@ Emery Premeaux: dont keep the tanks in yout closet! put those to good use! @samenrahmen: I have glass windows (always opened) with screens. I live in san diego, ca and I’m sure some light gets filtered out. @snjmom / Trygve Henriksen / samenrahmen : I chose Koi for the decorative properties. This set up is [...]

Hardwarejunkie: Its almost there!

Samenrahmen: I updated the link so that it is now public. However, many pictures are above. Fly screen? …for the window? If I took it off, and have them grow out the window, it would be very hard to pick my tomatoes! I live on the 2nd story.

Check out: http://our.windowfarms.org/2010/08/12/aquaponic-window-farm/ one reason to how tall my tomatoes are is that I have a T5 florescent light on my seedlings which are sitting to the left of my farm. I also have a turtle tank with a turtle heat lamp on it sitting to the right of my farm. Due to the 18/6 [...]

yes, I use at the same time, but note how often. The Seaweed Foliar Spray by Nitrozyme should only be sprayed on weekly during veg, (bi-monthly for Aquaponics). The Great White Mycorrhizae by Plant Success should ONLY BE USED ONCE or TWICE per HARVEST. =)

Looking great Lorne! What are you going to grow?

I’m awaiting photometric details about the LEDs from Welldone – should be able to tell more then…

@samerahmen Why? – have you seen a review of this product? I’m thinking of the Shenzhen Welldone Tech and Industry Co. Ltd. growlight on eBay , there are many growlight LED panels out there – but very little feedback from the people who use them. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270557720378&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_3641wt_939 There’s no bad feedback for this product and the [...]

The LED grow light I’m looking at is14 Watts, it’s a panel 12 x 12 inch and has 225 LEDs, cost £27($40) – which I think is about 40p/month (60 cents/month) if it’s on for 8 hours a day

Red incandescent 40W lamp equals 8-12W of filtered light (figures based on theatrical lighting gels 20-30% transmission) usually it’s not even tinted glass (too expensive!) but rather lacquer which peels off after a few months. A red LED is red light only – they usually come in clear encapsulation these days – and no infra-red [...]

@Owen – I find the photochemistry of plants very confusing, there seem to be several photo-active chemicals a & b Chlorophyll, b Carotene, Phycoerithrin.. each with one or two spectral peaks. I notice the professional LED grow lights now have 2 colours of red, 2 blue and an orange. It’s hard to find out how important [...]

Thanks Owen, have you used these successfully yet?

Lorne, Green? Naaah.. there is a green light in the kitchen though – so everything we eat is green food! Samenrahmen, yes putting it there to start with – to see how well it does, it will have a dedicated blue LED light on 18hrs/day eventually. Owen, yes small stuff herbs (it is the kitchen!) [...]