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looking good,bamboos a nice touch.

Thanks guys. I'm pretty pleased with how it all looks.
Put a few plants in today. It's still only recirculating the water from the grow bed. Still waiting for my air pump to rock up and still adjusting ph.
Planted-
Rocket
Butter head lettuce
Iceberg lettuce
Pak choi
Tatsoi
Basil
And threw in a kale, red cabbage, strawberry and a seedling I can't remember what it is. (Just threw a heap of seeds in the grow bed in no order)

Great stuff Rob. I hope the system cycling goes well.

Regards, Martin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nFdV7NRbF8
Hopefully this works. First time using YouTube.
A short clip of the system upgrade. I have just put it online now. Slow as the pump will go for now as there is a 0.3 difference in ph. 6.3 in main tank, 6.6 in raft.
Hopefully this won't be too much if a shock for the fish.

I still need to finish a few things off.
Need more blue metal in the barrel.
Still haven't finished off the second fine solid removal barrel. At the moment it is just going through a filter bag that will catch solids.

So when this system cycles, will I see ammonia, nitrite spike or because there is only 100L barrel to cycle I won't see it?

Can anyone see any problems with this?



Cheers
Rob

Nearly Rob, put the characters (After the = sign.) from the YouTube link between the youtube brackets.
And you get this;




Is your raft in a separate system?

The clips aren't showing on my phone for some reason. I'll have a look at it tomorrow when I get to work.
It is part of the system I already have. I have just put another pump in the tank to run this side of it.

Im either going blind or something is going on.
I can't find the edit button to edit my video clip above.

So what are the things I need to worry about with adding new beds to an existing system?
Will I see a spike in Nitrites and Ammonia? My ammonia has been hovering around 0.5-1ppm lately. I won't feed for a couple of days cos the water is starting to get a bit dirty for some reason. Ill see if no feed helps.

I could see one clip OK on my phone last night Rob Looked like you had tried to add two though, and I couldn't see the first one.

Can't help you with the new beds though sorry.
I wouldn't think it would make too much (negative) difference though, since you already have bacteria living in your system and you're not adding a huge amount of media. Just a guess though.

I wouldn't think so, you'd actually be lessening your chances of a spike.
Keep an eye on your ph.

Cool. Thanks guys.
I just wasn't sure what to expect with building bacteria in the new filter.
Fish are still alive this arvo. No feed for a day or 2 while this comes online and try to clear my water a bit.

I need to start some more seeds and fill it up.

Just redone some of my dirt gardens. Learnt a lesson with strawberries. Cut the runners off. I started off with 8 plants last year. Had bugger all strawberries produced and ended up with nearly 200 plants.
Read up that it's best to cut runners off to promote fruiting.
Planted a heap of snow pea seeds for snow pea sprouts
Going to start some tomato seeds soon too. I have a few new varieties to try out this year. Most excited about trying green grape and costoluto genovese.

Anyone have any idea what these are?
I will have to organise myself a bit better with starting seeds before planting or remember what I planted. Haha.
These are from when I got all different seeds and sprinkled them in the grow bed but have no idea what they are.



And this one is basically for my reference so I can see how fast things are growing. The plants are starting to show some good growth and nice roots through the bottom

Some sort of brassica?
I'm sure it will be something tasty regardless


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Looks like broccoli

Im just going through my seeds and if it is a broccoli, it will be baby broccoli

Baby Broccoli
Brassica rapa 'Happy Rich' (F1)
Harvest the stems, flowers and leaves and use in stir-fries or steam as broccoli. Prolong the harvest by picking before the flower buds open. Yields 750g per plant.

Got the seeds free when I placed an order with diggers
Sounds good to me