Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

I grow corn every year. It does very well. The roots are a pain, but not too bad. I grow much more density than normal planting and it works well given the higher water availability and constant turnover.

I typically sprout my corn in a plastic bag with a damp paper towel. Then I set my grow bed to constant flood to keep the upper media damp and plant the corn. After it's a few inches tall I can then convert back to flood and drain, though I think I forgot this time and the corn still did very well!







I'm not sure about wheat, it seems like you would need a LOT of area to grow enough.

I usually grow corn each year and have had mixed success with it. It tends to grow spindly and fall over. I have had a couple of wheat plants come up in the grow bed and I left it there to see how it would go . It did quite well but you would need a big area to do any good. I have also tried rice , the plants grew quite but never had much seed on them . They also shot up again the next year.

Yeah Wheat is possible to grow in aquaponics. ref posted by hydrophilia topic name "AP wheat" in Plant Section of this forum where he had showed all of images from cutting to harvesting.

Yes, corn, wheat, and barley can be grown well in AP. I've also grown grapes, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries in AP. There is nothing that can't be grown in aquaponics if you know how it's done. An aquaponic system can do more than just grow food, but humans are just now getting the jest of it and they have a ways to go to discover what a good system is capable of doing. It can provide power, oxygen, food, clean drinking water, and grow your food three times fast than conventional farming, totally organic, with no contaminates of any kind anywhere! The system which can do all this and more is called the Aquatech Food Supprt Systems. Check them out!