Building a Vertical Farm
Setting up a Vertical Aquaponics or Hydroponics System In this video, Bright Agrotech’s Co-Founder, Nate Storey Ph.D, shows upstart farmers how to set up ver…
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Setting up a Vertical Aquaponics or Hydroponics System In this video, Bright Agrotech’s Co-Founder, Nate Storey Ph.D, shows upstart farmers how to set up ver…
Hi. Are the zipgrow towers available in Australia?
Hamish Gale
July 12, 2013 at 10:06 pm
You should rename the video to “Plumbing a vertical Farm.”
TJ Tinner
July 12, 2013 at 10:48 pm
glad we can help Jamie
Bright Agrotech
July 12, 2013 at 11:07 pm
You’re welcome, Jamie. Good to hear you’re enjoying the videos!
Bright Agrotech
July 12, 2013 at 11:10 pm
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing this great information.
Jamie Holland
July 12, 2013 at 11:36 pm
It’s working so far, but sometimes has problems clearing. We’ll probably go with Tee’d more even distribution in the future.
Bright Agrotech
July 13, 2013 at 12:13 am
How is the straight feed line going – or will you “T” it from the center in the future?
Tracy Holz
July 13, 2013 at 1:08 am
Hi Robert, we use our specially designed Matrix Media. It’s a fiber media that allows us to grow really well vertically by anchoring the roots in the ZipGrow Tower. It’s really great as it has super high void space, not to mention the high biological/specific surface area. Check out our “Biological Surface Area” video for more info on that.
Bright Agrotech
July 13, 2013 at 1:50 am
This is great, but I might have missed what is used as the growing medium? Is this regular soil? I have only started with this video. Thanks for the great vid!
Robert Jinks
July 13, 2013 at 2:03 am
Very cool! Keep an eye out for the next couple of weeks as we’ll be putting together more info on creating the most cost effective vertical green walls on the market.
Bright Agrotech
July 13, 2013 at 2:13 am
thanx for your reply, I’ve got small back garden (250sqm) here in London, but want to use about 60sqm of it for growing my own food, and sell any excess to local residents, I was thinking of doing 2 crops per year, from april to june and july to october, all organically grown, was looking at how i’ll lay down my back veggie garden and I am also looking at Wall Farm, i.e creating a living wall to increase the yield.
micoforion
July 13, 2013 at 2:37 am
100 square meters at conservative spacing would be producing around 147kg-220kg per week (323-484lbs) of produce per week. Depending on your crop choice, it could be significantly more. Those are the numbers for standard production of moderate producers and single harvest crops. With multi-harvest crops, we’re getting into some crazy territory!
Bright Agrotech
July 13, 2013 at 3:21 am
Thanx Nate, your video explains a great deal, a stupid question perhaps, how many people can 100Sqm greenhouse freed your concept vertical farm?
cheers
micoforion
July 13, 2013 at 3:45 am
I have a Cannon S40 if that helps.
FLORIDA GROWN
July 13, 2013 at 3:50 am
Let me know how I can send picture or video of my Mantis.
FLORIDA GROWN
July 13, 2013 at 4:48 am
Jason here. Had a Mantis show up on its’ own and watched it eat every bug in range. Poor little guy was dead this morning. Let me know how I can send pictures, Not that computer savvy.
FLORIDA GROWN
July 13, 2013 at 5:30 am
Thanks for the comment, Jason. You’re right the biocontrols are a great way complementary pest control as long as your pests don’t get out of hand. You’ve touched on some great points here. Keep on the lookout for our pesticides and biocontrol videos that we’ll be publishing soon!
Bright Agrotech
July 13, 2013 at 6:00 am
You can get Praying Mantis egg cases @ Home Depot and order ladybugs online. Provide them with the right environment to get established and they will eat tons of the pesky bugs. They are cool to look at too!!! Florida boy here, Trust me about your bugs and stay away from pesticides.
FLORIDA GROWN
July 13, 2013 at 6:23 am
Hey Doc, our pump is about 770 watts. That’s for a 3/4 horse pump that runs all 2500 feet of our growing facility. We like to go oversized a little bit, but we could get a way with a smaller pump if we wanted to.
Bright Agrotech
July 13, 2013 at 6:58 am
Could you please tell us the wattage of your pump for the vertical grow towers, and do the pumps run continuous ?
DocScience2
July 13, 2013 at 7:21 am
The steam are more like moist just like nature of the ground soil do.
rodoradizon
July 13, 2013 at 8:12 am
I had one theory once by using sunlight and a airtight dome system and easily be open for cleaning and the system are to use the heat or steam of the water that can travel throughout the pipe/hole this should be placed to a ground floor and uses the pipe/hose and placed over the middle of the pipe example like double pipe but the steam are going into the centre pipe for steam watering?
rhodoradizon10
July 13, 2013 at 8:14 am
Great Video, thank you for posting this!
BillandJanMoore
July 13, 2013 at 9:06 am
Hey AL! love your set up. I am slowly puting my system together. I am stacking NFT horizontal pipes 4 high and about 15 feet long. I have regular eb and flow bes unerneath. (in theory. My problem is I live in Florida where pests are a big problem. Do you know of any pesticies that will ward off aphis an leaf miners? I can find tons of products but they are all toxic to fish. I want to have ornamental in one section an eibe in another (4 ICB containers pumbe together).
Jason Huefner
July 13, 2013 at 9:58 am
Do you have 2 pumps, then? One that pumps water from fish into plants, and another in the sump tank that pumps a split to plants and fish?
THRIVEPreparedness
July 13, 2013 at 10:18 am