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For what it’s worth: Don’t confuse the airpump method with a water pump. It’s as quiet as an aquarium. In my living room/kitchen, the whole thing is quieter than my fridge.
In reply to - burt posted an update: I’ve bought some materials, but i haven’t really started yet. There’s soo much i still have to read up on, especially nutrients. Does anybody have a link to some basic tutorial about nutrients? Also, i’m thinking about a few mods, so i’ll just share some of it: Put the airlift tube in [...] · View -
burt commented on the blog post blooming tomato 2 months, 2 weeks ago · View
That’s one impressive window farm!!! Good work. (-:
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burt wrote a new blog post: Your most productive plant 2 months, 2 weeks ago · View
Hi everyone,
Which plant is your biggest success, food-wise?
Thanks!
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I think it wouldn’t be quite the same. The amount of water that goes through my WF is MUCH bigger than 1.5 L (it’s at least about .5 L per half our, so that would be 12 L per day). The thing i’m more worried about is the interval between watering. When my plants miss only a couple of water cycles, they turn pale. Especially young plants that just came from seedling school die off when they’re dry for a couple of hours.
I too looked into a solution without a pump, because i thought it would be a hassle. Couldn’t think of something that wasn’t more hassle, and then i was surprised at how cheap and easy the pump system is. As an added flexibility, turned out that the reservoir, the pump and the windowfarm don’t have to be at the same place. In my setup, they’re about 2m apart…! And now it needs so little attention, i wouldn’t want to imagine having to water the WF every day…! It’s a non-anser to your question, but advice nonetheless: reconcider the pump! (-:
That’s not to say that it isn’t possible. Perhaps you could resort to another grow medium that holds water longer…?
BTW, this post is pretty old, you can look for my more recent posts or my gallery here:http://our.windowfarms.org/members/burt/
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/112283310368843828043/albums/5693832854277310705
Good luck!!
In reply to - burt posted an update: I’ve bought some materials, but i haven’t really started yet. There’s soo much i still have to read up on, especially nutrients. Does anybody have a link to some basic tutorial about nutrients? Also, i’m thinking about a few mods, so i’ll just share some of it: Put the airlift tube in [...] · View -
burt wrote a new blog post: New update on my WindowFarm (NL) 2 months, 2 weeks ago · View
Time for another update. The first few weeks haven’t been very promising, but things are changing for the better. Some parsley roots i transplanted from soil are doing quite well. The first three or four leaves it grew died off, making me feel very bad about myself, but now look at them! Even the little [...] -
burt commented on the blog post Open-source science: What’s the pH of your tap-water? 2 months, 2 weeks ago · View
I live in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. On the website, it reads the pH should be between 7,46 and 8,17. When i started, i bought a cheap pH meter (the yellow one, i think everybody’s got ;-> ), and it measured 8.1. I just took another measurement and it was 8.3, which might be the pH [...]
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burt commented on the blog post Fine tuning my window farm 3 months ago · View
Totally agree with Brian. I like how the reservoir itself has a spot for a big plant. Do you have problems with a bit of water remaining in the bottom of the containers? Also, did you obtain the plants we see in the pictures as plants? Or did you “window farm them all the way”? [...]
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Ignore this one. I intended to post it in the forum post, not under this specific picture.
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Totally agree with Brian. I like how the reservoir itself has a spot for a big plant. Do you have problems with a bit of water remaining in the bottom of the containers? Also, did you obtain the plants we see in the pictures as plants? Or did you “window farm them all the way”? [...]
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burt commented on the blog post Water-feed and Soil 3 months ago · View
Yeah, so “good” soil contains nutrients. They will dissappear (be eaten) over time, but if you have “good” soil (that contains nutrients), you could use that, and have the pump just keep it moist with plain water (you would need MUCH less pump-time to keep soil wet!!) Hydroponics plants grow faster than soil plants, dirt [...]
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burt commented on the blog post Window Farms Becoming Too Consumeristic 3 months, 1 week ago · View
I agree with you. From what i read, more people agree with you. There’s been an interesting discussion about the license here:
http://our.windowfarms.org/2011/12/11/something-is-not-quite-right/
Do you have ideas or suggestions to shift the emphasis back to cultivation?
