The Greenouse was Ugly.

Thad said, i have to admit the greenhouse was changing the temperature reallllly slow. it takes almost three days to raise 10° C. Still i wanted to change the design and the looks a little.

The FiberGlas and the Rockwool was removed. In the picture above, the old walls are gone, rockwool still in place and new walls standing loose around. A second Solar Panel was also installed (20W) and connected to my Battery pack of 2x12V, 7Ah (lead acid).

3mm thick plates of polycarbonate make the new Walls. The Structure is reinforced with some wood.

More Wood is added, as well as a sliding Door for better access to the plants.

The front view with the Doors closed and the roof on top.

The new Design keeps the light inside the Greenhouse and looks better (my opinion)

While i was building the new home for ma tomatoes, they were growing happy. I used a Rubber Net, to hold the tomatoes down, inside my Winter-home:

Since my Aeroponics system is connected all together, i had to move all three buckets in one run.

5 Big Tomatoes, 1 Big Melon and Zero Help. I did all alone. The Result was devastating:

One Tomato plant broke the stem and didnt recover fast. The others did look better only 2 days later:

Some bamboo sticks and some wire later: The tomatoes have a strong structure to hold their weight.

Cheap and easy to build. heres another view:

Its hard to see, but there is a horizontal running wire every 20-30cm to form something like a ladder for the plants.

The tomatoes liked their new home and grew big.

This picture was taken one month after the Tomatoes moved to the Greenhouse (6.June 2016).

it got pretty hot in the Greenhouse and the Bush is getting bigger and bigger, so i took the top off.

Above is a close-up of the biggest Tomato fruits and some dead bugs. Taken also on 6.June.2016

It is a black cherry Tomato, which has dark red, almost purple fruits. Got the Seeds for my Birthday.

Taken on 14.June 2016. The Tomatoes expand in every direktion. Some of the other plants had to go, only the strongest plants were left in the system. If you look closely, you can see the roots growing out of the Bucket, through the water outlet, into the water Reservoir. Thats a Problem: when the drain gets clogged by roots the system will overflow and every plant will die. So i removed the roots from the drain tube.

Above you see the First tomatoes on 14.june 2016 still green, not black :D

Above is a picture from inside my grow container. You can see the roots hanging simple in Air, sprayed with Nutrient solution from the brown water nozzles. The bottom of the container is to wet, thats why the roots are darker down there. A healthy, bright root is desired by a happy plant.

The rootsystem is the best indicator of plant-Health for every Farmer. To see it direct is a huge benefit.

In future logs you will see:

-Auqaponics Prototype, or : Fish poop as fertilizer

-LEDs, LEDs and even more Leds

-Big overview of the current state of my Greenhouse

-Maybe a timelapse video of my tomatoes growing.(allready took hundreds of pictures with my Gopro)

see you next mission

aka