Firstly apologies for the lack of posts over the past couple of months. Got side tracked by my wedding and honeymoon. However even though the plants have been woefully neglected I can at least say I have found a reasonably inexpensive holiday watering solution.
This is one of my many attempts to build an aeroponic system. I live in a flat so the system needs to be compact, quiet and easy to maintain. This one worked out a little more expensive as I bought some proper flowering lights and a dedicated grow tent. However the actual hydroponic parts were reasonably cheap.
Hi, I have 7 Aerogardens total. 4 Classic and 3 Pro-200. (currently only using 2 of the Pro's). I've been very successful growing lettuce, herbs and cherry tomatoes. I am trying for the second time to grow the tomatoes (ruby heirloom) and pickle cucumbers (burpee picklers). I am good about keeping it dark once the system shuts off.
Remember the junk tomatoes we got for $1 at the end of last season and ignored for a few months? Here's what they're doing now. They're still in the lousy hanging baskets on a former laundry rack about 2 ft. from the south facing window. We feed them a ~1- 3 ratio mix of water and bloom mix and here's how they're going.
The beginning of me acquiring a 48x48x20" grow tent with four 4' Flourescent T-5 lights and buying an English made AutoPot system gisette turned me on to is chronicaled here , so I'll spare most of the uglier details.
12.7.08 - just planted a new lettuce garden from Gisette seeds she so graciously sent. I had Evergreen Seeds Korean red curl and Burpee toy choi growing in Rapid Rooter outriders since 11.19. I did some serious trimming of the RRs to fit them in an AG pod and hope I didn't do fatal damage to roots. They are looking better after just a few hours, though.
The ongoing project this time is to install an air pump and air stone into my Classic. Why? Because I want to move away from the water pumps which have proven so unreliable for me, having an aerated AG (similar system to the new AG6 line) will make things more reliable and save my sanity!
I'm just copying over this list to keep for future reference - kind of a nuisance to compile. FWIW, I do have other seeds (and am currently growing them), that I just don't have in large enough quantity to share. Also have a bunch of oriental greens on order, but the company seems to be taking a long shipping break - I hope no one's hurt.
For tonight's fun, got the Drupal site installed and configured it with file uploads and WYSIWYG editor (the default Drupal editor is pretty simple-minded, unless you really like composing in HTML.
