Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Building a wet wall !!! You got to try this, 0 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
I have seen some great ideas on growing plants and tricks of the trade over the years. But this has been one of the most interesting easiest and probably most rewarding systems I have seen. I have thought about adding one of these inside my mothers were she has a perfect area for it. I could go into the detail of how to build one but this site goes into detail and has great photos of the whole process. I did not follow the directions exactly I used pond liner and nailed this to the area I wanted it and sealed off the nails with silicon. I also used the silocon to hold the capilary mat in place. The same idea but I have to change things to fit my growing conditions.

In this pic you can see were I just finished the wet wall right over top of the door way to my greenhouse. The water is caught in a small trough at the bottom and then recycled using a very small pump. The water drips down and is put back up. I added fertilizer to the water to get the plants moving. I will add photos as this matures. Before long this whole area should be over grown. I think by mid summer I should have a major difference if not sooner in the way it looks.

Here is the website on how to construct one and were my basic idea is from. Their seems to be a french guy named Patrick Blac who has used this in massive scale.

http://www.cloudjungle.com/EpiphyteWall/