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I built a self-watering planter for my balcony, currently growing four tomato plants and a cayenne pepper plant, mostly following the pdf at EarthTainer:
http://earthtainer.tomatofest.com/
This was an experiment since my balcony is very windy and I wondered how plants would do. I grew three plants inside for a few weeks so they got tall and spindly, then transplanted them (and a fourth short, dense plant) into the EarthTainer and waited.

In ~2 weeks, the wind had stripped off most leaves and thin branches, so I wrote it off as a failure and forgot about it. Checking back two weeks later, thinking I'd dig up the dead plants, it was clear they'd adapted-- new, strong growth all over and knuckle-like swellings in the stalks where they crossed cage wires.

Hoping for a good harvest, but it will be late, I think-- haven't gotten any fruit yet but they're all later varieties. The cayenne plant went in recently after being inside, and doesn't seem to like it outside-- time will tell if it can adapt to the wind.