diy aquaponics for beginners | Aquaponics Tips Too High Water In Growbed

diy aquaponics for beginners

What will happen if you have too high water level in the growbed?

Initially high water level will cause higher evaporation and water will be use more due to this. To ensure this dont happen it is recommended that the water level is at least 1 inch below the hydroton or media level.

Above photo the water level is about 1 inch below the hydroton and it is just nice for most setup.

What else could happen?

Algae and some time moss will grow, moss could turn into fern in some cases. Algae and mosses will compete with plants for nutrient and it also will make the growbed looks dirty as below.

As a general rule 1 inch water below the media is acceptable, this is the DryZone of an aquaponics growbed. This DryZone can be thicker depending on type of plants grown.

A siphon with adjustable standpipe height is helpful in ensuring this water level is easily achieved.

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diy aquaponics for profit | Kuchai Overload

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Kuchai or Garlic Chives that I planted just outgrowing their usage for a typical family of five. Time to take drastic measures to reduce their footprint in the growbed. I decide to make two pots into one and recover one growbed for other plants.

Four pots is all that is needed and I have close to forty, Ill leave few pots in the #guttergrowbed and few more in the CRAFTS set.

Take out all the chives from the back yard set and redo them to lesser pots, half in number and I manage to get one growbed to use again.

Tomorrow Ill cut all the chive to let them have a fresh start. There will be few kilos of this stuff to give away.

Yes.., one spare growbed for other plants.

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diy aquaponics pdf | Potting Garlic Chives Kuchai Redo

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Since I am doing most of my planting in pots, these Kuchai plants is no exception. I had to put them in pots so that it can be easily contained and transplanted elsewhere if needed. I use those slotted pot which is great in water drainage and just nice for LECA.

Garlic Chives thrives in Aquaponics and its more than enough for a small family consumption on a 3ft x 2ft growbed. In fact 1 square feet is all that is needed for an average household. So decided to transplant these to individual pots later I can decide what to do with it.

As above photo they grow really well in LECA, and made it easy to redo this plant, all I had to do is gently pull out the clumps and they will all come out.

Root ball and all, can be easily lifted out of the growbed.

They have shallow root, so it is not that invasive to the siphon like mint of some other plants making this Garlic Chive ideal on a media based siphon flood and drain aquaponics growbed.

Put all in the slotted pot with some LECA at its base.

Some of the pots I put two clumps like photo above otherwise I would run out of pots.

Filled up with LECA and just wiggle a bit to give it a snug fit.. and all done.

Thats three pot awaiting to be placed in the growbed.

Smaller clumps I put two to a pot like these above.

These Chives multiply by rhizomes within few months it will spread outward from center making the clumps bigger. Few of these I planted from seeds and some from nursery bought plants.

All plants out, and it only takes about 30 minutes to do, since I am using pots the water level in the growbed were adjusted to a lower level.

Chives dont need thick growbed, six inches is more than enough.

Altogether 17 pots, the photo is a bit grainy due its getting dark.

I planted eight pot in the existing growbed and left with these nine pots to be place in the back lane CRAFTS set.

Nine left are placed in my back lane set

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murray hallam diy aquaponics video | Equatorial Lowland Strawberry Project Journal 11th Oct 2014

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One of my plant got aphid and some ants are taking advantage of this tending to farm the aphid honey pots.

If not treated it will weaken this plant and worst could cause virus or fungal infection. I had to get rid of it quick.

Isolate the plant from the rest and at first I try to get rid of the ants by using this ants bait that could eliminate the ants. But it dont seems to work, because they are busy harvesting those honey pots and show no interest to my bait.

For a quick action, decide to clip off two of the most affected leaves and discard them to kill majority of the aphids. The remaining leaves are not that bad, but I must do something to stop recurring.

Leaves cut and sprayed with organic pest repellent, if needed I can make do with soap solution. Since I had this spray at hand, just try it out first before proceeding to the next step.

I had to isolate this plant, to ensure those aphid dont fly off or hop off to nearest safe place and will just makes things worst. Luckily the plants are all in individual pots, which makes it easy to do this.

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