Lighting
I’ve started tomatoes and peppers in the past using cheap florescent lights, I’ve read good and bad regarding the LED so I decided to reuse the florescent lights for my Window Farm – so far it’s...
View ArticleHow much water per minute/hour?
Hello! I am very excited to set up my window farm! I managed to play around with my air lift with a airflow valve, and I have quite a range of drips. My question is how much water should I be cycling...
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Final Setup
Here’s an update on how my buttercrunch lettuce is doing. I bought a small light for cloudy winter days and I have dialed in the watering schedule. I have a timer for the light that turns it on at...
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We
The moment I started really hating on those water pumps. Failure is more interesting than success in our community. In the windowfarms community, no design is final. Rather, we are constantly evolving...
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Fungus Gnat Larvae in my peas
I’ll be posting some information on my second WF hopefully by this weekend, but I wanted to throw this out to see what you think. I have peas on the bottom level and lettuce on the next level up. The...
View ArticleArticle about benefits of hydroponically grown produce
This is a very interesting article, with lots of good information. There is a large list of plants that can be grown hydroponically, and outlines the environmental benefits of hydroponics. Keep in...
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Easy way to attach t-joint outside the bottle?
This is an easily available attachment for pop bottles here in Canada. They are available in garden centers for watering plants. This means the the entire windowfarm can be made from pop bottles and...
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Air speed, water holdup and bottom reservoir ideas for the T-joint system
I did a little video today about lowering the airspeed through to windowfarm to vary (and sometimes increase!) the rate of airlift. Depending on your tubes the rate can be quite slow and still give...
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Contest! How high can you pump water with the little aquarium airlifter?
I made another video and basically I ran out of pipe and ladder and because of that I couldn’t pump any higher but I am curious. How high can you go? I went 13 ft but there was no problem whatsoever...
View Article2 (or 3) airlift columns from a single outlet air pump! Works!!!
Windowfarms recommend a 4 outlet pump but many people already have a 1 outlet pump and probably would like to use the one they have. So here I have a video about a method to split the air stream to...
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