The Greenhouse

[Buddychrist]

I started out to build a moderately nice greenhouse a little over a year ago. Little did I know that my ideas would pull through into a Mecca euphoric monstrosity it has become today so without further hesitation here is my terra-nova!

http://i.imgur.com/9TH8d.jpg

It is completely self sustainable from electronic timers for humidity, water filtration, water misters for humidity control, automatic temperature controlled fan that is adjustable to 1*F accuracy, automatic vents that open when the fan comes on and after the photo was taken I have added two more vents that open for 20 minutes during mid day, and of course the raised cinder block beds!

What do y'all think?

[Buddychrist]

Full filtration down to 1:16 rated microns

[Buddychrist]

Automated fan with temp control

[Echo2]

Nice....are you using it for ornamental or food?

Have you had any issues with the lime leeching out of the blocks?

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What are you using for heat?

Can all controls be manually over run if the power dies?

[Evolver]

Wow nice!!! You could even run this on solar with a battery bank and inverted power if the lights go out. How do you get your water? City, well...

[Buddychrist]

Nice....are you using it for ornamental or food?

Have you had any issues with the lime leeching out of the blocks?

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What are you using for heat?

Can all controls be manually over run if the power dies?

All food no ornamental here! I haven't had any problems with lime at all. The head is ran by a dual head propane heater that I run during the night in the winter.

Yes all of the controls have overrides so I can do it manually!

[Buddychrist]

Wow nice!!! You could even run this on solar with a battery bank and inverted power if the lights go out. How do you get your water? City, well...

All of my water comes from my deep well for my house. I have been contemplating solar power for a while so once I get done and back to work I will look into the price and how much power I would need to make it completely self sustainable off the power grid.

[Evolver]

Again very nice!!! You do nice and clean work with redundancy in mind. How old are you? lol you don't need to answer that because I already know.

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Your filtering the water for the misters correct?

[Buddychrist]

Again very nice!!! You do nice and clean work with redundancy in mind. How old are you? lol you don't need to answer that because I already know.

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Your filtering the water for the misters correct?

Lol yeah I think when I take my time building a project I do pretty good for a 22 year old haha.

Yes I am filtering the water for both the misters and I also have a standard Waterhose with a extended pole shower type sprayer that I use daily to keep the beds nice and moist!

Currently it's off season for me and I am working on getting the dirt mixture to the right PH levels.

[Buddychrist]

Here is a current photo of the greenhouse with the two added vents