#hydroponics

[xanaxfarts]

Amy Youngs: Hydroponic Solar Garden (2005)

[hope-for-the-planet]

Using Fog to Grow Produce in the Deserts of Chile

Text and image from this article in Reuters:rs.

Amid barren rocky hills and dry, white sand, the system works by using a mesh suspended between two poles that intercepts the small amount of moisture in the air, turning it into droplets that are collected and stored in water tanks. "We are able to collect 1,000 to 1,400 liters of water in these inhospitable places, where we are clearly not favored by nature in other ways," said Rojas in a region where lemon trees were also growing from the collected water.

You would think that growing lemon trees and lettuce in the driest desert in the world (parts of the Atacama don't see rain for multiple years) would not be possible, but the folks at the Atacama Fog Catchers Association have worked it out. They're growing lettuce and lemon trees hydroponically using only water collected from fog with some added minerals.

[unbfacts]

In Dubai, salad can grow inside a giant indoor farm instead of open desert soil. Bustanica stacks leafy greens in a 330,000 sq ft controlled farm, produces over 1 million kg a year, and uses 95% less water than conventional farming.

[dinchenix]

A collection of hydroponics and solar powered machines I did over the years🌻

There is something about machines that work together with nature, instead against it, that keeps facinating me. I hope to explore this more in the future!

[dinosaurwithablog]

It was a good harvest!! 😁😁😁

[jasperthehatchet]

🌼🌿Indoor garden update!!🌿🌼 (For some of my plants, not all of them)

Here are the hydroponic jars (from left to right: kitchen scrap butter lettuce, seeded butter lettuce and romaine lettuce, emerald oak lettuce, spinach, bok choy, slow bolt cilantro)

And here's the tomato plants. These ones are getting so tall so fast!! Some of them even gained like an inch and a half since the last update:

And here's the basil, coneflowers and daisies. They are growing much faster and much stronger with the homemade banana fertilizer ive been feeding them. The basil is the green pot, the coneflower are in the purple pot and the daisies are in the yellow pot:

I plan on turning the wall in my dining room into a hydroponic system wall, because hydroponic gardening is by far my favorite way of growing things. And i feel very lucky that my family hoards cardboard boxes and stuff like that because I want to use the bigger ones to fill up the backyard with cardboard planter boxes for veggies. And the peach tree in the backyard is blooming!! So I'll have to trim some of the blooms off the tree so it doesn't get overloaded when the fruit comes in. Sorry for the photo quality lol

🌿🌼🍀🪻🍑☀️🌿

[Image ID: the first six images show seven large wide-mouth mason jars with plants sprouting in all of them. They're all filled with nutrient water and have black net pots in the top half of the jars that are pulled with wet clay pellets where the plants are growing from. The first image is a smaller wide-mouth jar with butter lettuce grown from kitchen scraps. The new leaves are about six inches long and very healthy looking, growing in all different directions. The second image shows two of the larger jars, the one on the left being butter lettuce grown from seeds and romaine lettuce. The butter lettuce sprouts are about an inch to an inch and a half and the romaine lettuce sprouts are about four to five inches tall, growing like crazy in all different directions and theres so many. These three jars I've described so far are the only jars in the bunch that don't have black socks covering them, the rest have socks covering the jars up to the top due to their lack of sturdy root systems. But for the photos I've pulled the sock down on each of the covered jars to show their labels.

The third image shows a large covered jar, this one is emerald oak lettuce. The sprouts are somewhere between half an inch and a full inch tall. The fourth image shows a jar showing the spinach label. The spinach sprouts are about an inch and a half to two inches tall, and they're growing in a few different directions. The fifth image shows bok choy sprouts and these sprouts are about the same height if not a little taller and they're growing in multiple directions. The sixth image is of the slow bolt cilantro, which just begun sprouting. There's one sprout that's about half an inch tall.

The seventh and eighth images show my tomato plants. All in terracotta colored plastic pots and one pot has a yellow gnat trap on the side. One image shows six pots, all with plants varying in size, with the biggest ones being five and a half inches tall. The taller ones have more leaves and all the pots have crushed egg shell in the top soil. The next image is of the seventh tomato plant which is the biggest one, easily being six inches tall. My hand is in the photo becauseim holding it up.

The next image shows three pots on a wood shelf, a green one with basil sprouts, a yellow one with daisy sprouts and a purple one with coneflower sprouts. The sprouts are all pretty small, ranging from half and inch to an inch tall but the leaves are much bigger. Especially the basil and the cone flowers. The basil pot is in a translucent purple glass plate.

The last image shows some parts of my peach tree in my back yard, though not much of he yard is visible in the image except for the fence. The leaves are big and green and beautiful and tiny peaches are starting to form on the branches.

Parts of my backyard are visible in all photos but it's a bit blurry due to the material of the greenhouse tent covering the glass window. End ID]

[northernkingoffrogs]

Indoor gardening updates! Lots of sprouting is taking place

Photo 1: The potato plant is growing well! Many leaves are growing in

Photo 2: bell peppers inside a clear plastic take-out container for a DIY mini greenhouse

Photo 3: herbs in jiffy pots with soil

Photo 4: houseplants that are growing new leaves and roots, they outgrew their original pot, and I switched them into the aquarium to help them grow a bit stronger before I find them new homes in dirt

Photo 5: countertop aero garden in my kitchen

Photo 6: Jalapenos under a grow light

Photo 7: Tomato seeds, they might be struggling a bit, so I added some water and adjusted the plastic on top

Photo 8: cucumber seeds! I saw someone use an arch to grow them indoors, so I have to try

Photo 9: Garlic, lots of growth! I moved it off the heat mat

Photo 10: Tomatoes that have yet to sprout but are on a heat mat with plastic wrap to keep in humidity

[adventures-in-hydroponics]

It's been about 2 and a half weeks since my last update, and I probably should have been posting more often lol

First of all, LOOK HOW HECKIN BIG IT'S GETTING!

I'll probably have to bring in more grow lights to support this guy.

Meanwhile I've transplanted the other two successful plants into milk jugs and set them up in The Tube. (Don't worry about it)

I was worried they might not get enough sunlight down here, but they do seem to be growing. I'll probably need to get some buckets since the jugs are probably not big enough.

Tragically though, I must report that... some of them didn't make it. 😔

Idk why but some of them got stuck in the seeds and were never able to sprout. Not sure if I did something wrong

Either way, these plants are growing way faster than my previous attempts, so things are mostly looking good!