Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Hi Stu,

In another thread you mentioned your power backup for the farm system. Could you give details?

Stu

Stuart its a 65 kva gen set with one that size you could supply your whole little village

Cool but a bit more than I need.

quite a bit more than we need too lol

I was wondering!

65 kva will suply 26 x 1500 watt lights

With a bit to spare.

some pics of the NFT
currently we are growing basil and mixed lettuces. Also some mizuna and rainbow chard

a quick trip to VB's place found me in the drink

Another one. We are on the second run from this basil. After the first harvest we chopped them back. They have grown bushier this time, but 2 goes will have to do as the root masses are starting to block the channels

we are going to see how they go transplanted into the growbeds once this harvest happens. Lettuces are about a 4 week cycle and basil about the same depending a lot on the strength of the seedlings. ie a weak seedling takes twice as long to adapt to it's new growing situation and thrive.

What have you got the basil in Stu... coarse grade perlite??

yep.

noticable difference in growth where the water starts to get a bit deep too, they don't like that one bit.

You look remarkably like your avatar

Stu - you know I still have that Tshirt. Will hold it till you come up again or I make my way down to you. Ransom like

that's my favourite shirt

The second harvest yielded nearly three times as much basil as the first, leaving the plants at about 6 inches high, 2.75 kilo's was harvested. Only 1 KG the first harvest.

See pic. That's a lot of basil . We made pesto to take to a party last weekend and we received many good compliments. If we had time and resources to do a market stall, I reckon it would sell really well. The lady who buys this off us goes to market with it made into pesto. She wants us to sell her 10kg's a week