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Home made Aeroponics

Posted by ledaero Ma (My Page) on
Sun, Nov 19, 06 at 15:53

Here's my start of my home made aeroponics area. I spent a lot of time figuring out the materials and mechanics and everything seems pretty solid, including pump and spray system. Clog-free. Keeping it real simple is the key.

The larger unit on the right is my first built unit. Very first grow - Tomatoes and Peppers started from seed on October 7th. I have about twelve 1" small peppers so far and plenty of blooms and buds just starting to fruit. The tomatoes are in full flower. It is very overcrowded as I definately stuffed too much in there. I already have a new cover to cut down the number of plants next time from 8 to 5.

The smaller box on the left is my newest one and I just planted pickling cucumber. I plan on adding some kind of small plastic lattice around the outside of it soon so I can train the vines as they grow.

LED lights are mostly homemade. Real nice on the eyes and very comfortable to be around. Very expensive to buy if you get 'official' Led Grow Lights. There are plenty of cheaper ways around this. There is no magic to this and they work fantastic and use hardly any watts. No heat!

I was hoping to get some opinions on how you feel I'm doing so far.

Thanks you in advance for any comments.

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