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Tinker ☀️The Kratky Hydroponic Lettuce Wall will be comprised of a couple of things:1) A utility shelf with adjustable shelving 2) Full spectrum LED "grow" light strips w/ timer 3) Grow binsThat's it.The utility shelf can be broken down into the following requirements: - DANGER!!! WARNING!!! IMPORTANT!!!: The shelves should be able to actually hold the weight of your grow bins. Water is heavy. Many shelves by themselves cannot support the weight of the water and will need support. So check the weight rating on the shelves you get. We'll continue to talk about this further as we built out the shelf. - ANOTHER DANGER!!! WARNING!!! IMPORTANT!!!: You need a way to anchor your shelves to the wall SECURELY!!! You don't want this thing tipping over. You build it too high and it falls on your kid or dog or cat and they may die. Secure this to your wall. Especially the higher you build it. - Shelves need to be adjustable to allow enough space for the bin to sit and for the plant to grow - A way to attach the light strips to the shelf above the grow bin - Bonus: Make it prettyThe Grow Light Strips can be broken into the following requirements: - They should fit the length of the shelf you pick and be attachable to it in some way - You should be able to control them with a timer (either on the light itself or set up with a wall socket timer - Have a method of increasing the light or decreasing the light (easily add more light strips if needed, or adjust brightness, etc) - Be full spectrum "grow" light. Note: it does not have to SAY grow light. Sometimes lights are like cakes. A regular white cake is cheap. Add the name "Wedding" to that same cake and it gets expensive. As long as the LED light strip generates enough light for a plant to eat, we're good.The grow bins can be broken down into the following requirements: - They should hold water. - They should be fully opaque and not allow any light into the bin itself. - They should hold some sort of grow medium to allow a plant to grow on top and provide access to the roots to get into the bin to access the nutrient water - Bonus: Make them prettyThat's it.No pumps. No aerators. No central reservoir.Just a place to put a kratky bin and grow lettuce.We'll tackle how to size and shop for a utility shelf next.<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/solarPunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#solarPunk</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/indoorGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indoorGardening</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/verticalFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#verticalFarming</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/hydroponics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hydroponics</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/kratky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kratky</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/kratkyMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kratkyMethod</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/vegetableGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vegetableGardening</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardening</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/postScarcity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postScarcity</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/foodSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#foodSecurity</a>

Tinker ☀️Oh shit. Gonna build a lettuce wall.Can't stop. Won't stop. Design Goals - Low effort / passive / automated (After initial build, only requires 30 mins of work a week to maintain) - "Inexpensive" (measured in how quickly it pays for itself compared to shopping at grocery store) - Small footprint for indoor spaces (uses vertical space as opposed to horizontal space) - ADHD friendly (you dont have to keep monitoring it. Set and forget) - Provides entire personal need of leafy greens in continuous fashion - Provides excess of personal needs in order to continuously share freely with neighbors(Follow this thread in the coming months to watch the buildout. I'll post design theory and application along. It'll be vendor/brand agnostic. And I'll post up methods to tailor it to your space.)(Photo below of prototype. It works! Time to scale it.)<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/solarPunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#solarPunk</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/indoorGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indoorGardening</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/verticalFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#verticalFarming</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/hydroponics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hydroponics</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/kratky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kratky</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/kratkyMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kratkyMethod</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/vegetableGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vegetableGardening</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardening</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/postScarcity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postScarcity</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/foodSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#foodSecurity</a>

KarakteristikaToday was a productive day. I sowed three different types of tomatoes in soil block cubes. I also transplanted the sweet pepper seedlings, which had sprouted in the soil blocks and waited there for too long the transplantation into larger growing pots. Unfortunately, I also had to deal with an aphid infestation on my couple month old jalapeño and chili seedlings, and I really hope the treatment was effective.I will soon run out of desktop space and it is still too cold to put the seedlings into a balcony.<a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/SoilBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoilBlock</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/Seedling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Seedling</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/IndoorGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndoorGardening</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/Gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gardening</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/60thParallelNorth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#60thParallelNorth</a>

Mandy WatsonNew mix and match range from Burgon & Ball for indoor gardeners - welcome to the Collector Range.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardening</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indoorgardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indoorgardening</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/houseplants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#houseplants</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conservatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservatory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/style" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#style</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tools</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/burgonandball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#burgonandball</a><a href="https://www.mandycanudigit.com/2025/03/13/the-collector-range-from-burgon-ball/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mandycanudigit.com/2025/03/13/the-collector-range-from-burgon-ball/</a>

fcIt's kind of a big dill (and his friend Rosemary).<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/IndoorGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndoorGardening</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ContainerGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContainerGardening</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/HerbGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HerbGardening</a>

