From: The Butterfly (salsbury_at_sculptors.com)
Date: 10/04/02
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 22:02:27 -0700 From: The Butterfly <salsbury_at_sculptors.com> Message-Id: <200210050502.g9552Rj29599@bootstrap.sculptors.com> Subject: Re: Omega Garden - High-density gardening for small spaces/urban farming
In article <20021003032619.26769.qmail_at_web9908.mail.yahoo.com> you write:
>--- 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
I hadn't seen a price, either, and thought it was conspicuously
absent. I sent an email, but haven't heard back, yet.
Oddly, of of their FAQs said "It seems expensive." but there still
was no mention of the actual price! :-)
>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).
They mention that someplace in there. There's a wick that sticks
out the bottom of the pots and apparently helps to keep the water from
dripping, somehow. I'm not sure of the actual mechanism, though.
Pat