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Plants that preform in constant flood
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Author:  Jamey [ Feb 8th, '11, 14:56 ]
Post subject:  Plants that preform in constant flood
Here are the plants in my system that Love the cf bed.

Tomatoes
Capsicum
Basil
Silverbeet
Lettuce
Corn

Anyone else please add your findings either way "do" or "do not" preform well
Author:  Dufflight [ Feb 8th, '11, 15:34 ]
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Arrowroot loves it.
Author:  mantis [ Feb 8th, '11, 15:40 ]
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Stawberries seem to love it, even with the system salted to 2ppt. This strawberry tube is flooded to about one third to half deep.

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Huge strawberries, brassicas doing great and even marigolds in this one

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In the byap CF bed the peppers have come good since switching over from autosiphon and the basil and cucumbers are doing great
In this new one only 4 weeks of growth from seed for the beans and gerkin cukes and chives and spring onions doing great as well
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Author:  mantis [ Feb 9th, '11, 12:18 ]
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Looks like we are the only 3 with CF beds :laughing3:
Author:  Jamey [ Feb 9th, '11, 12:21 ]
Post subject:  Re: Plants that preform in constant flood
Ppl will cotton onto it ;P
Author:  freoboy [ Feb 9th, '11, 12:28 ]
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I have found
Mint
Cappies
Aubergine
Tommies
Watermelon
Cuces
Lettuce
Chilli (particularly Jalepino and tabosco)
go well :)
back on F&D now with a CF sumptank :)
Author:  earthbound [ Feb 9th, '11, 12:52 ]
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I'm finding that the fennel doesn't like it at all...

You can just make out the fennel plants under the chili plants, the other systems they have boomed, but not CF..

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Silverbeet or Chard does exceptionally well. I've been surprised by some plants like Thyme which I thought liked drier conditions, is doing really well in CF.
Author:  jdphish [ Feb 9th, '11, 18:20 ]
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mantis wrote:
Looks like we are the only 3 with CF beds :laughing3:


There is another CF system in the works, mine. Great thread.
EB, glad I don't care for fennel.
Author:  earthbound [ Feb 9th, '11, 18:44 ]
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Yeah, don't care much for it myself either.... :lol: Shame the coriander isn't growing very well in any systems at the moment, don't care much for that either... :)
Author:  mantis [ Feb 9th, '11, 18:56 ]
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Fresh corriander is the nastiest herb on the block. Sour crap, dunno why people use it
Author:  Jamey [ Feb 9th, '11, 19:04 ]
Post subject:  Re: Plants that preform in constant flood
mantis wrote:
Fresh corriander is the nastiest herb on the block. Sour crap, dunno why people use it


Scare away Demons?
Author:  earthbound [ Feb 10th, '11, 10:48 ]
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Faye says, No appreciation of the finer things in life.
Author:  freoboy [ Feb 10th, '11, 10:50 ]
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are you guys being sarcastic?? I love coriander :)
Author:  big worm [ Feb 10th, '11, 11:58 ]
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my entire system will be CF, what happens if a ammonia spike of say 2-4% happens? will it effect the plants? most spikes are worked out within 2-3 days.
edit...
my spinach has sprouted and a made a small 4 hole raft to float and test my transplant skills....they were so thin and whispy i might have to wait a little longer to handle them, i should see some results one way or the other in a day or two.
paul
Author:  TCLynx [ Feb 10th, '11, 22:10 ]
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I believe Creative1 and Eagle also run Constant flood.

I've got some beds that are constant flood in a system that has lots of F&D as well.

Banana did just fine in constant flood, perhaps too good, cracked the bed.
Watercress of course does really well in constant flood, especially when flooded too deep.
Okra did well.
Peppers did fine.
turnips
mustard
kale
etc lots of things seem good in it.

most everything else seems more concerned with the flood depth than if it is constant flood or not. The Papaya in the bed with the banana did fine but that bed had a few inches of dry gravel before getting to the water where the papaya was. In another constant flood bed where the water tended to come up to the surface of the gravel a bit much, the papaya didn't like it.
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