Monday, May 25, 2009

Mint and Basil: two new hydroponic wine bottles

This idea I straight up stole from aarn's wine bottle hydroponics.

wine bottle hydroponic mintMint in a No8 Zinfandel bottle.
wine bottle hydroponic basil













Basil in a set of two different bottles.
not too much to say about these that are not in the two posts below.
Post about wine bottle hydroponics
Cutting a wine bottle with string and acetone





Cutting a wine bottle with acetoneHow to cut wine bottles with string and acetone video
How To Cut Wine Bottles with a Dremel tool

Update 7/12/09
The basil plant was doing well but fell in the wind. Here is the photo of the new bottle it is in as well as a new spearmint bottle.







4 comments:

  1. Hi there! What medium did you use in lieu of soil?

    And how did you manage to cut the glass without breaking it? Cool.

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  2. Check out the links in the post for how to cut the bottle. Dremel and Acetone are the two methods I use. There is just a little soil holding the root to the bottle the rest is just water with a little plant food.

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  3. would love to feature these in Rosebud Magazine (www.rosebudmag.com)

    please e-mail me: josh@rosebudmag.com

    thanks

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  4. Just found this in Rosebud Magazine. Great idea!

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