Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Maybe the bigfoot is keeping a Dufflight in captivity.

Its geting harder to get the whole plant in a photo.

Having a similar problem with my grapes. Cukes suck, wont flower at all now, and when they did, girls only, no boys

I think there are 6 ish plants. One plant has these flowers with the baby cucumbers and one of the other plants only has the other type of flower. Is the female flower the one with the baby fruit.

Yeah females have the babies
They also wither shortly after fertilisation. A baby cuke with a flower is unfertilised.
Pick a male flower, and touch all the ope females with him, sure fire way to get heaps.

Hope I can get this one trained along the roof.

I need some male flowers... mu cuke is a variety that seems not to throw them High yeild high cos there's no boys, but low cos there's no boys.
I've been looking for some1 who might have some male flowers they could give/send me, but I've had no takers

Yours look good though, good on ya.

There is stuff you can add to parts of the plants to produce male flowers. Or you can stress the plant. If it was in the ground over fertilizing will cause the plant to produce both flowers. In Ap it is harder to trigger this. Or just PM me your address. But don't go telling everyone I sent you flowers.

Cheers, thanks for the offer Duff.

Whats this duff is sending kuda flowers

If it was going to be anyone, Milne would have been a good guess

This is the same idea I have for my grey water recycling system, I just cant use it for vegetables unless I make sure the grey water is filtered before it gets to the tier the vegetables are in (I can start vegetables though).

My system is 4 tiered (Sits about 1.6 meters high), it is a prototype so hasn’t been properly fitted out. Each tier has an inlet and an outlet connection, one at the top and one at the bottom. The first three tiers are top to bottom flow the last is a bottom to top flow. The first three tiers have about an inch of stones, followed by an inch of sand, on top of this is about 3 inches of soil (currently out of the garden but will be changed to compost in the future). The first tier grows comfrey and will soon have some borage.

The second tier is sphagnum moss to soften the water and due to the fact it is mostly shaded it works well. The third tier currently also has comfrey but will be changed to tansy and some baby tears at the back as it is shaded.

The last tier is going to be a semi AP setup with reeds, water plants, some gold fish and a few suckers. The holding capacity of the system is about 100 litres of water with a surge capacity of 130 litres. After the water has been through the system it flows onto the garden.

This system is set up to grow compost plants that will help improve the soil around my house (very sandy), the plants also take the nutrients out of the grey water and convert it to a usable form.