My office plant wall

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tell us about the lighting rig and the framework behind the plants!

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  • Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    • Lights: 4ft - amazon.ca/…/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=…
    • Cable system - amazon.ca/…/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=…
    • Netting - amazon.ca/…/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=…

    I just bolted the anchors from the cable system into some ceiling studs, and then attached the lights using their mounting clips + some zip ties. It was a temporary thing that just never got updated since it works well.

    Wall has a bunch of screws put into the studs and then the net is just spread over them. I zip tied the net in a few spots to start if off, then just wrapped the netting around the screws to pull it tight.

    I’ve started letting it climb onto the ceiling / off the net by using some thumb tacks, but I don’t think this is going to work. I’ll probably put a few screws in and then run some fishing line between them.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh man, that’s so much more than I expected! Now you got me scheming…

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• Sabre363@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I keep trying to convince my mother to let me build her a little wall herb garden for the kitchen.

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  • creamed_eels@toast.ooo ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hello, it is I, your mother

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  • radix@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Shit, I’d hire you to do that for me.

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• DavidGarcia@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I can tell you have a lot of passion

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  • Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zXDo4dL7SU

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• guyrocket@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I am certain you could sneak a pot plant in there. No one would know.

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  • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You would smell it, though.

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    • mapleseedfall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not a bad deal

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• Azzu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How much does it cost to run the lights?

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  • Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Let’s do some math together!

    • 5 lights rated at 42w each = 210w which I run for 10 hours a day, so we’re looking at 2100wh per day AKA 2.1kwh per day.
    • 2.1 kwh * 30 = 63kwh per month.
    • 63kwh * my residential rate of $0.0959 per kwh = $6 per month

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    • Azzu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wowww the fuck, I pay 0.4523€ per kWh, so for me it would be 33.92€ which is ~36$. Roughly 2% of my income each month. Yeaah…

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  • czardestructo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s my first question. I estimate that light would cost me about $30-40 a month to run with current electricity prices.

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    • Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I posted the math if you’re curious. For it to cost $30/month you’d have to pay $0.47/kwh. That’s some pretty pricy electricity.

      I’m lucky to live in BC and we’ve got some of the cheapest power (lots of hydro) in North America.

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• DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Looks sick. What all you got there, friend?

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  • Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Main vine on the wall is a passionflower. It consumes about 2L of water a day so I’m starting to think of ways to automate it.

    From left to right: Grapefruit tree, Basil, Aloe, Jade, Drosera Capensi, Aloe. The big pot on the right hosts the passionflower.

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    • DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Simply glorious, well done. Are these choices purely aesthetic, or do they compliment each other in some way? Thanks for sharing, btw.

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• Shadow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Closeup of one of the flowers

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• willya@lemmyf.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Really cool.

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