Ultraponic tower garden

The full description of this project (quite long) can be found on Hackaday here : https://hackaday.io/project/186829-ultratower

Please, as everything is "open" and shared, if you like this project do not hesitate to like it directly on the Hackaday's site... as it has also been submited by my son to the Hackaday's Climate Resilient Communities Challenge !

Thanks

Here is an experimental ultraponic tower garden.

You can find a lot of these towers with 3D printed parts. But IMHO, they use too much filament...
So with my son, we have designed this setup to use as less as possible filament and to reuse cheap 100mm diam PVC pipes.

The holes are directly drilled into the pipe with a 50mm hole saw. You just have to clip the inserts in place and if you want glue them with epoxy glue.
With a 90cm pipe we have inserted up to 12 hydroponics baskets net cups. The cups are also 3D printed and fit exactly into the holes in order to avoid most of the fog leaks when running.

We use