Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Has anyone done this? Techniques? I plan to do this with some kind of little pots and medium, so they can be non-destructively pulled out of the AP system and planted. I imagine they would have to be hardened too.

Whenever I get my greenhouse done, I hope to set up some ebb and flow tables so I can start seeds in Rock wool cubes that can either be transplanted into my gravel GB's or into raft culture or my dirt garden -- or sold as seedlings. Still in the planning (hoping) stage tho.

I have a box I use for cuttings filled with perlite/vermiculite that is trickle fed from my AP system. It works well because it is kept constantly moist otherwise I'm likely to forget and then they'll die.

I pulled the lettuce and put in peat plugs with green beans, broccoli, tomatoes, and peppers. We'll see how it goes.

I have pulled about 15 tom's and one pepper from my gravel beds, placed them in pots with some dirt and they will go in the dirt garden in the morning. The toms were about a foot tall when I puled them from the grow beds, just held the base stem and dug under as I wiggled em free. They wilted for a day but quickly recovered, they get fish water and many have flowered. Interesting that none of the Toms still in the grow beds have not flowered yet.

Gotfish, I've noticed many trees (in particualr) and plants do that when transplanted....

I think it's a survival mechanism.... throw flowers to seed as quickly as possible when stressed/threatened....

Rabbits do it too

and its lots of fun to watch

GF My green peppers still in the grow beds have flowered, but not the Thai peppers. I am supposed to switch to the sodium light to get buds and fruiting rather than leafy growth.

Can we grow rabbits in aqua!

I think it would have to be aeroponics... Have the bunnies hanging from a conveyor belt and spray them with a nutrient solution.

Bunnyponics ?

I dunno about that, theres lots of arguemnts about using sodium vapour to fruit and MH to grow. (or the other way around?)

If the chillies are day length sensitive then just adjust photo period accordingly. MH has the FULL spectrum spread so it should work.

Alledgedly, HPS tend to give more lumens per watt of power and last longer than MH lamps.
It probably doesn`t matter much which type you use, as long as you have enough of it

more lumens or more PAR.

Best quote i have ever read was "lumens are for people, PAR is for plants"

I think it stands for photosynthesis active radiation.

IE you could have a huge lumen green light and it would be next to useless for plants.

Not that any of this had much to do with anything, just thought i'd post it FYI's