Update on our 4th week of ‘officially’ growing in our hydroponic window farm showing our recently added 3rd tower, changes and setbacks we’ve learned from so far. Please see our first video for a better description of the materials used to build our hydroponic window farm. Problems and changes we’ve made since our last video: – I couldn’t think of a negative reason to have the water bottle caps in place at first, but now at least one problem has reared it’s ugly head. One of the clay pellets fell through the top netcup and blocked the small cut hole in the cap for the topmost container on tower 2. The container filled with water to the top and stay that way for at least a few days I reckon, molding the roots and the pellets. The plant and pellets for that container were replaced which places the top plant in tower 2 one week behind the rest in the same tower(Brussel Sprouts). We now know it’s a good idea to check for blockage regulary which is an easy fix, just remove the cap to clear the blockage. We’ve also notice the roots growing through the holes in the caps, so this may become a bigger problem in the future. We’ll keep ya updated on this if it becomes a problem. – We knew that Algae could be a possible problem AFTER buying all of the mats in the instructions on windowfarms.org. It would have been best to get solid black or another solid dark color for the tubing as well as a non-transparent reservior. While the Algae isn’t super bad, especially since we change the …
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