
This is an update after the 1st week of growing in the 1st vertical plant tower and after building/planting in the 2nd vertical tower of our hydroponic window farm.
We have [...]

Big changes this week in Brooklyn and the windowfarm is beginning to feel like a stable viable thing in my home. Plants have grown a couple inches, timer, pump and valves working steady.
Recently I added liquid organic fish fertilizer (Neptune’s Harvest 2-4-1) – about 1 Tbs diluted in 1 gallon water added to resevoir that [...]

Please check out the excellent work of the Finnish Windowfarms team. This shot is a sneak preview of them installing the first few LED lights on the windowfarm they made out of Finnish recyclables in the window of the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki.
Their work on adapting the Windowfarms Project for Finland is part [...]

I’ve taken the plunge, set up a timer, got the water flowing, and have planted out my tiny tiny seedlings. Sorry plants are such babies that they’re barely visible in this photo but it’s mostly spearmint and thyme. As other things germinate I’ll plant out different herbs, hope to have oregano, spicy globe basil, marjoram, [...]

Has anyone experimented with a float switch as a way or triggering a pump instead of using a timer? A friend suggested this to me and it looks like the switches are really cheap compared to timers. The idea is like the float in a toilet tank, but instead of turning off the water when [...]

You can grow edible plants with 100 or 150 watt CFL bulbs. Even fruiting plants. I have done it successfully in several windowfarm systems. You must use CFLs with the proper color spectrum. The “daylight” bulbs you get at Home Depot in the blue package work. Arrange your plants so they are no more than [...]

I started my WindowFarm about a month ago, working on it in my spare time. I wanted to interface it with a microcontroller for automation and used the ATMega168 (same as on the Arduino) to control a windshield wiper pump to move water through the system for 4 seconds every 10 minutes.
The construction of the [...]