From: Adam Scriven (scurvy_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/02/02
Message-ID: <20021003032619.26769.qmail@web9908.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:26:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Adam Scriven <scurvy_at_yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Omega Garden - High-density gardening for small spaces/urban farming
--- Christine Weiss <bewise_at_hypertech.net> wrote:
> Adam Scriven <scurvy_at_yahoo.com> re: http://www.omegagarden.com/,
> wrote:
>
> > I heard about this little device a while ago (me and a buddy are
> > trying to design one that doesn't cost $5000 CDN), and from what
> > I've heard it's not lying.
>
> I just wrote to these folks, asking 3 question: what various kinds of
> crops have been successfuly raised in these units; what is the
> ongoing cost for maintenance and operation; how much does the unit
> cost (which you've now covered and I couldn't find on their Website
> --- is it there?)???
No, actually I found the cost for the machine from another website that
was selling them:
http://www.cannabisresearchinstituteinc.com/grow_supply.htm
They're being sold for growing medical cannabis on this website, which
is where I first noticed them.
> Additionally, when looking at redesign issues, I'd like to know how
> one "plants and harvests". That is, is there some way to unfurl the
> bedding drum? Otherwise, it seems like getting to those center rows
> would be a stretch.
This was one question that I had, but so far I haven't seen enough
information.
The only pictures I've seen of it are from the Omega Garden site, and
they don't explain that kind of thing on there that I've ever seen.
It does seem a bit inconvenient in that way.
> ... -and- was engineered in such a way as to permit
> feed/watering from (and filtration for) an aquaculture (fish farming)
> tank.
Well, this would be relatively easy to do I think.
The unit works with basically ebb and flow hydroponic system, with the
drum rotating through the nutrient mixture at the bottom, and then
slowly draining as it rotates around (this does bring to mind the
question of dripping, and leakage through the tops of the soil when the
plant's upside down... I'm not sure about that either).
So if you could circulate the water from your aquaculture tanks through
the unit, or even if you could set the unit up to rotate THROUGH your
tanks, that may be a way to combine the two of them.
Adam
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