Blogs Posts on "Indoor Grow Box"
Computer controlled grow box Beta 2 by The Cheap Vegetable Gardener on Sep 29, 2009Though I have made some significant changes to the grow box controller, the actual grow box has undergone some minor but important changes over the past few months. Automated watering Now I must say this one is pretty darn simple. Though I wi...
Peppers sprouting in grow box (time lapse) by The Cheap Vegetable Gardener on Sep 25, 2009Well slightly more exciting than watching grass grow but for something that takes several weeks to complete is definitely worth a watch. If you watch carefully you can even see the automatic watering in action. Joining the sprouts is a matur...
Twittering computer grow box by The Cheap Vegetable Gardener on Sep 18, 2009Well this is pretty much clichéd nerdiness but given it only required a couple of lines of C# I couldn’t resist. I have updated my grow box software to “tweet” some sort of semi-humorous and not really witty comment appropriate to its cu...
How to make a grow box controller by The Cheap Vegetable Gardener on Sep 10, 2009While my existing system was working I decided to make an upgrade for several reasons: I needed to add more automated external controls (heater, fans, water pump) with my existing design this was entirely possible though was starting to ge...
Grow box during the summertime - UPDATE by The Cheap Vegetable Gardener on Jul 29, 2009UPDATE: With weather climbing my grow box got up to 111.5 degrees today with the lights off. If I was using one of those fancy computers with temperature sensors it would have turned itself off by now. Turning off computer so I will have...
Grow box during the summertime by The Cheap Vegetable Gardener on Jul 26, 2009I was planning on growing my jalapeno peppers in my grow box this summer, but given the higher than average weather we have been having. With the weather being in the 90’s and given the CFLs on average increase the temperature by around 10 degree...
Growing peppers at high latitudes - UPDATE by The Cheap Vegetable Gardener on May 24, 2009Here in the Seattle area we are, as you say, latitudelly challenged. We are fortunately to have the Pacific Ocean to give us mild winters and summers though our distance from the equator provides our plants with less intense light and a relatively sh...
Growing peppers at high latitudes by The Cheap Vegetable Gardener on Apr 26, 2009Here in the Seattle area we are, as you say, latitudelly challenged. We are fortunately to have the Pacific Ocean to give us mild winters and summers though our distance from the equator provides our plants with less intense light and a relatively sh...
Hardening off plants in the grow box by The Cheap Vegetable Gardener on Mar 22, 2009When you have seedlings growing indoors or a greenhouse during their life they have had the opportunity spending it in a near perfect environment with controlled temperatures, consistent lighting, no wind, etc. If you take this happy plant and...
Time lapse video of cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers in grow box by The Cheap Vegetable Gardener on Mar 21, 2009As you can see they are starting to take over the even larger box and the camera.
