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Old 01-30-2013, 10:16 AM
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I love the windowsill growing! It's encouraging to see how other greenhouse-less growers live. More pics please! There has to be more windowsill growers out there. I'll snap a pic or two of my overcrowded windows as soon as I can.

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Old 01-30-2013, 03:15 PM
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Here's my window sill garden (east facing window) I call it the Ida Maki memorial garden....in remembrance of my grandma the amazing plant grower...and I made the shelf...custom welded!.....



The layout has changed a little since this is last years photo....but you get the idea

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Old 01-30-2013, 04:29 PM
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I have my plants sitting in an East facing window. I also had the ability to use a West facing window, until we had a flood downstairs and that spare room became our storage room, so I hope to have it back for my high light plants before summer.

I do use a light to help since during the winter it's really cloudy and dark up here in the Great White North

I've had to put my plants into an old award display case, to keep my two cats from munching on them. They have several times before and I got tired of almost losing plants.

It was difficult to keep humidity up inside the case, so I had to use a long strip of plastic wrap to close off some of the gaps in the door.

The light I use helps keep temp up during the day, at night it sinks down to the same temp as in the house, which is usually cooler.

I got a humidifier recently, that I turn on throughout the day, and am able to keep humidity up over 60% during the day, at night it stays higher on it's own.

I also have a bucket of water sitting on the top shelf which I use to keep mounted plants close to the outside light.

On the right of the stand (behind the curtain), I have another stand with a humidity tray, that I put new or sick plants in. I'll most likely end up using it when the case gets overrun.

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Old 01-30-2013, 05:01 PM
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Nice set-up Rebecca BC
But looking at this---
you got room for some more
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Old 02-01-2013, 05:15 PM
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I've had to put my plants into an old award display case, to keep my two cats from munching on them. They have several times before and I got tired of almost losing plants.
I got a curio cabinet for that very fact...grrrr....cats!! It's not a window cabinet, though...It's got a few grow lights which is only currently holding one or two orchids and a lot of other miscellaneous plants...only one sort of decent window in this house and it's taken!

Love your idea though, might have to steal it.....
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Old 02-01-2013, 06:16 PM
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Love your idea though, might have to steal it.....
I lucked out, and my husband was able to get it from his work when they were moving to a smaller office. I haven't seen anything similar on craigslist, I've been looking for something similar, but nothing has all 4 sides as glass.

I'm thinking of getting an LED light for the light inside the case, hook it up and get some more light in there. For now though, the light I have set up next to it is doing some good.

Come summer time, I'll start moving them out onto the front deck for more sun. And begin pressuring the husband to convert our front deck into a sun room for me
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Old 01-30-2013, 05:40 PM
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Don't encourage me
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Old 01-30-2013, 08:26 PM
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During the summer I have to keep all the blinds on my east facing widows closed because the sun gets too hot for any thing
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Old 01-30-2013, 08:37 PM
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Nice set ups everyone!

I will have to post all 5 of my windows tomorrow. It may be a tad long of a post so my apologies on that.
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Old 01-30-2013, 08:58 PM
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I haven't got all my Windows set up yet but here's a shot of my blooming amabilis in my kitchen window.
So excited about this section!

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