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Jakobus
PostPosted: Oct 5th, '09, 16:29 
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Good day all, my name is Jakobus de wet and I finally got my first grow bed in working order this week end .

My system is a nice DIY project with materials that you doe not always need to buy new.

Please feel free to give me advice on my system if you see something missing or if you have a idea of something that would work better.

Here is the maximum space that I have available at the back of my house.
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Fish dam made with IBR sheeting 500 high x 1500 dia
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Started with the grow beds frames. made with 25 x 25 x 2.5 square tubing
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Will post the other photos later
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Jakobus
PostPosted: Oct 5th, '09, 16:57 
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Update on the system


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All looks do-able but I hope you put more cross bracing and beef up your stand a little using small square tubing. It's a too common mistake that can be quite dangerous. Water and most grow media can be quite heavy. Do some calc's on how many bags of pebbles, lava rock/scoria or hydroton will fit in your grow bed and how many gallons of water will take up the difference. You will probably find it enough to squat way down the back of a pickup truck. I appologize if I jumped the gun on this.
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Jacko
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Hi ,I changed my account ,so this is my system. I just want to sort out my account then i will upload all my images of the system.
As you said the frames look a bit small for the job , but I have done the calculations and my grow beds hold,you will see soom.
My seedlings began to spread theire first roots after 2 days.
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Here is the rest of the photos on the system.


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File comment: Grow beds structures complete
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File comment: Bottom material to protect the plastic
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File comment: Recycled material to prevent the plastic from stretching into the IBR sheeting
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File comment: Drain pipe fitted into the main drain pipe line from the grow beds to the fish dam
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File comment: Wood spacer fitted under the IBR sheeting
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File comment: Water in and pups connected
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File comment: Grow bed full of gravel ( washed ) with the 2 PVC pipes. 1 horisontal and 1 vertical
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The time the cycle takes to flood and drain is 18 minutes.


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The system is up and running
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Food&Fish
PostPosted: Oct 8th, '09, 04:05 
Seriously, this cant be healthy.
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A small tip when drilling your standpipe covers only drill the holes in the bottom third this stops slugs bees grubs from getting in there all those holes up there is an open invitation
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