diy aquaponics with fish | Kutu Daun Aphid

diy aquaponics with fish

One of my Strawberry plant got Kutu Daun (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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diy aquaponics greenhouse | Equatorial Lowland Strawberry Project Journal 11th Sept 2014

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One of the growbed that was full of mint redo and clean all the roots out, this growbed going to be the next area where Strawberry going to be in.

All the mint were cut last week, today the roots are removed. If not removed they will decay and cause the system to swing towards acidic, it could be a good thing for Strawberry but I feel its best to start from a known baseline.

The single parent plant from this ornamental set is removed and potted, I takes my chances by cutting the runners from the parent and letting them grow on their own. I will know tomorrow how many survive being independent. Six in all, these are all new plants.

Potted the parent plant in 6 inch net pot and it will be replanted into a bigger growbed.

I scoop some LECA along with the roots so that it will experience less of a shock, topping up with LECA from matured growbed.

Growbed is flooded by using a taller extender, this makes it easier for getting out the roots and level the LECA.

This parent plant placed in a central position of this growbed so that it can start to colonized this entire growbed with runners. Im giving it ample space to reproduce.

The plant is raised from LECA level to give it good drainage, Ill monitor it closely this next couple of days to ensure it survive the replanting. I try not to give any shade and let it expose to full sun and see what happen.

So far this trial of planting Strawberry looks promising, until it can produce fruit only then well know whether it is successful or not.

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diy aquaponics guide | Gutter Growbed Update 5th Sept 2015

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Brief update on this set that I made early July and been running well. Need to test more plants and take note what improvement I can make and address problems that crop up.

So far Im happy with the setup, it is very easy to maintain and make. There are few fine bits that I need to iron out as time goes by.

Initial setup : Here



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diy aquaponics grow bed | Equatorial Lowland Strawberry Project Journal 18th Sept 2014

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To get healthy Strawberry plants they requires strong roots, to get this the plant need to direct most of  its energy toward root growth. During first year of planting dont let the plant fruit.

All these flowers need to go, and its best to clip them off at earlier stage that this.

Runners like these above also has to go.

So flower buds has to be clipped.

All clipped so that the plants can concentrate getting good roots.

Runners clip to prevent new plants, I reserve two original plants to produce runners for propagating. Those plants are the base stock for my Strawberry plants.

I will let the plants grow for this next few months towards January or March then Ill trim all leaves to get new growth.

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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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diy aquaponics pdf download | Brief Overview of My Setup 1st Sept 2014

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A quick overview of what I have around the house, I try to utilize as much space as I have and hopefully others may learn and start the same to help green our urban landscape.

Video shot using Samsung Galaxy S5, audio with Sony ICD-AX412F IC Audio recorder and editing done on Dell PC with Corel Video Studio Ultimate X6 editing software.

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diy aquaponics grow beds | Taste Test Start To Finish

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On 10th Sept 2014 this plant I allow the flower to develop to see what happen, whether it can bear fruit in this hot lowland. 

To get the plant flowering is great news for me since as a known fact that Strawberry will have difficulties in flowering if exposed to temperature of greater that 28 degrees C.

On 21st September 2014 it form fruit and I was anxious to see its progress.

Not as large as the highland but to get it fruiting is a joy to see on 25th September 2014

Slowly changing color to a reddish pinkish Strawberryish.. :)

And finally today 28th September 2014, pick it for test taste.

Nice and firm, but should have waited another couple of days before picking.

 Not the usual Strawberry shape, may be due to this particular cultivar it is like that.

The flesh is firm and not watery as most Aquaponics, what ever it is I am overjoy for this and cant wait for next year when the plants are fully ready to bear fruits.

So it took 18 days from flower to picking time, more or less.


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diy aquaponics video | Planting Soursop

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Durian Belanda, Soursop or Custard Apple as it is called is an evergreen tree from the rain forest. Three of its sapling were given to me and been standing to keep alive in my aquaponics growbed for few months.

Shifted from front to back and before it had its days I better plant it to soil, at least one of it.

This I do normal dirt planting there are two left, one I will use container with soil and another I will try Aquaponics.

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