jimscott Posted May 25, 2012 Report Share Posted May 25, 2012 It's been waaaaay too long since I last logged into CPUK! Thanks for forcing me to do so Fernando! And I'm so glad you were pleased enough with the results to post the pictures here! What will you have us build on our next visit? xoxo Megan Hi Megan.... and I forgot the guy's name... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ada Posted May 25, 2012 Report Share Posted May 25, 2012 A very neat and tidy set up. Don't wait so long to update us on how the plants grow. ada Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenofeden Posted May 25, 2012 Report Share Posted May 25, 2012 interesting setup there Fernando! (and welcome back Megan!) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimfoxy Posted May 25, 2012 Report Share Posted May 25, 2012 Wowsers! You sure the ceiling will be ok with the increased humidity? Good luck. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel O. Posted May 25, 2012 Report Share Posted May 25, 2012 Nice looking setup Fernando. Do you also grow Drosera? Greetings from Bulgaria, Dani BTW, the last few days we have had also a lot of earthquakes here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando Rivadavia Posted May 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2012 Hello CP folk, Megan: Next time I'll have you build me a Ping castle! Eric: Although Juerg Steiger's Ping wall was the inspiration, my travels in Mexico were definitely the main motivating factor behind this set up, after seeing so many amazing natural Ping walls in the wild. Jim: I don't know how it'll affect the ceiling in the little nook, but I'm definitely hoping humidity will be higher there! Dani: I have a hard time sticking to any one theme/ thing, so I'm very tempted to try D.adelae / prolifera/ schizandra, due to their lower light needs. Thanks everyone for the kind words, I can't wait to have the wall covered in Pings!! :) Fernando Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Hingst Posted May 26, 2012 Report Share Posted May 26, 2012 Great project - and looks like you had much fun this day :-) So - now good luck for the results, plenty pings and less earthquakes ;-) Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zlatokrt Posted May 26, 2012 Report Share Posted May 26, 2012 Looks great! Cant wait for some pics of fully covered wall Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kisscool_38 Posted May 27, 2012 Report Share Posted May 27, 2012 (edited) Really nice setup! Congrats. Hoping to see pictures of your wall with plently of Pings. Regards Edited February 21, 2018 by kisscool_38 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimfoxy Posted May 27, 2012 Report Share Posted May 27, 2012 Fernando, I think your next step is to stuff some pillows full of sphagnum so that you can actually sleep with your pings! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando Rivadavia Posted May 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 (edited) Here's a quick update. I finished planting all the Pings Ed & Steve gave me (thanks guys!). There weren't that many plants, but I had to pull off almost all the leaves in order to be able to attach them properly without sewing them in. And I couldn't just throw away all the leaves, so I stuck each and every one of them into the Ping wall, hoping they'll grow little plantlets soon. Here are the pics: All the best, Fernando Rivadavia Edited May 29, 2012 by Fernando Rivadavia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radmegan Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 Hi Megan.... and I forgot the guy's name... Hi Jim! How ya been pal? Hope your plants are well :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radmegan Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 Here's a quick update. I finished planting all the Pings Ed & Steve gave me (thanks guys!). There weren't that many plants, but I had to pull off almost all the leaves in order to be able to attach them properly without sewing them in. And I couldn't just throw away all the leaves, so I stuck each and every one of them into the Ping wall, hoping they'll grow little plantlets soon. Here are the pics: All the best, Fernando Rivadavia Looking good Fernando! Ping Castle eh? I think I have plans that weekend... shucks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel G Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 Whoah.... that is dedication to the hobby! I've never, ever seen anything like that! For 5 years, it's good work. I'd love to see how all those leaves turn out :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando Rivadavia Posted June 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2012 Hello everyone, Here's a small update. While I wait for the Pings to root and flourish, I started doing my part in making it all look prettier. :) I covered up some of the holes in the walls/wood and painted over the gutter, T-supports, and surrounding wall/wood. Here are some pics of the painting process: Meanwhile, I have been studying lighting options intensively on the internet and visiting some of the local hydroponics stores in the Bay Area - which has unexpectedly added quite a bit of color to this project since most of these stores seem to be geared to growers of marijuana. People watching can be fun in these shops! :) I've even run out of one place when a fight broke out between two guys after they began cursing and throwing accusations at each other, something involving one having called the police on the other and messing with his wife, hahaha. Anyway, if you're interested in reading the discussion about my lighting plans for the Ping wall, see this thread: http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=45484&st=0 Best wishes, Fernando Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando Rivadavia