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Location: Phoenix
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Latest Activity: Aug 7, 2024

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Comment by Jeff S on July 14, 2014 at 1:43pm: I'm no expert with the towers but I would rum PVC over them with short 1/4" drip lines and just toss em when they clog. I'm experimenting wit 1 tower now and I just ran an open 1/4" line and regulated water flow.

Comment by Bob Campbell on July 14, 2014 at 10:23am: Stephanie Bader

I thought about doing 1/2" but how did you even out the distribution?

Comment by Stephanie Bader on July 14, 2014 at 9:20am: @Scott Yeah those are oleanders, one of these days i'm going to have them tore out. Not sure what to replace them with though, cause i like the nice green backdrop that they provide.

@Timothy Borg They are zip grow towers frombright agrotech.

@Bob, i didn't even try to use the drip irrigation cause i have lots of problems with solids as it is. I just used pvc pipe with 1/2 inch outlets.

Comment by Matt Miskinnis on July 14, 2014 at 9:09am: @Jeff its a stepper motor I picked it up online for 20 bucks I think.

Comment by Bob Campbell on July 14, 2014 at 9:07am: @Stephanie Bader

I'd like to know more about how you are distributing the water to each tower. I used 1/4 drip line. After about a month I ran into clogging problems even though I filtered the water through a drip irrigation screen filter. I was prepared to clean that filter often, but cleaning out those drip lines became too much work.

Comment by Dr. George B. Brooks, Jr. on July 14, 2014 at 8:48am: FYI

TONIGHT!!! TONIGHT!!! TONIGHT!!!

The next meeting for the Arizona Aquaculture Association will be TONIGHT, July 14th, 2014 at 7:00 P.M. This will be held at the Maricopa County Extension 4341 E Broadway Rd

The meeting is open to all.

Phoenix, AZ https://maps.google.com/?q=33.407256+-111.987424+%284341+E+Broadway...

Comment by Timothy Borg on July 14, 2014 at 7:12am: @Stephanie, what are the vertical white things you things you planted in? rain gutters?

Comment by Jeff S on July 14, 2014 at 6:25am: Matt, Cool fish feeder. What kind of motor did you use?

Comment by Scott Bloom on July 14, 2014 at 1:13am: Matt@ great looking feeder. Plan on building for my systems when I get them all up and running.

Stephanie@ again good looking setup. Question, are those oleanders in the background? Need to be careful they are poisonous and can kill. Have a friend that neighborhood kids fed his horse oleander leave(s) and killed it, so be very careful.

Comment by Stephanie Bader on July 14, 2014 at 1:04am: So the zip grow tower expansion we've been working on finally has plants in it! Planted some black eye peas and some basil. The basil variety is pesto perpetuo and i have three of them in my other grow beds already. I really like this variety because it doesn't flower and it doesn't get really dark when you make pesto, it stays a nice bright green.