Backyard Aquaponics
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Strawberry plants also don't like their crowns to stay too wet as rot is a real issue for them so this idea may be a good one Healingdeva.

soory, just found this thread. they dont like salt. one of the first (sometimes only) thing to die when i dose with salt.

I've not had success with strawbs yet, but will persist for a bit. My problems at this stage I feel are related to potassium deficiency, which I will have to fix up. Have some fruit now, but they are tiny. Is not really the right season though.

CRTD, I've an idea for the potassium dilution: PACU.
They are fruit eater and would digest tons of potassium as long as you can get them fruits or nuts. And you could catch them down in the river, i suppose. And do you have bananase growing around your place they are full of potassium so if you have af ew you could probably throw one or two a day in the fish tank.
Strawberries need some sulphur to grow, but it shouldn't be any problem for you either because of the volcanic growbed material you'll be using.

To resume, you are very very lucky, and I suppose that you'll be producing tons of strawberries as long as you find a potassium source.

No problem on a potassium source - as you said, bannanas and plantains by the ton.

I even have sulfur rock I find sometimes inside the farms. No problem there.

Aren't you supposed to add salt at the table and not when you are growing the plants?

Okay - to be serious, why would someone add salt?

Often, if there are parasite or disease problems with the fish it responds well to salt in the water. From my reading, most of these problems are imported with the fish, so some folks take the preventative step of treating new fish before adding them to the system. Another option is a quarantine tank if you are adding fish to an existing group of fish and don't want to possibly infect them all.

Most people who have trouble have it with fish raised in aquaculture facilities: perhaps these are breeding grounds of disease due to crowding and stress? My recent purchase of feeder goldfish all turned out to have fungus/fin rot or something like it that I noticed only after adding them to my little system. All kept their fins folded close to their bodies and had gray edges or patches on their fins. Should have had a quarantine tank....but they healed fine with nothing more than close watching.

Of course, if you salt the water well you don't need to salt the cucumbers before eating them: saves time at the table!

salt is pretty much the only thing we can treat fish problems with. Most of the other aquaria treatments are chemicals you don't want to be eating later on. Others will kill your bacteria.

Most of the fish are healthy disease carriers, they usually get sick when the environement changes.
The fish from aquaculture are worse than wild ones, because they have encountered many more disease than in the wild by the mix in between the different batches and all the stuff entering the system. Most of the time the pathogens are more difficult to cure for aquaculture fish, because they have been selected by the years and years of treating with different chemicals.

I don't think they'll grow up a lattice but I may be wrong. The runners seem to resist all attempts to get them to climb.

Aww damn my runners aren't long enough to try yet, but I was hoping

Strawberry runners are new plants forming where the next node is thats the new plant to have success out of getting them on trellis you would have to hang a little pot of dirt at each node for them to get there roots into

Does anyone know whether it is the sodium or the TDS that affects strawberries? I can't find in my hydro books any significant TDS variations aside from the extra supply of phosphorus and potash.

Here we go, should have used the net rather than the books
http://www.scottsasiapacific.com/tech_b ... hyrdro.pdf

My runners go down though. Maybe I should let them start at the top of the lattice and grow DOWN !!