Anemone NemorosaBreathe<a href="https://beige.party/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardening</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/indoorgardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indoorgardening</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plants</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ferns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ferns</a>

AI6YR BenHmm, way too many peppers for sure in my son's hydroponic farm. <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/indoorgardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indoorgardening</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/hotpeppers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hotpeppers</a>

Shaula EvansI love my little indoor garden. In my isolated life, my plants are my only tactile contact with other living things; they're good for my spirits and mental health.However, I'm not producing food in meaningful quantities. It's a joy-giving hobby, nothing more.If anyone has successful set up indoor gardens to produce significant amounts of food, I would love to hear about what you're doing. My stress would be lower with a bit more food independence.<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/IndoorGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndoorGardening</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Hydroponics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hydroponics</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Microgreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microgreens</a>

Tinker ☀️Heirloom Plants, the Global Seed Vault, and your local Seed Library - a blog post from my local library:<a href="https://www.librarypoint.org/blogs/post/heirloom-plants/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.librarypoint.org/blogs/post/heirloom-plants/</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/seedLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#seedLibrary</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardening</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/heirloomPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#heirloomPlants</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/seedVault" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#seedVault</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/hydroponics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hydroponics</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/indoorGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indoorGardening</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/solarPunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#solarPunk</a>

Tinker ☀️Regarding indoor hydroponics...Most of my power consumption is through my grow lights (still way cheaper to grow than to buy at the grocery store).I've thought about solar panels and batteries etc... but that costs a lot of money (I havent found a non-scam solution - still researching, but let me put this down for a second).So I started thinking... instead of lining my roof or side walls with solar panels to power indoor LED grow lights......why not just install light collectors outside and funnel that light directly into my house and on too of my plants with fiber optics?!?!Basically run cabling through my house to wall literal light sockets. And attach further cabling from there to my plant shelves and setups. I could still have LEDs for augmenting the grow space if needed or during stormy days for example... but even then there is light to be collected. Anyhow!)Turns out other people have the same idea!Here is a gentleman going a into detail on the math and science of it with a DIY project: <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DN8GXTmR6RI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DN8GXTmR6RI</a>There are even some companies that do this! Here's the basic idea (I stole this pic from <a href="https://www.solarreviews.com/blog/guide-to-fiber-optic-solar-lighting" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.solarreviews.com/blog/guide-to-fiber-optic-solar-lighting</a>):<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/solarPunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#solarPunk</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/indoorFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indoorFarming</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/indoorGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indoorGardening</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/hydroponics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hydroponics</a>

Anne DelongMy first step in weaning myself off imported vegetables: radish sprouts - tangy and nutritious in salads, sandwiches or stir-fried. Next I'll try mung beans.<a href="https://musician.social/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardening</a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/sprouts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sprouts</a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/indoorgardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indoorgardening</a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#food</a>

StarFlowerStudioNYIndoor flowers (Kohleria spp.) on a -6F morning. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/indoorgardening?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indoorgardening</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/flowers?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#flowers</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/kohlerias?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kohlerias</a>

Yasmine HamidI’ve been growing indoor oyster mushrooms for a few months now. These ones are in a ceramic tea jar looking beautiful <a href="https://c.im/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardening</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IndoorGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndoorGardening</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/mushrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mushrooms</a>

fcThe saga continues.<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ContainerGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContainerGardening</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/IndoorGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndoorGardening</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/VegetableGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VegetableGardening</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/tomatoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tomatoes</a>

fcMy window giveth...and more are coming! <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ContainerGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContainerGardening</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/IndoorGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndoorGardening</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/VegetableGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VegetableGardening</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/tomatoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tomatoes</a>

wldmtngoatAnyone have a favorite place to order seeds from? Veggies and maybe some flowers. All will end up in pots. <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/seeds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#seeds</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardening</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/indoorgardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indoorgardening</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/seedsupply" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#seedsupply</a>

fcThe latest from my window. I know, it's not much, but c'mon, it's practically <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/winter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#winter</a> here.And you would not believe what's coming soon...👀<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ContainerGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContainerGardening</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/IndoorGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndoorGardening</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/VegetableGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VegetableGardening</a>

fcThe <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Reveal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reveal</a>: It's dill!<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/IndoorGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndoorGardening</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ContainerGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContainerGardening</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/HerbGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HerbGardening</a>

fcStow away with the basil seedling! Not sure who it is - I'll try to transplant carefully and see what develops.<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/IndoorGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndoorGardening</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ContainerGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContainerGardening</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/HerbGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HerbGardening</a>

fc<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SilentSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SilentSunday</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/IndoorGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndoorGardening</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ContainerGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContainerGardening</a>

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