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Hey Josh! Thanks!! Ik heb inderdaad probleen waar ik niet precies de vinger op kan leggen:
De planten zijn niet super-happy.
De ph van Eindhovens kraanwater is 8.1. Met azijn kan ik er 6 van maken, maar na een dag is het toch gewoon weer 7 of 8.
Bacterien lijken wel best happy met mijn windowfarm… S-:En ik ben geen metaal expert, maar het is inderdaad iets blikkerigs, of zinkerigs ofzoiets… Kan je een beetje uitleggen waarom verzinkte emmertjes problemen zouden geven?
Een ander probleem van de bakjes is overigens dat ze een platte bodem hebben, met 1 gaatje erin, op _ongeveer_ het laagste punt. Dat ”ongeveer” is niet goed genoeg en daarom blijft er vaak een mm water in staan. Ik denk dat (ook?) beter is voor bacterien dan voor planten…
In reply to - Josh van der Hoorn posted on the forum topic Waar haal jij je onderdelen vandaan? in the group Netherlands: Hallo burt, Ik zag de foto van de mandjes of emmertjes die je gekocht hebt bij Xenos. Kan je me vertellen van wat voor matriaal ze zijn. Zo te zien zijn ze verzinkt, dit kan nl. problemen opleveren met [...] · View -
burt commented on the blog post How to: cleaning tubes? 4 months ago · View
Somewhere in the instructions, it says to use a beaded chain that’ll fall through the tube easily. Attach (directly or indirectly using a piece of wire if the chain isn’t long enough) something that’ll “brush” the tube, and pull it through the tube. You can tie a couple of pieces of rope together to create [...]
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burt commented on the blog post Help! I think my windowfarm requires a gardner!! 4 months, 2 weeks ago · View
Hi Bram, Where i live (Eindhoven) there’s 2 such shops, both of them look exactly like what you’d expect: A closed garage door and a bunch of closed curtains. (-: Do you have a suggestion for a good place to go? I cleaned the reservoir (it was VERY gross!!) and most of the tubing. I’ve [...]
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burt commented on the blog post Help! I think my windowfarm requires a gardner!! 4 months, 2 weeks ago · View
Bleach is mostly hyrdogen peroxide, isn’t it? Here’s a guy lyrical about adding hydrogen peroxide to the water…
http://www.hydroponic-gardening.ws/hydrogen-peroxide-in-hydroponics.html
Good idea? Also, Julian, how do i obtain non-chlorinated water? Can you de-chlorinate it yourself? Or buy it?And really thanks, guys! For the time and effort in helping me (and lots of others!) out!!
No.Bleach is sodium hypochlorite.Hydrogen peroxide is H2O2.Bleach is more caustic.
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burt wrote a new blog post: Help! I think my windowfarm requires a gardner!! 4 months, 2 weeks ago · View
As pleased as i was with myself about constructing the window farm ;->, i’m starting to really worry about the next part: getting these plants to survive!! I looked for help in some stores in the neighbourhood, but nobody has any idea…! There’s some growshops for less legal plants, but they’re never open… very strange ;-> [...] -
burt commented on the blog post Ideas for Safety and Failsafes (“Holiday Mode”) 4 months, 3 weeks ago · View
When using the bottles, you could also make a hole in the neck, about 1 or 2 cm above cap-level. Water will flow out of it, only if the cap is clogged, and it would still fall into the next bottle. I agree the single-point-of-failure one hole bottle cap is a weak spot, but easy [...]
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burt commented on the blog post pH rises all the time 4 months, 3 weeks ago · View
Hi Gruener Daumen, I’ve posted a picture of several parts in this post:
http://our.windowfarms.org/2011/12/17/some-parts-and-a-question-about-cats-nutrients-and-drips/
I’ve got most of it up and running now, so i’ll post more pictures as soon as my camera (err… i mean girlfriend ;-> ) returns from vacation. (-:
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burt wrote a new blog post: pH rises all the time 4 months, 3 weeks ago · View
The pH value of the water in my 9L reservoir keeps rising. A few times per day i measure the pH (with the cheapest pH meter i could find), find it somewhere between 7 and 8 and put in a sip of natural vinegar (not distilled i think) to get it back between 5.7 or [...]
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Auroradiana are now friends 4 months, 3 weeks ago · View - Load More
