Photos from 04/08/2010.. will update with new photos and new tomato growth soon!
Top View
Water is pumped into lines that drip onto plants.
Top View
PVC pipe from pump loops in a circle to maximize water pressure for even drip.
Return Lines
Water drips into bucket, fills up to the exit port height, and excess drains back into reservoir.
To do this - Drill hole in bucket, install a rubber grommet, insert plastic barbed hose fitting into grommet and connect return hose to the return line. I used 1/2" threaded barbed hoses tees that screw into a threaded PVC fitting that pours into the return reservoir (below).
Return Reservoir
Recirculated water drips into first reservoir and filtered before it flows into reservoir that contains the water pump.
Young Tomato Plants
photos taken 04/08/2010
First Red Calabash (heirloom)
A heirloom variety from Seeds of Change
First Red Calabash (heirloom)
top view
First Red Calabash (heirloom)
BrandyWine
Also a heirloom variety from Seeds of Change
Purple Basil
Cherry Tomatos
Cherry Tomato Plant
hey your plants are doing very well! after you pick your tomatoes, if you want them to think its spring again give more light and feed with more nitrogen! basically you can take em all indoor in winter and trick them into growing again. if you take one picture a day, its easy to make a time lapse video. you should try experimenting with hanging one by string to try to make it grow even faster. one square knot at the bottom, and a spiral around the plant all the way to the top, and tightened every few days at your plant fence. i would try it on a few bigger ones, not seedlings or sprouts. try to keep me posted on the tobacco plant, mine are over a foot now, the growth accelerates so the end up growing pretty damn fast. he MUST be in a hige container though. more than a 10 liter bucket. use something like 50liters if you can :Dthey respond VERY well to a mix between black dirt and compost at the bottom. some perlite maybe if its cheap.
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