Posted June 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Hey everyone, I finally decided on the type and model of lights last week: two 48 inch LED strips from Ecoxotic. Although more expensive, I chose LEDs in hopes of saving money in the long run. And I chose a mix of blue and red LEDs, since blue is supposedly good for growth and red for flowering (or vice versa). Whatever else the Pings need will hopefully be supplied by daylight coming through the window. The lights arrived this Thursday and you can see them below, before and after I mounted the reflectors: And now with the LEDs on: So today I borrowed a drill from a friend, bought some hooks, marked the spots on the ceiling, and... hit a wall. Well, I actually hit hard concrete. So now I have to figure out how to attach them to the ceiling... Fortunately though, the strips came with sticker pads on the back, so I was able to temporarily stick them to the ceiling while I decide how to permanently fix them. But because of the flat backside of the LED strip, I was only able to stick them right above the plants, a little too close as you can see below. And here you can see where I attempted to drill a hole in the ceiling: When I find a permanent solution, I want to move them back a bit and turn them at an angle of ~45 degrees facing the Ping Wall. Suggestions welcome! Fernando Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marlon Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Nice lights! Your ping wall must be beautiful when a lot of them flower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobile Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Will look cool at night time... very nightclubesque Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenofeden Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 you just need to sync them with your music for true disco effect! you may need an SDS drill with masonry bit to get into your concrete.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Hingst Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Hi Fernando, I am sure the plants will like it! Nothing for a romantic dinner though … ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobile Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 When I find a permanent solution, I want to move them back a bit and turn them at an angle of ~45 degrees facing the Ping Wall. Suggestions welcome! Fernando Perhaps some 45° aluminium extrusion, such as this: http://www.jaseals.co.uk/p-45%C2%B0_aluminium_extrusion..htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Rohrbacher Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Great! This project is a good way to make space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zlatokrt Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Looks very promising, good luck with it! Do the lights get hot? You will need a percussion drill to make a hole into a concrete. Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando Rivadavia Posted June 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2012 Thanks everyone for the kind words! I admit I also thought it looked like a disco after I set up the LED strips last night and wondered what people in the streets were thinking when they looked up at my apartment. :) So I decided not to drill any holes into the concrete ceiling and instead decided to stick the LED strips to the ceiling with double-sided tape and some kind of aluminum profile, as suggested by a few people on this + the Brazilian CP forum, and by my friend Steve Davis (who helped set up the Ping wall and who I met up with today at the BACPS Annual Show and Sale - which had some beautiful CPs!). Leaving the BACPS show, I stopped by a Home Depot and bought two 48 inch aluminum profiles similar to the ones in this link, except one side was narrower than the other (it had an L shape): http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-25ecodZ5yc1vZ12kx/R-202183479/h_d2/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10053&langId=-1&keyword=48%22+aluminum+extrusion&storeId=10051 I also bought 2-sided tape that can supposedly hold 5 pounds: I first folded regular masking tape into two 48" long sticky cylinders and placed each of these inside on of the "L" aluminum profiles, against the right angle. Over this, I placed the 2-sided tape, so that it would be facing +- 45 degrees from either surface of the "L" profile. Then I stuck the LED strip to this tape. Last, I put another strip of two sided tape on the outside of the broad side of the "L" profile and stuck this to the ceiling. Here are both already in place (sorry, i forgot to take pictures as I put this together): As you can see from the pics above and the one below, I still needed to figure out what to do with the cables and transformer dangling from the ceiling. So I basically taped the cables to the ceiling itself, using the tape that was actually protruding from the "L" profile: Then I stuck the long cable to the wall: As you can see, they are almost completely hidden by the blinds, thus very discrete: Now I just have to add a timer, decide how many hours to leave the lights on every day, and wait for the Pings to flourish! :) Several of the leaves I "planted" on the Ping wall are already beginning to form young buds. Wish me luck! Fernando Rivadavia P.S. Adam, the LEDs do seem to get a little hot, but nothing that made it uncomfortable to hold in my hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando Rivadavia Posted June 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2012 So... Any of you curious about how the Ping Disco looks like from the street?? :) Whoever drives down one of the main avenues in San Francisco at night will see this: And a closer look: Enjoy! Fernando 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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