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| Author: | mountainsky [ Jun 13th, '08, 04:47 ] |
| Post subject: | AP Tower construction |
Hi i am new to the AP game and have set up a flow through and flood and drain system. Next i would like to build a tower that houses strawberries. I have build pyramid type structures in the past for soil growth and would like to transform this idea into AP. I have seen some pictures of someone setting one up and was wondering if anyone can give me some advise about some ideas on constructing the water distribution inside of the tower. I generally have a handle on how i want to set everything up exept the interiour of the tower. Any thoughts would be greatly appreicated. I also know how much everyone loves pictures so i will posting my two previous systems shortly. thanks g |
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| Author: | Dave Donley [ Jun 13th, '08, 04:53 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AP Tower construction |
Welcome MS! As far as I know the towers are just squished PVC pipes with gravel in them, can you describe what you mean by a distribution inside the tower? |
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| Author: | Food&Fish [ Jun 13th, '08, 05:02 ] | ||
| Post subject: | Re: AP Tower construction | ||
Hi heres a photo of my tower you hould build it as high as you want its just old beer kegs the water is just distributed over the top and flows down theres no dry spots[ one strawberry plant had over 50 fruit]
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| Author: | mountainsky [ Jun 13th, '08, 05:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AP Tower construction |
are the kegs metal? |
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| Author: | Food&Fish [ Jun 13th, '08, 05:13 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AP Tower construction |
Yes stainless steel been there almost 2 years |
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| Author: | mountainsky [ Jun 18th, '08, 23:20 ] |
| Post subject: | towers |
one last quick question. I assume that the bottom of kegs have been removed, right? Or are there just holes drilled to allow water to flow through the tower. thanks for the help. g |
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| Author: | RupertofOZ [ Jun 18th, '08, 23:42 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AP Tower construction |
MS... quite a few people have constructed strawberry towers out of PVC pipe, even "commercially".... Here's a link to how Gnash did it .... viewtopic.php?p=110689#p110689 And recently planted.... viewtopic.php?p=132922#p132922 |
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| Author: | gnash06 [ Jun 18th, '08, 23:53 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AP Tower construction |
You bugger  just spent 10mins loading up pic's to find you already posted 
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| Author: | gnash06 [ Jun 19th, '08, 00:04 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AP Tower construction |
What I have failed to mention is I could not work out how to stop the hydroton from falling down the water drainage pipe. After several quiet ales and thoughts of stainless mesh etc the old man looked at it and said "just cut the bottom of some of those plastic plant pots and jam them up there"  Onya DAD works a treat.
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| Author: | Outbackozzie [ Jun 19th, '08, 06:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AP Tower construction |
You must be adopted
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| Author: | Outbackozzie [ Jun 19th, '08, 06:40 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AP Tower construction |
oh, can I have a hand on Saturday arvo
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| Author: | mountainsky [ Jun 19th, '08, 23:41 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AP Tower construction |
The PVC towers look great but I am trying to make a rather large tower out of blue barrells that are cut in half (from a previous aquaculture project). That's why all the questions about how the larger systems are constructed. I do really like the way that you made the planting sites though. I will post picts of what i am running when i get a chance. thanks g |
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| Author: | Outbackozzie [ Jun 20th, '08, 06:27 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AP Tower construction |
Stacked 1/2 blue barrels would be difficult to support, whichever way they are cut, unless they are the ones with a lip around the edge that could be slotted into the next one. |
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| Author: | gnash06 [ Jun 20th, '08, 08:01 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: AP Tower construction |
Outbackozzie wrote: oh, can I have a hand on Saturday arvo Yeah, just ring |
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