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comment by tacocat
tacocat  ·  3193 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: July 22, 2015

I don't know what a green wall is but it looks badass.





kleinbl00  ·  3193 days ago  ·  link  ·  

green walls are awesome.

If all goes as planned, we'll have one of these.

Isherwood  ·  3192 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Is it aesthetic or practical?

The ones I've seen have mostly been beauty plants, which is fine, but I've been eyeing up something like it for growing spices in the kitchen.

kleinbl00  ·  3192 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This one will be purely aesthetic. While it's possible we may try and throw some herbs in there, the overwhelming majority of herbs are high light plants. At best I'll have a skylight to sit under. This is why the "test" - this thing is actually in a totally dark hallway being hit with some $11 Amazon LEDs which I'm evaluating with a PAR meter. Unfortunately it's designed for golf courses so "2-50 PAR" is one LED.

On the plus side, I can hit at least 2 PAR. On the minus side, more than 50 PAR (which is where you cease to be a "low light" plant) requires about 11W of LEDs to be less than two feet away from the plants, which will not look good.

Isherwood  ·  3192 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I hadn't even thought about that. We grow on the window sill now without issue, but the wall would move to the interior. I'll put that one on the back burner for now, but I'm interested in a project recap once you get the final version up.

tla  ·  3192 days ago  ·  link  ·  

How do you keep them watered without making a mess?

kleinbl00  ·  3192 days ago  ·  link  ·  

engineering

;-)

They're literally 4" pots in a clever tray turned sorta sideways.

tla  ·  3192 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Is there plumbing or do you dump some water in and it gets dispersed?

kleinbl00  ·  3192 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This being the dry run version, you dump water in it. The big boy version has a pump and a recirculating tank. The reason I did the little version was to see what I thought of their method, since it's different than the whole Wooly Pocket approach.

3 weeks in I rather like it.