Tell us about the lighting rig and the framework behind the plants!
- Lights: 4ft - https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B086BWPBHL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
- Cable system - https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B09BZ9L9C1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
- Netting - https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00P7RUI3U/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I just bolted the anchors from the cable system into some ceiling studs, and then attached the lights using their mounting clips + some zip ties. It was a temporary thing that just never got updated since it works well. I thought I might need to add weights at the bottom, but the leds are heavy enough on their own.
Wall has a bunch of screws put into the studs and then the net is just spread over them. I zip tied the net in a few spots to start if off, then just wrapped the netting around the screws to pull it tight.
I've started letting it climb onto the ceiling / off the net by using some thumb tacks, but I don't think this is going to work. I'll probably put a few screws in and then run some fishing line between them.
I can tell you have a lot of passion
I keep trying to convince my mother to let me build her a little wall herb garden for the kitchen.
Hello, it is I, your mother
Shit, I'd hire you to do that for me.
I am certain you could sneak a pot plant in there. No one would know.
You would smell it, though.
Not a bad deal
How much does it cost to run the lights?
Let's do some math together!
- 6 lights rated at 42w each = 252w which I run for 10 hours a day, so we're looking at 2100wh per day AKA 2.5kwh per day.
- 2.5 kwh * 30 = 75kwh per month.
- 75kwh * my residential rate of $0.0959 per kwh = $7.20 per month
Given they also make my office nice and bright when I'm working in here, that's a reasonable cost in my mind.
That's my first question. I estimate that light would cost me about $30-40 a month to run with current electricity prices but I've wanted to do this with sugar snap peas for so long. I want flowers and things to eat in the winter!
Looks sick. What all you got there, friend?
Main vine on the wall is a passionflower. It consumes about 2L of water a day so I'm starting to think of ways to automate it.
From left to right: Grapefruit tree, Basil, Aloe, Jade, Drosera Capensi, Aloe. The big pot on the right hosts the passionflower.
Closeup of one of the flowers
Really cool.
