Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Like a certain crunch to your lunch do you mate

Jamie - while I have not grown capsicum as yet - I have a couple of chilli plants in the system and they are fruiting very heavilly. They of course are very close relatives to capsicums. I think AM had problems with his too?

Looks like we all like Italian food
Monya, the capsicum plants are just sub-standard. The leaves are curled and brown edged and fruit is not setting. Got some in the dirt and they are fruiting nicely.
VB - so what's your secret. Whats the pH? and whats your nitrate level at the mo? Maybe my toms are sucking up too much of the goodies.

my chillies are powering along too

Jamie- Curling leaves etc. sometimes is from a lack of micronutrients and/or iron. Janet swears by greensand, others use chelated iron. A little of one of those micronutrient providers might just be the ticket to perk up the caps.

Thanks Greenedo.
Yes I thought maybe that was the problem. I added some osmocote, but maybe its not a complete smorgasboard of micronutrients - like iron for example. I'll have to check the carton.

I have never had success with eggplant. Moved it to a sunny north facing spot against a colourbond fence this year. Only water was from what was left in my 3lt drink bottle at the end of the day. They went nuts. 3 plants, pick several each week as big as your foot and they are still flowering in March. Go figure!

Week 10
pH 6.5 - need even more dolomite.
Nitrates 20ppm
Fish up to 15cm and always ravenous.
Gotta find a source of stale bread to make my own food.
Picked cucumbers, cherry toms and lots of lettuce.
3 eggplant fruit, biggest now 5cm
Planted more beans, Italian tomato, lettuce and more eggplant.

Went fishing at luggage point over weekend - my god the fish love the nutrients coming out of the sewage plant outlet
Nice big fat bream
Talk about a waste of water - there is a fast flowing stream of very clean looking water constantly pouring into the Brisbane river.
And we are into level 5 water restrictions (there's a major draught on in Australia).

Look forward to your weekly updates Jamie.

ouch, level 5 !

We're cringing about the possibility of going into level 4 VERY soon.

Level 4 is basically NO outdoor water usage. At all. Ever.

Don't tell me level 5 starts restricting indoor usage?

They have to use egg timers for their showers

can i save up 3 showers and have a bath?

you'd just fill the bath with gravel and veggies any way

would be a good exfoliator..............

On a side note....went away for he weekend to a 40 acre property that i was at about 18 months ago. One of the dams on the property was at about 20% capacity, on the weekend it was little more that a "puddle" (made it easier to catch the yabbies )

The second dam was at about 30%, yesterday it was BONE dry.

I didn't bother to even go look at lake fyan.........15 years ago the water was half way up the bank wall, 18 months ago it was a few hundred meter walk from the banks.

so all your guys water is running out?